News tagged with libraries
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New Web site to amplify debate on Google book deal
(AP) -- Caroline Vanderlip believes the escalating debate over Google Inc.'s plans for a vast Internet library of copyright-protected literature will yield enough compelling material to fill a book.
May 27, 2009 |
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P[acman]-generated fruit fly gene 'library': A new research tool
(May 24, 2009) -- Using a specially adapted tool called P[acman], a collaboration of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine has established a library of clones that cover most of the genome of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit ...
May 24, 2009 |
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Probing Question: How is the computer age changing libraries?
For those of us of a certain age — no need to put a number on it, thank you -- the word "library" still conjures forth memories of solid wood cabinets filled with hand-typed cards, each pointing to a book ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 21, 2009 |
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Univ. of Michigan, Google amend book scanning deal
(AP) -- The University of Michigan has amended a deal with Google Inc. to create digital copies of millions of library books and journals.
May 21, 2009 |
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Motorola Announces MOTO W7 Active Edition With Gesture Controls
Shake things up with MOTO W7 Active Edition, a motion-enabled 3G mobile device announced today by Motorola. Designed for those who want a "moving" phone experience, MOTO W7 is equipped with an accelerometer ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 11, 2009 |
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Libraries eye stimulus money for their Web access
(AP) -- The libraries in Delaware County, Pa., are trying to shift into warp speed. The county is hooking eight branches to a fiber-optic network to help meet library patrons' ever-rising demand for high-bandwidth tasks like ...
May 05, 2009 |
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Judge extends 'opt-out' deadline in Google book suit
A US judge on Tuesday extended for four months the deadline for authors to opt out of a settlement to a lawsuit over Google's plan to build the world's largest digital library.
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Review: Looking for gems in iPhone's game library
Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market - first with the Game Boy, now with the DS - for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. But it's become impossible to ignore ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Humanity's earliest written works go online
(AP) -- National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle bones to the first European map of the New World.
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Make that E-Hobbit: Digital Tolkien arrives
(AP) -- A major new name has been added to the digital library: J.R.R. Tolkien.
Apr 20, 2009 |
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First compound for receptors in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's holds promise
For almost 20 years, pharmacological companies have known that certain compounds that activate two specific CNS receptors, causing them to release the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, are effective in treating the cognitive ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 20, 2009 |
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World Digital Library to launch at UNESCO
The World Digital Library, a website offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe, launches Tuesday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Protein is key to embryonic stem cell differentiation
Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have learned that a protein called Shp2 plays a critical role in the pathways that control decisions for differentiation or self-renewal in both human embryonic ...
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Neurotic Ulsterman gives rich slice of eighteenth century life
(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation into the life of an obscure but energetic eighteenth century Ulsterman has provided a vivid insight into early Hanoverian Britain.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 04, 2009 |
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UCLA team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts
Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 10, 2009 |
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