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Excellent! I couldn't find the Timothy Husband reference anywhere. That exhibition was my first inkling of woodwoses. --Wetman 16:55, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, glad to help. I always use the Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (english) a cross-library search engine for literature research. -- Cherubino 21:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

M of Playing Cards[edit]

Hi, Thought I'd come over here as the section on my page is getting rather tangled. Actually I had not tried to e-mail you, as I was still trying to find M of PC images - which has been a complete failure i'm afraid - I just found the same ones you have. I know the BNF in Paris has the best collection after Dresden, but they don't seem to have anything on-line.

I've also been looking at Commons, since I clearly have to start getting more involved in images. What a nightmare! Half the prints by medium are in the wrong categories, there are completely separate sets of subcategories. My head gets sore.

Meanwhile I have identified (or been told, more accurately) a very good source of nice quality print images at [1] - an auction house. They don't leave them up for long after the auction - one or two months only.

Nothing as exotic as the M of PC, but lots of images that would be useful. If you're feeling like it I would like to see how well these look on Wiki (from 30/11 sale) Lots: 5026, 5067, 5178, 5173.

They have been used before - the lower pic on Hans Sebald Beham (english Wiki) is from there

Cheers Johnbod 21:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

btw, I have added St Sebastian to Old master printJohnbod 21:15, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, commons is a big hullabaloo... Doing my x-mas shoppings in Frankfurt i bought 25.000 MEISTERWERKE ISBN 3-86150-622-X (just 10 Euro) which has some 30 graphics of the M of PC. Maybe i get to Dresden at christmas, but i'm no good photographer at all, and museums will be overcrowded at that time. I'll have a look at these lots -- Cherubino 14:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
they would not let you photo them in Dresden - they would be in the print room, not on display - no cameras allowed.

DVD looks good, but I bet many photos of prints are scanned from old books. Thanks Johnbod 15:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The DVD is produced by Directmedia Publishing the company that already donated 10,000 paintings to commons, so i am a bit chary to use them all. If you enable "Enable e-mail from other users" via "My preferences -> User Profile" i can "E-mail this user" and send you a list of these 30 prints (your e-mail adress will not be known to me). So you could give me some advice, as I don't know which ones are important to art history. -- Cherubino 23:05, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the magnificent ones you sent. And my email is enabled on my user page.

And there is one more that would make New Year's Day complete, if it isnt there already, the Mainz Psalter. DGG 23:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Talk :Etching - support invited for proposal[edit]

Hi!, Your support is invited at Talk:Etching to reverse a new and unneccessary disambiguation page that has appeared without consultation. Thanks & enjoy the holidays! Johnbod 23:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jelqing[edit]

re: this request from a while ago, I just left you this reply:

The only remotely similar reference I could find in Pubmed was Richards BA. "Mechanical aids to sex." Br J Sex Med. 1975 Oct;2(5):33-5, 37. No abstract available. PMID: 830127 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]." This is probably it, but I don't have access to the journal. The term doesn't appear anywhere in PubMed, which is pretty suspicious.

cheers, phoebe/(talk) 01:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Oops, sorry, i don't check my en-site often. Thanks for your effort! The Br J Sex Med. is available at the German Central-Library for Medicine (de:Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin) in Cologne, about 150km away from my place, as the de:Zeitschriftendatenbank (en) says. This Library offered me a cost estimate for a research which i did not obtain as the whole jelqing-thing seemed to be a urban legend to me (Jelqing sounds much too similar to Jerking). 1975 also does not match with late 1970s. The german article is deleted, the english Penis_enlargement#Jelqing_and_clamping needs citation, and the spanish es:Jelqing says that there is no scientific evidence ("no hay ninguna evidencia científica"). There ist an article: Sex. What is "jelqing"? By: Woods, Stacey Grenrock, Esquire, 01949535, Jun2004, Vol. 141, Issue 6, via Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost), which is not that reputable.
cheers -- Cherubino 21:39, 21 September 2007 (UTC) PS: i (back bank left side) really enjoyed your presentation at wikimania 05 in Frankfurt ;-)[reply]

Virtual Printroom[edit]

Thanks for the link - sure enough I had to close the window twice! I couldn't really read the article - when if ever are things expected to quieten down? Johnbod 00:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

answered on your page -- Cherubino 06:46, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

mail[edit]

going slowly. not there yet. DGG (talk) 23:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

tried again. -- Cherubino 08:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Byzantine Empire[edit]

