Electronic Ephemera Digitized selections from the Johnson Collection

Electronic Ephemera Digitized selections from the Johnson Collection

Ephemera ‘the minor transient documents of everyday life…’ Maurice Rickards ‘the ephemera of today becomes the evidential data of tomorrow. . . ’ John de Monins Johnson

Project material • Entertainment: theatre material (mainly by venue) and nontheatrical material (mainly by genre). Mainly 19 th-century, as much 18 th-century entertainment material is already available through the Oxford Digital Library at: http: //www 2. odl. ox. ac. uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library • Booktrade: publishing material (e. g. prospectuses of books and journals) and bookplates • Noteheadings and Popular Prints: record of locations, landscapes and topography, architecture, events, and popular tastes for artistic works and humour • Crime, Murders, and Executions: detailing aspects of the judicial system and its punishments • Advertising: in all its printed forms

Project participants • the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) provides funds and a project framework • the Bodleian manages the content development aspects of the project: o o o • sorting & shelfmarking cataloguing conservation tracking digitisation (Capita) Pro. Quest are responsible for delivery of the resource, and its associated services, on the web

Electronic Ephemera: digitized selections from the Johnson Collection David Tomkins Project Manager Johnson Project Rooms (218 and 219) Bodleian Library Broad Street Oxford OX 1 3 BG Tel: 01865 -287131 Email: david. tomkins@bodley. ox. ac. uk Web: http: //johnson. chadwyck. co. uk/home. do Blog: http: //johnson. wordpress. com/