62,000 rare books in fire
Almost 30,000 books have been lost in the
library fire in Weimar, Germany. A salvage effort is in progress. (New York Times, 11.20.04)
all of your base are belong to us
A Google literature data
base with links to whole text.
“Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.”
“The scholarly search effort continues Google’s aims to probe even deeper into content available online and offline. Last month, Google expanded a program that invites publishers to scan their books into the search engine’s index, enabling people to peek at the contents online before deciding whether to buy a copy.” (CNN.com)
make your own books
“Festivals of Light: Making Books for the Holiday Season gives you six complete bookmaking projects for the holiday season: Festivals of Light Accordion Book, Festivals of Light Triangle Book, Dreidel Book, Seven
Symbols of Kwanzaa Book, Twelve Days of Christmas Book, and Diwali Rangoli Book.”
save that book!
A
perceptive essay by Jonathan Spence.