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Pride flag variant based on Daniel Quasar's 2018 design combining elements of the Philadelphia flag and the trans pride flag, and brown and black.

Database Discovery: LGBTQ+ Source enhances inclusive research for LGBTQ+ studies

Looking for information about LGBTQ+ topics, including history, sociology, psychology, and gender studies? Do you need to learn about the history of LGBTQ+ movements, events and people?  LGBTQ+ Progress Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar courtesy Wikimedia C...

A screenshot of PolicyMap showing the median rent in Tempe for a two-bedroom apartment

Database Discovery: Mapping demographic data with PolicyMap

Do you need to find demographic or statistical data for a research paper or thesis project?  If you are searching for data about population, ethnicity, income, housing, education, marital status, and many more topics, PolicyMap is the library database for you.  Here are five things to know about P...

A first distant reading of randomly selected French content (30% sample) using Iramuteq (F. Clavert)

Research Applications with Web Archives: Collaboration Among Archives Unleashed Cohorts

Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash   Web archives present opportunities to explore and enhance our understanding of our digital cultural heritage. After a quarter-century of intentional collection and curation, they offer a br...

Highlights of Geo4LibCamp 2018

In the last week of January Stanford University hosted Geo4LibCamp, an unconference style meeting bringing together people from the library community interested in publishing, describing, and sharing geospatial data. Sessions were a mix of invited talks and breakout discussions on participant-chosen...