Workshops: Goods

Workshop 19: Electronic Resources Workshop:
Electronic Resources for the Study of Early Modern Women

Conveners:

• Librarians of the Arts and Humanities Team, University of Maryland Libraries

This workshop explored a variety of World Wide Web resources useful for the study of early modern women. The web is becoming an increasingly significant resource for arts and humanities scholarship. It provides voluminous information about primary and secondary materials, notably in bibliographic databases (including catalogs of libraries worldwide), with all the capabilities of electronic searching. More and more, it is also making available the materials themselves. The web can dramatically improve access to rare sources, and it has proved an excellent medium for publishing both primary and secondary materials in new or neglected subjects. (Such resources are not confined to text and image; the web can deliver sound and video as well.) Moreover, the web allows for new kinds of publications and scholarly collaborations whose possibilities are just beginning to be explored.

We demonstrated a variety of relevant web resources, including bibliographic databases (some of which were created specifically for the web) and descriptions of archival and manuscript materials; image collections, electronic texts, and other primary sources; electronic journals and monographs; and, finally, new forms of scholarly publications unique to the web. Following the demonstration, workshop participants had an opportunity to explore these and other resources on their own.