- WHAT'S
LIBER LIBER?
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- Liber Liber is a non-profit cultural association whose
aim is the promotion of any kind of artistic and
intellectual expression. In particular, it is an attempt
to draw humanistic and scientific culture together thanks
to the qualified use of informatic technologies in the
humanistic field.
WHAT'S THE MANUZIO PROJECT?
- The Manuzio project (named after the famous publisher
from Venice who in the XVI century improved the printing
techniques created by Gutenberg) has the ambition to make
a noble idea real: the idea of culture available to
everybody. How? Making books, graduation theses,
articles, tales or any other document which can be
memorized by a computer available all over the world, any
minute and free. Via modem, or using floppy disks (in
which case there's only the cost of the disk and the
delivery), it is already possible to get hundreds of
books. And the Manuzio project needs only few people to
make such a masterpiece as Dante Alighieri's Divina
Commedia available to millions of people.
WHICH ARE THE TEXTS ALREADY AVAILABLE
FROM THE MANUZIO PROJECT AND HOW TO GET THEM?
- Tha complete list of the Manuzio project "electronic
books" is placed in the 00index.txt
file --the length, in bytes, written beside the file name
indicates the length of the text after being compressed
using the ZIP utility--.
All those who have an access
to Internet can get to this collection of texts: they
only need to connect to the University of Milan via ftp: ftp://sunsite.dsi.unimi.it/pub/culture/Manuzio
or ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/DSI/basagni/Manuzio.
Those who don't have a modem can ask for the delivery
of one or more floppy disks containing the texts of the
Manuzio project (10.000 Lit.= 7 U.S. $ each disk as a
refund for the expenses) and pay using the postal current
account 73225005 registered under:
Liber Liber
c/o E-text S.r.l.
Viale Pasteur, 78
00144 Roma
Italy
and writing as cause on the reverse: "The
undersigned <name and
address> asks for <number of floppy disks>
containing the texts of the Manuzio project".
As an alternative, it is possible to send money by
cheque or money-order (which is faster). Of course, one
must never forget to write, in clear capital letters, his
or her address!
I
LIKE YOUR PROJECT, CAN I HELP?
- Of course you can! To work with us is very easy. Your
help can be of different kinds:
- sending money. Thanks to your money, Liber Liber
will choose some of the more interesting
masterpieces of literature --those that are not
under copyright-- and will make an electronic
version of them which, after an accurate
revision, will be put on line, available to
everybody, free. You can send your money by:
- cheque;
- postal money-order;
- postal corrent account 73225005 (as cause
write: "Grant in favour of the
Manuzio project").
In any case, the money must be entered in the
account of:
Liber Liber
c/o E-text S.r.l.
Viale Pasteur, 78
00144 Roma
Italy
Any grant in favour of the "Liber
Liber" cultural association can NOT be
dectracted from one's taxes.
EVEN
1 $ IS SOMETHING!
- subscription to Liber Liber (see the following
point).
- sending the electronic text of a book that you
have reversed.
NOTICE: Before starting to make
the electronic version of a book, it would be
advisable to contact Liber Liber,
to get information about technical details and to
avoid wasting time on a text that someone's
already reversing.
I WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO LIBER
LIBER.
- Subscription is open to anyone. It costs 50.000 lit. a
year (30.000 lit. for students). In fact, there are no
particular advantages as a consequence of the
subscription, apart from promoting the Manuzio project.
Subscribers will receive the Liber Liber card, the
association newsletter and will be allowed a 20% discount
for any course Liber Liber organizes. Subscribers can
also take part and vote in the association meetings,
according to our Statute.
To subscribe, fill in the
form and send it to Liber Liber by snail mail or e-mail:
Request for a
subscription to Liber Liber
SURNAME: __________________ FIRST NAME: ______________________
ADDRESS: ______________________________________________________
Z.I.P.: ___________ CITY: ___________________________________
STATE: __________________
PHONE N.: ____/__/__________ (home) ____/__/_________ (office)
Payment (entered in the account of: Liber Liber - c/o
E-text S.r.l. - Viale Pasteur, 78 - 00144 Roma - Italy):
- Postal current account n. 73225005. As cause
write:
"The undersigned <name_surname_address>
would like to subscribe to Liber Liber"
- Cheque
- Cash
Send everything to:
- Liber Liber
c/o E-text S.r.l.
- Viale Pasteur, 78
00144 Roma
Italia
e-mail:
liber.liber@mclink.it
