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  1. History Grad Student finds hidden treasure in Library. Student finds letter 'link to Jefferson' - http://bit.ly/4H7n9L #cnn - BH
  2. Museum Marketing: Co-producing the museum. www.museummarketing.co.uk/?cat=17. bb
  3. International cultural heritage leaders pass Salzburg Declaration on Conservation/Preservation of Cultural Heritage: http://bit.ly/85fq1b
  4. 83% of US Adults Fail Test on Nation's Founding. We have our work cut out for us in the history field. See: http://bit.ly/5lPXov. bb
  5. Networking 101. http://historicsites.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/networking-101-for-novices-like-me/
  6. Nantucket Historical Association offers E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship. Apps due 1/1/10-www.nha.org/library/verney.html
  7. Alderson Internship Grant for Small Museums Deadline is Dec. 9. Go to www.aaslh.org/alderson.htm for an application and info. BH
  8. Smithsonian announces new public Collections Search Center http://collections.si.edu containing 2.3m SI collections records. bb
  9. Google Documents Iraqi Museum Treasures: http://bit.ly/7d0IM1. bb
  10. The Hermitage: Home of Pres. Jackson gets major restoration. Located in AASLH's hometown of Nashville http://tinyurl.com/yalzjbc
  11. Linda Norris wrote another excellent blog post: http://bit.ly/5OLmmh. bb
  12. On vacation for T'ksgicing & visited my hometown museum-www.elliottmuseumfl.org. Helped spur my interest in history/museums as a career. bb
  13. FY2010 NAGPRA grants are now available. More info at http://www.nps.gov/history/nagpra/grants.
  14. Time has a story on the history of toliets. No citations included, but some fun history, http://tinyurl.com/ybj2ox3 - BH
  15. Meeting today in DC at the NEH in the Old Post Office building, www.oldpostofficedc.com, a great example of adaptive use. bb
  16. Review of a new documentary on the Kennedy Assassination: In Small Details, a Day That Stunned the Nation http://s.nyt.com/u/C4C. bb
  17. Historian Alan Brinkley in Newsweek on why we need the humanities: www.newsweek.com/id/222791. bb
  18. Take the right steps in AASLH's Standards and Excellence program for history org's. More info at: www.aaslh.org/rightsteps. bb
  19. Great online collections website, I got lost in the beads, --http://collections.si.edu/search/ tj
  20. NEH Chairman Jim Leach's remarks at the Heritage Preservation annual meeting www.heritagepreservation.org/am/2009LeachRemarks.html. bb