News Archive June 27, 2004 Minutes of the TCP Meetings at the ALA Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL The Text Creation Partnership held two meetings on June 27th with representatives from ProQuest, Gale, and Readex. Both were well attended by representatives of current partner institutions, text conversion vendors, and those considering partnership. The meeting opened with an introduction by Mark Sandler who thanked everyone for coming and introduced Bill Gosling, University Librarian at the University of Michigan and Chair of the EEBO-TCP Advisory Board. Bill talked about the tremendous impact the project has had on teaching and research and noted the contributions of partners both in North America and the UK, most notably Oxford University, our EEBO-TCP project partner in the UK. Perry Willett, the new Director of Digital Library Production Services at the University of Michigan then spoke about the efforts and insights of DLPS and their tremendous amount of expertise and dedication to the project. Shawn Martin then began updates on the three products and projects. Mary Sauer-Games from ProQuest talked about the new interface and loading of text that ProQuest has recently done and how much it has and will continue to enhance the EEBO product for students and researchers; Remmel Nunn from Readex discussed the development of the Evans product, and Rich Foley talked about the partnership with TCP and the development of the ECCO product from Gale. EEBO-TCP
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Finally, Robert Hatch, a professor of the history of science at the University of Florida discussed his own use of EEBO-TCP in research and in teaching. He demonstrated his website and how he uses it in classes. He then helped to lead the group in a discussion of how TCP could be used in classroom teaching, and how librarians and scholars can work together to promote and develop these resources. We're very grateful for Prof. Hatch's insights and expertise, and thank him again for his willingness to come to the meeting.
March 29, 2004 EEBO-TCP Finds New Partners in Canada Within the past month, EEBO-TCP has recently welcomed 7 new partners into the EEBO-TCP all from Canada. Through the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) consortium and several other contacts, the Carleton University (Ontario), Simon Fraser University (British Columbia), the University of Calgary (Alberta), the University of Manitoba (Manitoba), the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan), the University of Victoria (British Columbia), and the University of Waterloo (Ontario) have joined EEBO-TCP. These join our other Canadian partners Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia), the University of Alberta (Alberta), the University of Guelph (Ontario), and the University of Toronto (Ontario). Their combined contributions will allow EEBO-TCP to create over one thousand new texts. For more information about EEBO-TCP and its new Canadian partners, please contact Shawn Martin (shawnmar@umich.edu). March 29, 2004 EEBO-TCP at the Renaissance Society of America Conference EEBO-TCP is happy to announce that it will be present at the 2004 Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America Conference in New York City. Shawn Martin will be giving a talk on The Early English Books Online -Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP): A New Model for Private/Public Cooperation and an Invaluable Resource for Early Modern Scholarship at the New Technologies and Renaissance Studies sessions. If you have any ideas for scholarly or library conferences that EEBO-TCP could or should attend, please notify Shawn Martin (shawnmar@umich.edu). March 2, 2004 EEBO-TCP has enlisted the help of the academic community to aid the project in selection and educational projects by cooperating with several centers for Renaissance studies throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Members of this group will be working to help facilitate communication between the project and the academic community by 1. identifying subject specialists who might assist in developing
particular topics for inclusion in EEBO-TCP For its inaugural year, the following scholars have agreed to help: Ian Archer Robert Bjork William Bowen Patricia Fumerton Barbara Hanawalt Arthur Kinney Michael Schoenfeldt Laurie Shannon For questions about the Academic Advisory Group, please e-mail Shawn Martin (shawnmar@umich.edu). February 3, 2004 The TCP has released a new newsletter for Winter of 2004 containing general updates for the EEBO-TCP, Evans-TCP projects, and an announcement of ECCO-TCP. This newsletter is released bi-annually by the project for people interested in updates, how the projects are used, and more. If you have any questions or comments about the newsletter or would like some paper copies, please contact shawnmar@umich.edu. 2003 Undergraduate Essay Contest ProQuest Information and Learning and the University of Michigan are proud to announce the winners of the 2003 Undergraduate essay contest. One judge said he was "astounded" by the quality of the essays and all of the essays demonstrate the amount of hard work undergraduates can do and the level of research they can accomplish, rivaling in some cases even doctoral candidates. More information about the contest, and copies of the winning essays essays are also available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/eebo/edu/edu_win_03.html Grand Prize:
Jacqueline Wernimont (University of Iowa) First Prize:
Brian Platzer (Columbia University) Second Prize:
Anne Hyde (Lawrence University) Honorable Mention:
Brian Kanner (University of Florida) Honorable Mention:
Sheeba Madan (Indiana University) January 14, 2004 TCP Meetings at the 2004 ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Diego,
CA Saturday, January 10th* or Sunday, January 11th *People are encouraged to attend the Saturday meeting if possible since more seating is available We'll be discussing: EEBO-TCP Updates Evans-TCP Updates TCP General Updates Discussion of Educational and Instructional use of TCP
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