Thanks again for your great suggestions. I had never thought about it. Your ideas were simply brilliant, Take care. Dr.K. (talk) 06:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure! Does it fulfill the qualifications for Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates? -- Cherubino (talk) 21:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great find. Thank you for adding that photo. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 18:07, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, 1.600 pictures by Gottlieb entered the public domain this year [2], much more treasure to come :-) -- Cherubino (talk) 19:32, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, thank you for the link. I uploaded a few and placed them in articles, and I'll keep an eye on Flickr for more appropriate ones as they are released. I was lucky enough to met some of these musicians in the '80s, and I'm enjoying this immensely. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 23:21, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for helping! The artists of the golden age of jazz are the Mozarts and Beethovens of jazz. You're are very lucky. We have an own commons:Category:Photographs by William P. Gottlieb for his pictures and a special commons:Template:PD-Gottlieb. If you use commons:Template:LOC-music the template automatically sets the commons:Category:Music from the Library of Congress. Unfortunatly your picture File:GottliebFlipPhillips.jpg was already uploaded, so i nominated yours for deletion, because it wasn't in use yet. -- Cherubino (talk) 00:38, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Journal trial[edit]

I changed some of the links to give the English language pages, and will post it in a few places. Thanks. DGG ( talk ) 19:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merci. Cherubino (talk) 08:23, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for your perspective on SOPA[edit]

Hi Cherubino, there's currently an ongoing discussion about splitting the Stop Online Piracy Act page at Talk:Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#ONGOING_DISCUSSION_-_Splitting_the_Article. You've familiarized yourself with the entry before, and your insight and perspective on the matter would be appreciated. Hope to see you there, Sloggerbum (talk) 00:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter[edit]

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

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New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

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The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)[edit]

Welcome to the second issue of The Wikipedia Library's Books & Bytes newsletter! Read on for updates about what is going on at the intersection of Wikipedia and the library world.

Wikipedia Library highlights: New accounts, new surveys, new positions, new presentations...

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Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue[edit]

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Books & Bytes, Issue 4[edit]

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Volume 1, Issue 4, February 2014

News for February from your Wikipedia Library.

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American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia

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Books & Bytes - Issue 5[edit]

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Issue 5, March 2014
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Books & Bytes, Issue 6[edit]

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The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed[edit]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 7[edit]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 8[edit]

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  • TWL now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moves on from grant status
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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (November 2014)[edit]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 9[edit]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 10[edit]

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Issue 10, January-February 2015
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  • New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online
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A new reference tool[edit]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 11[edit]

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Issue 11, March-April 2015
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Books and Bytes - Issue 12[edit]

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  • New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
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Books and Bytes - Issue 13[edit]

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Issue 13, August-September 2015
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  • New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
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WP:RFPI Request[edit]

Your import request has been completed, please see the imported page here: User:Cherubino/Transit. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 23:02, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :-) -- Cherubino (talk) 23:24, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes - Issue 14[edit]

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Issue 14, October-November 2015
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  • New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
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Good catch[edit]

You were right, I must have cut and pasted the name from the wrong document, I was using his passport application, and must have grabbed the wrong first name from another open document. I must have had more than one open at a time. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 00:37, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ok, works out fine. -- Cherubino (talk) 05:06, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 15[edit]

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Issue 15, December-January 2016
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  • New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
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Books & Bytes - Issue 16[edit]

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Issue 16, February-March 2016
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  • New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
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Books & Bytes - Issue 17[edit]

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Issue 17, April-May 2016
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  • New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
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Books & Bytes - Issue 18[edit]

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Issue 18, June–July 2016
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  • New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
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Books and Bytes - Issue 19[edit]

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Issue 19, September–October 2016
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Books and Bytes - Issue 20[edit]

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Issue 20, November-December 2016
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  • Partner resource expansions
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Books and Bytes - Issue 21[edit]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 22[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

  • New and expanded research accounts
  • Global branches update
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Books and Bytes - Issue 23[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

  • Library card
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  • Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
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Books and Bytes - Issue 24[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

  • User Group update
  • Global branches update
    • Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
  • Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
  • Spotlight: Wiki Loves Archives
  • Bytes in brief

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Books and Bytes - Issue 25[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 25, October – November 2017

