Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Hockey–Online Exhibitions
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Hockey Is Alive and Well at Library and Archives Canada!
“Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective explores the history and development of hockey using English and French language newspaper articles, rare photos and manuscripts, based on material from Library and Archives Canada’s collections. The website also contains valuable information for researchers and hockey buffs. There is also a parallel site, Backcheck: Hockey for Kids, geared to a younger audience and featuring curriculum tie-ins and classroom activities with a hockey theme…”
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Best of the ResourceShelf (From 6/2003)
Awards–Searchable Databases
Source: AMPAS
It’s A Wonderful Search for Oscar! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Reintroduces Academy Awards Database
From the announcement, Search by nominee name; film title; song title; award category or year, alone or in combination. Results can be sorted, displayed and printed in multiple ways…The database had been unavailable while navigational and presentation difficulties in the previous search engine were corrected and improved. “The old database contained only the basic information about nominees and winners,” said Academy Executive Administrator Ric Robertson. “So while all the data was correct, it was only searchable by keyword and had limited and often inadequate capabilities for sorting and displaying search results.” This complete historical record of the Academy’s 75-year-old Awards competition lists some 6,500 people, almost 600 companies and countries and nearly 13,600 nominees (because many of the 6,500 people appear multiple times). Over the years there have been more than 9,000 nominations in 4,000 films…Librarians Libby Wertin and Lucia Schultz were the principal architects of the database’s features, with Information Systems Coordinator Vionette Sellars providing the technical coordination with Solus Development, which provided the actual programming. It took Wertin, assisted by Schultz, over two years to gather information from Academy Historian Patrick Stockstill’s printed nominations resource books and create a completely restructured database. “Ours is the only site where Academy Awards data is guaranteed to be correct,” Wertin said. That guarantee is not to be taken lightly, she added, “taking into account 75 years of changing award rules and the challenge of correctly reflecting the changes in the presentation of the data while still allowing it to be searched comprehensively.
See Also: Resources for the 77th Academy Awards (2/27/05)
Source: AMPAS
77th Academy Awards Nominations Press Kit
Images of nominees, fact sheets and more.
77th Academy Awards Press Kit

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