Re: Problems real and averted

From: Elizabeth L. Brown (ebro@loc.gov)
Date: Fri Oct 30 1998 - 10:29:44 EST

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Poster: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
Subject: Re: Problems real and averted
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Jane and y'all,

I've seen "Today in History" days for every date. Use the archive tools
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html> to get to them.

First you may search by keyword. (Try George Washington or Thomas
Jefferson for plenty of hits.) Don't bookmark days you find this way --
use "select a day" tool first, to create your bookmark.

The second choice is to select a particular DAY. Note that the pull-down
menu for the days has a scroll bar that must be scrolled for all the days.
You may bookmark days found with this tool.

The third choice is to see all of the listings for a particular month.
(Another pull-down menu.) Once you've selected a month, only about 20 days
show on each hit list screen, so you need to ask to see the next screen.
The link is at the bottom. The same goes for bookmarks as the "search."
Use the "select a day" to to find a "bookmark-able" URL.

If this doesn't help, please tell us which days you found not working and
I'll have the Today in History editor investigate.

Betty Brown
ebro@loc.gov

At 09:10 AM 10/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>How interesting to read about problems with the site on 10/29.  Here I was
>chairing our Social Studies department in preparation for Open House (many
>private schools in St.Louis have Open House on first Sunday in November)
>and I'm saying to my department that we should have the big screen internet
>hook-up set to the American Memory home page and let visitors click in
>their birth date for This Day in History by going to the archives.  Problem
>one:  lots of dates said there was not a page for a specific date (I did my
> family  birthdays).  Is that an ongoing problem?  I've used the archives
>before with success.  Next, I mada a small three letter mistake at the
>keyboard which has changed my persona at school considerably.  Instead of
>typing in www.loc.gov I typed in the first part with .com behind it.  It
>unfortunately is a porno site and our cyberpatrol in our school was down.
>You can imagine the responses both serious and playful. The result to date
>is that our Cyber screen at school is now repaired and every other group of
>teachers think that our department meetings sound like more fun than the
>stuff usually discussed there.  My gang is willing to sell tickets to our
>meetings next week.  Never a dull moment!  Jane
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