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British Literary Manuscripts OnlineBritish Literary Manuscripts OnlineSpring 2009
Jim DraperVP and PublisherMary Onorato, Product Manager
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What is British Literary Manuscripts Online?
Why Literary Manuscripts?
Content and Features
Recap
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Groundbreaking initiative to bring author manuscripts to students & researchers at all levels
Curated collections of page images with searchable metadata
What Is British Literary Manuscripts Online?
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British Literary Manuscripts Online: c. 1660-1900 (May 2009)
– c. 400,000 pages
British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance (Fall 2009)
– c. 400,000 pages
Cross-searchability with LRC, MLA International Bibliography, LitFinder, GVRL (Fall 2009)
American Literary Manuscripts Online, World Literary Manuscripts Online—2010 and beyond
Release schedule:
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First large-scale digitization of literary manuscripts
Opportunity for students to gain experience working with hitherto inaccessible materials
Extraordinary resource for studying authors’ social networks, beliefs, attitudes, education, and the development of their writings
Even advanced scholars will welcome the opportunity to search and review manuscripts online in order to identify manuscripts for closer study
Useful across the Humanities curriculum
Why Literary Manuscripts?
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Why Literary Manuscripts?
No one else is doing this on any significant scale
Gives Gale 360-degree coverage of Literature
Literary works
Multi-media
Biographies
Primary sources
Criticism, reviews
Work & topic overviews
From LitFinder and primary source
databases
British Literary manuscripts; materials in other primary source
products
Literature Resource Center & Literature Criticism Online
Literature Resource Center, Literature Criticism Online,
GVRL ebooks
Photos & audio in Literature Resource
Center
Dictionary of Literary
Biography & other sources in Literature
Resource Center
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Completing the Research Circle with Manuscripts
Literary works
Multi-media
Biographies
Primary sources
Criticism, reviews
Work & topic overviews
From LitFinder and primary source
databases
British Literary manuscripts; materials in other primary source
products
Literature Resource Center & Literature Criticism Online
Literature Resource Center, Literature Criticism Online,
GVRL ebooks
Photos & audio in Literature Resource
Center
Dictionary of Literary
Biography & other sources in Literature
Resource Center
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Content and Features
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1st step:
British Literary Manuscripts Online, c. 1660-1900
Letters, Diaries, Poetry Miscellanies, Commonplace books, manuscripts of literary works
c. 400,000 pages
Authors include:
William Blake
Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fanny Burney
Robert Burns
Thomas Carlyle
William Cowper
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Inchbald
Samuel Johnson
John Locke
Jonathan Swift
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
And many others
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BLMO digitizes these PSM microfilm collections:
British Literary Manuscripts from the British Library (Series 1 & 2: c.1500-1800)
British Literary Manuscripts from the Folger Shakespeare Library, c. 1500-1700
British Literary Manuscripts from the National Library of Scotland, c. 1300-1882
The European Romantic Tradition: The Sir Walter Scott Manuscripts
British Literary Manuscripts from Princeton University Library: William Cowper and others
Bronte Manuscripts
Forster and Dyce Collections from the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Parts 1-5; c. 1500-1900)
The Oscar Wilde Collection (UCLA)
Medieval Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Cotton Collection
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British Library National Library of Scotland Victoria & Albert Museum Princeton University Library
Folger Shakespeare Library Bronte Collection at Haworth
Parsonage University of California Library
Source Libraries
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Board of advisors
Charlotte Cubbage, Humanities Coordinator and Subject Specialist for English, Comparative Literatures, and the Performing Arts, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois
James L. Harner, Samuel Rhea Gammon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A & M University; Editor, World Shakespeare Bibliography
Susan Schreibman, Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory, Dublin, Ireland
Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia
Henry Woudhuysen, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University College London, England; general overseer and principal advisor to the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700
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Searchable by full citation (description in finding aid/catalog), author, titles of major works, genre/document type, date, century, source library/collection, source microfilm collection
Fuzzy search
Browse authors, library collections, source microfilm collections
View manuscript page-by-page or as scrollable thumbnails
Resize, rotate, fit to height, fit to width
Full-screen view
Compare manuscripts
Features & Functionality
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Recap:• Curated collections of page images with searchable metadata
• Brings author manuscripts to the classroom for the first time
• British Literary Manuscripts Online: c. 1660-1900 (May/June 2009)
• British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval & Renaissance (Fall 2009)
• For further information contact:
Jim Draper, VP and [email protected] Onorato, Product [email protected]