Encyclopedia of Alabama
The Encyclopedia of Alabama website has been 'live' as of last Monday - there are lots of good articles, and they asked (and I said 'yes') to use a bunch of my pics too. The website is here.
I didn't realize until someone at Auburn had contacted me that universities even did these online state encyclopedias as projects - but Georgia and Washington both have really nice ones.
Av and I both grew up with World Book - and I had to look up just now to see if they still made a physical set of encyclopedia volumes (they do - a set of 2008s is $1089). World Book also made those great Childcraft books too...Av's mother saves everything so I bet we can use his set for our kids. Looooved those. Then there were the ones that were sold at the grocery store. Was it that you had to buy a certain amount of groceries and then you could buy a different volume at a lower cost? Av remembers Golden Book Encyclopedias and I think I remember Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedias done that way. It was *so* convenient if you had your own set of books because back in...you know, the '80s...you'd have to go all the way to the library to look something up otherwise...
posted by ginger Sunday, September 21, 2008
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