{"id":10617,"date":"2005-09-23T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T09:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2005\/09\/23\/turn_the_page\/"},"modified":"2005-09-23T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T09:52:36","slug":"turn_the_page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2005\/09\/23\/turn_the_page\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn the Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

The British Library’s Turning the Pages<\/a> online collection of 14 rare books has recently added Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground<\/em>. The collection is accessible to any internet user with a broadband connection and the Macromedia Shockwave browser plug-in<\/a>. The 3D-like experience of actually “turning the pages,” zooming in on a specific area of the page, and listening to the accompanying audio commentary by British actress Miriam Margolyes is not to be missed. According to a BBC News report<\/a>, “In the original Alice manuscript, Carroll included the first sketch of Alice Liddell who provided the inspiration for Alice in his books. It was drawn in pencil from a photo of Alice aged seven but he was not satisfied with the sketch so replaced it with a photo of Alice instead. In 1977, the pencil drawing was rediscovered hidden under the photo. The 90-page virtual manuscript contains all 37 original illustrations.” Other titles in the collection include the Diamond Sutra<\/a>, at 868 C.E. the earliest, dated, printed book in the world, Jane Austen’s The History of England<\/a>, and the Sforza Hours<\/a>, a Renaissance masterpiece. Every one of the 14 works is a priceless window into another world and time. –David C. Murray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The British Library’s Turning the Pages online collection of 14 rare books has recently added Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. The collection is accessible to any internet user with a broadband connection and the Macromedia Shockwave browser plug-in. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,6],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-noteworthy","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}