[Sca-librarians] [jahb@Lehigh.EDU: [Fwd: technique for searching R. Bear's Renascence Editions]]

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

FYI:
----- Forwarded message from Jennifer Heise <jahb at Lehigh.EDU> -----
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Subject: technique for searching R. Bear's Renascence Editions
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:15:55 -0500
From: David Wilson-Okamura <david at virgil.org>
Reply-To: web4ren at lists.lrz-muenchen.de
Organization: East Carolina University
To: Spenser <sidney-spenser at jiscmail.ac.uk>,        Web4Ren 
<web4ren at lists.lrz-muenchen.de>

This morning I was trying to find out what people in our period
knew/thought about Sparta. I started out with some of the standard
reference works -- Cooper's Thesaurus, Batman's Encyclopedia, Estienne's
Dictionary -- but that didn't take me very far. (Where did I get these?
Early English Books Online.)

What next? I thought I would try searching the various online texts that
Risa Bear has made available over the years at Renascence Editions

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

This site does NOT have a built-in search function, but Google knows the
site pretty thoroughly, and I very quickly found what I was looking for.
Since this might be useful to other people, I thought I would explain
how I did it. Here was my Google query:

lacedemon inurl:darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/

"Lacedemon" obviously is the word I was searching for. (This was after
also searching for "sparta," "spartan," and "lacedaemon.") The second
part is what tells Google to restrict its search to the documents in
Risa Bear's library.

--> To do your own queries, copy the following into the Google search form:

inurl:darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/

Now, before you hit "Search," add the word you want to search for. You
can put this at the beginning of the search or at the end, as long as
you have a space between the keyword and inurl:darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/

I recommend putting your keyword at the beginning of the query, but it
will work either way.

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Dr. David Wilson-Okamura    http://virgil.org          david at virgil.org
English Department          Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c
East Carolina University    Sparsa et neglecta coegi. -- Claude Fauchet
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