All LibraryStack e-books available through Northeastern are listed and linked in Scholar OneSearch, Northeastern's library catalog and discovery system.
Content
In addition to e-books, this unusual site offers born-digital ephemera such as artists e-books, podcasts, filmed lectures, typefaces, and more. The things Library Stack collects might be thought of as the digital versions of realia: physical objects that resist classification but require storage and cataloging to be found and used. These digital realia — artists’ writings, idiosyncratic podcasts, independent journals, among many others — have unknowable quotients of value to future readerships beyond their intrinsic artifactual value, and need to be publicly distributed, cataloged, referenced and stored outside the proprietary stacks of their originating platforms. Library Stack also offers a suite of research tools, a bibliographic catalog and file repository, and a lending system for commercial eBooks, many of which either don’t exist in print form, or simply have no other route into digital library circulation.*
Borrowing
Some items require registration (free to current Northeastern faculty, staff, and students with your Northeastern email) to view. A registered account allows borrowing.
Downloading and printing are generally not available, but may be provided in some cases.
*Description adapted from https://artresourcetransfer.org (via Internet Archive, captured 21 December 2022).
