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/
