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We have a new search engine to make your life easier!
Come to Irwin library (IL 119) tonight (Thursday October 27th and Thursday November 3rd) at 7 pm. for an infosession about Primo our new search engine design to make your searching process way easier than it used to be!
Comments Off on Browse 45,000 books with your iPad Charleston, SC & London, UK – BiblioLabs, LLC and the British Library have launched their British Library 19th Century Historical Collection App for iPad – now available on the App Store. The App was announced in June with an initial offering of a thousand 19th century books – it now makes some 45,000 titles available to subscribers, expanding to over 60,000 titles by the end of the year.
Comments Off on USGS Releases free Topo Maps From a recent USGS Announcement:
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project (HQSP) is in the process of releasing all editions and all scales of more than 200,000 historic topographic maps of the United States dating from 1884-2006.
For more than 130 years, the USGS topographic mapping program has accurately portrayed the complex geography of our Nation. The historical topographic map collection contains all editions and all scales of USGS topographic quadrangles. Files are high resolution (600 DPI) scanned images of all maps from the USGS legacy collection.
The historical topographic map collection includes all States and U.S. territories mapped by the USGS. The HQSP creates a master catalogue and digital archive for all topographic maps and provides easy access to the public to download this historical data to accompany topographic maps that are no longer available for distribution as lithographic prints.
Historical maps are available to the public at no cost in GeoPDF format from the USGS Store. These maps are georeferenced and can be used in conjunction with the new USGS digital topographic map, the US Topo.
Future plans include providing the historical maps in GeoPDF andGeoTIFF formats through The National Map in the fall of 2011. The GeoTIFFs can be imported into a Geographic Information System and overlain with other data sources.
See Also: More Info About the Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project
See Also: Video of the HQSP Presentation Given at The National Map Users Conference in May
Comments Off on British Library 19th Century Historical Collections iPad App. 
The British Library announced that it is making 1,000 e-books available via its iPad App.
“This application provides access to titles from the British Library’s 19th century book collection. It includes classic novels, works of philosophy, history and science. Browse, search and read these historic books on a platform that enhances the reading experience. These digital book images have been captured in color to preserve the look of the original book. Marbled papers, embossed covers, engraved illustrations maps, and beautifully colored plates are intact and help create a unique reading environment.”
For more information please see this link.
Comments Off on Nat’l Library of Medicine Releases Hundreds of Historical eBooks 
The National Library of Medicine recently released several hundred historical eBooks. You can access them at this link.
“Medicine in the Americas is a digital library project that makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century.”
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