Indiana University Research & Creative Activity January 2001 • Volume XXIII Number 3
Volume XXIII, Number
3
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Why
Libraries?
by Suzanne E. Thorin |
With so
much information available digitally, do libraries still matter?
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The
Fine Art of Finding Information
by Nick Riddle |
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Inaccessible information loses its value. That's why IU librarians take extraordinary steps to retrieve information, even from the remote reaches of China. |
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Gilding
the Lilly
by Nick Riddle |
When South African playwright Athol Fugard was a young man, he threw the manuscript of his first novel into the Indian Ocean. These days, his papers reside safely in the Lilly Library at Indiana University, alongside a Guternberg Bible, a Shakespeare first folio, and the earlist sample of Abraham Lincoln's handwriting. |
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Of
Brittle Books and Twinkie Stainss
by Eric Pfeffinger |
Water leaks, stovetop burns, canine teethmarks, even junk food pressed between pages — the IU Bloomington Libraries Preservation Department has seen it all in its fight to save threatened collections. |
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A
Canary, a Sutra, and
the State Constitution by Douglas A. Wissing |
Preserving ancient Japanese texts and restoring historic state documents are all in a day's work in the life of a rare books' conservator. |
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Errol
to the Rescue
by Marc D. Allan |
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Remember
waiting ... and waiting ... for a copy of your course's reserved reading
to become available? Now an advanced electronic reserve readings system
at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis eliminates the
wait for good.
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IUCAT
Prowls |
A powerful new Web-based catalog features powerful searching, lots of links, and ready access to 5.5 million IU Library records. |
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A
Lifelong Library |
The Franklin Schurz Library fufills a mandate to serve the public in creative ways, from Internet training for business owners to accepting food donations in lieu of fines. |
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An
Alternative Access
by William Rozycki |
From
Hoagy Carmichael's "Star Dust" to Cyrillic indexes, Indiana
University's Digital Library Program is making an ever-widening range
of materials available online.
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From
Sand to Steel
by Elizabeth Hunt |
A unusual series of 1,900 images documenting the transformation of Gary, Ind., from sleepy village to "City of the Century" forms the "Steelmaker-Steeltown" exhibit, to open online in July 2001. |
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Lost
(and Found) in Cyberspace
by Ceci Jones |
What good is a digital library, if users log off in a frustrated huff? An Indiana University Bloomington researcher studies the human dimensions of digital libraries. |
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How
many copies of War and Peace can you find in the Indiana University
system? How many books smaller than four inches are housed in IU's
Lilly Library? Find out in this index of fast facts about IU's libraries.
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| Preview books on the many senses of beauty, the courage to hope, physics, freedom, globalization, and much more. |