Nuclear Disarmament
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MICROFILM
COLLECTIONS
ADAM MATTHEW
PUBLICATIONS
Contact information: Pelham
House, London Road, Marlbo-
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land. Phone: +44 (1672) 511921;
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African Missions: Papers of
the Mission of the United
Presbyterian Church from
the National Library of
Scotland
This microfilm publication con-
centrates on the African mis-
sions of the United Presbyterian
Church of Scotland and contains
all incoming letters from mis-
sionaries in Africa sent to the
UPC Foreign Mission Committee
between the years 1874–1928.
The letters are divided into
the following categories:
• Letters from missionaries in Ni-
geria and the Gold Coast, 1919–
1928
• Miscellaneous letters concern-
ing West Africa, 1919–1925
• Letters from missionaries in
Kaffraria, 1885–1908
• Letters from missionaries in
North Kaffraria, 1883–1904
DOI: 10.1515/mfir.2009.001
After the Cold War. Part 4:
• Letters from missionaries in
Natal 1874–1909
• Letters from missionaries in
South Africa, 1919–1928
This collection includes 17
reels of microfilm.
Indian Newspaper Reports,
c1868–1942. Part 8: Punjab
1896–1924; Sind 1936–
1939; Burma 1938–1942;
Bihar and Orissa 1920
These reports document Indian
social and political events, ur-
ban and rural conditions, criti-
cisms of the British government,
popular protest and the devel-
opment of nationalist feelings.
There is considerable focus on
the growing mass appeal of
Gandhi’s non-violent boycotts.
Key topics featured from this
period are:
• Gandhi’s growing political in-
fluence and the launch of non-
co-operation.
• urban and rural unrest
• the growth of the first sub-
urbs
• the All-India Muslim League
• the impact of the First and Sec-
ond World Wars upon India
• trade, agriculture and living
standards
This collection includes 25
reels of microfilm.
Archives of the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament,
2006–2008
In February 2008, Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament celebrat-
ed its 50th anniversary with a
Global Summit for a Nuclear
Weapon Free World at London’s
City Hall. This was followed by
many other events, including a
special Easter Monday demon-
stration at Aldermaston.
This update covers the an-
niversary initiatives, annual re-
views, press releases, minutes,
newsletters, leaflets and other
publications of CND for the
period 2006–2008. Key issues
include: US missile bases in
Europe; the international cam-
paign to abolish nuclear weap-
ons; the campaign against de-
pleted uranium; criticisms of
nuclear power; the ‘Troops out
of Iraq’ campaign; ‘Don’t at-
tack Iran’ demonstrations; and
protests against the war in Af-
ghanistan.
HARALD FISCHER VERLAG
Contact information: POB 1565,
91005 Erlangen, Germany;
phone: +49 9131 205620; email:
info@haraldfischerverlag.de;
web: http://www.haraldfischer
verlag.de
Library of the “Woman
Question” in Germany
The collection Library of the
“Woman Question” in Germany
contains 12 installments pub-
lished from 1998 to 2005. Each
installment contains 500 works
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with a total of about 75,000
pages. Starting in 2007 addition-
al titles to the collection have
been provided in supplemen-
tary installments. Supplements
one and two are now available.
With the set called Historical
Sources of Women’s Liberation
Movement and Gender Issues,
begun in 1991, Harald Fischer
Verlag has pursued the goal of
making the comprehensive Ger-
man-language literature of the
women’s movement and gender
issue available for use. The pre-
vious editions focused on the
reconstruction and new publica-
tion of periodicals. Now, with
the Bibliothek der Frauenfrage,
much material will be included
that this earlier concept could
not take into account. Above all,
the Bibliothek der Frauenfrage
will specifically include writings
of the following three kinds:
monographs; miscellanies; and
parts of periodicals which can
no longer be accurately placed
in their order of appearance.
IDC PUBLISHERS
Contact information: Brill/IDC
Publishers, P.O. Box 9000, 2300
PA Leiden, The Netherlands;
Phone +31(0)71 5353500; Fax
+31(0)71 5317532; email: info@
idc.nl; web: http://www.idc.nl.
The Soviet Cinema:
Archival Documents from
RGALI, 1923–35
The documents in this collection
cover the period when state
monopoly control over the Sovi-
et cinema industry production,
distribution and exhibition was
being established. They include
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minutes of board meetings and
discussions of the major issues
confronting the medium during
a crucial period in its develop-
ment. The subjects covered deal
not only with internal organiza-
tional, thematic and ideological
matters, but also with external
trade relations. This collection
from the Russian State Archive
of Literature and Art (RGALI) in-
cludes 8 reels of microfilm. Also
available online in IDC’s Primary
Sources Online.
PRIMARY SOURCE
MICROFILM
Contact information: phone: 1-
800-444-0799; email: gale.sales@
thomson.com.
Civil Rights and Social
Activism in the South
Series 2: The Legal Battle for
Civil Rights in Alabama
As the scholarship of the civil
rights movement continues to
evolve, the study of community
organizations and activities be-
come more important for un-
derstanding the struggle for ra-
cial change. This collection con-
sists of selected portions of the
records of attorney Vernon Z.
Crawford and the Blacksher,
Menefee and Stein law firm
whose work represents a signifi-
cant contribution to the shape
of the United States civil rights
movement in the 20th century.
This new microfilm series will be
of interest to researchers in po-
litical science, history, law, and
other fields as an opportunity to
examine essential primary docu-
ments surrounding several ma-
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jor civil rights cases tried in
Alabama during the past four
decades. Documents include le-
gal documentation, complaints,
petitions, requests, depositions,
handwritten notes, correspond-
ence, exhibits (maps, plans of
school buildings, population dia-
grams), and surveys relating
to cases on the following: dis-
criminatory juror selection, civil
rights violations (police harass-
ment and brutality), discrimina-
tion in employment, school de-
segregation, and minority vote
dilution. This collection has been
filmed from the holdings of the
University of South Alabama Ar-
chives, and includes 43 reels of
microfilm.
Series 3: James Dombrowski
and the Southern
Conference Education
Fund
James Dombrowski was a south-
ern white Methodist minister
and intellectual who was ac-
tive in the African American
civil rights movement from the
1940s through 1960s. This col-
lection consists of his corre-
spondence and papers as leader
of the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare, 1941–1948, and
executive director of the South-
ern Conference Educational
Fund, 1948–1966. These inter-
racial civil rights organizations
were instrumental in laying the
groundwork for the success of
the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
Included are letters from col-
leagues at Emory University and
Union Theological Seminary, ex-
changes with Reinhold Niebuhr,
and drafts of Dombrowski’s
dissertation and other written
works. Prominent correspond-
ents include Albert Einstein,
Lyndon Baines Johnson, John F.
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Kennedy, and Aubrey Williams.
Also included are materials col-
lected by Frank Adams for an
unpublished biography of Dom-
browski, including additional
correspondence, clippings, scrap-
books, notes, and diaries. This
collection includes 17 reels of
microfilm.
