Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership EEBOTCP

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Early English Books OnlineText Creation
Partnership(EEBO-TCP)

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

ALA Midwinter Meeting San Diego, CA Jan. 9 - 13,
2004
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New EEBO-TCP Partners January 2004

• Dalhousie University
• Georgetown University
• JISC
• University of Alabama
• University of Alberta
• University of Guelph
• University of North Carolina - Greensboro

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JISC access in UK

• All higher and further education institutions in
  the UK (over 180 members)
• Provide access to both EEBO and EEBO-TCP (through
  the ProQuest interface)
• Also authenticated through the University of
  Michigan site

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Production

• Current Total of 4,915
• Consistently loading an average of 548 texts
  every other month
• Largest full-text resource at the University of
  Michigan
• By ALA Annual estimated title count will be over
  6,000

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EEBO-TCP Governing Board

• Betty G. Bengtson
• Director Emeritus , University Libraries
• University of Washington
• Reginald P. Carr
• Director of University Library Services
• and Bodleys Librarian
• University of Oxford
• Richard Detweiler, ex officio
• Interim President
• Council on Library and Information Resources
• David S. Ferriero
• Vice Provost for Library Affairs and
• University Librarian
• Duke University
• Marianne Gaunt

William A. Gosling, Chair University Librarian,
University Library University of Michigan Steven
Hall Senior Vice President Publishing and
Publisher Relations ProQuest Information and
Learning Deanna B. Marcum Associate Librarian
for Library Services Library of Congress Sarah
C. Michalak Director Marriott Library University
of Utah William Miller Director of
Libraries Florida Atlantic University
Carole Moore Chief Librarian University of
Toronto David H. Stam Senior Scholar, Department
of History Syracuse University William D.
Walker University Librarian University of Miami
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EEBO-TCP Governing Board

• Status of project in 2003
• Progressed very well over the past few years
• Continues to produce high-quality cost effective
  texts
• Ideas for future development of the project
• How to reach 25,000 texts
• How to extend partnership further

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EEBO-TCP Governing Board

• Budget
• Meeting targets and projections
• Price Increase
• Keep up with inflation
• ProQuest International Sales
• Extend text to other countries

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EEBO-TCP Governing Board

• Summary
• Near Term Meeting and exceeding targets to
  produce text
• Long Term Investigate ways of raising funds to
  meet overall project goals

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Selection Task Force Meeting

• Current Research and Instructional Use
• General Selection Strategies
• Special Areas of Topical Interest
• Teaching Modules
• Future Directions

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Selection Task Force Meeting

• Determined that selection strategy so far has
  worked and been successful
• Discussed several other selection strategies
• Suggested ways of increasing scholarly input
• Helped project staff resolve some of the issues
  involved in selection

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EEBO-TCP Academic Advisory Group

• Ian Archer
• General Editor
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography on British
  and Irish History
• Oxford University
• Robert Bjork
• Director
• Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Arizona State University
• William Bowen
• Director
• Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
• University of Toronto
• Patricia Fumerton
• Director
• Early Modern Center
• University of California Santa Barbara

Barbara Hanawalt Director Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Ohio State University Arthur
Kinney Director Center for Renaissance
Studies University of Massachusetts Michael
Schoenfeldt Director Medieval and Early Modern
Studies Program University of Michigan Laurie
Shannon Director Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Duke University
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Undergraduate Essay Winners

• Grand Prize Jacqueline Wernimont - University of
  Iowa
• Dangerous Dissenters Explorations of
  Methods and Ethics of Discipline in John
  Miltons Paradise Lost
• First Prize Brian Platzer - Columbia
  University
• Colonial Environmentalism Harriot and
  Raleighs manipulation of the New World
  Landscape
• Second Prize Anne Hyde - Lawrence University
• It Becomes Not the Mistris to Be the Master
  Female Disobedience and the Problem of Honor
  in Kyds The Spanish Tragedy and Websters The
  Duchess of Malfi
• Honorable Mention Brian Kanner - University of
  Florida
• Convincing a Society A New View of the Deaf
  and Dumb
• Honorable Mention Sheeba Madan - Indiana
  University
• Ferrying between early modern and Roman
  notions of femininity in Titus Andronicus and
  Julius Caesar

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Questions?

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