CPSC Home Page | cpsc.gov

 

CPSC Home Page | cpsc.gov

 

About SaferProducts.gov

SaferProducts.gov is the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database website of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC’s work to ensure the safety of consumer products—such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals—contributed significantly to the decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

Through SaferProducts.gov, consumers, child service providers, health care professionals, government officials and public safety entities can submit reports of harm (Reports) involving consumer products. Manufacturers (including importers) and private labelers identified in Reports will receive a copy of the Report, and have the opportunity to comment on them. Completed Reports and manufacturer comments are published online at www.SaferProducts.gov for anyone to search.
CPSC was required to create a public portal and a publicly accessible, searchable database of consumer product incident reports by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which became law on August 14, 2008.

eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online

 

eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online

The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; to promote reading of the same; and for the editor to have fun. There are many sites offering classic works in one form or another. Putting them into a format which readers might actually enjoy using is a challenge which I enjoy. If others benefit from it, so much the better.

The Collection began around 1998. I was aware of other e-text projects and had compiled a web page directory of these sites. Dissatisfied with the presentation on those sites, I wanted to explore how one might present a book usingHTML in such a way that it was as readable and enjoyable as a printed book. Having proved the concept, I then began adding titles and refining the format (and refinement continues to this day). The first title publicly promoted was Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, done in order to tie in with an ABC TV adaptation which was showing at the time.

Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”, but includes all manner of things that took the Editor's fancy.

The Pop History Dig - a collection of short stories about popular culture - its history, its people, and its power

 

The Pop History Dig - a collection of short stories about popular culture - its history, its people, and its power

Welcome to The Pop History Dig.

     In today’s world, busy people often miss or by-pass important historic and cultural events when they first occur.  Others have completely forgotten older events or know little of their significance.  The Pop History Dig is offered as a place to revisit some of that cultural history, whether decades old or occurring just last week.  It is also a place to consider and reconsider the importance and meaning of these events – and their impact on society.

     What you will find here is a collection of stories that probe the history and power of popular culture – its people, its businesses, and its politics.  Everything from Thomas Edison’s inventions to Oprah Winfrey’s political endorsements is fair game at this site – and more.  Music, sport, film, and television are all part of the mix.  Media and entertainment, quite obviously, figure prominently in  make up of popular culture, and these are a primary focus.  History is covered, yes, but it’s history with a difference; political, cultural, and business history; history that helps explain, for example, how media and entertainment have become such a pervasive part of our daily lives.

 

     All of this is served up in a short- to medium-length story format – stories that are somewhat longer than a typical blog, but in-depth enough to provide thorough coverage of a particular subject or offer some new arrangement of  information.  Each story typically includes period photos, sidebars, and other graphics.  Some will contain music files, and some will link to videos on YouTube and elsewere.  There is also biography, business history, and a share of nostalgia found here.  Some stories are serious and conven- tional, others less so.

     Jack Kennedy’s politics are covered, as well as Mickey Mantle’s home runs and Madonna’s music.  Warner Brothers’ film history is included, along with John Steinbeck’s novels and the power of 1930s’ radio.  Walt Disney’s empire and how Ted Turner built CNN are also covered. Jack Kennedy’s politics are covered, as well as  Mickey Mantle’s home runs and Madonna’s music. And other stories to come might focus on the product endorsements of basketball phenom LeBron James, the history of MTV, or a Ray Charles song.

     These are all stories of a kind; part of the mix of people and events sometimes called “popular culture.”  But they are also more than that.  They are stories of money, politics, and power, too – and also, the longer timeline of history.  They tell us something about who we are, where we have come from, and what we value.  Some are significant in business or the arts; others have become historic milestones and landmarks; and still others have become woven into the social fabric over time.  Some are embedded in our personal lives and emotional memories – from music and film, or a good book or memorable sporting event.  And whether personal marker or cultural milestone, many of these events have come to us by way of the media and entertainment industries.

Esri Training | Library

 

Esri Training | Library

GIS Bibliography

This bibliography covers the literature of geographic information systems, science, and technology. It indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports from the origins of GIS to the present. There are currently 111,052 entries in the Esri GIS Bibliography.

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Poems & Poets : The Poetry Foundation

 

Poems & Poets : The Poetry Foundation

 

Poems and Poets are not really my specialty – but its nice to know there is a site where you can find a poem for any occasion or learn more about poets…

 

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Foundation Center - Catalog of Nonprofit Literature

 

Foundation Center - Catalog of Nonprofit Literature

 

Contents and Scope

The Catalog of Nonprofit Literature contains citations to materials collected by the Center's five libraries as well as selected literature from other sources. This authoritative bibliography of works in the field of philanthropy contains approximately 27,000 bibliographic entries, of which nearly 19,000 have abstracts. To view the latest additions to the database by subject category, see New Acquisitions in the Online Library.

Since 1988, when a retrospective conversion of all the Center's holdings was completed and a new bibliographic service unit was created, the Foundation Center has sought to increase public access to information on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector by identifying, indexing, and abstracting relevant books, articles, and non-print resources such as CD-ROM and audiovisual materials. To this end, the Center established a computerized database and began issuing annual printed volumes of The Literature of the Nonprofit Sector.

The first volume of The Literature of the Nonprofit Sector was published in 1989 and was the culmination of nearly a decade of planning. This first volume was welcomed by scholars at the time as the "single most indispensable research into the printed record of the nonprofit field." The annual supplements the Center continued to publish through 1996 were equally well received.

In 1997, in lieu of printing a ninth volume, the Center released the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature, a comprehensive searchable database that includes all the citations that would have appeared in print in the ninth volume and also cumulates the citations from the eight preceding volumes. This was the first database the Foundation Center put on the Internet, and the first time this valuable research tool was available in a searchable, user-friendly format to those seeking information on the literature of philanthropy.

In December 2000, the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature was further enhanced by the addition of three new search fields (publisher, library location, and record type) so that users can select among a total of nine search criteria. New software was acquired that enabled the database to be updated instantly, and two new report formats were added. More bibliographic data was added, such as the call number for the materials in the Center's libraries, and the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature became the libraries' in-house bibliographic catalog, as well as a unique database accessible universally on the Internet.

During 2001, in a collaboration with the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature has been further enhanced by an initiative to add links to the full-texts of selected journal articles. At this time, Grassroots Fundraising Journal, NonProfit Times, Nonprofit Quarterly, Contributions, and Stanford Social Innovation Review have pioneered in this major step forward. We will be adding new journals to the full-text project on a regular basis.

Foundation Center - Catalog of Nonprofit Literature

Wired for Books: poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults

Wired for Books: poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults 

Wired for Books: poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults.

Wired for Books: poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults