INTRO

Introduction


DEMOS

Demo of the Library Catalogue (I.1)
Demo of EEBO (I.2)
Demo of Lion Literature Online (I.2)
Demo of MLAIB (II.2)
Demo of OED (III.1)
Demo of internet search (III.2)

UNIT I

Unit I, Works and Texts: Introduction
Unit I, Section 1: Printed Books
Unit I, Section 2: Electronic Texts
Unit I, Section 3: Manuscripts
Unit I, Exercises


VIDEOS

Ted McGee on editing
Julia Mamolo on EEBO
Kathy Acheson on manuscripts
Andrew McMurry on book publishing


UNIT II
Unit II, Secondary Sources: Introduction
Unit II, Section 1: Books in the Library
Unit II, Section 2: Journal Articles
Unit II, Section 3: Documentation
Unit II, Exercises

EXERCISES

Exercises, Unit I
Exercises, Unit II
Exercises, Unit III


UNIT III
Unit III, Texts in Context: Introduction
Unit III, Section 1: Language
Unit III, Section 2: Biography
Unit III, Section 3: History
Unit III, Exercises

D'LOADS
Downloads
Image Credits
Intro:
Image of the earth from space, credited to the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA. Retrieved from the National Parks website, http://www2.nature.nps.gov/air/Didyouknow/archive.cfm, June 29, 2006.
Unit I:
The printer’s device of William Caxton. Retrieved from http://www.ils.unc.edu/~dresh/printersmarks/images.htm, February 2, 2005. The images on this site were scanned from Roberts, W. Printers’ Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893.
Unit II: Piece of interface of the electronic book review, "weave." Retrieved from http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_weave, March 14, 2005.
Unit III: Medieval manuscript belonging to the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes. Retrieved from http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/recherche/recherche.htm, February 3, 2005.
Exercises: Animation created from Eadweard Muybridge's stop-action photographs of a man running, called "Locomotion Series 11." Copyright the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, 1998. Retrieved from http://www.artsmia.org/playground/muybridge/muybridge11.html, February 3, 2005.
Downloads: Moon landing. From the site of the Children's Museum of Minneapolis. Retrieved from http://www.childrensmuseum.org/birthday/images/moon_landing.jpg, February 3, 2005.