Every E-book Its Reader:Let's Discover, Collect, and Share Digitized Public Domain Books

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This presentation focuses on the discovery, collection, and dissemination of digitized historical books and government documents in the public domain using free online repositories such as Internet Archive or Google Books. FREE…how pertinent in these troubled economic times! Aspects of these repositories will be examined, as well as a discussion on how libraries can promote these digital sources to patrons and the community at large. To put this presentation in context, I will talk a bit about the devastation and loss that occurred in our dept. after Hurricane Rita, which caused me to think of using digital repositories to replenish a collection of documents that were lost, some very historical and seemingly impossible to find, but somehow were found, most in a different medium…digitally.

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Every E-book Its Reader: Let’s Discover, Collect, and Share Digitized Public Domain Books Rebecca Blakeley, McNeese State University
Hurricane Rita
- Damaged Library Roof - 4 th Floor
The solution…
Nothing beats reading the print…
Digital books have their benefits too…
Google Books: Books & Magazines & Gov Docs!
Google Books “Library”
RSS Feed Alert
Quality is less than perfect…
Searching for books or gov docs
Searching for State Docs
Internet Archive: www.archive.org
Advanced Search
Texts Archive Collections
American Libraries Collection
Government Documents Collection
Ctrl + F to browse for a state or topic
Internet Archive “Bookmarks”
Modifying the Record
The Completed Record!
Don’t have the record in your OPAC? Just retrieve it from OCLC and modify accordingly.
Free E-books in World Book Advanced Database
Digital Primary Sources at World Book Advanced Database
Why go through all this effort? Documents to the People = Happy Patrons