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Subject: New Library online heritagebooks.com/library/
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:21:16 EST

NEW ONLINE LIBRARY. A new online library of books of interest
to history and genealogy researchers has just been opened by
Heritage Books, Inc. The new site is patterned after a
traditional library, and consists of a card file and a
collection of books. The card file has a descriptive card for
each volume in the collection and can be searched for surnames,
localities, or topics of interest using a Boolean search engine.
Each card includes a call number which can be used to call up
the titles of interest from the stacks. Anyone with a Web
browser can freely search the card file; viewing of the books
is limited to subscribers who pay a small annual fee. The books
in the collection are presented as graphic images, and look and
function like real books, except that they have electronic
bookmarks which make it easy to jump into them at key points.
The user sees the books just at they were originally created,
and uses the human-generated indexes associated with them. This
means that the user is free to browse through both the book and
the index; such browsing will frequently turn up information
which would never be found otherwise.

Please try out the new
library at: <http://www.heritagebooks.com/librar

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