Women Poets of the Romantic Period collection available in the CU Digital Library

Through a collaboration between UCB Special Collections, Libraries IT and Metadata Services, the Women Poets of the Romantic Period collection is now available in the CU Digital Library. The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries has a significant collection of first and early editions of poetry by women writers of the British Romantic Period (1770-1839). The digital collection comprises twenty-one volumes, with more to be added as volumes are digitized. The collection was published to coincide with the 20th-anniversary conference of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association, taking place in Boulder from June 7-10, 2012.

Metadata for the collection was created by crosswalking the existing MARC records for the entire 400+ volume print collection into a MODS template. Following some manual clean-up, the record set was imported into LUNA and records for the digitized volumes set to display. Metadata Services worked closely with Holley Long in Libraries IT and Debbie Hollis and Amanda Brown in Special Collections in order to create the records.

Please direct questions about the metadata portion of this digitization project to Michael Dulock.