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In early 1997, the Minneapolis Public Library began giving its patrons unfettered and unlimited access to the Internet. The librarys First Amendment-inspired policy was intended to provide a needed service to the community. But Wendy Adamson, a reference desk librarian at the library’s central branch, said it effectively made her working life a nightmare, and […]
The topic of this Nature forum the impact of the Web on the publishing of the results of original research has, since the emergence of the Internet, filled volumes in the reports of conference proceedings and reams of individual articles. The main aim of this forum is to bring some of the substance of this […]
Technological changes take years to diffuse through the economy. Contrary to popular wisdom, the Internet is no exception.
Journal of Insect Science, Published by the University of Arizona Library, Introduces a No-Cost Electronic Alternative
If you have ever gone to a bookstore looking for specific technical information, only to find that that what you need is contained not in a single, tidy tome, but spread among several books, you’ve probably faced the dilemma: whether to buy all the books for the small amount of relevant content in each, or […]
Textbook pages never rustle during a University of Virginia seminar about the Salem witch trials, because printed books have been replaced by electronic ones. Students in the experimental course were lent hand-held computers loaded with several assigned textbooks, as well as electronic versions of every warrant, indictment, and deposition from the trials.
Nicholson Baker — best known for his popular novels that explore the minutiae of everyday life — has recently become a self-described “library activist,” on a crusade to preserve dusty books, newspapers, and other old-fashioned printed materials.
The ever-extending bookshelves of the China Digital Library make searching for information much easier – it is just a few clicks of the mouse away.
Ask any academic librarian, and they’ll tell you: it’s that time of year, when students with final papers begin pulling all-nighters, and its gets a little tougher to find a seat in the library. It’s also the time of year that fueled Questia Founder and CEO Troy Williams’s $200 million-plus digital dream, online research service […]
