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U.S. researchers have created a digital library and search engine that now holds more than 1 million journal articles and can be easily accessed by anyone.Pennsylvania State University scientists said the library, called CiteSeerX, is based in the university's College of Information Sciences and Technology. It is designed to enhance the dissemination of scientific literature by making papers and other documents easier to locate online, the school said.The library provides resources such as...

Officials at UNESCO headquarters in Paris announced the launch of the World Digital Library on Monday.The library represents a massive collection of books, films, photographs and other materials from libraries across the globe.UNESCO's new library will become the world's third major digital library, behind Google's Book Search and the EU's Europeana.U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington is credited with establishing the basis of the new digital library during a speech to the U.S....

A website that will offer free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe called The World Digital Library is set to launch April 21 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.The site's cultural content from libraries and archives worldwide will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, and will also include material in additional languages.The project, which was launched by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural...

Digitizing for Preservation and Access: Past is Prologue WASHINGTON, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the National Archives will host its annual preservation conference entitled Digitizing for Preservation and Access: Past is Prologue, on Thursday, March 26, 2009. Adrienne Thomas, Acting Archivist of the United States, and Dr. Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant Archivist, Office of Records Services, will provide opening remarks for the event. The...

- Job search skills, career licensing and certification, and GED preparation leading the way during the country's troubled economic times - NEW YORK, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Substantiating its value to the millions of library patrons who have used the LearningExpress Library(TM) online career and academic-oriented learning platform, LearningExpress, LLC announced today that system-wide usage has jumped by more than 25% in recent months, and in regions which have been extremely hard hit by...

--Additional online tutorials and tools help patrons better prepare for a new job or career -- NEW YORK, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to help the growing number of people who have suffered job losses due to the economic downturn, the Library of Michigan has expanded its partnership with LearningExpress to make additional online career-oriented resources available to the residents of the State of Michigan. Effective immediately, these additional online job search and workplace...

The University of Texas at Austin--one of the largest public universities in the United States--is moving quickly to make it easier for faculty and staff to use published materials for a range of educational purposes. The university has signed an agreement with Copyright Clearance Center to become the latest--and now the largest--institution to adopt CCC's Annual Copyright License for academic institutions, providing librarians, faculty, copy shop staff and others with pre-approved permission...

By Brenner, Michaela Klein, Peter Libraries need to provide attractive and exciting discovery tools to draw patrons to the valuable resources in their catalogs. The authors conducted a pilot project to explore the free version of Google Earth as such a discover tool for Portland State Library's digital collection of urban planning documents. They created eye- catching placemarks with links to parts of this collection, as well as to other pertinent materials like books, images, and historical...

Libraries across America have been expanding their selections of digital books, movies, and music so that their patrons can download them rather than check out physical copies. They hope this new approach will bring the community back through their doors.Library branches in Phoenix have joined together to create a digital library filled with nearly 50,000 videos, music and audiobooks that can be "checked out" online.According to Tom Gemberling, electronic resource librarian for the...