Digital Library of the Week
The World Digital Library makes available, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Launched in 2009, its principal objectives are to promote international...
August 13, 2010
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The National Digital Library of Poland (CBN Polona) was created to enhance wide and easy access to the digital collections of the National Library in Warsaw, including the most important editions of literature and scientific materials...
August 5, 2010
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Wisconsin Heritage Online is a collaborative project with contributions from public, special, and academic libraries, historical societies, and museums from all over the state. Initiated in 2004, the site continues to grow under a grant...
September 24, 2009
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Summit Memory is an online scrapbook capturing the history of Summit County, Ohio. Administered by the Akron–Summit County Public Library, the site is a county-wide collaborative project with gateways to such collections as Akron...
June 17, 2009
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How the World Sees Us

I don’t understand why people would work so intensely in a noisy environment. My mother said people work best in a quiet place, free of distractions. One day I told a table of industrious students, ‘I have to ask you not to use your computers so that others can sit. I pointed to a big sign that...

—GUS RANCATORE, co-founder of the coffee house Toscanini’s in Cambridge Massachusetts, on studious customers who overstay their welcome, “Those Dastardly Coffee Campers,” Atlantic, Sept. 1, 2010.
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