To bring good luck to a marriage there is a tradition noting the bride should wear 'something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue'.
The phrase 'something old, something new' ties nicely into my topic this morning, a topic that has nothing to do with marriage or weddings. Our Systems Librarian has discovered a source for MARC records for Project Gutenberg. She is downloading the records into our catalog a batch at a time.
Why is this helpful when Project Gutenberg has all the books at their web site? Project Gutenberg offers over 38,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. It's helpful because you don't have to remember to go search in a second place!
The 'something old' is each title in Project Gutenberg.
The 'something new' is the MARC record in our catalog.
A Literature instructor has already commented how helpful this is for their classes. Students have access to the 'classics' without having to search and search.
This has nothing to do with weddings but it is a nice marriage between the old and the new.
-kss
Monday, January 30, 2012
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