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A flexible index management application for books, with links to online libraries. Developed for the University of Michigan's Regents' Proceedings Index.
The name KarpeLiber is based on the Latin phrase "carpe liber", which means "seize a book". It was inspired by the well-known Latin phrase, "carpe diem", which means "seize the day". This application enables the user to search the indices of many volumes, then they can "seize a book".
Technically, to be similar to the syntax of "carpe diem", the correct Latin phrase would be "carpe librum". Not being well-versed in Latin, this wasn't realized until considerable progress had been made on the project. By that time, it wasn't convenient to rename the project, installations, hostnames, etc. So, justification for the imperfect name can be taken from the idea that the user may take a book, but it may not be the book they ultimately need. They may need to take another book. ("Carpe alius liber"?)