How has technology affected the Poetry Collection? Are any of the holdings accessible online?
The advent of online publishing has affected poetry and, hence, the Poetry Collection. There is much more fine press printing being done and more unique poetry being published in forms that can’t simply be transformed to a digital format. Publication runs are becoming smaller and more personal and regional. Poetry is given away and that makes it hard to collect. The economics of poetry publishing means that hard-cover poetry books are being produced without dust jackets. Therefore, blurbs, author bios and pictures only appear on paperbound copies. This presents a problem for a first-edition collection like ours that has always acquired hard-bound books. When our new Web site goes live, indexes or various complexities will be made available. Access to manuscripts will always be somewhat problematic because of copyright issues and complex literary estates. That said, our goal is to make as much accessible as quickly as we can. We catalog, order and index with the scholar’s purpose in min
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