Thursday, April 9, 2009

Atlas of Early Printing


"This site depicts the spread of printing through Europe in the fifty
years following the European refinement of the tools and process to make
impressions from movable type cast in metal." View a map of Europe by year
(1450-1500) to see locations of the spread of printing, universities,
paper mills, fairs, and trade routes. Also includes material about
15th-century printing and an animated model of a printing press. From the
University of Iowa Libraries.
URL: http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

ARCHIVING WRITERS' WORK IN THE AGE OF E-MAIL

user name: rulibrary
password:ru2007
(PLEASE KEEP THESE CONFIDENTIAL)
ARCHIVING WRITERS' WORK IN THE AGE OF E-MAIL: As more
authors
work in digital media, literary archivists are having to learn how
to preserve and display much more than paper. Think floppy disks,
laptops, and Facebook content, for starters. One advantage:
Scholars can learn more about authors' creative process than ever
before.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i31/31a00102.htm?utm_source=at&utm_
medium=en