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  • From: Willie Gibson <willie.gibson AT uvm.edu>
  • To: uvmext AT list.uvm.edu, general AT lists.holisticmanagement.org, market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu, vpn AT list.uvm.edu
  • Subject: Uof VA Electronic Text Ctr
  • Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:22:20 -0400


Just came across this resource and thought it a shame not to share it.
+willie gibson
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ETEXT QUICK FACTS
Spring, 2001
Electronic Text Center
University of Virginia Library
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/




* 51,000 texts, mostly online, including:
5,000 texts publicly accessible

8,000 commercially-licensed titles delivered to the entire VIVA consortium
(39 state-assisted colleges and universities within Virginia)

History, literature, philosophy, religion, history of science all
represented online, with collections in multiple languages, including
Latin, Japanese, and Chinese.
* 2.5 million Microsoft Reader ebooks shipped Aug 8, 2000 - May 2, 2001 [or
9,470 per day].
1,600 Microsoft Reader ebooks publicly accessible -- all in English; some
illustrated.

* 350,000 related images
164,000 images publicly available, including rare books, manuscripts, and
book illustrations

* 130,000 accesses per day from 20,000 unique hosts ;

* Users from 180 different countries have visited the Etext Center's web
and ebooks holdings in the past 6 months (October 2000 - March 2001)

57% of the total library traffic is to etexts and etext-supported projects;
the etexts see about twice the average traffic as VIRGO, our online
catalog; our largest user communities are high-school students and teachers
from all over the world, followed by the general public.

* Award-winning faculty and student projects
The Center's staff train users and oversee dozens of projects that make use
of (and contribute to) our holdings, including items devoted to Mark Twain;
Jefferson; the Civil War; Salem Witch Trials; Walt Whitman, new religious
movements; Plymouth Colony; Flowerdew Hundred plantation; Abraham Cowley;
Uncle Tom's Cabin; Chinese classical literature; Coleridge; and Apache
language materials.

* Current areas of special activity
Widespread searching across SGML and XML databases, as well as within them;

Rare manuscripts and books: history of medicine; Civil War;
African-American history;

XML-based Ebook technologies for new ways to deliver our content.
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kwikfact.html
+Peace With You,
Willie

Willie Gibson
Extension Specialist - Sustainable Agriculture
University of Vermont Extension PHONE: 802/223-2389 ext.16
617 Comstock Road Suite 5 FAX: 802/223-6500
Berlin, VT 05602-9194 EMAIL: Willie.Gibson AT uvm.edu

WEB SITES TO EXPLORE......
The UVM EXTENSION HOMEPAGE
http://ctr.uvm.edu/ext/
UVM EXTENSION PUBLICATIONS CATOLOG
http://ctr.uvm.edu/ctr/pubs/
The VERMONT CROPS AND SOILS HOMEPAGE
http://pss.uvm.edu/vtcrops/index.html
The UVM AGRICULTURAL TESTING LAB HOMEPAGE
http://pss.uvm.edu/ag_testing/
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE at UVM
http://www.uvm.edu/~susagctr/welcome.html
THE UVM CENTER FOR RURAL STUDIES
http://crs.uvm.edu/

"I can do what you can't do, and you can do what I can't do.
Together
we can do great things."
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta




  • Uof VA Electronic Text Ctr, Willie Gibson, 05/04/2001

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