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.

Do you get PhD? Nature vs. Science

This is a good comic strip...

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

• 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 (current)

• ebrary
• netLibrary
• National Academies Press

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

Penrose in the National News

Penrose got covered in the Washington Times, and a number of other local sources, too.

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)

Please don't copy that floppy

Please don't kill commerce on the Internet. Don't copy that floppy.



Thanks to the Next Web for lettimg me know about this classic video... There is a sequel coming out this summer/fall, too.