Digital Quaker Collection

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DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The proprietary software developed for Earlham School of Religion provides multiple search functions and an interface for viewing pages.

REVIEW OF DQC

CHOICE March 05 ~ Vol 42, No. 7 (American Library Association)

[Visited Dec'04] The Earlham School of Religion, a graduate theological school for the Society of Friends (Quakers), has provided access to a wealth of journals, letters, and monographs at this site. The selected documents detail Quaker theology, spirituality, history, and practice since the inception of the religion in the mid-17th century. Earlham's purpose in providing access to these texts is to support Quaker scholarship for its distance education students and to provide a resource for local congregations. The resulting collection from a variety of Quaker authors consists of over 500 volumes considered to be in the public domain. Prominent Quaker figures such as George Fox and William Penn are well represented, but the collection also includes numerous authors of lesser prominence. Each text was scanned and encoded in XML, which allows the scholar to view individual volumes in their original format with original spelling. Additionally, texts are available in a plain-text format. Users can browse the collection by author or title, but the real value stems from the availability of outstanding search capabilities. Scholars are able to search using Boolean or proximity operators, the index, and biblical references. Each search can be limited by place of publication, date, author, or gender of author. This major contribution to Quaker scholarship is a must for all levels of researchers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers; general readers.— R. Watts, University of South Carolina—Aiken