Introducing LETRS
LETRS Services
Contacting LETRS: Address, phone, email, etc.
Hours of Operation
Staff and staff contact information
Map locating LETRS on 1st floor of Main Library, Research Collections

The Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS) provides humanities-related electronic texts to the IU-Bloomington community on the internet and in the LETRS Humanities Computing Lab in the Main Library. LETRS also works to build and support a user community adept at the creation and use of electronic texts. LETRS also supports the electronic text components of Indiana University's Digital Library Program projects and initiatives.

LETRS is a partnership of University Information Technology Services and the IU Libraries.

• Online Texts: LETRS provides access to a number of large commercial and homegrown full-text databases. The texts are marked up in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and are searchable. The texts focus on the humanities and include such database as the Oxford English Dictionary, English Poetry, American Poetry, Eighteenth-Century (British) Fiction, African-American Poetry, Nietzsche, and more. These texts are available on the internet at http://calliope.ucs.indiana.edu. In most cases, access to these texts is restricted to IU-Bloomington users.

• LETRS Humanities Computing Lab: At the LETRS Humanities Computing Lab in the Main Library, LETRS provides access to a number of commercial texts. These texts are in different formats (usually CD-ROM based) and run on Windows or MacOS platforms. In the LETRS public facility there are a number of MacOS and Windows machines available to the IU community and the public for accessing these text collections. Again, the focus is on the humanities topics.

• Electronic Text Consultation: LETRS provides consultation, education, and tools for the creation of electronic texts. IU researchers wishing to create their own electronic texts can come to LETRS to learn more about electronic text creation, and can also use some of the tools in our public facility (scanners, OCR software, etc.) to aid them in their electronic text projects. Our primary focus is on electronic text creation using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML), two widely accepted computing standards.

LETRS
Indiana University
Main Library E-157
Bloomington, IN 47405

Phone: 812-855-3877

email: letrs@indiana.edu

World Wide Web: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/

• The LETRS Humanities Computing Lab is open during the regular hours of the IU Main Library. Main Library Hours.
• The LETRS Humanities Computing Lab is staffed with a LETRS Computing Consultant M-F, 9am - 5pm.
• The LETRS Staff Offices are open M-F, 9am - 5pm

Perry Willett, Director of LETRS

email: pwillett@indiana.edu
phone: 812-855-1891

John Walsh, Manager, Electronic Text Technologies

email: jawalsh@indiana.edu
phone: 812-855-8758

Radha Surya, Electronic Text Support Specialist

email: rsurya@indiana.edu
phone: 812-855-3856

Kenrick Rawlings, Programmer/Analyst

email: kerawlin@indiana.edu
phone: 812-856-0089

Thomas Fowler, Consultant

email: tafowler@indiana.edu
phone: 812-855-3877

Deborah Horn, Content Analysis and Interface Design Specialist

email: dahorn@indiana.edu
phone: 812-855-6792

Christina Dulude, Graduate Assistant/Consultant

email: cdulude@indiana.edu
phone: 812-855-3877

Hamilton Carroll, Consultant

email: haecarro@indiana.ed
phone: 812-855-3877

Austin Busch, Consultant

email: ambusch@indiana.edu
phone: 812-855-3877