Volume 10, Number 1 (Fall 2002)
The Evans Digital Collection of Early American Imprints
The Mark O. Hatfield Library recently acquired The Evans Digital Edition, series 1, 1639-1800. This important electronic version of Charles Evans' Early American Imprints, was first launched as a microform publishing project in 1955 by the American Antiquarian Society. The definitive collection of early American imprints, the Evans documents every aspect of life in the 17th and 18th centuries, from foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion and the Revolutionary War, through temperance and witchcraft. The collection, whose projected completion date is 2004, will contain more than 36,000 works and 2,300,000 images. Willamette, along with Stanford University, is one of the first two libraries in the West to make this valuable historical resource available to its students and faculty.
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