{"id":22,"date":"2014-03-11T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/bierce\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2016-11-04T14:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:09:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/exhibits\/bierce\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Collection<\/h2>\n

\"Bierce_Ambrose-07\"The University of Cincinnati collection of Ambrose Bierce letters consists of fifty-nine items sent to Myles Walsh and donated by Walsh to the University of Cincinnati after World War II.\u00a0 Walsh\u2019s sister Elizabeth (Lily) was a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Bierce and during her illness – and after her death – in young adulthood, the two men began writing to each other about everyday matters as well as Bierce\u2019s journalism and fiction.\u00a0 These items are unique and revelatory in the biographical details they provide on a major author\u2019s life.\u00a0 Typically, the letters are four pages each, a.l.s., measuring 5\u201d x 8\u201d and totaling approximately 240 pages.\u00a0 Other major holdings of Bierce correspondence can be found at Stanford University, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of Virginia, with other letters held at a few other institutions.<\/p>\n

In digitizing these letters, the University of Cincinnati makes them widely available for literary scholarship.\u00a0 Such a project includes accompanying transcriptions, links to the holdings of universities and scholarly websites, open acceptance of scholarly annotation, and the possibility of collaborative digitization with other repositories of Bierce material.<\/p>\n

The Project<\/h2>\n

For this project, Linda Newman and the Digital Collections and Repositories digitized the letters in-house, beginning after January 1, 2011.\u00a0 Contributors were given a photocopy of an original letter (or more) and asked to transcribe it to a Word document.\u00a0 Kevin Grace served as project director and editor, and an \u201corientation\u201d of the collection began with a PowerPoint presentation on Ambrose Bierce and the letters, along with a showing of the 1989 film, Old Gringo, <\/em>starring Gregory Peck (as Ambrose Bierce), Jane Fonda, and Jimmy Smits, about Bierce\u2019s final days in the Mexican desert.<\/p>\n

This is considered to be an ongoing and dynamic project.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Staff:<\/h3>\n

Kevin Grace, Archives and Rare Books Library,<\/em> project director and editor<\/em><\/p>\n

Suzanne Maggard, Archives and Rare Books Library<\/em><\/p>\n

Linda Newman, Digital Collections and Repositories<\/em><\/p>\n

Janice Schulz, former staff member in the Archives and Rare Books Library<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Tipton, Kent State University<\/em>, Library and Information Science intern<\/em><\/p>\n

Bradley Wedig, Kent State University, Library and Information Science intern
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Contributors:<\/h3>\n

Susan Banoun, Electronic Resources Department<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosemary Franklin, Reference and Bibliographic Services<\/em><\/p>\n

Olga Hart, Reference and Instruction<\/em><\/p>\n

Barb Macke, former librarian, Reference and Instruction<\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Meyer, Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning Library<\/em><\/p>\n

Mark Palkovic, College-Conservatory of Music Library<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary Piper, former librarian, Health Sciences Library<\/em><\/p>\n

Holly Prochaska, Geology-Math-Physics Library<\/em><\/p>\n

John Tebo, former librarian, Chemisty-Biology Library<\/em><\/p>\n

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Website created by the ARB 2013-2014 intern, Melissa Schirmer and Kent State University LIS intern, Michael Tipton.\u00a0 Research, transcriptions, and text by Michael Tipton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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