In cataloging, each field has a number which indicates more about the book and its subject, publication date and so forth. Field 856 has been used at the Library of Congress as a way to indicate a record has been digitized (or otherwise made available electronically). Digitizing books has been going on for 0over a decade, but the availability of those records on the open web is a fairy recent development. Google Books has scanned in literally millions of books from libraries and partner publishers, enabling people to access information and authors at an amazing rate. Librarians can use cataloging fields like 856 to indicate the record is available in a place besides the shelf in your local library.
The College of the Redwoods provides access for students to two separate sets of digitized information. The first are e-books as part of NetLibrary, a collection of books you can see all the information as laid out on the printed page, including photographs and diagrams. The other set of digitized information are the indexed periodical databases available here.
The lesson here is that you no longer have to attend a huge university to access a large amount of information.
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