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  2. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Project Gutenberg ( PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...

  3. Preservation (library and archive) - Wikipedia

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    Category. v. t. e. In conservation, library and archival science, preservation is a set of preventive conservation activities aimed at prolonging the life of a record, book, or object while making as few changes as possible. Preservation activities vary widely and may include monitoring the condition of items, maintaining the temperature and ...

  4. List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia

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    2.4 million digital images from archive material, 1 million of books, 40,000 high quality scans of ancient sculptures, 300 volumes of ancient books with more than 60,000 pages Free DAI & University of Cologne: AMiner: Computer Science: 265,034,285 Online service used to index and search academic social networks Free Tsinghua University

  5. Library classification - Wikipedia

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    Library classification. A library classification is a system used within a library to organize materials, including books, sound and video recordings, electronic materials, etc., both on shelves and in catalogs and indexes. Each item is typically assigned a call number, which identifies the location of the item within the system.

  6. Open Library - Wikipedia

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    Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the ...

  7. Z-Library - Wikipedia

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    Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has since expanded dramatically.

  8. Library of Congress Classification - Wikipedia

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    The Library of Congress Classification ( LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress in the United States, which can be used for shelving books in a library. LCC is mainly used by large research and academic libraries, while most public libraries and small academic libraries used the Dewey Decimal ...

  9. Five laws of library science - Wikipedia

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    Overview. First Law: Books are for use. Second Law: Every person his or her book. Third Law: Every book its reader. Fourth Law: Save the time of the reader. Fifth Law: A library is a growing organism. Variants. The Law of Parsimony. By other individuals.