Google & Uni of Michigan Book Digitisation Project

An article about Google’s plans to digitise library book collections from the Inside Higher Ed website. There are a wide range of feelings and opinions about these kinds of plans, e.g. some people are in favour of increasing ease of access to collections, whilst others are worried about Google having too much monopoloy and control [...]

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Alien Life and Astrobiology: some library resources

Are there other life forms in the Universe? I can’t answer that question, as I haven’t spotted any UFOs over North Wales recently, but I can direct you to some library resources at Bangor University where you can begin exploring this question. There is a short article by Rami T.F. Rekola called Life and habitable [...]

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Changelings and Fairy Brides

Regular readers of this blog will soon notice that, as a librarian, I don’t really have a preference for what we call electronic resources (online journals, databases, and so on) or printed resources (books, journals, etc). Journals, by the way, for any non academic people happening upon this blog, are collections of essays written by [...]

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