This note might be of interest to those of you who have reason to consult past issues of the journal of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. The WSO has put the contents of The Passenger Pigeon on the web in a fully searchable format. Details on this valuable effort are described below. Jim Williams Wayzata
---------- From: "Howe, Robert W." <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:28:05 -0500 To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" <[email protected]> Subject: [wisb] Passenger Pigeon on the web Wisconsin birders and researchers should be pleased to learn that Volumes 1-63 (through 2001) of the WSO publication, The Passenger Pigeon, are now available on the web in a fully searchable format. This means that you can enter a word or phrase (e.g., Yellow Rail, hummingbird, Tom Soulen) in the "Search" window and you will be returned a list of articles and pages where this term or phrase was used. The web resource is part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection Series, a project designed to bring quality Wisconsin-related resources from academic libraries to students, faculty, and the general public. Also available are Wisconsin DNR technical reports, Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conferences, and other useful references. We decided not to include the most recent issues of the Passenger Pigeon in order to encourage people to join WSO or to keep their existing membership. Credit for this important project is due to fellow birder, Nolan Pope, who is a member of the UW Digital Collection Series Advisory Committee; Nolan first suggested the idea and shepherded the work through the technical stages. Here's the link to the Ecology and Natural Resources Collection, which includes the Passenger Pigeon. Be sure to make it a "bookmark" or "favorite" on your web browser for future reference: http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/EcoNatRes/ The general link to the UW Digital Collection Series is the following: http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections.html For a sense of history, check out Volume 1, page 1: http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/EcoNatRes/EcoNatRes-idx?type=article &byte=90493394&isize=M Happy reading. Bob Howe <http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/EcoNatRes/> ############################## This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To UNSUBSCRIBE, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative QUERIES, E-mail to <[email protected]>
