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Thursday, December 11, 2003 |
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Historical Newspapers
Full-Text Search, Purchase Articles, View Images, from The New York Times back to 1851.
ResourceShelf friend P.W. informs us that you can now search on an "as needed" basis the full-text of the NY Times (including advertisements) back to 1851 and purchase material for $2.95. The content is a digitized version of the material delivered in pdf. The material is being made available via ProQuest's Historical Newspapers program. [ResourceShelf]
I'm going to suggest that our library offer this as a service to our students. We sometimes get requests for newspaper articles about historical events, and we haven't had a good source. The library could pay for the articles and keep track of how much it is used to determine whether or not to subscirbe to the full Proquest service.
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Arthur C. Clarke on Information Pollution
In the way it often happens, I followed a link on the blog pointed to in the posting below and ended up at this article, an interview with Arthur C. Clarke that ranges over many aspects of technology in modern society. I agree with McGee that this is a good quote:We are now faced with the responsibility of discernment. Just as our ancestors quickly realised that no one was going to force them to read the entire library of a thousand books, we are now overcoming the initial alarm at the sheer weight of available information [^] and coming to understand that it is not the information itself that determines our future, only the use we can make of it.
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Choose Your Book, Choose Your Format
10,000 Ebooks. edBlogger librarians, and teachers of reading ... take note of this McGee pointer: "Here's something highly cool - a new site (new enough to still be in beta) called 10,000 eBooks has collected together the Project Gutenberg text files of public domain books and converted them to Palm, HTML, PDF, Rocket eBook, iSilo, Doc, Plucker and zTXT formats ..." [McGee's Musings] [ebnWL News]
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