The Lewis H. Beck Center

The Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections produces, promotes, and supports digital library collections, including digital image and electronic text resources. In support of digital library initiatives, the Beck Center hosts and facilitates collaborative digital projects with library, University, and other academic partners. The Beck Center was established by the Emory University General Libraries in 1994 with support from the Lewis H. Beck Educational Foundation; it is a part of the Woodruff Library's Digital Programs Team. 

Beck Center Hours

Woodruff Library, 2nd fl

• Mon - Fri, 9 - 5pm
• Consulations by Appt

Alice Hickcox

404-727-8133

 Current Staff

• Alice Hickcox, Director and Electronic Text Specialist
• Sara Palmer, Digital Text Specialist
• Sumita Chakraborty, Beck Student Assistant
• Man Wang, Beck Student Assistant

Beck Center Projects

	Women's Genre Fiction A digital collection of full-text searchable editions of genre fiction written by and about women. The Women's Genre Fiction collection is a part of the Emory Women Writers Resource Project.		Southern Changes Volumes 1-25 of Southern Changes, the journal of the Southern Regional Council, available as a digital archive.
	The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News This collection excerpts reports and illustrations about the Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News from 1861-1865.		Emory Women Writers Resource Project The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the twentieth century.
	The Belfast Group This website presents the searchable full-text of selected Group sheets from the Belfast Group poets--these are manuscript poems circulated by a critical reading group in Belfast from 1956-1972. Digital copies of the group sheets are available for Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, James Simmons, and Philip Hobsbaum.		The Merton Diaries Project As part of a larger project to digitize the Notebooks of Thomas Merton, the Pitts Theology Library and the Beck Center have produced a digitized edition of Merton's Red Diary, along with the translations and notes of editors Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis and Jonathan Montaldo.
	The W. B. Yeats Collection Chadwyck-Healey's electronic edition of Yeats's works in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism, and fiction in twenty-two printed volumes have been made fully browseable and searchable.		Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot This project provides pre-print production to the ongoing editorial project lead by Professor Ronald Schuchard. The final product will be a multi-volume digital edition of Eliot's prose, with the possibility of a print edition after publication.
	The Martyred President: Sermons Given on the Occasion of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln The Martyred President offers access to the full-text and images of 57 published sermons written in 1865 on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, based on originals from Pitts Theology Library.		The Great War The Great War site presents poetry written between 1914 and 1918 from 50 scarce volumes acquired by Emory University accompanied by a visual collection of some 450 postcards from the World War I era.
	French Revolution Pamphlet Collection These texts derives from the French Revolution Pamphlet Collection in the Special Collections Department of Woodruff Library, Emory University, and was produced in collaboration with the Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services as part of a Woodruff Library Graduate Fellowship.		Young John Allen Papers The Young John Allen Papers presents a selection of the writings of Allen held in the MARBL collection. The majority of the papers concern the years Young John Allen served as a missionary in China for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
	The Oxford Experience The Oxford Experience digitizes and encodes texts and papers from the University Archives relating to student experiences at Oxford College.		Luther Funeral Sermon The Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection is a repository of documents produced in connection with the Protestant Reformation in Germany. The collection now contains more than 1,700 pieces written by Martin Luther, his colleagues, and opponents and printed during their lifetimes. In connection with the 1996 exhibit of the Kessler Collection and the commemoration of the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's death the first edition of Johann Bugenhagen's funeral sermon for Martin Luther is reproduced in facsimile, with the introduction and English translation of Prof. Kurt K. Hendel.