One Web site, called Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations. Users must simply set up a free account and download a free software program that uses a popular peer-to-peer system called BitTorrent. Other textbook-download sites are even easier to use, offering digital books at the click of a mouse.

It is somewhat discouraging to see that publishers have to check the articles submitted by academics and researchers for possible plagiarism.

The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act, S.2913,

May 18, 2008 at William Grant Still Arts Center Queen Calafia: Ruler of California starring Ursaline Bryant. The idea of the name of California being derived from a saga of black women warriots was not taken seriously in historical circles.

A Trained but Novel Way to Keep Track of an Underground Library Collection While Making It a Stationary Lending Collection

This new Orphan Works legislation proposes a change in U.S. copyright that would (indirectly) require artists, illustrators, photographers, and any creative individual to actively maintain and defend their copyright by registering each and every work with privatized registrars. Failure to do so would leave everything you've ever created as an artist up for grabs by anyone who wanted to copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, or flat out steal your work since the act defines an "orphan work" as any work where the author is unidentifiable or unlocatable, and applies to both published and unpublished works, U.S. and foreign, regardless of age.

Proposed secret copyright deal takes aim at iPods, providers. I have a GREAT idea: Why don't we let the RIAA write our copyright laws? The Canadian government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make information on iPods, laptops and other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.

Why the Orphan Works Act is Uncle Sam's Thieves' Charter. Two-tier nature of US copyright law.

WE LOVE LIBRARIANS!!! He was allowed to speak publicly Wednesday under a rare settlement in which the FBI agreed to withdraw its letter and lift the gag order. That should show other librarians, and members of the public who receive any of the nearly 50,000 national security letters the government issues each year, that "you can push back on these," Kahle said.

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Encyclopedia of Play, a new 2-volume reference to be published in 2009 by Sage Publications. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes some 450 articles, covering all aspects of a social science perspective on playing, including psychology, gender studies, sociology, education, human development, history, and other fields. We are now making assignments with a deadline of August 1, 2008.

The epic here edited and translated was recorded from a Karakalpak epic singer, Jumabay-jïraw Bazarov, in Shomanay in Karakalpakistan in 1993. Karakalpakistan is a province in Uzbekistan" (15). Thus begins Karl Reichl's masterful presentation of Edige and his important contribution to the ever-increasing number of modern-day oral epics textualized by Western scholars for Western audiences in accordance with the most rigorous and up-to-date criteria for such a project.

Friday night is singles' night at the city's main library.

SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies worth $3000.00

Oldie but Goodie from 1999

Do you just want science info or do you want both K-12 Newsletter? Find the RSS feed that delivers the topic you want.

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - In 1985 when Gary Kildall, IBM's first choice before Bill Gates to design their PC's operating system a few years earlier, came out with the first electronic encyclopedia, who would figure it would be only a quarter of a century before print encyclopedias faded from the limelight to join vinyl records and dinosaurs?

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - It's all over for those hefty paper encyclopedias. No less an authority than The New York Times tells us it is time to "Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias," that it is all over other than rolling out the last few editions of some last few hard-boiled Luddites who insist on paper encyclopedias, at a price that could easily buy you a decent used car.

Book Reviews of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke. By Giselinde Kuipers. The Music of Bill Monroe. By Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe. Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory. By Harry Robinson.

The first known recording of Ginsberg reading the poem was thought to be March 18, 1956, at a notorious performance in Berkeley, Calif. Until now. Also read and hear Howl 2 Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Howl, Reed College, Cordley Coit

How did Ernst Leitz II and his staff get away with it? A tale of courage, integrity and humility that is only now coming to light, some 70 years after the fact. The Leica is the pioneer 35mm camera. From a nitpicking point of view, it wasn't the very first still camera to use 35mm movie film, but it was the first to be widely publicized and successfully marketed.

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 29 November 2007—Lawsuits have been dismissed and issues surrounding distribution of eAudiobooks have been resolved, according to Recorded Books and NetLibrary, the parties involved.

Lore's Labor's Lost: Archie Green's Restoration of Worlds of Labor. Tin Men. By Archie Green. 2006. Millwrights in Northern California 1901-2002. 2003. By Archie Green. Harry Lundeberg's Stetson & Other Nautical Treasures. 2006. By Archie Green. The Big Red Songbook. 2007. Edited by Archie Green, David Roediger,Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno. Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism.

The beginning of Spring. Irish Goddess "Brigit's Day" Imbolc "in the belly" (of the mother) when plants start to grow. Kildare Ireland, priestess, druids, groundhog, candlemas, feb. 2, festival of lights.

Book Review: Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil and Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction and Tech Girls Are Chic

Find out how to contact online librarians and get help for free. See if your library is online and participates. It's better than Google!!! Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars

Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. The Glenbuchat Ballads. Edited by David Buchan and James Moreira. The Folklore of the Jews. By Angelo S. Rappoport. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. By Michael Mangan. Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. By Gary L. Roberts.

C-span Tonight Saturday, January 26, at 7:00 PM American book Awards

On C-span 27th Annual American Book Awards Ceremony - Daniel Cassidy January 26, at 7:00 PM Sunday, January 27, at 1:00 AM Monday, January 28, at 6:00 AM