Monday, July 27, 2009
Penrose is now on Friendfeed
We now have a Penrose Library Friendfeed account. This way, we can keep all of our social networking feeds linked through one source, and you can leave comments. Go ahead and check it out.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Need an e-book? We've got 'em by the truck load.
We provide access to hundreds of thousands of e-books. Here are some of the vendors that provide e-books. This includes a lot of stuff that you can't find in Google Books!
Focusing on science and technology
General e-book collections (history)
Focusing on science and technology
- CRC ENGnetBASE (Over 900 ebooks in engineering)
- Morgan and Claypool Synthesis (Over 100 ebooks in computer science and engineering.)
- Books24x7
- Safari Books Online (from Proquest -- This includes books from O'Reilly.)
- SpringerLink e-books and e-book series. Some of the series include Lecture Notes in Mathematics and the Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
General e-book collections (history)
- Early English Books Online (aka EEBO)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Evans Early American Imprints (1639-1800) - Digital Edition
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Friday, July 10, 2009
Penrose in the National News
Penrose got covered in the Washington Times, and a number of other local sources, too.
Finding the history left behind in boxes (Channel 9 News)
Holocaust history revealed in family letters (The Denver Post)
Intimate Collection Given To University Of Denver (Channel 7 News)
Washington Times, July 8 — It’s one thing for college students to glean information online or from a textbook. It’s quite another to read or even hold actual material that played a part in history. Students at the University of Denver soon will be able to check out actual documents linked to the assassination plot against Adolf Hitler as well as papers associated with the Nuremberg trials, thanks to a just-donated trove of materials from California resident Andrea Sears-Van Nest.Here are some other sources that cover the same topic.
Finding the history left behind in boxes (Channel 9 News)
Holocaust history revealed in family letters (The Denver Post)
Intimate Collection Given To University Of Denver (Channel 7 News)
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Please don't copy that floppy
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