Entries Categorized as 'Libraries'

Installing the Greenstone Digital Library Software on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Date May 21, 2010

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It is not a digital library but a tool for building digital libraries. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet in the form of a fully-searchable, metadata-driven digital library. It has been developed and distributed [...]

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Oral History, Augustine’s Definition of Community, and Good Friday

Date April 2, 2010

St. Augustine famously argued that community is created as people with common affections for something mutually esteemed have opportunity to communicate about and celebrate those common affections. Oliver O’Donovan’s book “Common Objects of Love” was an exposition of this idea for modern culture. This have profoundly shaped my understanding of community, as a [...]

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Internet Archive: 2Millionth Digitized Text

Date April 1, 2010

A recent announcement from the Internet Archive:
The Internet Archive is pleased to announce an important manuscript, Homiliary on Gospels from Easter to first Sunday of Advent, as the 2,000,000th free digital text. Internet Archive has been scanning books and making them available for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public for free [...]

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