Digitized Book of the Week is a blog from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign library.  Each post has a link, along with sample images and descriptions, to books recently digitized within their collection.

This week’s book : The Steel Tubular Car Company by J.W. Post (1887)

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Big news from the Google Book Search Library Project today:

The number of libraries participating in the Google Book Search Library Project just got a whole lot bigger with today’s addition of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The CIC is a national consortium of 12 research universities, including University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

There are a lot of libraries in that list, and having lived in Northern Illinois for most of my life, I am familiar with many of them (and in fact am planning to visit another one, Ohio State University, within the next couple of weeks to look at a hard-to-find book).

thanks to Ryan Eby for an e-mail post to Web4Lib

Digital versions of books by and about Abraham Lincoln, brought to you by the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the Open Content Alliance.

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