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New Books at Baker: New Book Titles Linked to eBookseller Reviews
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Tue Aug 15 20:07:06 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:12:33 -0500
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@GWGATE.LIB.IASTATE.EDU>
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_New Books at Baker: New Book Titles Linked to eBookseller Reviews_
In response to my recent posting relating to the linking of book
citations from a course Web guide to the Amazon.com record for the title,
I have learned that the Baker Library at the Harvard Business School
through its 'Books at Baker" service
[ http://www.library.hbs.edu/bakerbooks/ ]
[ http://www.library.hbs.edu/bakerbooks/recent/]
not only provides access to a categorzied listing of new books in its
collection [http://www.library.hbs.edu/bakerbooks/recent/august/ ] but
also links the citation for each book to the associated record of
fatbrain.com,
another eBookseller
[e.g., http://www.library.hbs.edu/bakerbooks/recent/august/IT.shtml ]
This is a most impressive service that I believe not only benefits the
HBS community but others who seeks access to an organized, selected
collection of quality monographs in the fields of business, management,
and many other related fields.
I'd be very interested in learning of similar efforts by libraries of
any type to provide linked access for selected library titles to
associated records in any and all eBooksellers.
/Gerry McKiernan
Amazon-like Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
"Save the Time of the Reader"
Ranganathan
