LofT Notes 15 - 1/14/2005

In this Issue:

• UVa Community Digitization Guidelines
• Central Digital Repository
• Japanese Text Initiative goes Dynamic
• Library Staff Presentation Series
• American Periodicals Series Online
• Chinese Ancient Texts Centre -- CHANT
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Heritage Quest
• Literature Online -- LION
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
  

UVa Community Digitization Guidelines

The Library has developed a document that provides guidance and minimum recommendations for the digitization of images, texts, and data that are in line with the Library's current practice for members of the UVa community who are planning digitization projects.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/reports/uva_digitization_guidelines.html

Central Digital Repository

So far over 5,000 images have been loaded into the Central Digital Repository for use by a group of faculty from Architectural History, Art History, Religious Studies, and Landscape Architecture who will be testing the Repository and its tools in instruction during Spring 2005. Over 5,000 additional images will be loaded during the term, as will over 100 electronic texts.

Japanese Text Initiative goes Dynamic

The Japanese Text Initiative (JTI) now delivers its recently processed texts dynamically through XML, replacing its static HTML delivery of previous editions. These new titles display Japanese etexts in both horizontal and the traditional vertical formats, and with and without "furigana" (aka "rubi") small characters that appear about or beside the text as a phonetic comment and reading aid.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/

Library Staff Presentation Series

Judy Thomas has organized a Library Staff Presentation series that gives Library staff the opportunity to share reports on their projects and activities. Many of the presentations - which cover a wide variety of topics - have already been delivered at outside venues - conferences, workshops, festivals - and are being reprised for Library community. This is our chance to learn more about the kinds of professional activities in which our colleagues are engaged. The series is held once or twice a month from 3:30-4:30 on Thursdays in Clemons 407. Look for email from Judy to the libstaff list about the schedule.

American Periodicals Series Online

Formerly available only on microfilm, the American Periodicals Series Online spans three significant publishing eras -- the birth of American periodical journalism (1741-1800), the era of growth and change (1800 - 1850) and the volatile, ante-bellum slavery debate, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1850-1900). Over 1,100 American periodicals are part of the project, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many historically significant periodical titles.

http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTE0NGQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=8772

Chinese Ancient Texts Centre -- CHANT

UVa now has access to Chinese Ancient Texts Centre (CHANT). The CHANT Database contains transcriptions of oracular inscriptions on tortoise shells and bones, the entire corpus of published Jianbo texts, a compilation of Yin and Zhou bronze inscriptions, all extant Han and Pre-Han Traditional Chinese texts, over 1,000 traditional texts from the Six Dynasties period, and entries from historic Chinese Encyclopedias ("Leishu") through the Qing Dynasty.

http://www.chant.org/

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Selected Ebook titles are now available from the Gale Virtual Reference Library that are of special interest for Education and Psychology. Titles include Child Development; Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Learning About Addictive Behavior; Encyclopedia of Aging; Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior; Encyclopedia of Education; Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders; Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology; and Memory; and the World Education Encyclopedia.

http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=viva_uva

Heritage Quest

UVa has licensed Heritage Quest, the largest and the most comprehensive genealogical data provider in the United States. Heritage quest combines ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Online (a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories) with content from over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, and PERSI™.

http://www.heritagequestonline.com/

Literature Online -- LION

Literature Online -- or LION -- is now available to the UVa community. With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. LION currently aggregates seventeen Chadwyck-Healy/ProQuest American, African-American, Canadian, and English Databases into one service.

http://lion.chadwyck.com/

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

UVa now has electronic access to more than 660,000 Sanborn maps charting the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are highly detailed city plans providing researchers with a wealth of information about urban change in American cities during the first half of the twentieth century. The highly detailed plans were drawn at a scale of 50 feet/inch, printed in color, and record detailed information about streets, businesses, residences building materials, and utilities.

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/maps/sanborn/