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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hmm, what does "ebook" mean in this context exactly?
>
> Gutenberg has a heck of a lot more than 35k digital texts of books, I
> consider them all 'ebooks'. What does Gutenberg consider 'ebooks' exactly?
>
> On 2/17/2011 12:29 PM, Charles Ledvina wrote:
>>
>> Hello Matt:
>>
>> There are 35,224 records in this bzip file from Project Gutenberg:
>>
>> http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.marc.bz2
>>
>> from this page:
>>
>> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs
>>
>> It is their complete eBook collection and they say the file is updated
>> daily.
>>
>> --Charles Ledvina
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:03:58 -0500, Matt Amory<[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If so can you send me a URL?
>>>
>>> Thanks much!
>>> Matt Amory
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Michele DeSilva<[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Code4Lib-ers,
>>>>
>>>> I want to chime in and say that I, too, enjoyed the streaming archive
>>>> from
>>>> the conference.
>>>>
>>>> I also have a question: my library has a horribly antiquated A to Z
>>
>> list
>>>>
>>>> of
>>>> databases and online resources (it's based in Access). We'd like to do
>>>> something that looks more modern and is far more user friendly. I found
>>
>> a
>>>>
>>>> great article in the Code4Lib journal (issue 12, by Danielle Rosenthal
>>
>> &
>>>>
>>>> Mario Bernado) about building a searchable A to Z list using Drupal.
>>
>> I'm
>>>>
>>>> also wondering what other institutions have done as far as in-house
>>>> solutions. I know there're products we could buy, but, like everyone
>>>> else,
>>>> we don't have much money at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any info or advice!
>>>>
>>>> Michele DeSilva
>>>> Central Oregon Community College Library
>>>> Emerging Technologies Librarian
>>>> 541-383-7565
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>