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Workshops: Faiths
Workshop 29: 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.
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