Welcome to the Canadian Libraries page. The Toronto scanning centre was established in on the campus of the University of Toronto. From its humble beginnings, Internet Archive Canada has worked with more institutions, in providing their unique material s with open access and sharing these collections the world over. Topic: Texts. Topic: U. S Patent. Periodical publications including magazines, trade magazines, and journals. Topics: periodicals, journals, serials, magazines.
The Magazine Rack is a collection of digitized magazines and monthly publications. The Internet Archive Manual Library is a collection of manuals, instructions, walkthroughs and datasheets for a massive spectrum of items. Manuals covering electronic and mechanical products, instructions on mixing or blending items, and instruction sets for software and computer items are all included.
Having the manual for an item can mean the difference between that item being useful and therefore not immediately junked and being forgotten, or replaced with similar products. They also give Topics: manuals, instructions. Folksonomy : A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.
Coined by Thomas Vander Wal, it is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy. Folkscanomy : A collection of books and text derived from the efforts of volunteers to make information as widely available as possible. Because the Books scanned in Shenzhen and Beijing, China. Topic: books. The newspapers in this collection have been scanned as part of a pilot project using microfilm and microfiche. The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Libraries and the largest individual library in the university.
Opened in and named for John Robarts, the 17th Premier of Ontario, the library contains more than 4. The library building is one of the most significant examples of brutalist architecture in The Governments of India, China, and Egypt are helping fund this effort through scanning facilities and personnel. The Indian The documents in this collection are from the US Federal Courts. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.
The California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve. In addition, the CDL provides tools that support the construction of online information services for research, teaching, and learning, including services that enable the UC libraries to effectively share their materials and provide greater access to digital content. Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL is An early collection of books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project.
Many of these books are not complete or in good shape. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.
Topics: historic medical books, history of medicine. This collection contains digital versions of United States Government documents as well as other government documents. Question or comment about digitized items from the Library of Congress that are presented on this website?
Please use the Library of Congress Ask a Librarian form. It is the main research arm of the U. Congress and the home of the U. Copyright Office. Topics: Argentina, Journals, Gazette. A collection of scholarly literature created by experts and professionals in their fields. Included are theses, books, abstracts and articles. Topics: academic, scientific, white papers, scholar, scholarly, peer review, jstor, arxiv, thesis, The Federal Library and Information Network FEDLINK is an organization of federal agencies working together to achieve optimum use of the resources and facilities of federal libraries and information centers by promoting common services, coordinating and sharing available resources, and providing continuing professional education for federal library and information staff.
Books from the Boston Library Consortium. Take a picture, it will last longer As books become old and begin to fall apart, librarians depend on microform to preserve their content for the future. Tiny photographs on long strips of film microfilm or small cards of film microfiche are all that remain of hundreds of thousands of documents that have disintegrated over the last century. While microfilm is perfect for storing and protecting this material, it is a does not allow for much access.
In following its mission to provide Books from the Allen County Public Library. Soundex Index for the Census. The UK Medical Heritage Library brings together books and pamphlets from 10 research libraries in the UK, focused on the 19th and early 20th century history of medicine and related disciplines. UK Medical Heritage Library partners With the re-branding of computing power and machines as something welcome in the home and not just the workshop, a number of factors moved forth to sell these machines and their software to a growing and large group of customers.
Besides the introduction of more elegant cases and an increased presence by larger and larger firms, a strong argument can be made that one of the forces was the proliferation of computer-related magazines and newsletters that gave a central, printed home for writing If you are someone who is uploading a lot of items to the Internet Archive that are in the open source collections and believe they should be sorted into other collections, please contact Jason Scott at stacks textfiles.
The collections here include a range of East Asian newspapers, journals, and magazines published in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages from The originals of these books are in the Cornell University Library. The majority were digitized in with funding by Microsoft Corporation. Other digitizing projects followed, adding to this collection.
One such project included books and journals in the life sciences and natural history for the purposes of being added to the Biodiversity Heritage Library or DTIC's Suite of Services is available to DoD personnel, defense contractors, federal government personnel and contractors and selected academic institutions.
The general public can access unclassified, unlimited information, including many full-text downloadable documents, through the public Web site, DTIC Online.
DTIC's collections Books contributed by Getty Research Institute. The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute focuses on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology with relevant materials in the humanities and social sciences.
The range of the collections begins with prehistory and extends to contemporary art. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from to the present.
ERIC's mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic This is an experimental collection of music that is not yet available for public release. Topics: cd, compact disc. Founded in by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada. The main campus covers 50 city blocks with over 90 buildings directly across the North Saskatchewan River from downtown Edmonton.
The University of Alberta library system received a tremendous boost with This collection contains global Edicts of Government , such as building, fire, electrical, and plumbing codes. The documents contain the legislative or executive declaration and the model codes that are thereby incorporated by reference.
In order to promote public education and public safety, equal justice for all, a better informed citizenry, the rule of law, world trade and world peace, these legal document are hereby made available on a noncommercial basis, as it is the right of all humans Topic: public.
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