Corporate-controlled content libraries: These enable national brands to share preapproved content, messages, photos, videos, etc.with their many locations, who can then put the compliant resources into an engaging local context.
Hachette will be making the digitized books available to the national library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) and other libraries. Google has reached an agreement with France's largest publishing company, Hachette Libre.
Get the geopolitical information online, municipal information, local government, post office, libraries, public schools, trash and recycling collection schedules, historical facts, playgrounds, parking lots, public transportation, local school...
With an index of over 26 million hours of searchable video and more than 350 media partnerships, including national broadcasters, commercial media giants, and private video libraries, blinkx has cemented its position as the premier destination for...
In its original form the Patriot Act granted the FBI, among other things, the power to issue “national security letters” (NSLs) that would compel search engines, ISPs, phone companies, libraries and other public sources of information to turn over...
Government Sites (Libraries, Cities, State, National, Military, NASA) In some respects that is correct. You need to find the places the fish are gathered, try to get their attention with the bait and hope they bite.
Google's blogging (and here) about how it is supporting the 25th anniversary of the American Library Association's Banned Book Week by posting information about novels that have been challenged or banned from being in libraries within the...
RLG's ArchiveGrid database containing nearly a million collection descriptions thousands of archives, museums and libraries remains free for a few more weeks (June 30, 2006). Newspapers: National Library of New Zealand?
OAIster is an index to academically-oriented "digital resources" available for free from close to 600 libraries and other organizations. PubMed is the well-known database built and maintained by the US National Library of Medicine and the National...
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.
To build the site, Clusty received support from the National Science Foundation and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Libraries. News from Clusty this morning that they have launched a new "specialty search database" to mark the 300th Bithday (his...
I would like to encourage you to take a look (if you haven't already) at my post about "other" question answering services that discusses what libraries of all types offer "virtually" in terms of question answering without having to visit the...
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...
You pay only to print and copy text.ebrary, like other services (NetLibrary, Books24x7, Safari Tech books spend a great deal of time marketing their services for licensing by libraries and the enterprise market.ebrary is no different and its fully...
national libraries and renowned universities? RLG, a highly respected organization in the library world with more than 150 research libraries as members, has announced a partnership with LookSmart. as well as images from many other museums...
The letter, signed by National Consumers League President Linda Golodner, acknowledges the tremendous potential value in Google Inc.s bold vision for the new initiative, in which the complete collection of works at the university libraries of...
Long before Google took the world by storm by with their plans to digitize some or all of the books in five large libraries, it's important to remember that many companies, libraries, and other organizations have been busy digitizing new and old...
Breaking Down The Google Print 5 Libraries - If you're interested in learning about the print book collections of the five libraries Google plans to scan/digitize (assuming all goes as planned), a new article in Digital Libraries: "Anatomy of...
In two posts, (here and here) I point out that MANY other book digitization programs are going on both from disparate organizations( The Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, numerous libraries, etc.and from individual publishers (National...
These services are often made available for free from public and university libraries.ebrary also offers services to individual researchers via ebrary Discover. The National Academies provides searchable, full text access to thousands of their titles.
