"It's Not Your Average Library--evolving Internet has created new opportunities to share knowledge. Imagine being able to walk into your local library and view, on demand, and without charge, not only every imaginable written text, but also music and poetry archives, African American authors, American history, sports statistics, philosophy of religion, Italian literature, large text database projects, software archives, and more.
Then imagine, in addition to being able to view the collection, you have the opportunity to critique it, expand it, or to create and manage a new collection in your own area of interest. While such a feat is physically and fiscally beyond the scope of even the largest and most extraordinary physical library, ibiblio.org achieves just such breadth and depth on the Internet. "
Who and Why
ibiblio.org was formed as a collaboration between the
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill's MetaLab, formerly known as SunSITE, and the
Center for the Public Domain in September, 2000. At UNC-CH, ibiblio.org is supported by the
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the
School of Information and Library Science, and
Information Technology Services. The collaboration has .......................
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"It's Not Your Average Library--evolving Internet has created new opportunities to share knowledge. Imagine being able to walk into your local library and view, on demand, and without charge, not only every imaginable written text, but also music and poetry archives, African American authors, American history, sports statistics, philosophy of religion, Italian literature, large text database projects, software archives, and more.
when Anaїs Nin's Diary: 1931-34 appeared in the Spring of 1966, Karl Shapiro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, wrote in the Book Week: "For a generation the literary world on both sides of the Atlantic has lived with the rumor of an extraordinary diary. Earlier readers of the Manuscript dicussed it with breathtaking superlatives as a work that would take it's place with great revelations of literature. A significant section of this diary is at last in print and it appears that the great claims made for it are justified."
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ is a scientific research project that uses internet-connected computers to predict and design protein structures, and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions......an endeavor that may ultimately help researchers develop cures for human diseases (See the Human Proteome Folding Project, a collaborative effort to apply our software on the human genome)