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January -June 2002

EEBO-TCP is seeking applicants for the position of project outreach librarian.
A detailed job description and application instructions are available here.

EEBO-TCP Update Meeting at ALA in Atlanta
The EEBO-TCP held two meetings at the American Library Association Annual conference just as Partner libraries were beginning to experiment with the newly-improved EEBO-TCP database. Maria Bonn of the University of Michigan provided a glimpse of the pruduction process that creates encoded texts, and Mark Sandler offered an overview of the Partnership's finances and membership recruitment efforts. Hillary Nunn also demonstrated changes that have been made to the database's interface, which include an enhanced capability for combining bibliographic and keyword searching.

EEBO-TCP Summer 2002 Newsletter
The latest EEBO-TCP newsletter is available online here.

A list of completed texts is now available.
The list is sorted alphabetically by the name of the author, and is available here.

A list of texts that have been selected for keyboarding is now available.
The list is sorted alphabetically by the name of the author, and is available here.

Partner Libraries Enjoying Access to EEBO-TCP Prototype Database
After less than one year of production, almost 500 searchable EEBO-TCP texts have gone online behind a prototype database created at the University of Michigan. With more texts being added every month, over 1,000 works will be available online when full-scale production reaches its one-year anniversary in July of 2002. Partner institutions have been offered access to the database since early spring, and the Michigan production team has been consistently working to make further improvements to the interface. The finishing touches are being put on the programming that allows users to move from EEBO-TCP encoded texts to the EEBO digital page images, and we are continuing to fine-tune the interface's search options. A system for supplying trial passwords is now in place for those considering membership in the EEBO-TCP. If you are interested in obtaining a trial password for your institution, please contact Hillary Nunn at hnunn@umich.edu.

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