By John LeMasney · April 28, 2011
John Wilkin at the University of Michigan, and Jon Stroop & Marvin Bielawski at Princeton University are helping HathiTrust to digitize and share the world's recorded knowledge using the combined effort of fifty institutions. HathiTrust is described on their web site at http://hathitrust.org as "a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future" and their mission is "to contribute to the common good by collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge."
Posted in Copyright and Fair Use, Grants and Funding, Library, New Media, Princeton Specific, Tech News
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By John LeMasney · April 15, 2011
This session looked at current and future methods of annotating and analyzing text and multimedia materials for scholarly work. From the bookmarking and annotation of webpages, to commenting Word documents for review, and the marking up of XML versions of manuscripts, annotation can take many different forms and be used in many different ways.
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By Janet Temos · February 10, 2011
David Hollander, Law and Legal Studies Librarian at Princeton, and Willow Dressel, Assistant Librarian at Princeton's Engineering and Furth Libraries, gave a talk on Wednesday, February 9th about the history of patents. . .
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By Janet Temos · December 13, 2010
"These are exhilarating times to be arts librarians," said Darwin Scott, librarian of the Mendel Music Library at Princeton. Today's Lunch 'n Learn session explored just how exhilarating - and challenging it is . . .
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By Jon Edwards · April 14, 2010
In the Fall term of 2009, Princeton conducted a pilot sponsored by the High Meadows Foundation, the University Library, and the Office of Information Technology, to assess the use of e-readers in the classroom. The...
Posted in Faculty Spotlights, Grants and Funding, Library, News from OIT, Princeton Specific, Tech News, Tools for Teaching
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By Jon Edwards · November 4, 2009
The Google Books Library Project is a collaborative effort between Google and more than 20 academic libraries and publishers to scan and make searchable major research collections. When books are out of copyright and...
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By Jon Edwards · April 22, 2009
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Princeton University Library holds world class archival and manuscripts collections. The Mudd Manuscript Library, with more than 35,000 linear feet of storage, holds two major...
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By Jon Edwards · December 3, 2008
When e-books began to appear in the early 2000’s, there was speculation about the demise of the printed book. While that clearly did not come to pass, e-books have now become a staple of...
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By Jon Edwards · October 1, 2008
On October 1, Patty Gaspari-Bridges, Assistant University Librarian for Special Libraries and Head of the Science and Technology Libraries and four other science librarians (Jane Holmquist, Steven Adams, Julie Arnheim, and Louise Deis) led a...
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By Jon Edwards · September 22, 2008
The vast print and online resources of the Princeton University Library can overwhelm even seasoned scholars. Most researchers are so busy with their daily responsibilities that there’s little opportunity for exploration and staying current with...
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By Jon Edwards · May 7, 2008
The Princeton University Library is one of nearly 30 partners in the Google Book Scanning Project, an effort to integrate major library collections. Google expects that the project will connect researchers with key scholarly works...
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By Jon Edwards · January 11, 2008
You may be a typical Google searcher who simply pops in a word or two in the Google search box and hopes for the best? As it turns out, Google has placed impressive functionality...
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By Jon Edwards · February 23, 2007
At the February 21, 2007 Lunch ‘n Learn, Bobray Bordelon and Elizabeth Bennett gave a presentation about newspaper resources at Princeton. The electronic holdings at the library make it relatively easy to locate primary...
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By Cass Cliatt · February 5, 2007
A new partnership between the Princeton University Library and Google soon will make approximately 1 million books in Princeton’s collection available online in a searchable format. In a move designed to open Princeton’s vast...
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By Jon Edwards · January 11, 2007
At the Wednesday, January 10 Lunch ‘n Learn, John Hernandez and Wayne Bivens-Tatum presented All Things Google. Hernandez focused upon searching and new Google tools. Bivens-Tatum focused upon use of Google for managing content....
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By Jon Edwards · October 27, 2006
At OIT’s Lunch ‘n Learn on October 25, Kevin Guthrie ‘84 discussed the new forces and organizations emerging from today’s rapidly evolving networked economy that pose new challenges for the academic enterprise and for...
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By outside author · September 8, 2006
By SCOTT CARLSON A mere two months after the University of California begins its book-digitization project with Google, the university will provide the search company with as many as 3,000 books a day for scanning....
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By Jon Edwards · May 18, 2006
At the May 17 Lunch ‘n Learn, four speakers from the University Library provided their perspectives on Google, the popular internet search engine that has become an integral part of everyday vocabulary and life....
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By Jon Edwards · May 4, 2006
When it comes to making your academic life easier, trust a librarian. That was the theme of the May 3 Lunch ‘n Learn where Nancy Pressman Levy, Audrey Betsy Wright and Phil Menos shared tips...
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By Jon Edwards · March 15, 2006
The Princeton University Library is offering a new way to ask reference questions — through instant messaging. Students, faculty and staff can use their AOL, Yahoo, MSN or ICQ accounts for live reference assistance by...
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