no.2133-E-text corpora and analytics

From: John Abbott <abbottjp_at_conrad.appstate.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:40:49 -0400 To: Colldv-l <COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu>

From:     JENNIFER VINOPAL <vinopalj_at_elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu>

Hello all:

We here at Bobst Library, NYU, are purchasing electronic
text corpora 
that contain dozens, sometimes hundreds of individual
titles. We 
have not yet analyzed any of these collections, though in
the past we 
have done analytics for some large microform sets. Are any
of you 
analyzing contents of e-text corpora at your libraries? If
so, how 
are you getting your cataloging data? Any thoughts on this
question 
of analytics?

Any information / advice would be very welcome. I feel that
so many 
interesting titles are buried in these collections and would
like 
people to be able to get at them through our OPAC.

Thanks in advance,
Jennifer

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             Jennifer Vinopal
  Librarian for Western European 
       Languages and Literatures 
          Bobst Library, NYU    
         New York, NY 10012     

  vinopalj_at_elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu
      jennifer.vinopal_at_nyu.edu
        Phone:  (212) 998-2522
         Fax:    (212) 995-4583

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