The Ford Administration
and Hispanic America:
Office Files of Fernando
E.C. De Baca
Originally appointed as deputy
special assistant for Hispanic Af-
fairs, in July 1974 by President
Nixon, President Ford elevated
Fernando E. C. De Baca to Spe-
cial Assistant to the President for
Hispanic Affairs in September
after President Nixon’s resigna-
tion. The function of DeBaca’s
historic role as the first Hispanic
Special Assistant was to advise
the President on the needs of
Spanish-speaking Americans and
to promote the President’s pro-
grams within the Hispanic com-
munity and the federal govern-
ment. In addition, through the
Office of Public Liaison, he pro-
vided liaison for Hispanics re-
questing government assistance.
The collection includes material
on his efforts to oversee and
promote the President’s poli-
cies in the federal government,
especially in areas of federal
employment opportunity, presi-
dential appointments of His-
panics, and minority business
programs.. There is documenta-
tion on his participation in the
Cabinet Committee on Oppor-
tunities for Spanish Speaking
Persons (CCOSSP), and his lob-
bying efforts for its extension,
as well as for the Voting Rights
Act and bilingual education ap-
propriations. Material is wide-
spread in this collection on De
Baca’s energetic outreach and
shared goals with Hispanics and
major Hispanic organizations
through conference participa-
tion, speeches, correspondence,
visits and telephone calls. His
well-documented publicly stat-
ed views were sometimes con-
troversial and in contrast to the
President’s, such as his endorse-
ment of blanket citizenship for
illegal aliens, statements about
Cuban refugee attitudes and an
Army depot layoff affecting a lo-
cal Hispanic labor force. This col-
lection includes 13 reels of mi-
crofilm.
Holocaust and Records
of Concentration Camp
Trials
This new collection provides
unique, and never published,
documents on the investigation
and prosecution of war crimes
committed by Nazi concentra-
tion camp commandants and
camp personnel. Documents
include: correspondence; trial
records and transcripts; investi-
gatory material, such as interro-
gation reports and trial exhibits;
clemency petitions and reviews;
photographs of atrocities; news-
paper clippings; and pamphlets.
Documents on several concen-
tration (and later extermination)
camps and sub-camps are repre-
sented in this new collection,
including Mauthausen, Dachau,
Belsen-Bergen, Buchenwald, Tre-
blinka, Sobibor, etc. Mauthau-
sen documents include: 33 lists
of Mauthausen victims arranged
by nationality and compiled by
the U.S. 3rd Army from death
certificates, notifications of next
of kin, death books, and hospi-
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tal records found at the camp at
the time of liberation; and trial
transcripts- U.S. v. Friedrich Kur-
bel, et al., regarding sub-camp
Gros-Raming; U.S. v. Wlasislaus
Dopierala, regarding sub-camp
Gusen I; and U.S. v. Heinrich
Schmitz, et al., regarding sub-
camp Ebensee (also includes
information on the Fingerleiden
detail at Ebensee and the Melk
transport from Gross-Rosen and
Wolfsberg, sub-camps Brettstein,
Wiener-Neustadt, and the SS spe-
cial sub-camp Hintzen.
This collection includes 32 reels
of microfilm with guide.
The Papers of Gerald R.
Ford and Foreign Affairs,
Part 1: National Security
Advisor’s Files
Section 1: Presidential
Country Files for East Asia
and the Pacific (21 reels)
This collection documents rela-
tions between the United States
and countries of eastern Asia
and the Pacific Ocean, and ad-
dress regional issues as well as
issues specific to individual coun-
tries. The collection includes ma-
terials prepared for and by the
National Security Adviser and
National Security Council staff.
Memoranda, reports, briefing
papers, schedule proposals, and
telegrams make up the bulk of
the collection.
Many significant foreign poli-
cy events are covered: the wars
and their aftermath in Vietnam,
Cambodia, and Laos; seizure of
the Mayaguez and subsequent
investigations into the adminis-
tration’s handling of the inci-
dent; and the normalization pro-
cess with the People’s Republic
of China. Other major topics are
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U.S. military bases and the pres-
ence of American troops, especi-
ally in Thailand, Philippines,
Diego Garcia, Republic of China
(Taiwan) and Korea. General
topics covered throughout the
collection include trade, arms
transfers, mutual defense agree-
ments, and meetings between
American and foreign leaders.
Section 2: Presidential
Correspondence and
Conversations with
Foreign Leaders (16 reels)
This collection includes two sub-
series of the National Security
Advisers Files: Presidential Cor-
respondence with Foreign Lead-
ers, 1974–1977, and Memoranda
of Conversations, 1973–1977.
The Presidential Correspond-
ence with Foreign Leaders,
1974–1977 consists of a mix of
routine and substantive letters
and telegrams exchanged be-
tween President Ford and lead-
ers of sixty-four countries. Sub-
stantive exchanges address such
topics as Angola, the British fi-
nancial crisis, economic summit
meetings, Middle East peace
process, OPEC, Cyprus, South Vi-
etnam, NATO, and Soviet influ-
ence in Africa and Asia. Support-
ing materials, including mem-
oranda, notes, and letter drafts,
round out the collection. The
collection consists primarily of
letters, many of them originals,
sent by foreign leaders to Presi-
dent Ford and copies of letters
and messages sent by President
Ford to foreign leaders. Many
folders contain supporting ma-
terials used in drafting President
Ford’s letters and telegrams.
The Memoranda of Conversa-
tions, 1973–1977 consists of tran-
script-like records, and the notes
from which they were pre-
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pared, of President Nixon’s and
President Ford’s conversations
with heads of state and foreign
officials, senior intelligence and
national security officials,
American ambassadors, Cabinet
members, members of Congress,
and other distinguished for-
eign and American visitors. The
memoranda of conversations
(memcons) cover a wide variety
of foreign affairs and national
security topics, including the
Middle East peace process, East-
West relations, NATO and Eu-
rope, normalization of relations
with the People’s Republic of
China, Angola, foreign aid, arms
control, energy, foreign, eco-
nomic affairs, investigations of
the intelligence community, and
more.
Section 3: Saigon Embassy
Files from Ambassador
Graham Martin (8 reels)
Graham Martin’s communica-
tions with Kissinger and Brent
Scowcroft deal primarily with
implementation of the ceasefire,
violations of the ceasefire, the
question of aid to South Viet-
nam and congressional relations
centered around that issue, con-
tacts with South Vietnamese of-
ficials, and the deterioration of
the “peace” and the eventual
evacuation of South Vietnam by
the Americans. Many of the ca-
bles relate to diplomatic relations
with other countries regarding
the situation in Vietnam, includ-
ing the Soviet Union, Saudi Ara-
bia, France, and the members of
the International Commission of
Control and Supervision in Viet-
nam. The cables range from top-
ics as specific as arrangements
for the evacuation of certain
individuals to philosophical dis-
courses by Martin on the history
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of U.S. involvement in Vietnam
and his role in it.
Peter and Edith Chang
Papers
Peter Chang (his name also ren-
dered as Zhang Xueliang, and
Chang Hsueh-liang) was born in
Manchuria in 1901 and died in
Hawaii in 2001. After his father
Chang Tso-lin (Zhang Zuolin), a
leading war-lord known as the
Old Marshal, was assassinated
in 1928 by the Japanese, Chang
took his place as the Young
Marshal, becoming one of the
most powerful military figures
in China. In 1930 Chang became
Deputy Commander in Chief
of the Chinese Armed Forces.
In 1933 he traveled to Europe.
