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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] >>>