It’s an often overlooked source, but libraries frequently have access to a lot of databases and research that can cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy. If you happen to be in Manhattan, check out the Science, Industry and Business branch of the...
A small fraction of the population believes in a true "free market" that follows the laissez-faire model, but the majority of us are glad to have both government resources (public streets, parks, schools, and libraries to name a few) and...
Hachette will be making the digitized books available to the national library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) and other libraries. The agreement will allow Google to digitize and scan books from Hachette's library of copyrighted but out-of-print...
The first, in fact, were the Harvard University Library, the University of Michigan Library, the New York Public Library, Oxford's Bodleian Library, and Stanford University Libraries (SULAIR). The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million...
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.
Libraries -- Providing free, full-text, online viewing of millions of out-of-print books at designated computers in U.S.public and university libraries Institutional Subscriptions to Millions of Books Online --Offering a means for U.S.colleges...
Gary Price of ResourceShelf Wins SLA President's Citation Posted by Kevin Heisler Jun 17, 2008 The former news editor of Search Engine Watch just won one of the nation's most prestigious awards granted to library professionals at the annual...
The Sacramento Public Library Authority Board upheld the action of the city's libraries filtering access to the internet on library computers, despite challenges from the ACLU, the Sacramento News and review reported.
While I'm a big fan of libraries and even remote access for patrons, it's troubling that the public-at-large cannot access these holdings -- or quickly discover them through commonly used search engines.
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. There are some web sites which aim to help, however, such as Librarian and I Love Libraries.
For example, coming up with ways to help utilize some of the library world's content, and just letting people know what libraries have to offer, and how can we work together with libraries. They are also fine with me going out and talking to media...
Digitized sheet music from several libraries. Imagery: Curator's Choices Selections from the NY Public Library Digital Image Gallery Here's another collection of new or "just discovered" specialty search tools, mobile tools, and more via
An increasing number of librarians and libraries are using IM in their day to day enquiry work, and I'm beginning to see IM details included on library home pages for example. Kozoru opens public beta testing of byoms (build your own mobile...
In only about five years, search engines had ousted things like friends, family, books, magazines, libraries and other perfectly good resources for seeking answers. Leads To Linking, Indexing Dispute: Book publishers upset with Google's library...
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. Don't forget that many libraries (including public libraries) already offer free full text...
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.
Over on ResourceShelf we've posted about Libraries411.com a new mashup that combines public library location info (and more) for more than 20,000 libraries in the US and Canada and mashes the info with both Google Maps or Yahoo Maps.
While much of the material in ArticleFinder is on the technical side of the aisle, don't forget that many public libraries offer great access (24x7x365) to thousands of full text article from journals and newspapers (licensed for personal use) for...
As I've said many times in 2005, many libraries like the San Francisco Public Library offer access to this service for FREE! Search is taking copyrighted books out of libraries and putting them online in a viewable format.
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...