Upon his return to China, Zhou
Enlai convinced him of the need
for the Nationalist and Commu-
nist Chinese to present a united
front against Japan.
On December 4, 1936, Chiang
Kai-shek, the Nationalist leader,
met with Marshal Chang in Xian,
ostensibly to plan a campaign
against the Communists due to
begin on December 12. Chang ar-
rested Chiang Kai-shek, an event
that became known around the
world as the Xian incident. Two
weeks later, Chiang agreed to
work with the Communists in
fighting the Japanese and was
freed.
After the Xian incident Mar-
shal Chang might have chosen to
join the Communists. Instead he
surrendered to Chiang Kai-shek
who placed him under house ar-
rest. This was his status for the
next fifty years, even after the
Nationalists fled to Taiwan tak-
ing Chang with them.
Correspondence, manuscripts,
notes, documents, artwork, cal-
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ligraphies, study materials, pho-
tographs, published materials,
and clippings, detailing the vari-
ous stages of the life of Peter
and Edith Chang are contained
in this collection
This collection from the hold-
ings of the Rare Book and Man-
uscript Library of Columbia Uni-
versity in the City of New York
includes 55 reels of microfilm.
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The Gerald R. Ford
National Security Files,
1974–1977, The Middle
East and South Asia,
Presidential Country Files
The Gerald R. Ford National Se-
curity Files on the Middle East
and South Asia cover twenty-two
countries: Afghanistan, Bangla-
desh, Bhutan, Cyprus, Egypt,
Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel,
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nepal,
Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,
Sri Lanka, Syria, Trucial States,
Turkey, and Yemen. The collec-
tion is organized in alphabetical
order by the name of the coun-
try.
The crisis in Lebanon, includ-
ing the assassinations of Meloy
and Waring, and the decision to
withdraw U.S. personnel, is cov-
ered in this collection on the
Middle East and South Asia. The
Lebanon and Syria files in the
collection contain the most ex-
tensive documentation on this
crisis. The Egypt and Israel files
also refer to events in Lebanon
and the Syrian military pres-
ence, as well as the negotiations
surrounding the end of the Yom
Kippur War. The oil embargo and
oil prices are important topics
in the files on Saudi Arabia. The
files on Cyprus, as well as those
on Greece and Turkey, focus on
the negotiations to resolve Cy-
prus partition crisis.
The collection consists of NSC
memoranda, State Department
telegrams, and other corre-
spondence and reports from the
highest levels of the U.S. diplo-
matic apparatus. These files
show the important role played
by Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger and National Security
Adviser Brent Scowcroft during
the Ford years and the far-
reaching impact of the Arab-
Israeli conflict on U.S. relations
with almost every country in the
Middle East. Other major topics
in the collection are military as-
sistance and arms sales from the
U.S. to countries in the region,
OPEC and oil prices, and the im-
pact of the Cold War. Another
interesting theme that can be
found in many files are the two
presidential transitions of the
Ford years – the transition from
Nixon to Ford in August 1974,
and then the transition from the
Republican Ford to the Demo-
cratic Jimmy Carter in 1977.
Microfilmed from the holdings
of the Gerald R. Ford Presiden-
tial Library in Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan, this collection includes 20
reels of microfilm.
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Pinkerton’s National
Detective Agency. Part B:
Criminal Case File, Series 3:
“K”-”N”
This installment includes files on
30 different cases dating from
1873–1940, arranged in alpha-
betical order by the name of the
case or criminal. Two famous
cases in the long and colorful his-
tory of the Pinkerton’s are in-
cluded in the collection: the
work of agent James McParland
in infiltrating the Molly Ma-
guires, and Allan Pinkerton’s
role in thwarting the 1861 as-
sassination plot against Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The largest single case file in
Series 3 covers the gang led by
the bank robber Joseph Killoran.
Individual folders within the
Killoran file cover twenty-seven
different bank robberies he was
involved in between 1883 and
1906. In the United States, this-
included robberies in Delaware,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky,
Michigan, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Ver-
mont. From 1903 to 1906, he
also committed robberies in Vi-
enna, Austria; Brussels, Belgium;
and Paris. The file on Joseph
Killoran also contains a section
of documents on twenty-four
individuals that the Pinkerton’s
believed had worked with him
in some of the robberies.
The other case files in Series 3
focus on bank robbers and train
robbers. The bank robbers cov-
ered in Series 3 include George
Leonidas, Sophie Lyons, Frank
McCoy, Rufus Minor, Langdon
Moore, and Dan Noble. Train
robbers in this series are A. E.
“Old Bill” Miner and Sherman
W. Morris, as well as a file on
Merchants Union Express Com-
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pany regarding a robbery com-
mitted by Charles Bullard and
Isaac Marsh on the Hudson River
Railroad.
This collection includes 11 reels
of microfilm.
U.S. Council of Economic
Advisers during the Ford
Administration
The microfilm collection is avail-
able in four parts. The first two
parts are the files of Chairman
Greenspan. President Richard
M. Nixon appointed Greenspan
to the CEA but Greenspan did
not become chairman of the
CEA until September 1974. He
held this post until January
1977.
Part 1: Alan Greenspan
Files – Correspondence,
1974–1977 (32 reels)
Part 1 consists of Greenspan’s
correspondence with the White
House, federal agencies, inter-
nal CEA correspondence and
general correspondence.
Part 2: Alan Greenspan Files
– Subject File, Economic
Policy Board Meetings,
Speeches and Statements,
and Engagements and
Meetings, 1974–1976
(23 reels).
Part 2 consists of four different
sets of materials: material Green-
span received from the White
House, federal agencies, or pri-
vate businesses; agendas and
minutes of Economic Policy
Board meetings; statements by
Greenspan; and materials per-
taining to meetings Greenspan
attended. Topics covered in
Parts 1 and 2 include energy
policy, inflation, the federal
budget and federal regulations,
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taxation, and economic indica-
tors and the general state of the
U.S. economy.
Part 3: Gary L. Seevers
Files, 1973–1975
(20 reels)
Gary L. Seevers served the CEA
as a staff economist from 1970
to 1972 and was a CEA mem-
ber from July 1973 until April
1975. Some of Seever’s files ac-
tually come from the Nixon
years. Seevers’s files consist of
correspondence, memoranda to
the President, papers related to
meetings attended by Seevers,
and an administrative file. Major
topics covered in Part 3 include
employment, national financial
conditions, energy issues, infla-
tion and price controls, trans-
portation, housing starts, and
agricultural commodities.
Part 4: William J. Fellner and
Paul W. MacAvoy
Files, 1973–1976
(31 reels)
Part 4 consists of the files of
members William J. Fellner and
Paul W. MacAvoy. Fellner was a
CEA member from October 31,
1973 until February 1975 while
MacAvoy became a member in
June 1975, leaving the CEA in
November 1976 to join the fac-
ulty at Yale University. Fellner’s
small file consists of correspond-
ence, speeches and statements,
and subject files. MacAvoy’s
files include a subject file; cor-
respondence with the White
House and federal agencies;
notes, papers, and reports from
meetings and conferences; and
general correspondence. Energy
matters, inflation, regulatory
reform, and agricultural prob-
lems are again a major focus in
Part 4.
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Women in the U.S.
Military: Correspondence
of the Director of the
Women’s Army Corps,
1942–1946
This collection, filmed from the
records of the War Department
at the National Archives, docu-
ments the women who joined
and served in the Women’s
Army Corps (WAC, known as
the Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps [WAAC] from May 1942
until July 1943) during World
War II.
The collection consists of the
correspondence of Oveta Culp
Hobby, WAC director from
1942 through 1945, as well of
her successor Westray Battle
Boyce, who led the WAC from
1945 through the remainder
of the collection’s coverage in
1946.
Every topic of importance to
the WAC is covered in the cor-
respondence, with an emphasis
on issues such as recruiting, pub-
lic support for the WAC, person-
nel matters like discipline and
conduct, and race.
A large file in Part 1 of the col-
lection covers recruiting for the
WAC and enlistment requests
by individual women. Other
branches of the U.S. armed
services, especially the Navy
(WAVES) and Coast Guard
(SPARS) had already granted
full military status to their wom-
en’s branches prior to 1942 and
therefore the WAC had trouble
recruiting sufficient numbers of
women into its ranks. The WAC,
consequently, devoted signifi-
cant time to recruiting, and the
collection includes extensive
correspondence on recruitment
and enlistment as well as adver-
tising materials.
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The WAC also enjoyed the
support of numerous women’s
organization and other civic
organizations, reflected in the
correspondence received by
Director Hobby. Organizations
highlighted in this section in-
clude American Association of
University Women, American
War Mothers, American Wom-
en’s Voluntary Services, Inc.,
Daughters of the American
Revolution, Southern Negro
Youth Congress, United Service
Organizations, Inc. (USO), Wom-
en’s Military Services Club, Inc.,
and Women’s Overseas Service
League.
Personnel matters are cov-
ered in Part 2 of the collection.
These records provide research-
ers with information on codes
of conduct under which WAC
personnel were expected to op-
erate. Documents include inves-
tigation reports and exhaustive
witness testimony transcripts.
Among the topics covered are
alleged violations for abuse of
alcohol, being absent without
leave (AWOL), or sexual mis-
conduct. A file of courts-martial
contains additional material re-
lated to discipline.
Other topics covered include
race and discrimination, with a
focus on African American and
Japanese American women;
education, particularly at army
service and technical schools as
well as staff colleges; supplies
and equipment; assignment of
WACs to Asia, the Caribbean,
and Europe; the perception of
WACs by male military person-
nel; and the evolution of the
Women’s Army Corps after
World War II from 1946 through
1948.
This collection includes 130
reels of microfilm in six parts.
ONLINE COLLECTIONS
ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL
The American West
This digital project, sourced from
the Graff Collection at the New-
berry Library, brings together a
wide variety of materials includ-
ing:
• Over 300 manuscripts – rang-
ing from the original manu-
script journal and papers of
James Audubon, and a twelve
page letter of General Custer,
to the logbook of a cattle trail
driver and the Hinman papers
describing the overland trail to
California and the Gold Rush.
• Broadsides – a host of ex-
tremely rare or unique ephem-
eral material including adver-
tisements, claim certificates,
photos, wanted notices and
news-sheets – all of which are
superb visual resources.
• Maps – an important and un-
derutilized resource for teach-
ing the American West – partly
due to their size and unwieldy
nature – partly due to their rari-
ty.
• Rare printed works – the Graff
collection includes many unique
or extremely rare items – rang-
ing from extra-illustrated volu-
mes and association copies to
city directories and pamphlets
and leaflets.
The main themes covered by
the project are: Native Ameri-
cans; Pioneers, Hunters and Ex-
plorers; Mining and the Gold
Rush; The Mormon Exodus;
Homesteaders, Overland Travel
and Early Settlements; Cattle
Ranchers; Railroads, Transporta-
tion and Urban History; Out-
laws, Vigilantes and the Law;
Agricultural Development; The
Imagined West; and Border-
lands.
Comment and News
The material continues right
up to the 1930s. Particular sub-
groups of material featured in-
clude captivity narratives, emi-
grants’ guides, travel journals,
records of entertainments, brand
books, store catalogs, city direc-
tories, town histories, pulp fic-
tion and early journals and
newspapers.
India, Raj and Empire
In 1615, Britain signed a treaty
with the Mughals to permit the
East India Company to establish
‘factories’ or trading posts in cit-
ies such as Mumbai (Bombay)
and Kolkata (Calcutta). Over the
next 240 years this trading re-
lationship became a political re-
lationship as the ‘Company’
gained control over Bengal and
other territories as a result of
successive wars. The rebellion of
1857 prompted a further change,
as India came under direct rule
from the British Government.
This situation lasted until 1947,
when India and Pakistan were
granted independence.
This complex and fascinating
history is brought to life through
the large and diverse South
Asian holdings of the National
Library of Scotland. The 18th
and 19th centuries are especially
well represented in manuscript
sources that document social
and urban history, trade, wars,
agriculture, Indian and Imperial
politics, and travel.
The Nixon Years, 1969–
1974
Top level Anglo-American dis-
cussions and briefing papers
dominate this project. There
is also a wealth of material on
social conditions, domestic re-
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forms, trade, culture and the
environment.
These files allow scholars and
researchers the opportunity to
assess, from a British, European
and Commonwealth perspec-
tive, Nixon’s handling of numer-
ous Cold War crises, his adminis-
tration’s notable achievements,
as well as his increasingly con-
troversial activities and unor-
thodox use of executive powers
culminating in Watergate and
impeachment.
Many files focus on foreign
policy issues:
• the Vietnam War and Paris
Peace Talks
• China – Nixon’s 1972 visit
ended 25 years of isolation be-
tween the US and the People’s
Republic of China and resulted
in the establishment of diplo-
matic relations between the
two countries in 1979
• the Middle East – massive aid
for Israel, reorientation of US
policy, developing relations with
moderate Arab regimes culmi-
nating in Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat’s expulsion of So-
viet advisors in 1972 and Nixon’s
Middle East tour of 1974
• the regularization of relations
with the Soviet Union, including
Annual Summits
• Anti-Ballistic Missile and Stra-
tegic Arms Limitation Treaties
• the return of Okinawa to Japa-
nese sovereignty
• relations with specific coun-
tries in Latin America
There is also significant cover-
age of Nixon’s domestic policy
initiatives such as: the creation
of the Environmental Protection
Agency; the extension of the
Voting Rights Act and liberal
action on Civil Rights; the re-
orientation of the Federal Na-
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tive American policy; the war on
cancer; and New Federalism –
aid for small businesses and wel-
fare reform.
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS
Access the following collections
at: http://libraries.adelphi.edu/
special/digital.php.
The Adelphi Digital
Yearbook Collection: The
Oracles
This collection includes year-
books from 1959 to 1973, with
additional volumes added over
the next several years.
Ruth St. Denis Digital
Collection
Ruth St. Denis (1879–1968), a
major figure in modern dance,
founded the Adelphi Dance
Department in 1938. This collec-
tion includes correspondence,
the Adelphi Bulletin from 1938,
and a selection of Marcus Blech-
man’s portraits of St. Denis.
ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN
ART, SMITHSONIAN
Collections Online
The papers of painter Oscar
Bluemner (1867–1938) recently
became the sixty-fourth fully
digitized collection added to the
Archives of American Art’s Col-
lections Online (http://www.aaa.
si.edu/collectionsonline) web-
site. Collections Online now pro-
vides access to nearly 575,000
images, totaling over 400 linear
Microform and Imaging Review
feet of a significant cross sec-
tion of the Archives’ holdings,
primarily the papers of artists,
architects, critics, dealers, and
curators.
BAYERISCHE
STAATSBIBLIOTHEK
Access the following collec-
tions at: http://www.digital-
collections.de.
Catalogue of Incunabula
The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
holds the world’s richest collec-
tion of incunabula. The collec-
tion comprises approximately
19,900 copies of 9,680 editions.
This project encompasses the
digitization of one copy of each
incunabula edition held by the
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and
is financially supported by the
German Research Foundation.
The Musical Works of Franz
Liszt
This collection presents the
34 volumes of the Carl Alex-
ander edition from the music
collection of the BSB, supple-
mented by the first editions of
two oratories (‘The Legend of
St. Elisabeth’ and ‘Christus’).
BRITISH LIBRARY
Jewish Survivors of the
Holocaust
The moving and often disturbing
testimonies of Jewish migrants
and refugees to Britain, many
of whom survived Nazi concen-
tration and labour camps, are
available at http://sounds.bl.uk/.
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This collection includes over 440
hours of sound recordings from
66 oral history interviews. Topics
covered include:
• Anti-Semitism before the Sec-
ond World War
• Pre-war refugees and the
“Kindertransport”
• Ghettos and concentration
and labour camps
• Survival in hiding
• Resistance and liberation
• Searching for family in the
aftermath
• Building a new life in Britain
• The legacy of the Holocaust
CENTER FOR HISTORY AND
NEW MEDIA
Children & Youth
in History
This site (http://chnm.gmu.edu/
cyh/) includes more than 200 an-
notated primary sources fo-
cused on children and youth
throughout world history. A va-
riety of case studies (e.g., “Play
in Tokugawa Japan”) feature se-
lected primary sources and how
they can be used in the college
classroom.
Making the History
of 1989
This collection (http://chnm.gmu.
edu/1989/) provides access to
hundreds of primary sources
(government documents, im-
ages, videos and artifacts) on the
collapse of communism in
Eastern Europe in 1989. Video
interviews with scholars, teach-
ing modules, and case studies
provide contextual information.
CLAREMONT COLLEGES
DIGITAL LIBRARY
Access the following collections
at: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.
edu/.
Sacred Text Conference
Archives
The First Annual Conference of
Religions in Conversation in
2007 was an exploration of pas-
sages addressing relationships
with insiders and outsiders, and
points of inclusivity and exclusivi-
ty, within the Sacred Texts of six
groups: Islam, Judaism, Christi-
anity, Zoroastrianism, LDS/Mor-
monism, and Hinduism. This col-
lection includes videos of the six
presentations.
Scripps College 19th and
20th Century Photographs
This collection includes works
by numerous notable photogra-
phers: Diane Arbus, Anne Brig-
man, Julia Margaret Cameron,
Gregory Crewdson, Jack Delano,
Roger Fenton, Francis Frith,
Arthur Kales, David Octavius
Hill and Roger Adamson, Russell
Lee, Margrethe Mather, John
Jabez Mayall, Emily Pitchford,
and Edward Weston.
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES
Vincentian Heritage
Collections
Vincentian studies encompass
the life and times of Saint Vin-
cent de Paul (1581–1660) and
Saint Louise de Marillac (1591–
1660) and their legacy of service
to the poor. This collection (http:
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//via.library.depaul.edu/vhc/) is
organized into three sections:
Vincent de Paul (1581–1660); Vin-
centian Journals; and Vincentian
Organizations.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES
Access the following collec-
tions at: http://library.duke.edu/
digitalcollections/.
Americans in the Land
of Lenin: Documentary
Photographs of Early
Soviet Russia
More than 700 photographs
from the papers of Americans
Robert L. Eichelberger and
Frank Whitson Fetter document
daily life in the Soviet Union
(1919–1921 and 1930).
American Song Sheets
This collection includes approxi-
mately 1800 broadsides and
song sheets from nineteenth-
century America. The American
South and the Civil War are par-
ticularly well documented, with
more than 100 Confederate
broadsides in the collection.
Michael Francis Blake
Photographs
Michael Francis Blake opened
one of the first African-Ameri-
can photography studios in
Charleston, South Carolina. This
collection includes more than
100 portrait photographs of
men, women, and children
taken between 1912–1934.
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Vica Nazi Propaganda
Comics
The Nazi-controlled government
in German-occupied France pro-
duced the Vica comic during
World War II as a propaganda
tool against the Allied forces.
This collection includes three is-
sues: Vica au Paradis de l’U.R.S.S,
Vica contre le service secret
anglais, and Vica défie l’Oncle
Sam.
William Emerson Strong
Photograph Album
The Strong photograph album
contains 200 cartes-de-visite
(card photographs) mostly pub-
lished in the mid-1860s. Subjects
include officers in the Confeder-
ate Army and Navy, officials in
the Confederate government,
famous Confederate wives, and
other notable figures of the
Confederacy.
EMORY UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES
Voyages: Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade Database
This database contains thou-
sands of names of ship owners
and ship captains, as well as the
African names of and personal
information about 67,004 cap-
tives who were found on board
slave vessels detained by naval
cruisers attempting to suppress
the slave trade in the nine-
teenth century. This data set
provides a rich source for his-
torical reconstruction of the
history of the African peoples
in America. The details of the
34,941 voyages facilitates the
study of cultural, demographic,
and economic change in the
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Atlantic world from the late
sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth
centuries. Access Voyages at:
http://www.slavevoyages.org/.
EUROPEANA
Europeana (http://www.europea
na.eu/portal/) links users to
more than two million books,
maps, recordings, photographs,
archival documents, paintings
and films from national libraries
and cultural institutions of the
EU’s 27 Member States. Over
1,000 cultural organizations
from across Europe have pro-
vided material for Europeana.
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE
LIBRARY
Digital Image Collection
The Folger’s Digital Image Col-
lection offers online access to
over 20,000 images from the
Folger Shakespeare Library col-
lection, including books, theat-
er memorabilia, manuscripts,
art, and more. Images are avail-
able in high resolution and us-
ers can show multiple images
side-by-side, zoom in and out to
see fine detail, view cataloging
information when available, ex-
port thumbnails, and construct
permanent URLs linking back to
their favorite items or searches.
Access: http://www.folger.edu/
template.cfm?cid=3077.
FOOTNOTE.COM AND THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
World War II Collection
The World War II collection in-
cludes the first-ever interactive
version of the USS Arizona Me-
morial. Similar to the Vietnam
Microform and Imaging Review
War Memorial project that
Footnote.com released in 2008,
the USS Arizona Memorial is a
fully searchable digital image of
the national monument.
The USS Arizona Memorial al-
lows Footnote.com users to
search for people they know by
simply typing in a name. The im-
age viewer will zoom in to the
specific area of the wall where
that name appears. By placing
the cursor over the name, users
can access an interactive box
featuring additional informa-
tion about the sailors including
a place to contribute photos and
stories about that individual.
For a limited time, Footnote.
com is providing free access to
their National Archives WWII
collections at: http://go.foot
note.com/wwii/.
GALE
Eighteenth Century
Collections Online, Part II
Eighteenth Century Collections
Online, Part II includes nearly
seven million pages of all-new
content from close to 50,000
new titles. As the English Short
Title Catalogue (ESTC) – the un-
derlying bibliography for the
“ECCO” collection – has contin-
ued to uncover new works and
editions and as source libraries
have reported new holdings,
Gale has continued its digitiza-
tion operations, bringing pre-
viously inaccessible scholarly
material to students and to re-
searchers.
Part II also offers a new user
interface with the following en-
hancements:
• Research Tools section for un-
dergraduates with contextual
essays and chronology
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• Image Gallery, Most Popular
Searches and Key Documents
sections
• Citation generator and export
functionality
• Expanded download and
email features
• Keyword in Context feature
from within the results list
GOOGLE
LIFE Photo Archive
This collection (http://images.
google.com/hosted/life) offers
millions of photographs from
LIFE’s photo archive. Users can
search the collection, or browse
by decade or broad topic.
ILLINOIS DIGITAL ARCHIVES
University of Illinois at
Springfield Oral History
Collection
This collection includes more
than 700 interviews with people
from a variety of backgrounds:
World War II prisoners of war;
farm families; coal miners; cap-
tains and workers on river boats;
women’s rights activists; Illinois
legislators and politicians; mem-
bers of churches and service
clubs; and teachers in rural one
room schools. Access: http://
w w w. i d a i l l i n o i s . o r g / c d m 4 /
browse.php?CISOROOT=/uis
IMAGE FORTRESS
International Space
Archives
The photos, films and video in
the archive originate from a va-
riety of sources including NASA
(the United States National
Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration) and the space pro-
grams of Russia, Japan, China,
India, the European Union and
others. Also included in these
archives will be images created
by the various private space pro-
grams that are allowing private
citizens experience space travel.
Access: http://www.internationa
lspacearchives.com.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY –
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
INDIANAPOLIS LIBRARY
Neil Matthew Photograph
Collection
This collection provides a photo-
graphic documentary of scenes
and places from the perspective
of Neil E. Matthew, a professor
of the Herron School of Art at
IUPUI. His photography, as de-
scribed by its creator, is “the
painter as photographic tourist.”
More than 2200 photographs in
this collection depict the land-
scape and buildings seen dur-
ing his travels. Access: http://
indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/NM
photos/.
JSTOR
19th Century British
Pamphlets Project
This project, created by the Re-
search Libraries UK (RLUK) and
funded by the JISC Digitisation
Programme, provides online ac-
cess through JSTOR to more than
16,000 British pamphlets from
the 19th century held in UK re-
search libraries. JSTOR will make
these pamphlets searchable
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alongside current collections to
enhance discovery and use across
disciplines. More information
about this project is available at:
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/
participate/other/britishPam
phlets.jsp.
KANSAS CITY PUBLIC
LIBRARY
Access the following collections
at: http://www.kchistory.org/.
Robert G. Askren
Photograph Collection
The 300 images from the Robert
G. Askren Photograph Collection
depict Kansas City buildings,
parks, streets, important events,
local personalities, and land-
scapes.
Sanborn Fire Insurance
Maps
Kansas City Sanborn maps, 1895
and 1896 updated to 1907, as
well as images of more than 200
maps from its General Map Col-
lection.
KENTUCKIANA DIGITAL
LIBRARY
William B. Keightley Oral
History Project
The William B. Keightley Project
contains interviews with Bill
Keightley about his life and ex-
periences as the equipment man-
ager for the University of Ken-
tucky Men’s Basketball team
from 1962 until his death in
2008. Keightley talks about the
basketball coaches he served un-
der, players he interacted with
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over the years, and he reflects
on changes to the game of
men’s college basketball. Access
this collection at the Kentucky
Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.
org/).
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES
CANADA
The Early Chinese
Canadians, 1858–1947
This site includes historical pho-
tographs, government docu-
ments and letters, and a 1918
film of a Chinese funeral pro-
cession in Victoria, B.C. Access:
http://www.collectionscanada.
gc.ca/chinese-canadians/index-
e.html.
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT
UNIVERSITY
America’s West: The Owens
Valley of California
Photographs and other materi-
als from the J. D. Black Papers,
Loyola Marymount University
document the American West in
the Owens Valley of California
from 1875 to 1930. The collec-
tion depicts the people of the
valley and their rural way of
life centered on small towns,
farming, ranching, and mining.
Of particular note are photo-
graphs of the water wars of the
1920s between Los Angeles and
the Owens Valley. Access: http:
//digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
jdblack.html.
The Changing Face of
Southern California:
A History in Postcards
This collection (http://digitalcoll
ections.lmu.edu) includes more
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than 300 postcards from the
Werner Von Boltenstern Post-
card Collection and other post-
card collections of the Depart-
ment of Archives and Special
Collections.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES
Holy Rosary –
Red Cloud
This collection features selected
photographs primarily from the
Red Cloud Indian School of the
Pine Ridge Reservation in South
Dakota. The images include peo-
ple, places, and events involving
Oglala Indian children, youth,
and adults; Jesuits; lay teach-
ers; and Sisters of St. Francis of
Penance and Christian Charity. A
few images of Native Americans
from the Rosebud Reservation
in South Dakota (Brulé Indians)
and elsewhere in the United
States are also included. Access:
http://digitalmarquette.cdmhos
t.com/HRM/index.html.
MINNESOTA DIGITAL
LIBRARY
Minnesota Reflections
The following collections have
been added to Minnesota Re-
flections (http://reflections.mnd
igital.org/):
Basilica of Saint Mary in
Minneapolis
Architectural drawings, pencil
sketches, and three blueprints
of construction of the Basilica.
Microform and Imaging Review
Archbishop Ireland
Memorial Library at the
University of St. Thomas
A collection of catechism ma-
terials from Christian religions
translated into Dakota and Ojib-
we in the 1800s by missionaries.
(Note: These are in the native
language, not English, and in-
clude a collection of writings on
temperance by Archbishop John
Ireland and Monsignor Joseph
Reardon.)
Minnesota Geological
Survey
A collection of the maps by
the Survey of Minnesota going
back into the late 1800s and
spanning the decades since, all
with information important to
understanding the geology and
geography of Minnesota.
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
SCOTLAND
Bartholomew Archive
The Bartholomew Archive is
documents the history of the Ed-
inburgh-based firm of map en-
gravers, printers and publishers,
John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.
It is one of the most extensive
cartographic archives available
for research in a public institu-
tion. Access: http://www.nls.uk/
bartholomew/index.html
Great Reform Act Plans
and Reports, 1832
Detailed maps and reports of
75 towns in Scotland for the
purposes of implementing the
Reform Act (Scotland) of 1832.
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Access: http://www.nls.uk/maps/
towns/reform/index.html
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
IRELAND
Life and Works of William
Butler Yeats
This online exhibition includes
more than 2000 interactive ele-
ments as well as an interactive
biographical timeline of Yeats
life. Access: http://www.nli.ie/
yeats/.
NATIONAL YIDDISH
BOOK CENTER / INTERNET
ARCHIVE
Stephen Spielberg Digital
Yiddish Library
The National Yiddish Book Cent-
er is a non-profit organization
working to rescue Yiddish books
and share their content with
the world. More than 10,000 ti-
tles are now available through
the Open Content Alliance. Ac-
cess: http://www.archive.org/
details/nationalyiddishbookcen
ter.
NEW JERSEY STATE
ARCHIVES
Access the following collections
at: http://liberty.state.nj.us/state/
darm/links/imgcollections.html.
Henry B. Kümmel
Collection: Morris Canal
Photographs
This series consists of 93 views of
the Morris Canal taken during
the period 1923–1937. The col-
lection was compiled by Henry
B. Kümmel, Director of the
New Jersey Department of Con-
servation and Development and
State Geologist. Mr. Kümmel
served as secretary for Gov. Silz-
er’s “Morris Canal Commission”
of 1923, and also as general
manager of the Morris Canal and
Banking Company after it be-
came an agency of state govern-
ment. The series includes many
photographs taken during the
1923 commission’s study, and
others showing the state’s dis-
mantlement of the canal and
improvement of retained prop-
erty.
Henry B. Kümmel
Collection: Photographs of
the Delaware and Raritan
Canal
This series includes 39 views of
the Delaware and Raritan Ca-
nal taken during the period
1935–1936. The collection was
compiled by Henry B. Kümmel,
State Geologist and Director of
the New Jersey Department of
Conservation and Development,
which administered the canal af-
ter it was acquired by the State
in 1934. Nearly half of the views
included show repairs to the
Feeder Canal at or near the Pralls-
ville Lock in Delaware Township,
Hunterdon County.
Hunterdon County – Birth
Certificates of Children of
Slaves
The records in this series are
the direct result of “An act for
the Gradual Abolition of Slav-
ery” passed by the New Jersey
Legislature in 1804. This law
pronounced every child born to
a slave mother after 4 July 1804
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“free” at birth, but bound as
a servant to the owner of the
mother until the age of twenty-
five for males and twenty-one
for females. This collection in-
cludes images of original (usual-
ly signed) birth certificates sub-
mitted to the Hunterdon
County Clerk during the period
1804–1835.
NEW YORK 3Rs
ASSOCIATION
New York Heritage
NewYorkHeritage.org is a re-
search portal for students, edu-
cators, historians, genealogists,
and others who are interested
in learning more about the peo-
ple, places and institutions of
historical New York State. The
site provides access to more
than 160 distinct digital collec-
tions that reflect the long his-
tory of New York State. These
collections represent a broad
range of historical, scholarly, and
cultural materials held in li-
braries, museums, and archives
throughout the state. Collection
items include photographs, let-
ters, diaries, directories, maps,
newspapers, books, and more.
Access: http://www.newyork
heritage.org.
NORTHEASTERN
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Freedom House
Photographs
Freedom House, founded in
1949 by African American social
workers Muriel S. and Otto P.
Snowden, has been a force for
neighborhood improvement,
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good schools, and harmony
among racial, ethnic, and reli-
gious groups in Roxbury. This
collection includes more than
2,000 photographs and nega-
tives from Freedom House in
Roxbury, most dating from the
period 1950–1975. Access: http://
digitalcollections.lib.neu.edu.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
Access the following collections
at: http://diglib.princeton.edu/.
Block Prints of the Chinese
Revolution
This collection of 30 poster-like
block prints of the 1911 Chi-
nese Revolution documents the
visual portrayal of the struggle
of Han Chinese versus the Man-
chus during the 1911 overthrow
of the Qing Empire.
Lorenzo Homar
Collection
The Lorenzo Homar Collection
consists of drawings, prints, and
posters, reflecting the wide
range of work by this Puerto
Rican graphic artist and callig-
rapher. Included are drawings
from his army days; design
drawings of Cartier jewelry; car-
icatures; and over 90 posters he
created for various exhibitions,
conferences, and performing
arts events.
Princeton University
Historical Postcard
Collection
The Historical Postcard Collection
documents the buildings and
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environs of the Princeton Uni-
versity campus in the form of
picture postcards. Featuring
both monochrome and color
postcards, the bulk of the col-
lection ranges in date from 1900
through the 1960s.
READEX
African American
Newspapers, 1827–199
Readex has announced that it
will release African American
Newspapers, 1827–1998 in fall
2009. The collection will include
270 newspapers published in
36 states. Beginning with Free-
dom’s Journal (NY) – the first
African American newspaper
published in the United States –
the titles in this collection will
include The Colored Citizen (KS),
Arkansas State Press, Rights of
All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-Ameri-
can, New York Age, L’Union
(LA), Northern Star and Free-
man’s Advocate (NY), Richmond
Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The
Appeal (MN) and hundreds of
others from every region of the
United States.
The Civil War: Antebellum
Period to Reconstruction
The Civil War includes more
than 150 newspapers published
in towns and cities of all sizes
throughout the United States,
including such historically sig-
nificant titles as the Baltimore
Sun, Charleston Mercury, Dallas
Weekly Herald, Milwaukee Sen-
tinel, National Intelligencer, New
Orleans Picayune, New York
Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer
Microform and Imaging Review
and San Francisco Bulletin. Pro-
viding strong coverage of Civil
War-era politics and society,
these fully searchable newspa-
pers contain front-line military
reporting by some of the best
journalists of the 19th century,
wide-ranging editorial views,
local and national news articles,
advertisements and more.
For official perspectives, The
Civil War provides more than
50,000 documents published
by the U.S. government, includ-
ing “The War of the Rebellion:
A Compilation of the Official
Records of the Union and Con-
federate Armies,” “Official
Records of the Union and Con-
federate Navies in the War of
the Rebellion” and the “Journal
of the Congress of the Confed-
erate States of America.”
The Civil War also offers re-
vealing glimpses into 19th-cen-
tury American culture – includ-
ing the struggles of soldiers and
the families they left behind –
through song sheets and thou-
sands of other scarce materi-
als printed between 1840 and
1877.
Foreign Broadcast
Information Service Daily
Reports, 1941–1974
In 2009, Readex will begin pro-
viding online access to Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Daily Reports published
between 1941 and 1974. To
be full-text searchable for the
first time, FBIS Daily Reports,
1941–1974 will offer online ac-
cess to international news and
broadcasts from around the
world on topics ranging from
the Axis alliance and colonial-
ism in Africa to the new Islamic
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countries of the Middle East and
the Vietnam War.
SPANISH MINISTERIO DE
CULTURA
Archivo Rojo
This extensive collection of pho-
tographs from the Spanish Civil
War was originally used by the
Republican government to de-
nounce the civil war and its con-
sequences for the population
of Madrid. After the war it be-
came a tool for repression to
identify Republicans depicted in
the photographs. Access: http://
pares.mcu.es/ArchivoRojo/
inicio.do.
TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY
AND ARCHIVES
The following collections have
been added to TeVA (Tennes-
see Virtual Archive): http://tsla-
teva.state.tn.us.
Beautiful Jim Key
Beautiful Jim Key, an Arabian
Hambletonian horse, was owned
by Dr. William Key, a self-
trained, African-American vet-
erinarian (and former slave).
Key performed for nine years
around the country during the
late nineteenth and early twen-
tieth centuries to large crowds
at expositions, world’s fairs,
schools, and other venues.
