Studies in Bibliography

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 Studies in Bibliography On-Line:
 
 A major new textual database on the Internet
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 The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and the
 University Library's Electronic Text Center are pleased to announce their
 plans to create Studies in Bibliography On-Line.  This service --
 available free of charge on the Internet -- will include the full text of
 the nearly one thousand articles in the 49 annual volumes of Studies in
 Bibliography (1948-1996) in a searchable and browsable database.  It will
 be completed in time for the 50th volume of Studies in spring 1997. 
 
 Studies in Bibliography is a leading bibliographical journal with an
 international reputation, and is "a virtual encyclopedia of scholarly work
 on the history of books and editing over the past 50 years," according to
 Kendon Stubbs, Vice President of the Society and Associate Librarian at
 the University of Virginia.  The on-line database will serve a wide
 variety of pedagogical and research needs, reaching audiences who do not
 now have ready access to the print versions: the high school student and
 teacher can find out more about the early printings of Hamlet and the
 bearing they have on the play as we know it now; the community college
 teacher can call upon the database to collect material for a lecture on
 Henry Fielding's Tom Jones; a research scholar working on Chaucer can
 extract a wealth of data on early manuscripts of Canterbury Tales. 
 
 Equally important to teachers and students is the Society's decision to
 make access to the database freely available on the Internet. According to
 David L. Vander Meulen, Editor of Studies in Bibliography, the project
 "honors the Society's mission to advance bibliographical and textual
 scholarship, both by making existing materials accessible in new and
 helpful ways and by providing a model for the retrospective conversion of
 journals in the humanities." Studies in Bibliography On-Line will be
 encoded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML), following the
 Text-Encoding Initiative Guidelines (TEI), and will be available from the
 Electronic Text Center's on-line library.  Volume 7 of Studies (1955),
 along with a cumulative table of contents for Volumes 1-49, is already
 available at: 
 
 	http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/
 
 Please address any queries to David L. Vander Meulen,
 (dlv8g@virginia.edu), or to David Gants, Project Director
 (dgants@virginia.edu).
 
 
 *** David L. Gants ** Electronic Text Center ** Alderman Library ***
 *** University of Virginia ** Charlottesville, Virginia ** 22903 ***
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