Etc.
1. Ever wonder what the Library's web site looked like in 1998?
For that matter, how could one find out what the University of Illinois
main site looked like in 1997? You can find this and approximately
10 billion other archived web pages in the Wayback Machine (http://www.waybackmachine.org),
an archive of Internet sites and other information, made possible
by the Internet Archive. The Internet Archive (headed up by Brewster
Kahle with partners like the Smithsonian Institution and the Library
of Congress) is a public nonprofit organization founded in 1996
to build an "Internet library", with the purpose of offering
permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical
collections that exist in digital
format. The site is also a jumping off point for searching a number
of collections of public-domain texts (including Champaign's own
Project Gutenberg), audio, and video. The Wayback Machine has archived
millions of sites world-wide since 1996, and will also let you compare
the same site for two different dates to determine what changes
were made. Not perfect. Not complete, but a great start.
2. What is a digital library? The Digital Library: A Biography,
by Suzanne Thorin and Daniel Greenstein, chronicles how individual
digital library projects and programs got started, and analyzes
what influences have shaped their various directions of development.
This report,
published by the Council on Library and Information Resources and
the Digital Library Federation, is available online at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html.
3. What is an institutional repository and what does this have
to do with libraries? Find out by reading this interesting overview
article in the Chronicle: Young, Jeffrey. "'Superarchives'
Could Hold All Scholarly Output: Online collections by institutions
may challenge the role of journal publishers." Chronicle of
Higher Education, (July 5, 2002) (URL: http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm
).
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