Food for librarians, Merlin manuscript, and etexts on Byron, etc.
While checking out
Shakespeare in Limerick (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton and Company, 1910),
by Brainerd McKee (page images at Google; US access only)
I found out that the Google tool formerly known as Google Print is now known as Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/screenshots.html#pubdomain .
Unfortunately, Google Book Search seems to still be non-useful to those who cannot see the image, but it does offer some other more accessible tools such as a Google Librarian Center,
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/index.html
which offers a downloadable "cheat sheet" poster
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_tools.html
providing web search tips for librarians and their patrons (though the poster is in PDF and is probably also inaccessible)
and a Google Librarian newsletter.
And as a reward to the librarians and info junkies who have read this far, here is an amusing info bite from the Merlin page
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/merlmenu.htm
at The Camelot Project
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/mainmenu.htm
In The Idylls of the King, Tennyson makes him [Merlin] the architect of Camelot.
Mark Twain, parodying Tennyson's Arthurian world, makes Merlin a villain, and in one of the illustrations to the first edition of Twain's work illustrator
Dan Beard's Merlin
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/dbmerlin.htm
has Tennyson's face.
Speaking of Merlin, check out this transcription and translation of an old Manuscript
Arthour and Merlin (transcription and translation of the Oxford Bodelein Douce 236 MS MS),
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~phon0013/Arthour%20and%20Merlin/index.html
Also, just noticed that the Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/new.html
lists this new etext of
Byron By John Nichol
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/1/0/10100/10100.txt ,
notable for its listing of sources and the Byron family tree. Really, is there anyone from the nineteenth century who didn't get to write "Dear Diary, Met Lord Byron today..."?
Lastly, MIT's Open Courseware Project is making this calculus e-textbook, including instructor's manual and student study guide, available online and the PDF is even accessible:
Calculus (1991, by Gilbert Strang (PDF files at MIT)
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/textbooks/Strang/strangtext.htm
Shakespeare in Limerick (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton and Company, 1910),
by Brainerd McKee (page images at Google; US access only)
I found out that the Google tool formerly known as Google Print is now known as Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/screenshots.html#pubdomain .
Unfortunately, Google Book Search seems to still be non-useful to those who cannot see the image, but it does offer some other more accessible tools such as a Google Librarian Center,
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/index.html
which offers a downloadable "cheat sheet" poster
http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_tools.html
providing web search tips for librarians and their patrons (though the poster is in PDF and is probably also inaccessible)
and a Google Librarian newsletter.
And as a reward to the librarians and info junkies who have read this far, here is an amusing info bite from the Merlin page
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/merlmenu.htm
at The Camelot Project
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/mainmenu.htm
In The Idylls of the King, Tennyson makes him [Merlin] the architect of Camelot.
Mark Twain, parodying Tennyson's Arthurian world, makes Merlin a villain, and in one of the illustrations to the first edition of Twain's work illustrator
Dan Beard's Merlin
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/dbmerlin.htm
has Tennyson's face.
Speaking of Merlin, check out this transcription and translation of an old Manuscript
Arthour and Merlin (transcription and translation of the Oxford Bodelein Douce 236 MS MS),
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~phon0013/Arthour%20and%20Merlin/index.html
Also, just noticed that the Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/new.html
lists this new etext of
Byron By John Nichol
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/0/1/0/10100/10100.txt ,
notable for its listing of sources and the Byron family tree. Really, is there anyone from the nineteenth century who didn't get to write "Dear Diary, Met Lord Byron today..."?
Lastly, MIT's Open Courseware Project is making this calculus e-textbook, including instructor's manual and student study guide, available online and the PDF is even accessible:
Calculus (1991, by Gilbert Strang (PDF files at MIT)
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/textbooks/Strang/strangtext.htm