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Project Whirlwind comes home
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Project Whirlwind Computer collection -- a compilation of pioneering digital computing research conducted at MIT in the 1940s and 1950s -- has been transferred back to the Institute from ...
EU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair
Oct 18, 2009 |
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The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.
Opening the door to Europe's archives
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Historical archives can be difficult to search, especially when relevant documents are held by institutions in different countries. A European project has shown how a single online portal with a simple graphical ...
Gen Y logs on at the library
Jan 01, 2008 |
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More Americans turn to the Internet for issues such as illnesses, finances, taxes and careers rather than look to other information sources, a survey found.
World Digital Library to launch at UNESCO
Apr 20, 2009 |
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The World Digital Library, a website offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe, launches Tuesday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Europeans promote cultural digital library
Mar 28, 2006 |
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The European Commission Monday held its first high-level meeting on digital libraries to discuss how cultural heritage can be made available online.
Libraries eye stimulus money for their Web access
May 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The libraries in Delaware County, Pa., are trying to shift into warp speed. The county is hooking eight branches to a fiber-optic network to help meet library patrons' ever-rising demand for high-bandwidth tasks like ...
Sony's eBooks to work with libraries
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Maybe now it's an actual competition between Amazon's Kindle and Sony's forlorn "Reader" e-book.
Probing Question: How is the computer age changing libraries?
May 21, 2009 |
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For those of us of a certain age — no need to put a number on it, thank you -- the word "library" still conjures forth memories of solid wood cabinets filled with hand-typed cards, each pointing to a book ...
Researchers develop new technique to tap full potential of antibody libraries
Jan 15, 2009 |
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In hopes of more fully tapping the libraries' potential, a group of Scripps Research Institute scientists, led by Scripps Research President Richard A. Lerner, M.D., has for the first time developed a new screening technique ...
Humanity's earliest written works go online
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.
UI develops free, easy-to-use web tool kit for archivists
Feb 19, 2008 |
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Archivists at the University of Illinois Library believe they have built a better tool kit. Their new online collections management program called Archon has more than a few attractive features – not the least of which is ...
Google could be 'gagged' by new laws: expert
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Internet search engines such as Google could be crippled by changes to copyright law in Australia that look set to be implemented by the Federal Government, a Copyright expert from The Australian National University argues.
P[acman]-generated fruit fly gene 'library': A new research tool
May 24, 2009 |
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(May 24, 2009) -- Using a specially adapted tool called P[acman], a collaboration of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine has established a library of clones that cover most of the genome of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit ...
Major universities see promise in Google Book Search settlement
Oct 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford University, the University of California and University of Michigan announce today their joint support for the outstanding public benefits made possible through the proposed settlement agreement submitted to the United States District Court, S ...
