If you happen to be in Manhattan, check out the Science, Industry and Business branch of the New York Public Library. One of my favorite research tricks is to go to the public library. Their research library, in particular, is a great place to...
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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...
Fortunately, much of the new information created by humans is now in digital format, so it can more easily be included in the Universal Library without the extensive physical effort of scanning books.
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.
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service Sources for Product Reviews Online - On Christmas Day, the New York Times offered a look at several services that allow end users to supply and share reviews of different...
Postscript: As I noted yesterday, Answers.com and The New York Public Library have just announced a new service that will include a virtual reference/question answering element to help students with homework.
First, the acquisition of Brainboost and this morning, word that Answers.com has teamed up with the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Public Library to offer HomeworkNYC.org that "will assist" students with their...
When people make inquiries using Google's search engine and they come up with references to books, they are just as likely to come to this fine institution to look up those references as they are to buy them," he said, referring to the Public...
Search for images at the New York Public Library Digital Gallery. Google's battle over library books. Click here to read the rest of this post. Volk's post offers step by step directions and screen caps.
A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut - Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable...
Online Debate Over Google Scanning Project Underway - The Friday Project's Google Debate program has begun, which will have various solicited parties offering up opinions on the Google Print program's library scanning project.
New Google Talk Offers Instant Messaging Toolbar-Based Queries Grow One Group Still Not Happy - The biggest change is that Google will allow publishers who are members of the Google Print program to explicitly tell Google what library books they...
Yes, in the web age, the world of the library and the skills of the librarian extend well beyond the four walls of the traditional library building. This article also points out that Google is also looking for 40,000 square feet, "for work related...
Those of you doing "personal" research (and not wanting to share content on the web) might recall (mentioned on the blog in the past) that many public libraries and most university libraries, offer free web-based remote access (no need to visit...
A Look at the NY Public Library Digital Gallery. New York Times Mar 10 2005 1:40AM GMT Media Post Mar 10 2005 1:12AM GMT Google has enhanced its news service with a number of new features that make it easy to modify your own version of the...
BTW, I'm surprised that the folks at the Googleplex just didn't search their own database (or a competitor's) to find plenty of detailed info about what Purdue holds in their many library collections.
More about what libraries offer for free and without having to visit the library building in this SearchDay article. The New York Times- 1851-2001 The Washington Post- 1877-1988 Many libraries (public, university, etc.offer free 24x7 web access...
In our article about Google's library digitization project last week and this SEW Blog post, we noted another large library digitization project from the Internet Archive. Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the...
Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the American Library Association. The New York Post reports in: Google's Ads Ogled By Crispin, that Miami-based ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, might have the inside track...
