What's New on the Great Books Page

09/16/96

· Changed the format of the Great Books of Western Civilization from a single page to a number subdocuments. This allows for the addition of more links for each entry.

· Added an antique paper background to all the Great Books pages.

09/17/96

· Added descriptions to each of the links on the Other Great Books Programs page. The material used in the descriptions was derived from the individual web pages.

· Added a Tools of the Trade page describing the various tools used in the creation and maintenance of these pages.

09/30/96

· Added descriptions to the links on the Other Lists of Literature Available On the Internet page.

· Included additional sites on the Other Lists of Literature Available On the Internet page.

10/02/96

· Added a link to a list of the books used in the program in ascii format.

10/09/96

· Added my own guestbook. Thanks to Matt Wright and it can be found at Matt's Script Archive

· Added a discussion area for the dissemination of information concerning the Great Books. Thanks to Matt Wright and it can be found at Matt's Script Archive

10/11/96

· Changed the background graphic to look more like parchment paper, and changed the text to more resemble iron gall ink.

10/15/96

· Added several links and search forms for various internet search engines and web indexes to the Reference Resources for the Great Books Reader page.

· Updated and alphabetized the Tools of the Trade page.

10/16/96

· Added a simple search engine to search through all the Great Books of Western Civilization pages for relevant terms.

10/18/96

· Added a Listservs and Electronic Discussions Related to the Great Books page listing listservs, newsgroups, and other forms of electronic discussions related to the "great books."

10/21/96

· Added a link to The Great Books Foundation on the Other Great Books Programs page.

10/22/96

· Added a link to Shimer College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

10/23/96

· Added a link to a list of the 103 Great Ideas.

11/11/96

· Updated links on the GBK 331 and GBK 431 pages.

11/13/96

· Added a link to Shimer College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

11/14/96

· Updated links on the GBK 371, GBK 401, GBK 431, GBK 471, and GBK 491 pages.

11/18/96

· Updated links on the GBK 451 page.

11/19/96

· Added a link to Columbia College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link to Great Books of the Western World on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link to The List on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link to Thomas Aquinas College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link to The Western Canon on the Other Great Books Programs page.

11/20/96

· Updated links on the GBK 401, GBK 451, GBK 471 and Other Lists of Literature Available On the Internet pages.

11/21/96

· Updated links on the GBK 451, GBK 471, and GBK 491 and the Great Books Timeline pages.

12/05/96

· Added a link to Triple Point: Web Discussion Board on the Other Listservs and Discussion Groups that Relate to the Great Books page.

12/12/96

· Added a link to The Association for Core Texts and Courses on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link to Saint Anselm College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Updated links on the GBK 371 page.

01/30/97

· Added links to the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Updated links on the GBK 301, GBK 331, and GBK 401 pages.

· Added a Great Books Courses on the Internet page.

02/17/97

· Added a link to Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame on the Other Great Books Programs page.

03/14/97

· Added a link to GB-BookClub, and the Great Books Tutorial (Escondido Tutorial Service) on the Other Listservs and Discussion Groups that Relate to the Great Books page.

· Redesigned the formatting of the page and updated the links on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link to the The Top 100 Books Clubon the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link on the Reference Resources for the Great Books Reader page

· Added links on the GBK 301, GBK 431, GBK 451, and the GBK 471 pages.

03/19/97

· Updated the links on the GBK 401, GBK 471, and the GBK 491 pages.

03/26/97

· Added the The Discovery Channel School: Great Books Theme Page to the Other Great Books Programs page.

04/04/97

Reactivated the Great Books of Western Civilization Cafe with the indispensable help of Ken Roberts, the webmaster of the Great Books Index page.

04/17/97-04/18/97

· Added a link to The Western Canon Mailing List on the Other Listservs and Discussion Groups that Relate to the Great Books page.

· Updated the Tools of the Trade page.

· Updated links on the GBK 301, GBK 331, GBK 351, GBK 371, GBK 401, GBK 431, GBK 451, GBK 471 and GBK 491 pages. This update included fixing broken links, adding additional biographical, and textual links.

04/25/97

· Added a link to the official Great Books Program page at Mercer University, to the General Studies Program at Whitman College, and to the Great Conversation Program at Saint Olaf College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added a link to the Discovery Channel's Great Books Forum on the Listservs and Electronic Discussions Related to the Great Books page.

05/01/97

· Updated the links on the GBK 471 page.

· Added a link to Rose Hill College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

05/06/97

· Rated these pages with the Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet.

07/07/97

· Added a link to Senior Net's Great Books Roundtable and Malaspina Great Books Forum on the Listservs and Electronic Discussions Related to the Great Books page.

07/16/97

· Added a link to The William O. Douglas Honors College on the Other Great Books Programs page.

07/17/97

· Added a link to Malaspina "Great Books" Chat Room on the Listservs and Electronic Discussions Related to the Great Books page.

08/04/97

· Added the The Great Books of Western Civilization web page to theGreat Books WebRing. The WebRing is for any site whose theme concerns the great books. Sites that are welcomed include indexes to the great books, reading lists, great books reading groups, chat sites about the great books, college great books programs, etc.

· The Great Books of Western Civilization web page is now an Amazon.com Associate. Amazon.com agrees to ship books and provide customer service for orders they receive through special links on this web page.

08/12/97

· Redesigned the layout of the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Added links to Brock University, Concordia University, University of King's College, Southern Virginia College, Temple University, and Wesleyan University to the Other Great Books Programs page.

08/22/97

· Added a link to Carleton University on the Other Great Books Programs page.

· Updated and added links to the Reference Resources for the Great Books Reader page.

08/26/97

· Added links to JollyRoger.com's Great Books Campfire and The Great Books Live Lighthouse Chaton the Listservs and Electronic Discussions Related to the Great Books page.

11/14/97

· Completed a major overhaul of the asthetics for the pages. Added a new background and initcap grahical letters.

11/17/97

· Added background music to the main entry page. The piece selected for the page is J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.3. I found this midi file at MidiWorld.

11/21/97

· Created a new page where I plan to list journals and other publications related to the "great books." It is titled Journals and Other Publications Relating to the Great Books.

02/6-12/98

· Updated links on a number of the pages, and added a few new links.

02/12/98

· Added The Litrix Reading Room to the Other Lists of Literature Available On the Internet page.

· Added an electronic journal, Incorporated Words, to the Journals and Other Publications Relating to the Great Books page.

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