What Library Digitization Leaves Out: Predicting the Availability of Digital Surrogates of English Novels
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| author | Riddell, Allen Bassett, Troy J. |
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| contents | What Library Digitization Leaves Out: Predicting the Availability of Digital Surrogates of English Novels Riddell, Allen Bassett, Troy J. English Literature Nineteenth Century Literature Electronic Libraries Novels Access to Information Foreign Countries Library digitization has made more than 100,000 nineteenth-century English-language books available to the public. Do the books that have been digitized reflect the population of published books? An affirmative answer would allow book and literary historians to use holdings of major digital libraries as proxies for the population of published works, sparing the labor of collecting a representative sample. This article addresses the question by taking advantage of exhaustive bibliographies of the novels first published in Great Britain and Ireland in 1836 and 1838, identifying those with at least one digital surrogate in the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, Google Books, or the British Library. The researchers find that digital availability is not random. Certain kinds of novels, notably those written by men and works published in a multivolume format, have digital versions available at distinctly higher rates than other kinds of novels. These findings suggest that similar patterns might prevail during adjacent decades and in other genres (for example, nonfiction). |
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| spellingShingle | What Library Digitization Leaves Out: Predicting the Availability of Digital Surrogates of English Novels Riddell, Allen Bassett, Troy J. English Literature Nineteenth Century Literature Electronic Libraries Novels Access to Information Foreign Countries What Library Digitization Leaves Out: Predicting the Availability of Digital Surrogates of English Novels Riddell, Allen Bassett, Troy J. English Literature Nineteenth Century Literature Electronic Libraries Novels Access to Information Foreign Countries Library digitization has made more than 100,000 nineteenth-century English-language books available to the public. Do the books that have been digitized reflect the population of published books? An affirmative answer would allow book and literary historians to use holdings of major digital libraries as proxies for the population of published works, sparing the labor of collecting a representative sample. This article addresses the question by taking advantage of exhaustive bibliographies of the novels first published in Great Britain and Ireland in 1836 and 1838, identifying those with at least one digital surrogate in the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, Google Books, or the British Library. The researchers find that digital availability is not random. Certain kinds of novels, notably those written by men and works published in a multivolume format, have digital versions available at distinctly higher rates than other kinds of novels. These findings suggest that similar patterns might prevail during adjacent decades and in other genres (for example, nonfiction). |
| title | What Library Digitization Leaves Out: Predicting the Availability of Digital Surrogates of English Novels |
| topic | English Literature Nineteenth Century Literature Electronic Libraries Novels Access to Information Foreign Countries |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1317796 |