About

Patrick Scott is Director of Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, and Professor of English. 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

Other projects:
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.

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

Patrick Scott
Professor
Department of English
Director of Special Collections
Thomas Cooper Library
scottp@mailbox.sc.edu
(803) 777-1275

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