The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources (Paperback)

~ Nicholas Tomaiuolo (Author), Barbara Quint (Editor), Steve Coffman (Foreword) "Two important resources that every library offers are periodical literature (e.g., magazines, scholarly journals) and indexes and abstracts (the tools traditionally used to access the..." (more)
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Product Description

A guide to creating a comprehensive personal library using free web resources, this book demonstrates the steps to compiling a web library that includes a vast, rich collection of data, documents, e-books, reference materials, and images. Organized in accordance with the departments of a well-managed physical library, this guide shows librarians, potential librarians, and those who simply want to better organize their files how to access free material that can be used immediately. Free articles and indexes, digital reference services, electronic books, images, and software and hardware issues are covered.

About the Author

Nicholas Tomaiuolo is the associate librarian at the Elihu Burritt Library at Central Connecticut State University. He is a frequent contributor to professional publications in librarianship and information science with a special interest in end-user database and web searching.

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Information Today, Inc.; 1 edition (October 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910965676
• ISBN-13: 978-0910965675
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #804,201 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique in several ways...., February 14, 2004

By	Stephanie Bell (Dallas) - See all my reviews

Glancing at the title I thought it was just another list of websites, and although many sites are listed, most of them aren't the common knowledge everyday sites that librarians and general web surfers already know about. What makes the book quite a bit different is that the author includes quite a few interviews with people from the websites that are mentioned -- people from Project Gutenberg, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, etc. The author also uses several methods to judge site longevity (i.e., will the site be around in the future), plus there's a website he manages to keep track of changes. With Open Access becoming a trend, this book is the most credible to date.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A librarian says "this is the right stuff", February 12, 2004

By A Customer

A vast amount of energy, experience, expertise and intelligence must have gone into the making of this book. I don't think there is a comparable guide to bona-fide free information on the internet.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!!!!, February 9, 2004

By	Stefan Fabrini (Red Lion, PA) - See all my reviews

I managed to see a pre-publication copy of the Web Library & I highly reccommend it to any/all web searchers. Very exhaustive, complete, insightful & witty to boot. Believe the sub-title. Nick Tomauolo has done an amazing job of finding all of the free web sources known to man & organizing them in a cohesive, coherent manner. It's actually a joy to read (not some dry, dusty tome). You can indeed build your own "million dollar library" for free- and never leave your house. Just buy this excellent book & start building- and have a darn good time doing so.