1 / 8

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Companion Site

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Companion Site. Digital Libraries Final Project April 28, 2004 Katie Klein. What is this site?. This website is a digital library about the book A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth.

dora-aguilar
Download Presentation

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Companion Site

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Companion Site Digital Libraries Final Project April 28, 2004 Katie Klein

  2. What is this site? • This website is a digital library about the book A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. • This site is a companion for readers of the book, so you will get more out of your reading experience.

  3. A whole library about one book? • Yes! This whole site is full of resources that can help you get more out of reading the book A Suitable Boy. • The book is complex, thoroughly researched, long, and full of specifically Indian people, places, and things. Unless you know a lot about India you’ll probably wish there were footnotes.

  4. What’s in this digital library? • The library has internal and external links to articles and webpages. • Some resources directly address the book, e.g. links about criticism & plotline • Some resources are background information to explain people, events, and words in the book, e.g. links about Nehru, pollution in the Ganges & neem.

  5. How do I navigate this site? • On the homepage there are 3 links below the title-bar of the three ways to get around. • Search - if you know the keyword you want • Browseby Subject - gives you a list of keywords you can browse • Browse by Chapter - if you want to find something about the chapter you’re reading

  6. The Homepage Side-Bar Links • On the homepage there is a side-bar with 9 links to important pages in the library. • They cover all crucial elements of the book. • Every page in the library is accessible through these pages.

  7. Navigation Tips • All pages hosted by this site have the same title-bar that has a link back to the homepage. • Use the back button on your browser to get back to the last page you viewed.

  8. Address questions to the webmistress. Go explore the Digital Library

More Related