Digitization Projects–Music
Libraries in the News
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
“A University Library Creates a Virtual Walk Through Tin Pan Alley”
From the article, The [Mississippi State] University’s library is digitizing and conserving the collection, an archive of about 22,000 pieces of ragtime, blues, show-tune, and war-song folios from the 1890s to the Great Depression. Charles H. Templeton, a businessman from Starksville, Miss., bequeathed the sheet music to the university before
his death last year.
Direct to the Templeton Sheet Music Collection

Info Industry–EBSCO
Info Industry–ISI
EBSCO and ISI Sign Linking Agreement
From the news release, “EBSCO Subscription Services and ISI� have announced a linking agreement that will provide researchers another avenue of access to quality scholarly information. Users will soon be able to link from the ISI Web of Science� to the full text of articles contained on EBSCO Online�. Completion of the links is expected by December 2001.

Info Industry–ProQuest
ProQuest Sheds 2 Businesses
From the news release, “ProQuest Company has signed a Definitive Agreement to sell its Bell & Howell North American Mail and Messaging Technologies business to Chicago-based Glencoe Capital, a private equity investment firm. Also included in the sale are Bell & Howell Scanners, a manufacturer and marketer of document scanners, and Bell & Howell Financial Services, an equipment leasing concern. All of these businesses will continue to operate under the Bell & Howell name…ProQuest Company will now be comprised of two businesses: Information and Learning and Publishing Services.

Full-Text Document Shelf (2 Items)
Agriculture–United States
Source: USDA
Food and Agricultural Policy: Taking Stock in the New Century
125 pages .pdf
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Wages–United States
National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, 2000
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
The summary is a 16 page .pdf file. . The full-text document is a 189 page .pdf file.

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