The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources

by Nicholas Tomaiuolo, Barbara Quint (Editor), Steve Coffman (Foreword)

A guide to creating a comprehensive personal library using free web resources, this book demonstrates the steps to compiling a web library that includes a vast, rich collection of data, documents, e-books, reference materials, and images. Organized in accordance with the departments of a well-managed physical library, this guide shows librarians, potential librarians, and those who simply want to better organize their files how to access free material that can be used immediately. Free articles and indexes, digital reference services, electronic books, images, and software and hardware issues are covered.

424 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2004

Reviews

[Ivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

"...and somethings are meant to be skimmed just taking what you need."

I usually don't prefer books that have website links as part of the content - it is a guaranteed way to shorten the usefulness of books as the links begin to fail, even if all the websites are still new, better websites might have risen since.

However, I liked the idea it offered. In my opinion, Tomaiuolo could have included a bit more on the storing ideas without fear of turning it into a data structures book.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! There is so much in here that it boggles the mind. This would be a great reference book for a library.
In here you'll be led to a huge variety of online resources--Scholarly articles, Newspapers, Art & Images, Reference, Expert Advice, and, of course, Literature.
Best of all, he keeps his book updated on the Web!