Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)

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Early English Books OnlineText Creation
Partnership(EEBO-TCP)

• Shawn Martin
• TCP Project Outreach Librarian
• University of Michigan
• shawnmar_at_umich.edu
• http//www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo

ALA Annual Meeting Orlando, FL June 27, 2004
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New EEBO-TCP Partners June 2004

• Carleton University
• Middlebury College
• Ohio University
• Simon Fraser University
• SUNY Buffalo
• Swarthmore College
• UCLA
• University of Calgary
• University of Manitoba
• University of Maryland
• University of Saskatchewan

• University of Victoria
• University of Waterloo
• Washington College
• Wesleyan University

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New EEBO-TCP Titles

• Current Total of 6,499
• Consistently adding over 400 per month
• Anticipate close to 8,000 by ALA Midwinter
• Noteworthy titles included in the past few months
  include
• Raphael Holinsheds Chronicle
• John Foxes Actes and Monuments

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Foreign Language Titles

• University of Toronto
• review of foreign language (especially Latin)
  titles anticipate around 160 new titles by next
  year
• National Library of Wales
• Selection and review of Welsh titles, anticipate
  over 100 over the next few years

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EEBO-TCP Records

• Michigan, Toronto, and University of North
  Carolina have received about 1,800 EEBO-TCP
  Records into their system
• Michigan and Toronto have made their records
  available in the online catalog
• Toronto also working on integrating their records
  into ITER (gateway to Renaissance studies)
• Records are available and any institution that
  wishes can also get EEBO-TCP records for their
  institution

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EEBO-TCP Local Loading

• Universities have also begun to take texts from
  EEBO-TCP and integrated them into existing
  interfaces
• Interested in hearing how these projects go and
  encourage others to think about maintaining
  copies of EEBO-TCP texts in local systems

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Essay Contest

• Deadline of October 31st for Undergraduate Essay
  Contest
• Some have expressed an interest in moving the
  deadline, open to suggestions

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Questions?

• Shawn Martin TCP Project Outreach Librarian
  (shawnmar_at_umich.edu)
• http//www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo