British Literary Manuscripts Online Spring 2009 Jim Draper VP and Publisher Mary Onorato, Product Manager.

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 PublisherJim.draper@cengage.comMary Onorato, Product ManagerMary.onorato@cengage.com