Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper

Whitepaper  |  connect.educause.edu | Mar 6, 2008

The paper describes four large-scale projectsGoogle Book Search, Microsoft Live Search Books, Open Content Alliance, and the Million Book Projectand their digitization strategies. It then discusses a range of issues affecting the stewardship of the digital collections they create:

http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/PreservationintheAgeofLar/46357

Bookreporter.com - TOOL & DIE by Sarah Graves

Readers who are also viewers of the myriad home improvement shows flooding television networks will find plenty to delight them in TOOL & DIE, the eighth book in the "Home Repair is Homicide" mystery series.

http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0553585789.asp

Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair, 3 - Elsevier

Review  |  www.elsevier.com

To order this title, and for more information, click here Third Edition By Heinz P. Bloch, Consulting Engineer, Montgomery, TX, USA Fred K. Geitner, Professional Engineer, Ontario, Canada.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookreview.librarians/703452/review

Humans, Nature, and Birds

“The authors’ use of birds as a binding motif gives their book appeal and coherence, and the selection of art is eclectic and apt.”—Timothy Goldsmith, Yale University

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/reviews.asp?isbn=9780300123883

Home & Garden Periodicals, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

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http://www.carnegielibrary.net/research/homegarden/magazines.html

Preservation Research Projects Updates (Preservation, Library of Congress)

The Preservation Directorate fosters research leading to the care of collections. This research takes many forms, ranging from scientific and forensic characterization studies to treatment developments. The following table provides periodic updates for a typical selection of studies.

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/rt/projects/index.html

ATLA Catalog 2005-2006 - Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR) Online

Coverage: 1960-present (Some Retrospective Indexing Project records provide indexing for journals as far back as the nineteenth century. IBRR online also includes reviews from the Methodist Reviews Index, 1818-1985.

http://www.atla.com/in_process/catalogs_past/catalogs05-06/catalogs_ibrr.html

Bookreporter.com - THE BOOK OF OLD HOUSES by Sarah Graves

Professor Dave DiMaio is on a revenge mission. His good friend, bookseller Horace Robotham, has been murdered. DiMaio brings his .22 revolver as he heads for Eastport, Maine, where he hopes to settle up.

http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/9780553804300.asp

Industrial Machinery Repair - Elsevier

Review  |  www.elsevier.com

Best Maintenance Practices Pocket Guide To order this title, and for more information, click here By Ricky Smith, CMRP,Reliability Strategy Leader Ivara Corporation R. Keith Mobley, President and CEO of Integrated Systems, Inc., Integrated Systems Inc.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookreview.cws_home/676949/review

The Siege of Budapest

"Ungvary's book will preserve for posterity the record of an epic yet futile struggle that will soon fade from living memory." Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles "The Siege of Budapest is an important and exciting contribution to World War II history.

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/reviews.asp?isbn=9780300119855