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From: Kirsten MacLeod <kjm8(a)ualberta.ca>
Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM
I'm forwarding this call for participation for a cataloguing and
bibliographic initiative organized by Brown University Library and the
Center for Research Libraries. Please share this information with
anyone who might be able to help out.
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Dr. Kirsten MacLeod
Adjunct Professor, Department of English and FIlm Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
T6G 2E5
Canada
kjm8(a)ualberta.ca
Colleagues--
I'd like to draw your attention to a new cataloging and bibliographic
initiative associated with the Modernist Journals Project. The Brown
University Library, in conjunction with the Center for Research
Libraries, has launched the Cover-to-Cover Project. It asks libraries
to survey their physical holdings of key twentieth-century magazines.
As you know, most catalogs record runs of bound periodicals, but in
the process of binding original covers, advertising pages, and even
some editorial content were discarded. As a result, there is a
considerable hole in the archive that the MJP is trying to identify
and repair with its digital editions. Doing so, however, means
identifying institutions that actually hold undamaged runs of
magazines.
You can find a more complete description of this project online here:
https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/library/Modernist+Journals+Projec…
I hope you'll take a look at this site, urge your own libraries to
participate, and share this link with other librarians and archivists
who might be able to assist us.
If you are unfamiliar with the Modernist Journals Project, you can
visit it here:
www.modjourn.org.
Thanks,
Sean
Sean Latham
Associate Professor of English
Director, Modernist Journals Project
Editor, James Joyce Quarterly
Director, Graduate Program in English
University of Tulsa