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SUMMARY:Beyond the Facsimile: Early English Books Online (EEBO) and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP)
DESCRIPTION:
 Speaker:  Rebecca Welzenbach, EEBO-TCP Outreach 
 Librarian, University of Michigan\n
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 Interested 
 in the early modern period? Need to find 
 and use early printed books?  Curious about 
 the history of books and printing? Digital humanities? 
 Open access issues?\n
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 Join us for 
 an interactive discussion and demonstration 
 of Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership 
 (EEBO-TCP). This digital resource, 
 available through the MSU Libraries' web site, 
 contains complete, searchable electronic text 
 for more than 40,000 English books printed 
 between 1473 and 1700. The session will include:\n
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    Demonstration of and opportunity 
 to experiment with EEBO\n
     Explanation of 
 how the University of Michigan's Text Creation 
 Partnership (TCP) is enhancing EEBO, Eighteenth-Century 
 Collections Online (ECCO) and Evans 
 Early American Imprints by creating accurate, 
 searchable electronic text to go along with 
 the facsimiles available in these databases. 
 The unique rights/access situation resulting 
 from this partnership between commercial 
 publishers and libraries will also be addressed. 
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 This event will be of interest to scholars 
 who want to:  \n
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     Become more adept 
 at searching English Books Online (EEBO)\n
     Engage with early modern primary sources\n
  
    Understand how the Text Creation Partnership 
 (TCP) makes EEBO more useful and powerful\n
  
    Learn how EEBO-TCP, Evans-TCP and ECCO-TCP 
 can enhance your research and teaching\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Main Library, Basement Instruction Room
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