Secrets of Librarians

Usually I just stumble across stuff with Google, but there some places that Secrets that I've learned about from my favorite librarians and elsewhere:

• Archivegrid
• Digital Public Library of America DPLA
• Worldcat
• Internet archives
• The New NARA catalog
• NUCMC
• Link+
• google books
• Hathitrust
• Old phone books online
• Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
• Daily Pacific Builder
• Pacific Rural Press at State Library
• Google scholar
• Tips on property research in SCV, including access to Sanborn maps.
• History of San Jose Collection
• Sanborn maps:

1. SFPL Sanborn maps  Sanborn Maps California; go to home page, www.sfpl.org ;  click on the eLibrary tab on blue bar at top; select Articles and Databases from the dropdown menu.  You then have an option to select databases from an A-Z listing, click on that, and Sanborn is under S.  You do need an SFPL card to access the databases remotely.
2. SJPL Sanborn maps - accessed 2018

• The California Digital Newspaper Collection, but no Butte County newspapers
• Butte County digital resources
• CSU Chico, Digital Reel
• Oakland papers - Newspapers.com
• Berkeley Daily Gazette
• San Francisco and Oakland papers (SF Chron and Examiner) - use your SFPL library card. Bulletin is on microfilm.
• Discover America's Story
• Google News Archive
• Webcite
• Pacific Rural Press is on the Internet Archive and can be downloaded as PDF.
• The American Horticultural Society publications from 1920-2010.
• The new NARA (2022)
• The New York Times
• Bancroft Library tips

Google search tips:

• Adding site:edu or site:gov or site:org to a search. 
• Use site:website, like site:www.fs.fed.us 
• exclude sites like site:website, use -site:www.fs.fed.us 
• Use quotes, like "wild fire"
• To find the best robotic vacuum, use inanchor: like inanchor:best "robotic vacuum"
• Use together, like inanchor:best "robotic vacuum" site:consumerreports.org

DPLA tips: efficient, searches across various libraries, unexpected places, use different names, groups and organizations, Civil War research, name of Vet & regiment, start at home, oral histories, family bibles, family papers, military records, photos & yearbook, ebooks