Announcement
International Online Bibliography of Dada
The International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries is
pleased to announce the availability of its online catalog, the
International Online Bibliography of Dada.
With some 19,000 titles (including nearly 2,000 related to Duchamp), the
online catalog currently includes about thirty percent of the titles in our
card catalog. Grant funding will permit us to continue conversion of the
card catalog to electronic format at a good pace through the end of June.
This is the culmination of twenty years of bibliographic work at the
International Dada Archive. The Archive was established in 1979 with
support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Jerome
Foundation. Creation of the International Online Bibliography of Dada has
been made possible by a University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative
Grant, and has been a collaborative project of Donna Hirst and Timothy
Shipe of the University Libraries and Professor Rudolf E. Kuenzli of the
Program in Comparative Literature.
The bibliography is currently a database within the University of Iowa
Libraries' online system, OASIS. The University Libraries will be
migrating to a Web-based catalog late this summer, at which point the IOBD
will become considerably more Web-friendly. In the meantime, you can
access the IOBD via a Telnet connection at the following url:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/cgi/oasis.cgi
Enter your terminal type (usually V1), hit ‘return' to bypass the log-on
screen, enter ‘1" to get into OASIS, then enter "cho dada" to get into the
IOBD.
For more information, see the Web site of the International Dada Archive at
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/index.html.
Timothy Shipe,
Curator, International Dada Archive
The University of Iowa Libraries
timothy-shipe@uiowa.edu