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: ENVISIONING THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Although a number of leading scholars have rued the historical disciplineâs increasingly tenuous ties to a general audience, academic historians and librarians have largely overlooked the World Wide Webâs ability to reach this audience in new ways.1 Instead, they have used new technologies largely to pursue disciplinary research agendas and develop a set of digital library resources designed with a limited audience in mind. This article suggests that a new approach to the use of digital technology can help scholars, with librariansâ assistance, to reinvigorate their relationship with the broader public. It uses a discussion of the Mark Twainâs Mississippi Project (http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain), a digital library web site developed at Northern Illinois University Libraries in collaboration with Tulane University Libraries, the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and the Newberry Library, to suggest how academic humanists and librarians can work together, using a variety of media types, to create a new type of digital resource reaching beyond their familiar, specialised discourses. Framed by a focus on Mark Twain, one of American historyâs most celebrated public ï¬gures and his colourful evocations of a speciï¬c past place,
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 1, 2007
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