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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

British sociopolitical periodicals, Victorian England, digitizing quality

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Harold B. Lee Library

Abstract

The L. Tom Perry Special Collections department of the library hosts many precious collections from rare books to periodicals that benefit the research and understanding of countless scholars. However, periodicals have not received the same attention as books; books are being uploaded onto the Internet Archive for access to people not in the intermountain region. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to digitize the rare British sociopolitical periodicals within the J.F.C. Harrison collection and upload them onto the Internet Archive for greater access to those scholars wishing to deepen their understanding of Great Britain in the 1800s. In addition, I used a select portion of these documents to investigate social and political influences of the Corn Laws in Victorian England. Through each step of the project, I was able to enhance my academic career by broadening my knowledge of the processes occurring within Special Collections as well as fine tune my research skills. This project has not only assisted my educational interests, but also simultaneously benefited the research of others and those of the future because there are more periodicals published online for academic purposes, which is the greatest success of the project.

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