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To: Tom D who wrote (3671)	4/30/1998 12:13:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

University of Michigan's Internet Public Library Offers Online Literary Criticism PR Newswire - April 30, 1998 10:58 %EDU %MLM %PDT V%PRN P%PRN ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Students seeking literary criticism on the Internet, rejoice! The Internet Public Library's new Online Literary Criticism Collection (http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/) offers a fast and easy way to find criticism and biographical information on more than 100 authors and their works. Focusing primarily on British and American authors, the Online Literary Criticism Collection fills a gap that has long frustrated students, teachers, and librarians alike looking for high-quality literature resources online. The growing collection culls evaluative or explanatory writings about works of literature from numerous authoritative sources. "We have always gotten lots of questions about finding 'lit crit' online -- it's been one of the hardest kinds of questions to answer," says Ken Irwin, IPL user services librarian and graduate of the U-M School of Information, where the Internet Public Library is based. "We hope this new collection will be a valuable resource for making the Internet's best literary criticism easy to find." The collection contains links to sites concerning many important English language authors. The authors selected primarily represent the literary canon taught in high schools and college English classes. The collection aims to serve high school and college students, although it is of service to more advanced scholars as well. Many author entries also include biographical statements and interesting, relevant non-literary sources. Users can browse for criticism and biographical information by author name, period, or work title. The collection was designed by Irwin, Katie Stottlemyer, and David Carter with assistance from Patricia Memmott, Beth Atkinson, and Caitlin Tillman. Over a four-month period, these students and staff members researched more than 100 authors and hundreds of Web sites, choosing more than 1,000 linked sites which make up the collection at the time of opening. The Internet Public Library is staffed by professional librarians with assistance from School of Information students and volunteer librarians from around the world. More than seven million people from over 100 countries have used the IPL's services. The library maintains a collection of online ready reference works; responds to reference questions; creates Web resources; evaluates and categorizes resources on the Internet; and provides a space for exhibits. SOURCE University of Michigan School of Information /CONTACT: David Carter of U of M, 734-764-4386/ /Web site: ipl.org