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So long, farewell...

auf Wiedersehen, good night.

We’ve had a fun time on Tumblr, and now we’re wrapping it up in this space. Since we began posting here, we’ve introduced some new services. You can now  borrow digital conversion equipment to digitize your heirloom video and cassette tapes. And we’ve expanded our offerings in the recording studio. You can now borrow lighting equipment and make use of a musical keyboard, and we’ve also improved the sound quality since the Information Commons opened in 2013.

Though we will miss hanging around on Tumblr there are other ways to keep in touch with us.

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A collection of the Official NYC Bike Map PDFs dating from 1997. 2014 2014 NYC Cycling Map (PDF) 2014 Manhattan, North Brooklyn, South Bronx Cycling Map

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Not Your Princess by Chloe Skowron

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How to Download a YouTube Video

I didn't realize it was *this* easy to download a YouTube video.

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Detexify & Shapecatcher — search engines for symbols

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Rookie » A Guide to Internet Privacy Policies

If you’re on the internet (hi!), then you live in a world where privacy isn’t a concept: It’s a policy. Every site has a different definition of what privacy means, and those definitions tend to be 10 pages long and…

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Perfect Is Boring: Why Vulnerability Is The Best Marketing Strategy

http://blog.creativelive.com/vulnerability-is-a-marketable-quality/?utm_campaign=vulnerability-marketing&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=&utm_term=

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pr1nceshawn: “ Resume Cheat Sheet. ”

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Verizon, AT&T tracking their users with ‘supercookies’

Even savvy cellular users would find it almost impossible to disable the cookies, which monitor Internet activity.

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If you've been relying on password meters to determine how strong your passwords are, we've got some bad news. Their strength measurements are highly inconsistent and may even be leading you astray

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Summer camps have always been fascinating to me as someone who never really got to experience them. In my mind, they’re these magical places where all the rules are different, you make friends for life, every day is full of adventure, and, if you think you might be queer, the best opportunity to test that out. There’s nothing like putting teens in a traditionally gender-segregated environment away from home to encourage queer exploration, am I right? In the spirit of the hot summer day in which I am writing this in my apartment, here are some LGBTQA YA books set in summer camp that I wish I could escape to right now. Enjoy!

http://bookriot.com/2016/08/02/hot-queer-summer-nights-lgbtqa-ya-books-set-at-summer-camp/

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Happy birthday, Mr. President!

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar06jNH3RX8)

Fontself helps you create your own font with Illustrator.

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If you're learning Adobe Illustrator and can use some practice, Method of Action has fun tools and games to help you learn design.

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Announcing our next #free workshop webinar: DPLA for Genealogy and Family History, led by DPLA Community Reps and experienced genealogists Amy Johnson Crow  and Tamika Maddox Strong! All experience levels are welcome. Join us July 26 at 3:00pm EST – register today: https://dp.la/info/get-involved/workshops/

This 1868 marriage certificate for an African American couple, Charles Harrell and Sally Henderson, comes from the collections of Tennessee State Library and Archives via Digital Library of Tennessee.

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FREE cool workshop for genealogists out there.  <3 DPLA!