Age of Decline? 50,000 manuscripts, scrolls, booklets and paintings on silk, hemp and paper were found literally stuffed into it.
One of the manuscripts was the Diamond Sutra, the world's earliest dated, printed book (868).1
Klassekampen sin sju-sidars feature laurdag 13. november handlar om barn og undom og lesing, nådelaust oppsummert i tittelen «Kortleserne : Skjermen drepte kjedsomheten. Og langlesingen». For følgjarane av denne bloggen er dette lite nytt, og for mange berre deprimerande. Sjølv om kanskje bibliotekarar under tretti sjølve tilhøyrer den same «lese-generasjonen»? Men likevel nokre høgdepunkt: Avisa…
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TTIP negotiations have been running since 2013, yet German parliamentarians have only recently been allowed to read the documents. Now, documents have been made available in a high-security reading room
We are pleased to announce that the Internet Archive and OCLC have agreed to synchronize the metadata describing our digital books with OCLC’s WorldCat. WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of thousands of libraries in more than 120 countries that participate in the OCLC global cooperative.
“This work strengthens the Archive’s connection to the library community around the world. It advances our goal of universal access by making our collections much more widely discoverable. It will benefit library users around the globe by giving them the opportunity to borrow digital books that might not otherwise be available to them,” said Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive
Inside Higher Education:"... Momtchiloff said the publisher is revamping how it generates PDF files from its titles, which could potentially produce files that more closely resemble the source. ... Despite Momtchiloff's response, Pasnau said he wasn't convinced the publisher will make the platform more useful for researchers. ... "They'll presumably fix the worst of the problems I pointed out, but this basic procedural problem remains," Pasnau wrote in the email. "It simply takes a great deal of hard work to change the format of a book so radically and then expect it to be displayed properly. It's like going through a whole second production process."
Bob Pasnau, University of Colorado (‘In medias’ aspires to assemble in one place the latest information pertaining to scholars of medieval philosophy. This blog will avoid rants and philosophical musings, confining itself itself to news and notes of general interest to medievalists.) on library ebooks from Oxford University Press. copyfight
P. Alguire, M. Massa, K. Lienhart, und R. Henry. Medical teacher, 10 (1):
85-90(Januar 1988)5854<m:linebreak></m:linebreak>LR: 20041117; JID: 7909593; ppublish;.