IT just keeps growing — the vast electronic archive of books, journals and scholarly literature stored on the Web.
Started as a kind of archive of books by writers who keep homes in the county, it has metamorphosed into a program that focuses on writers and writing.
As with all of the nation's wars, the Iraq imbroglio has generated a rich archive of books, films and documentaries, including "The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow's searing portrayal of an American bomb-disposal unit, which dominated this year's Academy Awards.
On Wednesday, the group toured the main library in Pyongyang, the Grand People's Study House, where people were crowded into drafty, unheated halls at computers with intranet access to the library's archive of books, documents and newspapers.
Amazon.com said the service was intended to please its customers and sell more books, but the archive of books also helps make Amazon.com more attractive as a source of information.
This fall, McGraw-Hill's Primis Custom Publishing division created a Web site to let professors select chapters and excerpts from an archive of books and other texts to build their own personalized electronic volumes -- ordering directly and sidestepping campus bookstores.
The addition of Google's archive of books brings the number of available titles to Sony's eReader at around 600,000.
A university whose name is synonymous with the perpetual archiving of books is now telling scholars that their crucial references can never be their property, and that their ongoing use of those works is subject to continuous monitoring and indefinite retention.
In the near future the company's spotty method of preservation will become more systematic, with plans under way to find space outside Manhattan for a building to house Random House's archives of books, manuscripts and correspondence between authors and editors.
Mansour points out that although Blood, Ink & Fire sounds like it was inspired by Bradbury's work, it really began to formulate in her head when she was working in the archives of books during graduate school.
