News Release (September 2009)                           

HARRASSOWITZ is pleased to announce that Parker Library on the Web will move to Version 1.0 on September 27, 2009:

Parker Library on the Web is a collection of high-resolution digital images representing almost 200,000 manuscript pages in the world-famous Parker Library, a peerless collection of medieval manuscript materials fundamental to scholarship in a broad range of humanistic disciplines.

Parker Library on the Web is the product of more than five years' joint work by Stanford University, Corpus Christi College and the University of Cambridge, executed with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and additional support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

A partial, beta version of Parker Library on the Web has been available for over a year. On Sept. 27, the beta site will be replaced with a complete, fully functional implementation at the same URL, available by institutional license only. It will provide an online workspace for the study of all the 529 manuscripts in the Parker Library.

At the same time a second, basic version intended for non-specialists will be made available without charge. It will also cover the entire collection and will provide a basic viewing option, however without the refined functionalities and the powerful search capabilities reserved for scholarly and research purposes.

If your institution is interested in purchasing the complete edition of Parker Library on the Web, please read the license agreement and use the online order form.

For further information about Parker Library on the Web, please contact service@harrassowitz.de.