Librarians’ Index to the Internet New this Week has a few items of interest for librarians, including an American Library Association page on career development, the Crime in the Library weblog, and the Occupational Outlook Handbook’s entry on librarians.
Check out this Web site!
"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."
It looks like they grant reproduction rights for at least [...]
including a link to information about librarians in comics
from the ResourceShelf
PennSound features audio versions of poetry for free.
"PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives [of poetry]."
From the press release:
"The recording industry may not want anyone downloading music without paying for it, but a new project at the University of Pennsylvania encourages downloading right to MP3 players [...]
Merriam-Webster is offering free access to their online unabridged dictionary for a week beginning Monday, November 8.
noticed on the ResourceShelf
I frequently use the free Merriam-Webster dictionary. I’ll be interested in what the differences between the two versions are. I wonder if it offers a more complete definition of sheanuts.
I was going to post this resource [...]
I’ve been wondering when one of these was going to show up on the Web. You can type in some words to retrieve words meaning similar things, somewhat like a thesaurus, I suppose. This site will not only help those of us who forget words, but it could also be useful to people learning English.
I [...]
I get questions about which books these are and where to find them all the time, so I’m really excited to learn Bartelby.com has them.
Harvard University President Charles Eliot selected them as books worth reading many years ago. A 2001 Harvard Magazine article has some more background:
"In fact, though the series bears the Harvard name, it [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2004 Almanac came out earlier this week. It contains lots of nifty data about American institutions of higher learning and college students.
For example, it’s common knowledge that Harvard University has the largest endowment, though Yale is trying hard to catch up. It’s not as commonly known that it does not [...]
Steven Cohen highlights this project to record public domain books for the general good. Inspiration for the project came from the bloggers who got together to record Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture.
Josh Ain shares some positive thoughts about finally visiting Project Gutenberg, a Web site featuring many works that are not or no longer protected by copyright law.