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Talia Wujtewicz

Online Libraries - 25 Places to Read Free Books Online - 0 views

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    A collection of online libraries that have books and other materials you can read online for free
Daniel Richardson

How The Internet Changed Music - 0 views

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    In this Time Magazine article, Claire Suddath interviews Greg Kot, who is a music critic for the Chicago Tribune. He gives his argument that the internet is a positive for music and the music industry. He has also written a book about the topic.
Amanda French

History of the Internet - YouTube - 0 views

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    This animated video is British, and that affects some of its perspective (Internet history books will tell you more about the American side), but it's particularly good for showing the structure of the Internet.
Lauren McDonald

Tutorials on HTML, CSS, PHP, & Java Script - 1 views

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    This website provides tutorials on HTML, CSS, PHP, and Java Script. Under each category you can learn a history and introduction into HTML or CSS and then learn how to create your own website using the step by step instructions.
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    Not a bad site, Lauren, though I still think http://w3schools.com is better. Heaven knows there are tons of tutorials all over the Internet. Tons of books, too, of course.
Amanda French

library-card-catalogs.jpg (1000×732) - 1 views

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    Picture of an old card catalog.
Amanda French

Library Catalog Cards - 1 views

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    An image of an old card catalog card with the bibliographic metadata included, including the call number.
Tiana Robles

8 Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    This is a short article about ways to maximize your use of Project Gutenberg.
Amanda French

Basic OCR correction | The Uses of Scale in Literary Study - 0 views

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    A blog post (nearly a scholarly article) on common errors made by Optical Character Recognition, including the error of thinking that the medial S is an f.
Ellie Cattle

Scientific research: Looks good on paper | The Economist - 0 views

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    An article about a recent incident in China where a group of people were found to be selling fake scholarly articles to academics and producing fake medical journals for sale.
Michael Olivarez

Tablets in Schools - 0 views

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    Article by CBS news explains how schools in California are replacing textbooks for tablets
Daniel Richardson

Micheal Hart: Founder of Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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    Interesting blog post about why and how Project Gutenberg was founded and started by Micheal Hart
Alex Gregg

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/news/10594580/using-rfid-tags-to-track-library-books-c... - 0 views

Interesting read on what the future looks like for libraries.

started by Alex Gregg on 21 Oct 13 no follow-up yet
Lauren McDonald

Open access - 0 views

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    Open access ( OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research. It is most commonly applied to scholarly journal articles, but it is also increasingly being provided to theses, book chapters, and scholarly monographs.
Emily Broadwater

11 Essential Algorithms That Make The Internet Work - 0 views

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    For the math-phobic out there, don't let the word scare you. An "algorithm" is nothing more than a set of instructions, just like a recipe or how-to book.And the Internet relies on many, many algorithms in order to function properly. When you type search terms into Google, it follows a very complex algorithm to determine which results to show you.
Amanda French

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - 0 views

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    Don't forget about the Internet Archive and especially the Wayback Machine in your research -- lots of good free stuff here, and you can look at what websites looked like years ago.
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