There is a great online collection of historic newspapers hosted by the Library of Congress called Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. The newspapers are from 1880-1922 and make for a fascinating glimpse into the past. The classic advertisements are just as interesting as the stories themselves. The newspapers are easy to search by name, keyword and date. The excellent presentation of the scanned newspapers allows you to zoom in and out, view as a PDF, download and print.
The Wayback Machine allows you to view archived web-pages preserved just as they were on the day they were published. Want to see CNN.com on August 24, 2000? EBR Library homepage on December 7, 2000? You can! It’s a trip down memory lane and it’s pretty cool to see the difference in quality of webpages from then compared to now.
There are over 150 billion pages you can look at dating back to 1996. It’s great fun, unfortunately you can’t go back and recover the time you may waste browsing around the Wayback Machine!
The East Baton Rouge Parish Library and Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) invite you to attend American Experience: New Orleans. On Wednesday July 29, 7:00pm at the Main Library on Goodwood Blvd, we will be hosting an open discussion on New Orleans. For more information call 231-3740.
Then on Sunday, July 26th at 5:00pm on LPB you can watch the television program American Experience: New Orleans. There is an LPB website for the show that can be found here.
Not sure where to start when it comes to finding out what benefits you may be entitled to? Try GovBenefits.gov the official government benefit site, a one stop shop for multiple agencies and their assistance programs. You can find a listing of benefits by subject area along with eligibility information. You can also take a useful questionnaire which will allow you to see if you are eligible for any of the many benefit programs.
The site contains links to related resources and state benefit programs. This site really helps to demystify what can seem a daunting and confusing process.
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