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Verba sought to revolutionize and redefine the concept of the digitized library catalog through his vision to outmode traditional paradigms of searching such as HOLLIS and WorldCat. This vision culminated in the birth of the Google Print Library project (since renamed the Google Book Search project), which in its culmination will not only enable users to obtain the customary title, author, publisher, or ISBN of a book by simple query, but also allow them to search within the content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal...
When Sidney Verba ’53 started out as director of Harvard University Library (HUL) more than 20 years ago, the school’s collections were organized in a card catalog in the basement of Widener. Now, as Verba prepares to retire, a search for books in any of the 90 University libraries is a click away via the online HOLLIS catalog...
...take a job on the side." As a high schooler interested in both art and science, Saez, 16, interned this summer at the art conservation lab of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. For $9 an hour for four days a week, she helped test and catalog materials used in sculptures...
That lesson has played out in different ways for each woman. Having been unable to prevent her only son's death, Shakur, 59, has sought immortality for him. Armed with a seemingly limitless catalog of unreleased material, she has supervised the production of seven posthumous albums, the documentary Tupac: Resurrection and the new book Tupac Shakur Legacy. Plus she has opened the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, to encourage youngsters to pursue their artistic dreams. Mostly through her work, Tupac has become rap's first cult figure. For Wallace the issue is justice. She has spent the past...
...TIME they will eventually open up to iTunes, once they can work out the right pricing. Downloads run on any Windows Media-- compatible device, and they're expected to work on Microsoft's upcoming Zune player. With such partners as MGM, Sony and Universal, Amazon is rapidly expanding its catalog. Netflix could be in trouble if rival download services cut into its mail-order business. Expect lots of titles to be available for download--along with potentially aggressive pricing-- as Netflix tries to retain its customers and win new ones...