Libraries Near Me

"Given your location as postcode, where can you find a list of libraries near you?"

http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/07/27/libraries-near-me-map-courtesy-of-librarything/

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=fae502f6e4f46657264329b531c4a7b7

Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

"Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library. You exit the austere parlor of his New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects—on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor—the room occupies about 3,600 square feet on three mazelike levels. Is that a Sputnik? (Yes.) Hey, those books appear to be bound in rubies. (They are.) That edition of Chaucer ... is it a Kelmscott? (Natch.) Gee, that chandelier looks like the one in the James Bond flick Die Another Day. (Because it is.) No matter where you turn in this ziggurat, another treasure beckons you—a 1665 Bills of Mortality chronicle of London (you can track plague fatalities by week), the instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 capsule to the moon), a framed napkin from 1943 on which Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his plan to win World War II. In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy."

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all

Cardiff University hopes to stop rare book sale

"A university has said it hopes to find funding so that it can house and look after some of Wales' oldest and rarest books which a council plans to sell.

Up to 18,000 items dating from the 15th Century could be sold at auction by Cardiff council to raise money for improvements in library services.

Cardiff University said it believed the collection, currently held at the central library, should remain intact. "


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7631303.stm

Cardiff Council selling irreplaceable heritage

"A Council report recommending the sale of 18,000 unreplaceable rare and ancient books from its Cardiff Library to fund the building of the new Cardiff library has shocked welsh scholars and heritage organisations."

http://forums.walesonline.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6016&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

"The report recommending the sale of the historical book collections is published on the Council’s website: http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/objview.asp?object_id=7331. The report is outrageously entitled: ‘Disposal of Surplus [sic] Library Stock’ (11/01/2007). "

Fight to stop rare books sell-off

"Cardiff Council could eventually sell up to 18,000 items dating from the 15th Century at auction to raise money for improvements in library services.

The collection at the central library includes early atlases along with a second edition of Shakespeare. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7593883.stm

"Peter Keelan, head of special collections and archives at Cardiff University Library, said he understood the first batch of books date back to the 1500s and were probably the most valuable of the books being sold.

He estimated that some individual volumes could fetch in the region of £30,000 to £40,000.

"We are in discussions with the council about whether we could buy some of the books but the prices they could fetch at auction would be beyond what we could afford," he said.

"Nothing has come of the discussions yet but we have the capabilities of looking after books of that age - we have books going back to 1508 - and so if the council says they cannot afford to keep them and care for them, we could. It would also mean people from all over Cardiff could see them." "

The Library Moves On

"... But for me, visits to the library used to be filled with a sense of joyful anticipation about what I might come across by flicking through journals randomly picked from the shelves of the journal collection ..."

http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/014951.html

Build the Open Shelves Classification

"I hereby invite you to help build the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, "humble," modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System."





http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/07/build-open-shelves-classification.php

ThingISBN adds LCCNs, OCLC numbers

"ThingISBN, our popular ISBN-based API, supports and returns data for two more identifiers: LCCN and OCLC. At core, ThingISBN [...] takes an ISBN and returns a simple XML list of other ISBNs, corresponding to other "editions" of the work, eg.

http://www.librarything.com/api/thingISBN/0590353403"

http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/02/thingisbn-adds-lccns-oclc-numbers.php

The Internet Public Library

"The IPL was founded by a class at the University of Michigan's School of Information, and Michigan SI students almost exclusively generated its content and managed the Ask a Question reference service. On January 1, 2007, the IPL moved to Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. Now, a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science is developing and maintaining the IPL! "

http://www.ipl.org/

OttoBib - Make a bibliography

http://ottobib.com/

Classification Web

"World Wide Web access to Library of Congress
Classification and Library of Congress Subject Headings"

http://classificationweb.net/

Macaulay Library - Animal Sound & Video Catalog

"The Macaulay Library is the world's largest archive of animal sounds.We have more than 160,000 recordings of 67 percent of the world's birds, and rapidly increasing holdings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals."

http://www.animalbehaviorarchive.org/loginPublic.do

Scribd

"Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you!

Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web."

http://www.scribd.com/

Library Arcade Games

"The Library Arcade features games designed to help students develop research skills through entertaining and easy-to-repeat activities. At this stage, we are testing each game to work through any technical glitches and prepare the games for a final version."

http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

"Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things."

http://www.librarything.com/

Million Book Project

An early collection of books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project or sometimes called the Million Books Project. Many of these books are not complete or in good shape. The Internet Archive looks to work with volunteers to find and fix the ones that can be fixed

http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks