Peter McCracken's regularly featured column in Sea History provides useful information about using the internet for research, tapping into a community brought together by knowledge and interest in maritime topics.
American Civil War [Sea History 108: page 31]
archives "Internet Archive: Finding Lost Things on the Web"
[Sea History 120: page 20]
art, art history [Sea History 114: page 31]
book searches [Sea History 110: page 18]
digital resources: Mystic Seaport's digital resources [Sea History 118: page 36]
directories [Sea History 112: page 19]
discussion lists [Sea History 116: page 18]
E-books [Sea History 117: page 20]
foreign-language resources "Searching the Web in Languages You Don't Speak"
[Sea History 122: page 42]
images "Locating Maritime Images" [Sea History 121: page 26]
USS Monitor (ironclad) [Sea History 108: page 31]
music [Sea History 115: page 30]
navigation [Sea History 109: page 18]
"pathfinders" (academic library) [Sea History 114: page 31]
photoblogs [Sea History 113: page 33]
podcasts [Sea History 113: page 33]
research [Sea History 106: page 35]
sea shanties [Sea History 115: page 30]
search engines [Sea History 112: page 19]
"Web 2.0: The New Internet" (sources offering user-generated content)
[Sea History 119: page 30]
weblogs [Sea History 113: page 33]
whaling, 18th- and 19th centuries [Sea History 107: page 33]
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Peter McCracken is the director of Electronic Content Management and co-founder of Serials Solutions Inc.(www.serialssolutions.com) out of Seattle, Washington. He holds a Master of Library Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a Masters in Maritime History from East Carolina University. McCracken created and maintains the following website: www.shipindex.org
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