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Welcome to Dispatches from the Stacks, a blog by the National Geographic Society Library and Archives. Pulled together by our library staff, this space aims to offer fellow librarians, archivists, book lovers, and National Geographic members a glimpse inside the collections of National Geographic. We will share some of the gems that can be found on our bookshelves, our archives, and in our web pages. Whether you’re interested in breaking news about a recent scientific discovery or discovering an old-fashioned adventure tale, like you, we think that good stories about the world — and everything in it – never get old. . . . More.Nat Geo Library on Twitter
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Project Noah
National Geographic has invested in a new online application, Project Noah, that hopes to bring out the citizen scientist in all of us. It is easy to join and share your photos of nature with others around the globe. Yasser … Continue reading
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Does Love Conquer All? Last Known Photograph Sparks Hope for Future
By Laura Newcomer Described by researchers in 1852, photographed once in 1959, and not seen since— this 52-year-old photo in National Geographic provides the only evidence of the existence of a rare species of sea slug published in more than … Continue reading
Website of the Week: National Science Digital Library
Doing science research? The National Science Digital Library is an online library which directs users to high-quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics resources. Created in 2000 by the National Science Foundation, NSDL aggregates content from a variety of digital libraries … Continue reading
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Birds on the Brain
Winter may not be finished with us yet, but a quick look outside the window will tell you that the birds are on their way back – just in time for National Bird-Feeding Month. Hosted by the National Bird-Feeding Society, … Continue reading
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Magnificent Maps
It may be easy for those of us who are now living in an age of Google Maps and GPS to forget, but maps do more than just tell us where to go. For thousands of years, people have been … Continue reading
Seeing the Big Picture: “State of the Planet” Reports
There is a lot, A LOT, of information currently available on the topic of the environment and sustainability. In the past five years alone, there were more than 10,000 books published with “climate change” in the title. It is easy … Continue reading
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New Face of the World Database on Protected Areas
A joint project of IUCN and UNEP-WCMC, Protectedplanet.net is the new face of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Protectedplanet has incorporated protected areas data from IUCN and UNEP, biodiversity data from GBIF, images from Google’s Panoramio, geographic data … Continue reading
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