Books online: Gutenberg Project

[s.t. bischoff]

Thanks Rudy, there is also the "Internet Archive"
http://www.archive.org/index.php. They have a number of important works
already scanned and available free. For example the Handbook of American
Indian Languages is available, volume three can be found here
http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tqw_morsyn-2 ... the online
browsing option is very nice. The site can also serve as a host for digital
artifacts. They have traditionally been "independent" but with Google's
recent moves to make books available online they have started working with
the likes of Microsoft. Shannon

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Rudy Troike <rtroike at email.arizona.edu>wrote:

> Thanks to Troy for alerting us to the Google source for Native texts.
> For those concerned about indirectly contributing to a commercial
> enterprise, no matter how apparently altruistic, there is the volunteer
> alternative of the Gutenberg Project. It was started at the University
> of Illinois by one man typing in texts by hand, gradually joined by
> volunteers doing the same thing, but with the advent of easy scanning,
> any book can be entered into the collection. They welcome volunteer
> contributions of time or money, and have no ulterior motive. This would
> be a good place to archive Native texts, or any books that are not in
> copyright. You can request a free CD of recently added texts, or a DVD
> containing nearly 10,000 books on one disk.
>
> Here is a link to their web site:
>
>    http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
>  Rudy
>
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