Enter the American Library Association/Woman's Day library essay contest

The American Library Association and Woman's Day Magazine are sponsoring an essay contest on how the library has helped you or your family out of a tough financial crunch. The deadline for contest entries is noon on May 18, 2009. If you want to share how the library has helped you save in unexpected ways, check out the contest rules and enter today.

Web Site of the Week

Archive.org

The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites, movies, live music, audio, and text in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

You can find all sorts of things at the Internet Archive, from public domain feature films to educational films shown in classrooms and workplaces, from live performances by Carbon Leaf to classic audio books and poetry, even Beeton's Book of Needlework. You can even see what web pages looked liked last year or 5 or 10 years ago with the Wayback Machine.