Collections

University of Chicago law professor Randy Picker recounts some experiences with Google Book Search. He talks about looking for The

We are used to buying books. To sharing them. To giving and receiving them as gifts. To quietly marking them.

Thinking about book content indexing again …. John Battelle announced the Alexa Web Search Platform [https://websearch.alexa.com/] on his

The NYT story on Sid Verba has been noted in several places. This quote caught my eye. > James Hilton,

I came across the following lines in Derek Mahon’s Selected Poems this morning. They are from The Joycentenary Ode,

[https://www.bbc.co.uk]The BBC has been a web innovator, and has a significant international web presence. Tom

The Open Content Alliance has been meeting [https://ldp.library.jhu.edu/bookworkshop/]. Some of the discussion has been blogged

There is an interesting presentation [ppt [https://db.cs.berkeley.edu/dblunch-fa2005/timo.ppt]] by Timo Hannay of Nature Publishing

An interesting announcement from Stanford and Apple about making Stanford materials available on iTunes: > Stanford on iTunes will provide

[https://www.wikibooks.org/]I had not come across Wikibooks [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page] before, which is

From BiblioAcid on the finding in our Aggregate collections [https://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lavoie/09lavoie.html] article that

Over the coming years we will take a more active role in managing aggregate or collective collections: thinking about the