With a rotating series of quotes from Jack Kerouac, Victor Hugo, and Khalil Gibran, the homepage for "Driven: True Stories of Inspiration" is quite visually enticing. Created by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, this website provides interviews and conversations with creative types from all over. These vignettes seek to answer and explore questions like "How are creative investigations sparked?"...

A leisurely drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway may not be a luxury everyone has time for, so why not take a look at this digital version? It's a worthy surrogate crafted by the good folks at the University of North Carolina Libraries, along with help from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and other partners. The Parkway was conceived during the Great Depression and finished in...

YMCA name change draws mixed reactions from North Texans http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/07/12/2330321/ymca-name-change-draws-mixed-reactions.html YMCA trims name in move to spell out diverse presence http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100713/NEWS16/7130399 A Brand New Day: The YMCA Unveils New Brand Strategy to Further Community...

New plans for world's tallest building unveiled in Dubai http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/3142023/New-plans-for-worlds-tallest-building-unveiled-in-Dubai.html Boomtown Feels Effects of a Global Crisis [Free registration may be required] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/middleeast/05dubai.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=dubai&st=cse&oref=login Generation Faithful: Young...

As one might expect, the University of Oklahoma has a tremendous amount of material related to the history of the American West. One particularly noteworthy collection in their holdings is the Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History. The digital version of this collection provides historians and others with access to hundreds of interview transcripts from the period 1967 to 1972. These...

Law school students are well known for trying to "do good" whether it be through aiding wrongly accused persons, or by providing legal advice at any number of free clinics. This academic and policy-oriented online publication from the people at Duke University's Law School is another such endeavor, and one that is worth a closer look. The publication's general area of interest is in the...

Librarians, historians, and researchers may really enjoy reading Bitstreams, the blog of the Duke University Libraries' Special Collections. Bitstreams posts are typically done by library staff with occasional posts done by Molly Bragg, Head of Digital Collections and Curation Services. Blog posts may include new acquisitions in collections at the library, special projects, or new features...

With their breadth of experience and policy expertise, the scholars at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy have authored hundreds of papers and reports. This site provides access to these reports and includes such papers as "Diehard Fans and the Ivory Tower's Populist Reach" and "Racial and Economic Diversity in North Carolina's Schools: An Update.” This current archive dates back to...

"Dying speeches & Bloody Murders" might not sound like a site to visit right before bedtime, but this engaging and fascinating collection brings together an important set of crime broadsides that will engage the attention of historians, legal scholars, and anyone with an interest in the history of crime and punishment. This collection comes from the Harvard Law School Library, and the conservation...

Established by the United Nations, the e-Agriculture initiative is primarily concerned with the "conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in the rural domain, with a primary focus on agriculture." This website is an integral part of the initiative, as it is set up to help interested parties...