Andrew Jewell, professor of University Libraries and co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, is leading the creation of a digital library of American novelist Willa Cather’s literary manuscripts. The library will include high-resolution images of each document, extensive metadata about each item and expert-authored analyses of the manuscripts. These resources will advance scholarship on Cather because her literary manuscripts currently are distributed across a range of repositories and are largely ignored by scholars and students of Cather’s writing. The digital library will integrate with the thousands of items that constitute the university’s Willa Cather Archive. The project is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
