http://libwww.syr.edu/information/spcollections/digital/erierr/

For many decades, the Erie Railroad served as a conduit for goods, travelers, and ideas across the Mid-Atlantic to the heartland of America. A number of glass plate negatives produced by the company for a variety of purposes found their way to Syracuse University, and this digital collection contains over 700 of these images. The images can be searched by keyword, image number, or Library of Congress subject headings. The photographs depict a bustling world of railroad-based activities, and they include compelling shots of stations in New York and Ohio. Students of transportation architecture and engineering will benefit from the wide array of images documenting overpasses, underpasses, track layouts, and bridges. It's a site with a broad appeal, and local historians may find the site useful for their work as well. [KMG]

http://content.lib.washington.edu/dailyweb/index.html

The recent past can often be overlooked by digital archive projects. Fortunately, that is not the case at the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections group. Recently, they digitized four student newspapers, including the Independent, the Ledger, the Daily, and the Commons. The papers come from the main campus in Seattle, and the other branches in Tacoma and Bothell. Visitors can search the collection via the search engine, or they can browse by year or newspaper. The subjects covered within these pages include student protests, union activism, local celebrations, and issues regarding education at these very different campuses. Additionally, visitors are welcome to offer their own contributions to the project via the "Donating to the Student Newspapers Archive" link. [KMG]

http://scholar.library.miami.edu/caribbeanvisual/

The University of Miami's searchable website "As Far as the Eye/I Can See" is a collaboration of an English Professor in Caribbean Studies and their Digital Library Fellowship. The focus of the site is Caribbean artists and art critics, and includes audio and video interviews, photographs, biographies, and RSS feeds from Caribbean art critics. On the left hand menu are links to eleven "artist profiles", two galleries and art centers, as well as links to the perspectives of two art critics, "Annie Paul" and "Christopher Cozier". Links to "Art Events" and a "Bibliography" are at the bottom of the left hand menu. Visitors shouldn't miss the work and life history of the artist "Erman", whose "biography", "CV", and "galleries" of work are accessible by a link in the "artist profiles" section. His introduction describes his series of work called "Cocoon", and was informed by his time as a child laborer in textile sweatshops in Miami in the 1960s. His work honors piecework laborers throughout the world and it is also quite educational. [KMG]

http://geogdata.csun.edu/world_atlas/

Dr. Bowen of UC-Northridge created the California Geographical Survey with the aim of providing a multitude of vital geographic resources to the Internet community to facilitate better understanding of geographic concepts. Although the panoramas look very much like photographs, it is noted in the "Technical" section, that they are not. Rather, they are "mathematical simulations created from satellite data that have been interpreted by computer calculations." Visitors may feel like they are flying, when viewing the panoramas that offer the highest level of zoom. Clicking in the "N. America" section on the left hand menu, will take visitors to the selection of more than 70 breathtaking panoramas. The panorama entitled "San Rafael Swell, Utah", near the end of the choice of selections, is "picture perfect" with its evergreen trees, mountain ridges, and azure lakes. Visitors should definitely not miss the rippled sand dunes in the panorama of "Qilian Shan" found in "Central Asia". [KMG]

To find this resource and more high-quality online resources in math and science visit Scout's sister site - AMSER, the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository at http://amser.org.

http://lib.calpoly.edu/specialcollections/architecture/juliamorgan/

The website of the Robert E. Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic has an online exhibition of the work of California's first female architect, Julia Morgan. Visitors unfamiliar with Julia Morgan should check out the "Biography", "Education", and "Early Work" links on the left hand side of the homepage for an interesting lesson on her determination and desire to be an architect. William Randolph Hearst was one of her clients, and she designed his San Simeon estate. The section "Julia Morgan on the Central Coast", on the left hand menu, has links to five buildings she designed. Each link provides a description of each building along with a photo or drawing. Some of the buildings include "Milpitas Hacienda, Jolon", "Village House, San Simeon", and "Zegar Playhouse, San Luis Obispo". The "Related Links" section of the online exhibition has a lot of informative resources, including, "Julia Morgan Papers" and the "Julia Morgan-Sara Holmes Boutelle Collection". [KMG]

http://harvardcrcl.org/amicus/

Amicus is a new online supplement to Harvard's Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, and focuses on internet-based civil rights and civil liberties scholarship. It has an unfussy, attractive design that makes it easy to see what's new on the site. The site is divided up into "Recent Developments", "Policy Pieces", and "CR-CL Conversations". There is an online archive available to keep track of the latest articles and posts. The "Introduction" by John Palfrey, about new public spaces online, is an excellent and accessible article on why the privacy and speech problems of people's heavily digital lives should not be focused on to the exclusion of the "opportunities afforded by life in these new public spaces online." The "Policy Piece", "Making Employment Civil Rights Real" thoroughly explains the shortcomings of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and proposes several options that would help workers get the equal opportunity Title VII was supposed to provide. [KMG]

http://scdb.wustl.edu/index.php

As important as the U.S. Supreme Court decisions are, accessing, reading, and deciphering them can be an arduous task. However, the Supreme Court Database can help relieving some of the difficulty with "SCDB Web 101". Visitors should click on "View the 101 Lessons" on the far right hand side of the page, to get started. There are four lessons, and they include "Running Your First Online Analysis", "Making Adjustments to an Analysis" and "Recalling a Previous Analysis". The database includes the decisions from 1958-2008, and visitors should click on "Analysis" to start their search. For those who know the name of the case, or the volume and page, the search function on the far right hand side, top of the page, will accommodate that. Those visitors looking for cases by "issue", "outcome", "type of party", "court era", or "writer of the majority or minority opinion" should use the form starting in the middle of the page. This website allows for some great results for those interested in trying to establish themes or similarities across Supreme Court jurisprudence. [KMG]

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/americanstories/

American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 presents the history of American vernacular painting from the Colonial era until the early 20th century. Most of the pictures in the earliest section, "Inventing American Stories, 1765–1830", are portraits of individuals or family groups, reflecting the taste of the time for commissioned portraits. But, there are a few scenes showing larger crowds, such as John Lewis Krimmel's Fourth of July in Centre Square, 1812. The next section, "Stories for the Public, 1830–1860", reflects the growing interest in genre painting in the US, these appear to be everyday scenes, but often were raised to the symbolic, an example is William Sidney Mount's Cider Making, 1840-41. "Stories of War and Reconciliation, 1860–1877", reflects the Civil War and Reconstruction, with pictures such as Winslow Homer's The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, showing a former soldier returned to his fields to thresh wheat. The final section, "Cosmopolitan and Candid Stories, 1877–1915", reflects America's growing taste for European art, and includes the works of prominent American artists who lived primarily in Europe, such as Mary Cassatt, or those who traveled widely, such as John Singer Sargent. [DS]