Google carts will arrive at Rutgers on March 2 for loading, with three quarters of them going to NBL. Of the ca. 194,000 volumes listed on the Google candidates spreadsheet, roughly 86% were in the New Brunswick Libraries. Nearly 29%… Continue Reading
I recently read in the email newsletter of the Center for Research Libraries about the JSTOR Print Archive at CRL. This is a fallback collection of the print volumes whose digital surrogates are available in the JSTOR database. Surprisingly, the… Continue Reading
Sixty years ago Hungary was in revolution against the one-party Communist state. Soviet armed forces entered Budapest to restore order, then withdrew in the face of stiff popular resistance. Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced a multi-party government and declared the… Continue Reading
In 1996 I was History and Foreign Languages Librarian at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. While in library school at the University of Texas at Austin two years earlier, I discovered the fledgling internet organization for historians, H-Net, and… Continue Reading