Category: Books
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Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought
If you were at the last OCLS Conference in Carefree you’ll remember Siva was our keynote speaker…Opinions on Google and Libraries Sought Lots of you have strong opinions on Google Print, Google Scholar and Google’s deals with the G5–those libraries participating in the Google digitization of some/all of their materials. Well, here’s your chance to…
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eBooks galore!
I’ve had the TOC for Volume 23 Issue 1 of The Electronic Library sitting in my inbox for two months now; it’s a special issue on Electronic Books and I was going to read at least some of the articles and let you know all about ’em, but HA! If it didn’t happen in the…
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Preorder The Search
Just ordered for the U of C collection: The Search : The Inside Story of How Google and Its Rivals Changed Everything Preorder The Search You can now start preordering John Battelle’s book The Search at Amazon. John’s the co-founding editor of Wired, author of Searchblog, and brand manager of Boing Boing. [via Google Blogoscoped]
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Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools
Gary Price offers a nice brief look at Google Print and Amazon’s Search Inside the Book tools. Link: Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools.
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Google Print Bookmarklet
A few months ago I promised I would build a bookmarklet for Google Print, but I quickly realized the way they had things configured meant I wasn’t able to do so. Well, they’ve changed things and you can now search Google Print directly (instead of getting results at the top of a regular Google search),…
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ebrary Offers Free Access to ALA Members
My institution recently picked up a subscription to ebrary, and I like it a lot. This may be your chance to give it a whirl… In honor of National Library Week, April 10-16, 2005, ebrary, an information services and technology provider, has announced that it is offering American Library Association (ALA) members free access to…
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O’Reilly and Safari Books Online Launch SafariU
I had heard about SafariU earlier this week while listening to an IT Conversations Podcast and remember thinking, "what’s the big deal?" I figured you could probably just build permanent links to various chapters in the Safari Tech Books online database, so why pay to do the same thing through another interface? As always, when…
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Google’s Library Up and Running
Sure enough! For fun, here’s the only result for a book search on "distance education librarian"… Seems to me I should be able to whip up a bookmarklet to search just Google Print – I’ll see if I have time to play with that later today… Slashdot | Google’s Library Up and Running Anonymous Patron…
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The Read/Write Web in the Classroom :
I almost know how Will feels about not being able to read books anymore, but I’ve been reading a few good ones lately so it’s not been too hard 🙂 If you follow the link to where he suggests you might see the whole PDF (you won’t) you’ll go to a neat page at if:book…
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…