The Interlibrary Loan Program – A Public Domain Goldmine
Anyone who has more than a passing interest in using public domain resources in their business has run across the problem of finding a particular out of print book that is in the public domain.
You may have searched your favorite places looking for a used copy – eBay, AbeBooks, Alibris, Amazon – all to no avail. You may have checked all the public domain download sites – like the Million Book Project, Archive.org or Project Gutenberg to name a few – and come up empty on that particular book you really need for your project.
You might have scoured the local used bookstores, antique shops and even the local public library card catalog to find a copy.
Tags: interlibrary loan program, library card catalog, public domain resourcesImportance of Libraries
Man’s quest for knowledge has led to the creation and accumulation of tremendous amount of information. This quest for knowledge knows no bounds and limits and is never satisfied. It has continued since the dawn of civilization to the modern age. This hard-earned knowledge and information is valuable for the entire mankind and therefore liable to be preserved.
With the invention of paper man has been able to convey this knowledge to others by writing books. Thousands of manuscripts have been written by the wise men of the earlier times but many of them were destroyed due to the lack of proper means of preservation.
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