New and NoteworthySuccessful Web-based research encompasses economy of time and effort. It also takes into account the quality of the answer. The key is to focus on the strategy and skill of the hunt rather than the find..." Newly-discovered resource thanks to Gary Price's The ResourceShelf: The Afghanistan Digital Library From the "About" section of the site: "The ultimate purpose of the project is to make available both on readable electronic media and on the internet the entire publishing output of Afghanistan, searchable by title, author, subject, and date. The project will begin with the earliest books and proceed chronologically. At some point, a decision may be made to expand the scope to include rare newspapers, journals, and government documents but at the outset the project will be limited to books." Gary Price also points out this LJ article about the project: NYU Digital Library Project Seeks to Recover Afghanistan's Literary Heritage, Library Journal, 5/1/2003
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