Internet Update is compiled by Lesliediana Jones, Government Documents Librarian at the Jacob Burns Law Library, and is issued monthly as a service to the George Washington University Law School community. This online edition of a book published by the National Academy of Sciences is an example of its subject matter as it explores the issue of intellectual property in a digital age. Because the Internet makes it easy to reach a large audience, fraudsters have no trouble producing credible-looking email messages, postings to discussion lists, chat rooms, and online bulletin boards. This site lists the types of fraudulent messages and announcements that might be found on the Internet and gives tips on how to spot fraud. Visitors can click on a machine's name and go to a page that includes a photo or illustration, a bit of history of the machine including the date and manufacturer, and a series of related links both to other pages on the museum's site and to outside sites.
Users can browse the collection by subject or creator, or search by keyword.
Additional features include some collection highlights, a RealPlayer video interview with WPA Silkscreen Artist Tony Velonis, and images of a wonderful 1939 Federal Art Project Calendar. While numerous excellent projects to record the experiences of survivors have been undertaken, this one is unique in that the interviews took place only one year after liberation, while the victims were still in displaced persons camps throughout Europe. The interviews may be browsed alphabetically or searched via a keyword search engine. A few problems were encountered using the latter, but the site as a whole is simply a wonderful resource for researchers, teachers, students, or anyone who wants to learn more about heartbreaking and incredible stories of loss and survival during the Holocaust. The contents of the database are derived primarily from an ad hoc questionnaire that was given to OECD member countries in 1998.