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Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) [1] – defined as "A transmitter-receiver associated with a fixed navigational mark which, when triggered by a radar, automatically returns a distinctive signal which can appear on the display of the ...
Bookless libraries are public, academic and school libraries that do not have any printed books. Instead they offer all-digital collections of literary works, reading material and scientific and academic research material. A bookless library typically uses the space that would have once been used for books to offer public computers, e-readers ...
Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has since expanded dramatically.
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules ( AACR) were an international library cataloging standard. First published in 1967 and edited by C. Sumner Spalding, [1] a second edition ( AACR2) edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler was issued in 1978, with subsequent revisions ( AACR2R) appearing in 1988 and 1998; all updates ceased in 2005.
The Lincoln Library of Essential Information was originally published as a one-volume general-reference work, in 1924. In later years, it was published in two- and three-volume editions, and the title was changed. The first edition of the Lincoln Library of Essential Information was published in 1924 by the Frontier Press of Buffalo, New York.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
The Florida Bureau of Braille and Talking Books Library is the largest library of its kind within the United States. [1] It is part of the system of libraries of the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled . It offers a wide variety of material with over 2.4 million items available in braille and audio format.
Open Library. Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants ...