Monday, January 26, 2009


The World Public Library, Ebook Project and Project Gutenberg make available thousands of books and other printed material that would be out of most people's reach without digital technology and the web. It is really quite amazing. However, I do think that the majority of the titles are things very few people will ever use. Thorstein Veblen? Just lots of esoteric stuff. Although I think this will benefit some, these titles will seldom be used by the students at my school. In fact, we have a subscription to a Questia which is a research tool that has a number of similar resources. The problem is that they are all fairly old and mostly very academic. I have watched the students try to use them with very little success. Most of them are more suitable for upper division or graduate students. At any rate, if they are needed these resources are available for the entire world.

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