The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million books, largely thanks to the 40-plus libraries in its Library Projects Partner program. With many major libraries having unique copies of historical texts, partnerships like the one with the...
We want to see these books have the broadest reach possible -- the books we scan are available for inclusion in Europeana, of which the Florence Library is a founding member, and other digital libraries.
Institutional Subscriptions to Millions of Books Online --Offering a means for U.S.colleges, universities and other organizations to obtain subscriptions for online access to collections from some of the world's most renowned libraries
It's possible to swap out the SQLite libraries for another database library that supports the dbapi2 interface. The scripts are written in Python, and make use of the SOAPpy libraries for accessing the AdWords API SOAP service.
There are some web sites which aim to help, however, such as Librarian and I Love Libraries. For those of you who graduated over a decade ago, you'd be amazed at how academic and public libraries have transformed into electronic wonders, open 24/7.
This week, the Special Libraries Association held its annual confab in Denver. It's certainly not about physical libraries anymore. His paper (see Federated Search at the Intel Library) outlines the entire project in detail.
Reuters reports that Google will be funding "the scanning of "several million" of the 34 million titles in the University of California's libraries. As expected the University of California is partnering with Google on the Google library scanning...
Digitized sheet music from several libraries. Imagery: Curator's Choices Selections from the NY Public Library Digital Image Gallery We also include a link to the PictureAustralia project. Here's another collection of new or "just discovered...
Postscript: Google argues with U.K.publishers over digital libraries from News.com covers publishers in the UK making new attacks against the program. American Publishers Sues Google over Library Digitization Plan and
Despite the capital letters and bolding, expect that many will begin saying that Google is now illegally selling books that it has scanned from libraries, just as many incorrectly say Google is reprinting scanned books online (they aren't).
OAIster is an index to academically-oriented "digital resources" available for free from close to 600 libraries and other organizations. The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis. PubMed is the well-known database built and maintained...
As a librarian, I'm thrilled that the potential for people to make better use of their libraries could be made possible by Google's Library Program. Coleman points out libraries and others have been digitizing books in one form or another for many...
Google's Library Project (to digitize materials founnd in five large libraries and then offer snippets from that material) is a part of the complete GBS program. Both Variety and Red Herring report that Google Video Store, iTunes, and other video...
New Mashup Combines Public Library Location Info with Google and Yahoo Maps - If you live in the US or Canada you no longer can say you don't know where public libraries in your area or any area for that matter are located.
Establishing New Trust Signals In Search: Moving To Trusted Links Joins Open Content Alliance, A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut, Germany: Publishers Plan Online Book Service, Details about Europe's i2010 Digital Libraries Program...
The Librarians' Internet Index (LII) was founded in 1993 and is maintained by librarians, in this case a small staff supported by funds from the California State Library system and the Washington State Library, and several dozen volunteer...
What's crucial to remember is that Google Print (recently renamed Google Book Search) itself was around before Google's announcement to digitize the full or partial holdings of five large university libraries.
Unlike ebrary and other services, NetLibrary doesn't offer a program for individual users, but rather provides its services through more than 13,000 libraries around the world. All you need is a library card from a library that offers NetLibrary...
At the moment, The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is the only one of the "Google Five" libraries located in Europe. Google has acknowledged that it cannot digitise copyright material from European libraries, according to the Association of...
It aims to be a repository of one-of-a-kind collections from nations around the world, a much expanded version of the Global Gateway digital library site that the Library of Congress maintains in partnership with other national libraries such as...
