Library of Congress Launches Effort to Create World Digital Library
am 23.11.2005 von http://www.jurabilis.deLibrarian of Congress James H. Billington and Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin announced today that Google is the first private-sector company to contribute to the Library’s initiative to develop a plan to begin building a World Digital Library (WDL) for use by other libraries …
RSS Feeds from the Library of Congress
Handakte WebLAWg / Gary Price reports that the Library of Congress is offering 6 new RSS feeds. They cover several general and special interest topics, including news about collections and other features on the library’s Web site. Quelle: Virtualchase vom 20.12.2…
Google Doesn’t Wait for EU Governments
Law & Justice / Google has launched its books scan engine Google Print in eight European countries (local-language sites): Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Google Print enables users to look for scanned books from lib…
European Digital Library Needs Clarification of Copyright Issues
Law & Justice / The “European Digital Library”, a European-led alternative to Google Print, is an initiative within the framework of i2010 Digital Libraries of the European Commission.The European Commission published the results of a consultation on the digital…
EU Information Societys High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries
Law & Justice / EurActiv writes today that the industry is better represented than the library sector among the members of DG Information Societys High Level Expert Group on digital libraries, which met for the first time on 27 March 2005 ( Read a press release publ…
Library of Congress: Independent Copyright Committee
nach-recht-en / Die “Library of Congress” hat eine Seite der “Section 108 Study Group” eröffnet, die sich mit dem amerikanischen urheberrecht befasst. Angeboten werden dort Hintergrundinformationen, Termine, Nachrichten und mehr. …
European Alternative to Google Print
Law & Justice / EurActiv has a comprehensive file about a European-led alternative to Google Print. France takes the lead in its rival venture for a European Digital Library, an initiative within the framework of i2010 Digital Libraries of the European Commission.…
Library of Congress Enhances Thomas Database
Handakte WebLAWg / The Library of Congress announced the release of a beta version of Thomas, a Web site that provides access to federal legislation and related documents. More search features are available as well as more help for those unfamiliar with searching for f…
Google Book Search Adds Library Links
Handakte WebLAWg / Google yesterday announced that it has expanded coverage of its Google Book Search product. Now in addition to searching books that you can preview in whole or in part, you may also find books whose contents are not yet available online. For these bo…
Library of Congress: Infos zum Supreme Court Of The United States
Jurabilis / Die Library of Congress ist bekanntlich großartig. Auch das Online-Angebot Thomas verdient regelmäßige Beachtung, z.B. die Seiten über den Supreme Court:The Library of Congress has compiled a variety of materials about the Supreme Court from acr…
Die Story von Sergey Brin
Handakte WebLAWg / Die Story von Sergey Brin, einem der beiden Google Gründer, wird von “Moment” ausführlich erzählt. Natürlich geht es um den Start der Suchmaschine Google und deren Erfolg, doch wir erfahren mehr. (…) Quelle: at-web vom 16.2.2007…
Legislative Information on the Internet
Handakte WebLAWg / Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inc…
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