These digital resources range from images at the Library of Congress to audio files, reference books such as dictionaries, articles from online journals, and electronic books. The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis.
Is Google going to use Libary of Congress Subject Headings or develop their own controlled vocabulary and cross reference structure? However, as we've pointed out on SEW Blog several times, the searcher who finds in-copyright material (that's been...
Federal legislation (and related issues) dealing with Internet privacy, Internet technology, and the protection of children from "unsuitable material on the web," here are a few research reports from the non-partisan and highly respected...
Million Digitized Images Now Available Online from The Library of Congress - Long before The Library of Congress (LC) made the announcement last week about planning a World Digital Library (WDL), they've been digitizing material of all types for...
Long before The Library of Congress (LC) made the announcement last week about planning a World Digital Library (WDL), they've been digitizing material of all types for many years along with cataloging books (as you might expect) and offering MANY...
Over the past year, Google has digitized about 5,000 public domain books from the Library of Congress, material that may ultimately end up in Google Book Search, though it's not currently listed there yet.
Postscript: For more materials about Judge Alito, check this collection of resources (many web accessible) compiled by the Law Reading Room at the Library of Congress. I usually post this type of material over on ResourceShelf but thought that this...
They're from the subject headings that have been assigned to the books in your results list by human catalogers, using a controlled vocabulary called Library of Congress Subject Headings. Note the green box in the upper right side of the page...
The Library of Congress already has a bibliographic enhancement team. While he does differentiate Google Print from Google Library, he doesn't point out that Google Library users will only see "snippets" of their keywords in context (unless the...
The Library of Congress has an entire department called the Consider them an "electronic library catalog" or the "library database". Second, Danny writes that the crawler-compiled OPAC will let you scan every page of every book in the library.
US Library of Congress: Ask a Librarian Email your research questions or chat online with a Library of Congress reference librarian. Ask the Library of Congress (Aug. HighBeam Access to reference material, research information, periodical...
They've been assigned to the books by human catalogers from a controlled vocabulary called Library of Congress Subject Headings. When blogging the Google Scholar news I realized that since I started working with Danny and Chris on the SEW Blog, I...
Let's begin with a look at the Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II) from the Library of Congress. Ask working librarians and library school students what they found the most challengeing part of their...
Ten large libraries are taking part in the project including the Carnegie Mellon University Library, The Library of Congress, and the University of Toronto Library. Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the...
I've also written about question answering services powered by human beings, such as those offered by the Library of Congress and Wondir. The New York Public Library Picture Collection, a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines...
Ten large libraries are taking part in the project including the Carnegie Mellon University Library, The Library of Congress, and the University of Toronto Library. More About The Internet Archive's Library Digitization Project By Gary Price, Dec.
In parallel to the above, we have started on a different approach through the launch of our Content Acquisition Program, working with such partners as NPR and the Library of Congress, as well as with universities such as Northwestern, UCLA and...
I did a quick look to see whether the US Library Of Congress was still being filtered. McCullagh said his story was originally intended to follow up on last year's revelations out of Harvard University that Google was blocking innocent sites such...
Library of Congress. Tasty New Search Engines About.com Web Search Guide, July 16, 2001 http://websearch.about.com/library/weekly/aa071601a.htm You wouldn't walk into a library looking for tips about growing tulips and simply say to the librarian...
Ask the Library of Congress SearchDay, Aug.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160561 Library of Congress, and they're available online to answer your questions by chat or email. Congress is freely available on the web -- if you...