  • OAWiki & #1Lib1Ref
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Books and Bytes - Issue 26[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 26, December – January 2018

  • #1Lib1Ref
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Books & Bytes - Issue 27[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 27, February – March 2018

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • New collections
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    • Cambridge University Press (expansion)
  • User Group
  • Global branches update
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Books & Bytes – Issue 28[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 28, April – May 2018

  • #1Bib1Ref
  • New partners
  • User Group update
  • Global branches update
    • Wikipedia Library global coordinators' meeting
  • Spotlight: What are the ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let's ask the data
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Books & Bytes – Issue 29[edit]

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Issue 29, June – July 2018

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Books & Bytes, Issue 30[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

  • Library Card translation
  • Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes, Issue 31[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

  • OAWiki
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes, Issue 32[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 32, January – February 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • New and expanded partners
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes, Issue 33[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

  • Partnerships
  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019

  • Wikimania
  • We're building something great, but..
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • A Wikibrarian's story
  • Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes – Issue 36[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019

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Books & Bytes – Issue 37[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 37, November – December 2019

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Issue 38, January – April 2020[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020

  • New partnership
  • Global roundup

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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 39, May – June 2020

  • Library Card Platform
  • New partnerships
    • ProQuest
    • Springer Nature
    • BioOne
    • CEEOL
    • IWA Publishing
    • ICE Publishing
  • Bytes in brief

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Books & Bytes – Issue 40[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020

  • New partnerships
    • Al Manhal
    • Ancestry
    • RILM
  • #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
  • AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

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Books & Bytes – Issue 41[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

  • New partnership: Taxmann
  • WikiCite
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021

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Books & Bytes - Issue 42[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020

  • New EBSCO collections now available
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
  • Library Card input requested
  • Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Books & Bytes – Issue 42[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021

  • New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
  • 1Lib1Ref
  • Library Card

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Books & Bytes – Issue 43[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

  • New Library Card designs
  • 1Lib1Ref May

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Books & Bytes – Issue 45[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

  • Library design improvements continue
  • New partnerships
  • 1Lib1Ref update

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Books & Bytes – Issue 46[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

  • Library design improvements deployed
  • New collections available in English and German
  • Wikimania presentation

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Books & Bytes – Issue 47[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 47, September – October 2021

  • On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
  • Search tool deployed
  • New My Library design improvements

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Books & Bytes – Issue 48[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021

  • 1Lib1Ref 2022
  • Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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Books & Bytes – Issue 49[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022

  • New library collections
  • Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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Books & Bytes – Issue 50[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022

  • New library partner - SPIE
  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Books & Bytes – Issue 51[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 51, May – June 2022

  • New library partners
    • SAGE Journals
    • Elsevier ScienceDirect
    • University of Chicago Press
    • Information Processing Society of Japan
  • Feedback requested on this newsletter
  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022

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Books & Bytes – Issue 52[edit]

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Books & Bytes
Issue 52, July – August 2022

  • New instant-access collections:
    • SpringerLink and Springer Nature
    • Project MUSE
    • Taylor & Francis
    • ASHA
    • Loeb
  • Feedback requested on this newsletter

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Books & Bytes – Issue 53[edit]

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Issue 53, September – October 2022

  • New collections:
    • Edward Elgar
    • E-Yearbook
    • Corriere della Serra
    • Wikilala
  • Collections moved to Library Bundle:
    • Ancestry
  • New feature: Outage notification
  • Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Books & Bytes – Issue 54[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

  • New collections:
    • British Newspaper Archive
    • Findmypast
    • University of Michigan Press
    • ACLS
    • Duke University Press
  • 1Lib1Ref 2023
  • Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023

  • New bundle partners:
    • Newspapers.com
    • Fold3
  • 1Lib1Ref January report
  • Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

  • New partner:
    • Perlego
  • Library access tips and tricks
  • Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57[edit]

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Issue 57, May – June 2023

  • Suggestion improvements
  • Favorite collections tips
  • Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Books & Bytes – Issue 58[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023

  • New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
  • Tech tip: Filters
  • Wikimania presentation

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Books & Bytes – Issue 59[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 59, September – October 2023

  • Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
  • Tech tip: Library access methods

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Books & Bytes – Issue 60[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023

  • Three new partners
  • Google Scholar integration
  • How to track partner suggestions

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Books & Bytes – Issue 61[edit]

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 61, January – February 2024

  • Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
  • 1Lib1Ref results

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