Hi Don -- I'd be happy to proof-read. All the best, Thomas
>From: Donald Stump <
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>Subject: Test launch of Spenser, On Line
>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:26:41 -0600
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>As many of you know, I have been working with a graduate
>assistant--generously provided by Saint Louis University--to put the
>bibliographies, abstracts, and reviews from Spenser Newsletter and
>Spenser Review on line in a key-word searchable database. I've just
>finished the last technical arrangements to make items available for the
>years 1986-99. (There are, you might be interested to know, over 1400).
>
>I hope that you'll all visit the site at give it a spin! Since I thought
>it best to use the grant from the university to get as much material as
>possible scanned and on line, you'll find occasional small errors. It
>would be a big help if you would all take the time to use the simple
>feature "Report errors and omissions" to help us clean up such minor
>matters. We've gone over the data pretty carefully, but we could use
>help with the fine sanding. Here's the address.
>
> http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/ENG/spenser/
>
>We're also looking ahead to the second phase of development. If anyone
>would like to help proofread scanned files from 1970-85, please drop me
>a line. The assitantship has run out, so the next stage will depend
>mainly on the active support of the Spenser community
>
>My assistant editor, Janet Garrard-Willis, and I owe a special debt of
>gratitude to Jerry Dees, who supplied encouragement, copies of back
>issues, and computer files from the journal's archives--some of them
>reconstructed with difficulty after a flood some years back in his
>office. We are also grateful to Terry Krier for supporting the project
>by offering to continue to supply material from Spenser Review.
>
>Finally, we want to thank all the Spenserians who have volunteered to
>proofread files for scanning errors, particularly Tom Atwell, Katherine
>Eggert, Greg George, Bi-qi Lei, Andrew Smyth, Bart van Es, and Matthew
>Woodcock. Thanks, folks. You've been wonderfully generous with your
>time!
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>Donald Stump
>Saint Louis University
