The Melville Room
The Melville Room website is still under development and has not been launched yet. Please try back later sometime this coming December.
The Melville Room will be an Open Educational Resource (OER) offering public domain content or content that is covered by GNU or Creative Commons licensing. Using content that is covered by Open Source, Creative Commons licensing ensures that all of educational resources of The Melville Room will be accessible, adaptable, and discoverable to anyone interested in the life and writings of Herman Melville.
The original Melville Room was established in the late 1960s by Professor Harrison Hayford of Northwestern University at the Newberry Library in Chicago. With its original, rare editions of Melville’s writings and numerous file cabinets containing contempory reviews, biographies, articles, dissertations, essays, books, and Melvilliana inspired by Melville’s writings — the original Melville Room served for decades as the prime research site for the scholars, editors, and graduate students working on the multivolume Northwestern-NewberryWritings of Herman Melville series.
Regards,
Sub Sub Librarian Pro Tem
September 1, 2010