Scary reading

Getting ready for the Fall Quarter. The English lit classes will be reading "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.

The instructor and I spent time looking for a full text version for students to use on-line. Our efforts turned up two in GALILEO and 1 on the web:

Net Library (accessed through GALILEO or through NetLibrary.com not through the NMTC catalog) has a full text version.

LION has a full text version but we struggled to find it. We did basic searches with the title and weren't having any success. We "knew" it had to be in LION.

Here's how we found it- the instructor looked in an anthology to see where the original story was published - A book of the Hudson -(yes, we resorted to a print resource to get the clue).

In LION we

Selected Texts

Then selected Prose

Typed Irving, Washington for the author

And there was the full text book - A book of the Hudson - selected it and scrolled through the chapters list to find the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Something fun we discovered - there is a PDF image as well as the HTML text version - click on the tan >> (link says Cross Reference), when the text appears - click on page image and there is the PDF of the original book!

Oh, yes, Bartleby.com has the full text online.

Librarians like to search but we also like to find.

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