ENGL 299: Library Research + DH

Mackenzie Brooks

Assistant Professor & Digital Humanities Librarian

English Dept. Liaison

brooksm@wlu.edu // Leyburn M37

March 17, 2016

Agenda

• Understand how a library works
• Research workshop
• Check out some awesome DH projects

How the Library Works

How the Library Works

Collections + People

Search Everything is:

• a discovery tool/system/service
• something we pay for
• potentially biased
• one of the best of its kind
• still not perfect
• constantly changing

English databases

- Literature Online (LION)

- MLA International Bibliography

- Literature Resource Center

- Academic Search Complete

- EEBO and ECCO

- More historical newspapers

Research Workshop

JSTOR Understanding Shakespeare

http://labs.jstor.org/shakespeare/

http://voyant-tools.org/

http://vep.cs.wisc.edu/serendip/