GEN: Find Literary Criticism at the Internet Public Library (fwd)

[Peter Milbury <pmilbury@CUSD.CHICO.K12.CA.US>]

Dear LM_NET Colleagues,

  I have just explored (and became avidly engaged in exploring) the
Literary Criticism website described below, and would highly recommend
that all of us become familiar with it. For high school it will well-serve
the students, and in other grades it will be a terriffic resource for your
teachers (and yourselves) for reference, preparation and lesson planning.
Highly recommended.

Peter Milbury, CHS Library  pmilbury@cusd.chico.k12.ca.us
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:21:16 -0700
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib@library.berkeley.edu>

FIND LITERARY CRITICISM AT THE INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY

4/28/98 - Ann Arbor, MI.

Students seeking literary criticism on the Internet, rejoice! The
Internet Public Library's brand new Literary Criticism collection
(http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/) offers a fast and easy way to find
criticism and biographical information for over 100 authors and their works.

Focusing primarily on British and American authors, the Literary
Criticism collection fills a gap that has long frustrated students,
teachers and librarians looking for high-quality literature resources
online. "We have always gotten lots of questions about finding lit crit
online--it's been one of the hardest kinds of questions to answer. We
hope this new collection will be a valuable resource for making the
Internet's best literary criticism easy to find," says Ken Irwin, the IPL's
User Services Librarian.

The Collection contains links to sites about many important English
language authors.  The authors selected primarily represent the literary
canon taught in high schools and college English classes.  The collection
was aimed to serve high school and college students, although it is expected
to be of service to more advanced scholars as well.

Many of the author entries include biography and interesting, relevant
non-literary sources in addition to the criticism.  Attempts were made to
obtain the critical pieces from reputable sources.  Users can browse for
criticism and biographical information by author name, period, or
work title.

The collection was designed by Ken Irwin, Katie Stottlemyer, and David
Carter with assistance from Patricia Memmott, Beth Atkinson, and Caitlin
Tillman.  Over a four month period, these students and staff members
researched more than one hundred authors and hundreds of web sites,
choosing the over 1000 sites which make up the collection at the
time of opening.

The Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/) is a project based at
the University of Michigan School of Information, staffed by professional
librarians with assistance from students and volunteer librarians from
around the world, and has been visited by more than 7 million people from
over 100 countries. The library maintains a collection of online ready
reference works; responds to reference questions; creates web resources;
evalutes and categorizes resources on the Internet; and provides a space
for exhibitions.

[/|\]  Ken Irwin, User Services Librarian
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