Chapter 5




	Libraries, Books, and Literature on the World Wide Web Chapter Five provides an introduction to libraries, literature and electronic texts available on the World Wide Web. Exploring Library resources on the Web Sites that provide extensive links to public libraries with online services include: Library WWW Servers http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/libweb/ United Kingdom Public Libraries on the Web http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/weblibs.html St. Joseph County Public Library http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/homepage/PublicLibraries/PubLibSrvsGpherWWW.html#wwwsrv Other library sites that you might find interesting to explore include: American Library Association http://www.ala.org The University of California http://www.lib.berkeley.edu Law Library of St. Louis http://tlc.library.net/lla Library of Congress Site http://www.loc.gov New York Public Library Home Page http://www.nypl.org/ Portico—The British Library http://portico.bl.uk/ University of Virginia Library http://www.lib.virginia.edu/ College and University http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html University of California Santa Cruz Campus http://www.ucsc.edu/library/index.html Literature Many different web sites have been created to link to sources on literature. The following are some of the more useful: The English Server http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/ Poems, Poetry, Poets http://www.spondee.net/ Probably the best source for electronic books is Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg http://promo.net/pg/ In order to search for electronic book resources online see: Alex—A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet http://www.infomotions.com/alex/ Books Online—Authors http://www.cs.cmu.edu/booktitles.html Books Online http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ The Internet Classics Archive http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/index.html Other valuable electronic collections include: Bartleby Library http://www.bartleby.com/ The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html Internet Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Stanford University Digital Libraries Project http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/ Poetry web sites can be found at: British Poetry 1780–1910: A Hypertext Archive http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html Electronic Poetry Center Home Page http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ Lost Poets of the Great War http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/index.html Science fiction web sites include: Linkhopping Science Fiction and Fantasy http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf_main.html MIT Science Fiction Society Homepage http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/mitsfs/ Sources on critical theory and literature include: Bakhtin Centre http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/bakh/bakhtin.html Boston Book Review http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/bbr-home.html Web resources on women writers include: Women Writers Project http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/wwp/wwp_home.html A Celebration of Women Writers http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmbt/women/writers.html Guide to Women’s Literature ~~http://www.facl.mcgill/ca/guides/women.html~~ http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/humanities/english/edwards/142guide.html Feminism and Women’s Literature http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/women.html Censorship issues and banned texts can be found at: Banned Books On-Line http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/spok/banned-books.html A good place to browse for interesting book titles is: Book Browser http://www.Polyweb.com/BookBrowser To look for specific book titles or authors consult: Amazon Books www.amazon.com Barnes and Noble www.bn.com Book Wire Index—Book Awards http://www.bookwire.com/index/book-awards.html Book Wire http://www.bookwire.com/ If you are interested in buying rare books online go visit: Alibris www.Alibris.com Many major literary figures have web sites devoted specifically to them. Here are just a few: Jane Austen http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html Andre Breton http://www.lm.com/~kalin/breton.html William Burroughs http://www.inch.com/~ari/wb1.html Truman Capote http://gopher.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/capote.html Raymond Carver http://world.std.com/~ptc/ Willa Cather Page http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~cather/ Raymond Chandler ~~http://www.empirenet.com/~rdaeley/authors/chandler.html~~ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3224/ Geoffrey Chaucer http://www.vmi.edu/~english/chaucer.html Arthur C. Clarke http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ S. T. Coleridge Home Page http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/stc.html Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page http://www.rightword.com.au/writers/wilkie/ ~~Emily Dickinson~~ ~~http://userweb.interactive.net/~krisxlee/emily/~~ Emily Dickinson Society http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/edisindex.html Rita Dove http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/dove.html William Faulkner http://cypress.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html and http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html Andre Gide http://www.lm.com/~kalin/gide.html James Joyce http://www.2street.com/joyce/ Milan Kundera http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/kundera/kundera.html Doris Lessing http://tile.net/lessing/index.html Primo Levi Page http://inch.com/~ari/levi1.html The Jack London Collection http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London The Life and Works of Herman Melville http://www.melville.org Walker Percy http://sunsite.unc.edu/wpercy/ Alain Robbe-Grillet http://www.halfaya.org/robbegrillet/ Anne Sexton http://www.inch.com/~ari/words1.html Shakespeare Web http://www.shakespeare.com Terry Southern http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/TerrySouthern.html John Steinbeck http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/steinbec/srchome.html Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/EDC/edinburghers/robert-louis-stevenson.html The Tennyson Page http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html Walt Whitman http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html