Dear Julia,
we are strongly interested, but cannot offer any financial support. I'll
forward your message to interested collegues, too. Yours Barbara
At 13:38 27.05.2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>As some of you are aware, a team of five researchers and myself are
>currently working on a detailed catalogue of the James Madison Carpenter
>Collection.  (For more details of the Collection, see the Library of
>Congress Finding Aid at the following URL)
>
>http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/guides/carpenter.txt
>
>The cataloguing project is due for completion in November 2002 and will be
>available online.  In addition, the Library of Congress is digitising the
>Collection and, when the necessary preparations have been undertaken and
>permissions gained, it is hoped that the catalogue will link directly to
>the public presentation of the digitised images and sound recordings.
>
>We are now in the process of applying for funding to prepare a hard- copy
>critical edition of the Collection, along the lines of such publications as
>The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, Folktales of Newfoundland or,
>further back, The Frank C. Brown Collection. It is envisaged that this
>edition will complement the online raw materials of the Collection,
>providing a synthesised, reliable and tangible form for users, complete
>with scholarly commentary, annotations, and biographical details of
>contributors, as well as an introduction to Carpenter's biography and the
>making of the Collection (I'm working on a full biography of Carpenter
>alongside the work with the team on the Collection - when I have time!).
>
>As well as letting listmembers know of these activities and hopes, my
>reason for writing is simply to try and get a feel for the potential
>audience 'out there' for such a publication.  It is obviously important for
>us, and potential funders, to have an idea of the extent of likely use of
>such a resource.  We (the team - consisting of David Atkinson, Elaine
>Bradtke, Bob Walser, Eddie Cass, and Tom McKean) feel we glimpse the
>enormous value of this Collection, but what of others?  Are folks, beyond
>us, interested in the contents of this Collection, and are folks interested
>in a critical edition of it (I *don't* mean 'interested enough to buy it',
>just interested enough to make use of a hard-copy edition, as distinct
>from, or in tandem with, the online catalogue and eventual digitised
>Collection)?
>
>Any feedback on this score would be much appreciated.  I'm also happy to
>provide further information about the Collection. Meanwhile, I have a
>funding application deadline of 31 May (which has prompted this musing in
>the first place) so early responses would be particularly welcomed!
>
>Many thanks for your help on this.
>
>All best wishes,
>
>Julia Bishop
>
>Julia C. Bishop (Dr)
>National Centre for English Cultural Tradition
>University of Sheffield
>Sheffield  S10 2TN
>U.K.
>Tel: (Direct Line) 0114 222 6295
>(NATCECT Office) 0114 222 6296
>EMAIL: [log in to unmask]
>
>
Barbara Boock, Bibliothekarin
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