Finding information on non-profits

From Marcy,

In Lexis Nexis, on the “company dossier” search screen, you can also search for non-profits, 501c3, foundations, etc. – to quickly pull what’s available on one organization and/or to pull together a list of non-profits within a given geography. Non-profits are a favorite of several of the business course projects for undergraduates so it may be useful for answering some of those questions.

USF Budget and local salaries

From Jim,

If the person is interested in budget information at the college, departmental, or office level, they can request that information from the USF budget office. It is a matter of public record. All they need to say is they want the information under "Chapter 119, Laws of Florida." Of course, one trend that many of us have witnessed as more information is done online and less is available by paper (think of faculty reviews that used to be available to students) is that institutions make it difficult for people to locate information.

Fortunately, there is a new database portal available through tbo.com (publishers of the Tampa Tribune), that includes salary information for individuals. This will be very helpful to share with people who wish to know salary information of any public employees who work for the state, as well as many public agencies in the Tampa Bay area (including USF).

They should visit:
http://www2.tbo.com/static/news-special-reports-data-bay/tbo-special-reports-database-hillsborough-salaries/

Then they can enter the name, or partial name. If it's a common name, they can limit information to the University of South Florida by clicking on the drop box. One caveat: the salary information seems to include only funds from public sources. For example, Jim Leavitt--the USF football coach--is listed with a compensation of $750,000. Of course, his contract with guaranteed endorsements, etc., pushes him up around $1.5 million.

Florida Newspapers

Some additional Florida newspapers are now available in digital format through the advanced news archive search of Google (http://www.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search). The digital versions of the St. Petersburg Times and Evening Independent have been available for about a year.

These new titles include:

• Ocala Star-Banner (primarily 1950s-1970s, it seems)
• Gainesville Sun (in the 1980s; earlier issues not yet available)
• Boca Raton News (sketchy)
• FSView and Florida Flambeau (papers of FSU, good coverage in 1940s-1970s, and another source on activities in Florida government)
• Lakeland Ledger (primarily 1950s-1980s)

Also, there are a couple of regional papers with substantial coverage that, along with the St. Petersburg Times, may provide a broader national perspective on Florida events. Two with good 20^th century coverage that come to mind are the Milwaukee Journal and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Locating comparative international statistics

Print volumes on a variety of social and economic factors:
World Development Indicators REF HC59.15.W656 2009
Little Green Data Book REF HC59.3.L58 2006

Electronic sources:
GlobalEdge
MarketLine
StatUSA
CIA World Factbook

Also Marcy's web pages:
Country profiles http://www.nelson.usf.edu/reference/documents/BusCountryProfiles.html
Bookmarks
http://delicious.com/marcylibrarian

Digital Archive of American History Sources from Cornell and Michigan

Courtesy of Jim Schnur:



"Over the past few years, the libraries at Cornell University and the University of Michigan, with assistance from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, have embarked upon notable digitization projects of nineteenth-century books, journals, and documents covering the antebellum period through Reconstruction. Known as the “Making of America” collections, the websites at these institutions allow for full-text searching with results displayed as scanned documents in their original format.

The holdings in the period from 1850 to 1900 are quite good, and offer a great digital repository for students. You may search these holdings if you use the advanced Google news archive portal, or go to the sites below directly rather than through Google. "

Making of America (MOA) portal at UMichigan: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
MOA portal at UMichigan (books only): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/
MOA portal at UMichigan (journals only): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/
MOA portal at Cornell: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

Display Rotation in Horseshoe

If you run into a display that has been turned sideways, here is an easy fix.

Press: CTRL & ALT & F12.

This will bring up the properties, where you can uncheck the "Enable Rotation" box.

Papers Past

I wanted to pass along this great resource I discovered while doing research early this morning. Called “Papers Past,” it is a scanned digital archive of many pre-1920 newspapers from New Zealand. While located about as far away from Florida as one could be in a geographical sense, these papers offer excellent coverage of late nineteenth century events throughout the United States and Florida (such as the Spanish-American War and its effect on Tampa).

Here’s the link:

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home&e=-------10--1----0-all

Some newspapers are fully searchable; others may be browsed but have not yet been scanned with OCR that would allow full-text searching. What makes this collection so amazing is that it covers a substantial portion of the mid- and late-nineteenth century (from 1839 to 1920), provides free access, and allows for the easy saving of digitized “clippings” (just right-click!). It complements the Times of London and historical New York Times. The other nice thing—similar to many of the old county newspapers from throughout the United States before the 1920s—is that it includes excerpts borrowed by NZ papers from other publications that have never been microfilmed or digitized and thus no longer exist in their original form.