>David & David -- > I agree with the two of you and Austin Kerr that the Standard >Encyclopedia remains very useful. It is a monument of temperance >movement scholarship, with its global coverage greatly enhanced by the >worldwide network of missionaries which could be called upon at that >time. (As so often with social movements, the scholarship reaches its >height just as the movement is losing its political significance!) > For instance, when Julia Lee was working on alcohol in Chinese >poetry, we could not find anything else as detailed on alcohol in >ancient Chinca (nowadays, there's also the somewhat quirky "Grandiose >survey of Chinese alcoholic drinks and beverages", >http://ocean.wxuli.edu.cn/wine/umain.htm). We were very happy indeed >about 20 years ago at the Alcohol Research Group in Berkeley when Ron >Stall came in with a set of the Encyclopedia for the library that he had >picked up at a flea market stall for $10. In many places (particularly >outside the US) it is not very available. > I wonder whether it might be worth approaching the Society for >the Study of Addiction (http://www.addiction-ssa.org/ssa_3.htmabout) to >see if they might be willing to host it on their website. It seems >appropriate, somehow, in view of their status as the oldest research >society in the field. Robin > >-----Original Message----- >From: David [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Friday, 13 April 2001 3:21 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem > > >Putting the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem on the web >would be >worthwhile only if it can be scanned with accuracy. That would require >a >full proofreading of the scanned text. Too many things are being put up >on >the web that are flawed and potentially misleading to people who naively >assume the web's reliability. Is there an angel out there who would be >willing to support the use of top-quality scanning equipment and the >human >proofreading to follow? Would the ladies of the WCTU be interested in >making >a grant to a university. Northern Illinois University has a >digitization >center that would be capable of doing the work, but the funding would >need to >come from elsewhere. > >David Kyvig > >David Fahey wrote: > > > Arguably, the most important reference work in temperance history is >the > > Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem, 6 vols., ed. Ernest >Hurst > > Cherrington (Westerville, Ohio: American Issue, 1925-30), which tried >to > > cover the entire world. Would it be worth the trouble of somebody to >scan > > it and place it on the Web? A number of larger reference works >published > > early in the 20th century are available on the Web. What would be the > > problems? What would be required to post the Standard Encyclopedia? >Is > > the print version readily available to researchers? Robin Room <[log in to unmask]>