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Wednesday, 20th February 2002

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Lecture Hall
"Google is Not an Anomaly: A Blueprint for Inventing and Building Innovative and Successful User-Centric Products"
A Presentation by Google's Co-Founder Larry Page To CS547 (Human-Computer Interaction Seminar) at Stanford.
Lecture Overview and Page's Bio ||| View the Presentation (Streaming Video via MS Media Player)
Page gave this presentation on January 11, 2002. Thanks to Webmaster World for the tip.

Database of the Week
Seminars
Invisible Web
The Seminar Information Service Database
Find information about, "over 360,000 live, in-person seminars, classes, workshops, corporate training events and conferences listed annually...". The database can be searched or browsed by category. Make sure to take a look at the robust "advanced search" interface. Data available for the U.S. and several international locations. Btw, Seminar Info Services also licenses this database to Peterson's. However, the Peterson's interface doesn't have many limitings options AND does not contain international data. A good example of how a single database can have different interfaces/usability depending on how/where you access it.
See Also: ShawGuides (Educational Travel and Creative Career Programs)
Unabridged access to these well-known reference tools.

Interview
Source: The Guardian
An Interview with Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle
In addition to being the founder of the Internet Archive, Kahle is also the co-founder of Alexa Internet and inventor of the WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers), an early Internet search tool.
See Also: Brewster Kahle's 1997 Scientific American article, "Archiving the Internet"
See Also: "Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action"
(by Lyman and Kahle, D-Lib, 1998)

See Also: Brewster Kahle's Bio from the Alexa Internet Site

E-Books
Libraries
Source: New York Times
"In Lean Times, E-Books Find a Friend: Libraries"
From Lisa Guernsey's article, "Eletronic book publishing may be on the skids, but digital book collections continue to grow at libraries. In the next few months, library patrons at Yale's and Stanford's university libraries, as well as some libraries in Northern California, may be surprised to find that their electronic catalogs offer links to digital books. The universities and the Peninsula Library System, a consortium of 34 public and community college libraries in San Mateo County, have decided to jump into the e-book arena."

Libraries--Canada
Books--Canada
"$9.6 Million for Canadian Authors"
From the announcement, "A total of 13,269 Canadian writers, translators and illustrators across Canada will receive payments amounting to more than $9.65 million this week, thanks to the Public Lending Right (PLR) Commission. The PLR Commission, set up in 1986, makes payments to Canadian authors for the presence of their books in public and university libraries...PLR payments are determined by sampling the holdings of a representative number of libraries. There is a per-author maximum each year - this year, 414 authors are receiving the maximum payment of $3,675."

Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents (2 Items)
American Memory Project
American History--Digitization Projects

New Collection:
"Suffering under a Great Injustice�: Ansel Adams�s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

From the site, "Suffering under a Great Injustice�: Ansel Adams�s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar features 209 photographic prints and 241 original negatives taken by Adams in 1943 of Japanese Americans who were relocated from their homes during World War II and interned in the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California."
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Let Others Know About This Service
Source: Christian Science Monitor
"Putting Books Online for the Visually Disabled"
From the article, "Imagine spending hours tediously scanning hundreds of pages and converting them to a special digital file every time you wanted to read the latest bestseller. (Not to mention the cost of the scanner itself.) Until now, many who are visually impaired have resorted to just that. Less than 5 percent of books are available in Braille or audiotape formats, by some estimates. But Benetech, a Silicon Valley nonprofit technology developer, has come up with Bookshare.org, a book-swapping website that brings more than 10,000 books to people with visual disabilities."

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