About

Patrick Scott is Director of Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, and Professor of English. He earned his BA at Merton College, Oxford, his MA at Leicester University, and his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, and he has taken additional courses with SLIS and at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School. Prior to coming to South Carolina in 1976, Dr. Scott taught at the secondary level in Nigeria and Britain, and at the college level at Leicester and Edinburgh, and as a visiting lecturer at the College of William & Mary. Dr. Scott's primary research has been in 19th century British literature.

Projects

Digital projects: Web-exhibits from Rare Books: over thirty web-exhibits since 1996, including exhibits on early printing, exploration (Africa, Brazil, Mexico), history of science (ornithology, Edward Jenner, Charles Babbage, Charles Darwin), British and American literature (Hume, Burns, Carlyle, Tennyson, Stevenson, Paris Publishers of the 1920s, Hemingway, Heller), history of children's literature, history of tennis, history of camellias: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/rarebook.html.

Full-text projects (in collaboration with USC Libraries' Digital Projects department): Recent full-text digital projects include:

• World War I Letters of Samuel Bloom (1917-1919): full digital facsimile archive 2007 http://sc.edu/library/digital/collections/bloom.html
• Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Several Subjects (1773): fully searchable digital facsimile 2007 http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/wheatley/wheatleyp.html
• William North's The City of the Jugglers (1850): fully searchable digital facsimile 2008 http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/coj.html

Full-text projects in progress include:

• John Milton, A Brief History of Moscovia (1682): fully searchable digital facsmile
• Robert Burns, Letters to Clarinda (1802): fully searchable digital facsimile

Projects at proposal stage:

• Letters to Robert Burns (1786-1796) (in collaboration with Prof. G. Ross Roy and Dr. Kenneth G. Simpson): creation of digital full-text database for a collaborative editorial project involving editors in Scotland and South Carolina.
• Course units using Rare Books and other USCLibraries' materials for K-12 curriculum projects (in cooperation with SC Department of Education).