Use Google Libraries
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/use-google-libraries/ This very simple plugin that substitutes JavaScript libraries called locally on your own server with Google's own CDN. You can output your latest tweets or someone else...
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. There are three major categories of books, as far as publication rights are concerned: out of print and out of...
I would start with older libraries, colleges, government offices, archives, and used book stores. There are limitless opportunities to create things for your Web site from public information that people will link to.
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.
Additionally, they will have agreements with libraries to provide access to Google Books. The Registry may ask the court after 10 years to distribute these funds to nonprofits benefiting rightsholders and the reading public, and may provide...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Only Searchable At Your LibraryWhile 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.
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.
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...
For those of you who graduated over a decade ago, you'd be amazed at how academic and publiclibraries 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.
Info Pros Are SearchingThis week, the Special Libraries Association held its annual confab in Denver. First Public View Of Powerset Results, TechCrunch From the SEW blog: Organic Search Ask Launches Ask3DFollowing hot on the heels of the recent...
So, Ask.com is very happy with me just going out and talking to the general public about what libraries have to offer, period. For example, coming up with ways to help utilize some of the library world's content, and just letting people know what...
Content owners and aggregators not currently in the Google News Archives program can contact Google and request to be included, Acharya added.As ZDNet blogger Garett Rogers, former SEW news editor Gary Price have pointedly noted, much of the fee...