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Vol. 1, No. 2 Spring 2004
by Patty MacDonald, Head of Reference
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Photo courtesy of Gale
Group, Inc. |
The library has acquired the Eighteenth Century Collections
Online (ECCO), a digital library of 150,000 books
published in Great Britain and the Americas from 1701 to 1800.
Use ECCO to access the digital images and search the text of every
page of these electronic books. Sources for these e-books include
the British National Library, as well as 1500 national, university,
public, and private libraries worldwide. The collection is based
on the English Short Title Catalog, a list of works published
in England and its dependencies in the eighteenth century.
With the addition of this eighteenth-century digital
archive, students and researchers have access to rare and hard-to-find
materials. The collection and each book are also fully searchable
by author, title, or keyword. Eighteenth Century Collections
Online is an ongoing project that currently includes the
subjects listed below. Philosophy and religion will be added in
the spring of 2004, followed by law.
History and Geography – Includes
voyages and discoveries, biographies and memoirs, genealogical
collections, gazetteers, church antiquities and tourist guides
of Britain. Coverage of the French and American revolutions from
the British perspective.
Social Science and Fine Arts –
Topics in Social Science include manufacturing
during the Industrial Revolution, international business, taxation,
social reform, and politics. In the Fine Arts
area, there are reviews of music, painting, theater and architecture.
Medicine, Science, and Technology
– Includes agriculture, treatment of diseases,
military technology, natural philosophy, scientific education,
cookbooks and more.
Literature and Language –
Includes novels, essays, drama, poetry, ballads, religion, grammar,
dictionaries, songs from plays, satire, book catalogues and other
works.
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