March 2000
Newsletter #34
 

Off- Campus Storage Frees Space for New Books

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Study Carrels Wired

Untangling the Web: Specialized Search Engines

Electronic Reference Shelf

Literary Gold Mine Online

CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts

Tax Forms Available

Food for Fines

Barbecues: an Occasion for Sin?

Jon Reynolds, University Archivist

Third Century Campaign Progress

CNDLS: Collaboration to Focus on New Learning Environments

The CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT) is the third CD-ROM of Christian Latin texts issued in this ongoing project. Covering the late second century through the fifteenth century A.D., this edition contains over six million items by writers such as Ambrose of Milan and Thomas à Kempis. Also included are texts of ecumenical and general councils (e.g., Nicene Council). Published in two volumes on two CDs, the first volume contains patristic texts from the origins to 735, Old Testament pseudepigraphs, and the Vulgate. The second volume contains medieval works from 736 to the end of the fifteenth century. The CLCLT is designed to answer questions such as who said what, when, where, and how many times as well as to identify the relationship of recurring concepts in the texts. For patristic texts not included yet, use the earlier Patrologia Latina, which is provided online by the Georgetown University Library and the Woodstock Theological Center Library at <http://pld.chadwyck.com/>. The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Based on mid-nineteenth century and earlier textual criticism and research, Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.