A: OK. First of all, if you’re at a computer on the Web, you don’t want to type long http:// addresses. So, this article appears in full at http://libraryautomation.com. Just one click on the recommended links below and you’re there.

• Why use searchers, when you can search the searchers with Metacrawler or Profusion? Also Google, despite its silly name, has recently gained a reputation as a fast and accurate searcher.  New and interesting is AltaVista’s Raging Search.
  
• If you are looking for a site with links to places of substance, my favorite all-around page, used by the reporters of the New York Times, is at CyberTimes Navigator. You may have to register but it's free. 
  
• If you've been hearing about E-texts, you owe it to yourself to look around at the many shelves of full-text classical fiction and non-fiction at the Official and Original Project Gutenberg Web Site and the On-Line Books Pages. Also, you’ve probably heard that E-books are coming. Get conversant at the E-book Ring.
  
• If anyone thinks the Web can't be a serious and powerful repository for books, check out 650,000+ pages at the University of Michigan's Making of America site. More than a century of the actual pages of books and periodicals.  More than a century of the actual pages of books and periodicals.  And after a rocky start, Cornell University finally has their Making of America site online. This time  907,750 more pages including most of the 124 volumes of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion and vast amounts of other 19th century materials are here, and unlike microfilm, its all keyword searchable with no scratches!
  
• There are 124,000 beautiful photos and original document images at the National Archives' Archival Information Locator. You can use them, royalty-free, as we do at our history page at nymas.org.
  
• Setting the trend for online library resources:  The New York Public Library.  See especially the Electronic Resources, a few of which require a NYPL library card for entry.
  
• Biggest and best library catalog on the Web? At The Library of Congress, of course. The new LC OnLine Catalog based on Voyager software has many nice features and 12,000,000+ bibliographic records. Let’s you save a downloadable MARC record, one at a time. But wait, that’s for when you come back from summer vacation. Have a lovely summer!

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