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April 12, 2004 As of February, 2000, we stopped updated this section of the ETC website. As of April 2004, the Electronic Text Center houses 320 titles consisting of over 1,000 individual CD-ROMs in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Russian, Czech, Hebrew, and other languages. February 22, 2000 The Electronic Text Center has added the following new titles:
Two other important new titles of interest to ETC users are
Updated software versions:
The Middle English Compendium joins the Oxford English Dictionary as the second major historical dictionary of the English language now available to Cornell users via the Library Gateway. On April 29, the Electronic Text Center sponsored a demonstration/lecture by David Ruddy on the Middle English Compendium, a hyperlinked, networked resource consisting of the Middle English Dictionary, a "hyperbibliography" of the manuscript sources used in the making of the MED, and the full-text corpus of some of those manuscripts. New CD-ROM titles added to the ETC since March:
The Oxford English Dictionary joins the Patrologia Latina and Goethes Werke as the third networked title on our OpenText server. The Electronic Text Center is one of seven locations on campus hosting the multimedia exhibit, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROMs, curated by Timothy Murray, an English professor at Cornell. The exhibit rotates among the seven sites each week. It is available from March 15 through April 15 in the ETC. The ETC Coordinator also assisted with the installation of the exhibit on two iMacs in the Gallery Level of Uris Library. More information is available on the Contact Zones Web site. New CD-ROM titles added to the ETC since November:
Our OpenText server is now set up and our first two titles are available: the Patrologia Latina and Goethes Werke. The OpenText search engine is very powerful and the Web interface allows you to search and view results on any networked computer with a Web browser. Both titles are still available in the ETC on CD-ROM, if you prefer that interface. Try out the networked versions of these databases: Patrologia Latina: http://etext.library.cornell.edu/pld/index.html Goethes Werke: http://etext.library.cornell.edu/goethe/index.html New editions of ETC titles:
A Web version of HarpWeek, the 12--CD collection of Harper's Weekly from 1857 through 1865 on ETC1 in the Electronic Text Center, is now available to all Cornell users as a Web site. The URL is http://app.harpweek.com/ . New title in the ETC:
Efforts are underway to network some of the electronic texts now available only on stand-alone workstations in the ETC. An SGML server will be set up this fall by the Library Technology Department, consisting of a Sun Ultra-10 UNIX computer running the OpenText SGML search engine and "middleware" from the University of Michigan. The middleware is software that converts texts marked up in SGML to HTML on the fly so that the search results and the texts can be read using standard web browsers such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. The two databases initially targeted for delivery over the network are the Patrolgia Latina and Goethes Werke, both from Chadwyck-Healey. New title in the ETC:
Jo Miller, graduate assistant in the ETC, has departed to work on her dissertation; Dave Rollenhagen has joined us. Dave is a graduate student in the history department. For the second year, the ETC is collaborating with the Academic Technology Center (ATC) to offer the preseminar workshop for Cornell graduate students attending the New Technologies for Teaching and Research (NTTR) Seminar at Princeton University. I will also be teaching at NTTR June 8 through 12 along with Mike Tolomeo and Diane Kubarek from the ATC. New titles added to the ETC:
We now have 40 titles in our electronic text collection on CD-ROM and we subscribe to two e-text collections available over the Internet (ARTFL and World News Connection). The full list is at http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/cet/holdings.html
The Electronic Text Center will be co-hosting faculty workshops over spring break (March 16 - 19) with the Academic Technology Center. The working title is "The Web and Other Instructional Tools: Focus on the Arts and Humanities." We have added the following titles to our holdings, building a new area of strength in Italian language materials. New titles added to the ETC:
November 14, 1997 New arrivals in the ETC:
The Electronic Text Center celebrated its first birthday with a presentation on a brilliant frames Website written by Melissa Bernstein.
Friday, October 17, 4:30 pm, Olin Library 106, Quodlibet/ETC Lecture: A reception followed in the English Department in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Jo Miller joins the ETC staff as our second graduate assistant. Jo is a history major.
New databases in the ETC
New databases in the ETC:
New edition:
On approval:
On order:
November 1, 1996 The network wiring is now complete. Four of the five computers have access to full-text resources on the Internet, and the ETC now has a telephone. The number is 255-1830. We have hired a Graduate Assistant for the ETC, Kara Doyle. Kara is a third-year medieval studies student with computer and audio-visual experience. Paul McMillin, an Information Assistant in Olin*Kroch*Uris Reference, also staffs the ETC.
October 17, 1996 At 1 p.m. today, the Electronic Text Center opened in Olin Library. Our first official visitor was Ross Coleman from the University of Sydney, Australia. Ross opened an ETC in Sydney two weeks ago. The network wiring is not completed, but three CD-ROM databases are available: the Patrologia Latina, the Clarence Thomas Hearings, and the Civil War Newspapers database. The Center is open Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
September 26, 1996 The front door and ceiling have been installed. The computer hardware has arrived. The process of selecting texts for the Text Center has begun. See the preliminary list of titles.
August 30, 1996 The Electronic Text Center has a new staff member, Jennifer Personius. Jenn is a Cornell undergraduate who will be assisting Michael in identifying resources, setting up hardware and software, and publishing a newsletter for the ETC.
August 23, 1996 Construction began this week for Cornell's Electronic Text Center. Workers cleared shelving from the old Rare Books vault next to Room 106 in Olin Library in preparation for the installation of new wiring and a new door into the corridor near the entrance to Kroch Library. Plans call for the renovation to include new computer equipment for faculty and students who will use electronic texts and other digitized materials for scholarly research and analysis, instruction, and learning.
Content revised 4 August 2000; markup updated 17 April 2005
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