Nineteenth Century
Agricultural Resources
These images illustrate the de-
velopment of agricultural prac-
tices and methods over a period
of more than a century, from
Tennessee immigration in the
1830s to the Depression era of
the 1930s. Documents in the
collection reflect the earliest
authors and record keepers’ ma-
terials that promoted immigra-
tion for the purpose of agricul-
tural life and encouraged vari-
ous crop production based on
diverse natural resources and
advances in the “technology”
of nineteenth-century farm-
ing.
Tennessee in
World War I
The 90 photographs in this col-
lection have been selected from
the Frierson-Warfield Papers
and Karl Kleeman World War I
Photographs, and provide an
American perspective on the
Western Front during World
War I. Major Frierson of Maury
County, Tennessee, was not
long arrived in France when he
was put to work commanding
the 2nd Battalion, 114th Field
Artillery Regiment, 30th (Old
Hickory) Division.
Tennessee Centennial
Exposition Images
The Tennessee Centennial Expo-
sition was held in Nashville from
May 1 until October 30, 1897,
although the state’s actual cen-
tennial occurred in 1896. The 60
images in this collection prima-
rily depict the array of build-
ings and individuals involved
with this celebration, but also
include ephemera such as a rare
cyanotype of a building at the
fair’s Vanity Fair.
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The Tennessee
State Guard
Brigadier General Jacob McGa-
vock Dickinson, Jr.’s, Tennessee
State Guard scrapbook compris-
es part of the Jacob McGavock
Dickinson (1851–1928) Papers,
1812–1946. The scrapbook con-
sists of 181 pages of material,
from which many of the images
depicted within this Tennessee
State Guard database have been
derived. Among these images
are photographs, newspaper
clippings, cartoons and maps.
The scrapbook, maintained by
Dickinson’s staff, primarily rep-
resents the activities of Middle
Tennessee units. This collection
also includes materials from the
Governor’s papers of Prentice
Cooper, Governor of Tennessee,
which provide a clearer under-
standing of State Guard activi-
ties across Tennessee as a whole
from 1939 to 1945.
UNITED NATIONS
United Nations Diplomatic
Conference
This website provides access
to the official records of a se-
ries of diplomatic conferences,
convoked by the United Na-
tions in order to negotiate and
adopt several treaties based on
drafts worked out by the Inter-
national Law Commission and
considered by the Sixth (Legal)
Committee of the General As-
sembly. This collection includes
documents from conferences
in the 1960s to the 1990s. Ac-
cess: http://untreaty.un.org/cod/
diplomaticconferences/index.
html.
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UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
– CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL
AND RENAISSANCE
STUDIES
Catalog of Digitized
Medieval Manuscripts
This catalog offers a straight-
forward means to discover me-
dieval manuscripts available on
the web. It links to nearly 1,000
manuscripts by 193 authors in
20 languages from 59 libraries
around the world. Access: http:
//manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/.
UNIVERSITY OF
CONNECTICUT THOMAS J.
DODD RESEARCH CENTER
New Haven Railroad
Valuation Maps
The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission created the track maps
to account for the value of the
property owned by the railroad.
This collection includes almost
1000 digital images of track
maps of the New Haven Rail-
road, the predominant railroad
line in southern New England
from 1872 to 1969. Access: http:
//images.lib.uconn.edu/.
UNIVERSITY OF HONG
KONG LIBRARIES
Basic Law Drafting History
Online
Basic Law Drafting History On-
line (BLDHO) is an online re-
source providing information
and materials from the drafting
history of Hong Kong’s constitu-
tion, The Basic Law of the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Re-
gion of the People’s Republic of
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China. BLDHO is a joint project
of the Centre for Comparative
and Public Law and the Univer-
sity of Hong Kong Libraries.
Four databases are currently
available for free public access.
“Drafting Materials” includes
almost 900 documents prepared
or used by various official bod-
ies and individuals from 1985
to 1990, when the Basic Law
was drafted and promulgated,
and from 1990 to 1997, when
preparations were made for
the resumption of sovereignty.
“News Coverage” provides ac-
cess to newspaper articles about
the meetings of official commit-
tees and sub-committees from
1985 to 1990. “Legco Database”
collects the relevant debates in
Hong Kong’s legislature from
1986 to 1991 concerning the
Basic Law and drafting pro-
cess. “Textual History” provides
the draft versions of each ar-
ticle in the Basic Law together
with official commentary where
available. Access: http://sunzi1.
lib.hku.hk/bldho/home.action.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Jon Cohen AIDS Research
Collection
This collection consists of AIDS-
related material that Jon Cohen
amassed while writing the book,
Shots in the Dark: The Wayward
Search for an AIDS Vaccine.
Largely focused on AIDS vaccine
research, the collection spans 20
years and contains conference
materials, meeting agendas and
minutes, promotional materials,
scientific reports and numerous
government materials. This ear-
ly release of the digital collec-
tion includes 590 digital ob-
jects, while the full release
Microform and Imaging Review
will feature over 6,000. Access:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/
cohenaids/.
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
LIBRARIES
Access the following collections
at: http://www.library.pitt.edu/
libraries/drl/.
Bruce Disbach-American
Steel & Wire Company
Photograph Collection
This collection includes 126
photographs depicting the
construction of the American
Steel & Wire Company build-
ing, equipment, worker housing
construction, and the Donora
environment between 1915 and
1917.
Progress Photographs:
William Penn Hotel, 1914–
1916
Two photographs document the
groundbreaking ceremony held
on July 7, 1914. Twelve photo-
graphs document the excavation
process. Fourteen photographs
document the actual construc-
tion of the steel-framed hotel.
The photographs in the album
were taken every two weeks to
show construction progress. The
last photograph in the album is
dated March 11, 1916.
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
LIBRARIES
Thompson Brothers Digital
Photograph Collection
This collection offers photo-
graphs the Great Smoky
Mountains by James and Robin
Thompson, the most prominent
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photographers in Knoxville
from the 1920s through the
1940s. The digital images in the
Single Images collection are tak-
en from the Thompson Photo-
graph Collection at the McClung
Historical Collection of the Knox
County Public Library and the
Albert G. (Dutch) Roth Photo
Album, 1925–1937 (MS2584) of
the University of Tennessee Spe-
cial Collections Library. The digi-
tal images in the Albums are tak-
en from the Arnold Arboretum
Horticultural Library Archives of
Harvard University and Tutt
Special Collections of Colorado
College, respectively. Access:
http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/thompson/
thompson_main.htm.
Volunteer Yearbooks
The Volunteer Yearbook of-
fers a unique visual and liter-
ary history of the University of
Tennessee through the eyes of
the students. The yearbook was
first published in 1897 and has
appeared annually ever since,
with the exception of the 1918
interruption of school activities
by World War. Access: http://
yearbook.lib.utk.edu/
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
LIBRARIES
The Architectural Legacy of
Herbert Miller Greene
Herbert Miller Greene built
more than ninety projects
throughout Texas and other
U.S. cities, and founded one of
the oldest continuously-operat-
ing architectural firms in Texas.
This collection includes 139 im-
ages depicting 42 projects. Ac-
cess: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/
exhibits/greene/index.html.
UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON LIBRARIES
Early Advertising in the
West
Early Advertising in the West in-
cludes over 450 print advertise-
ments published in local maga-
zines, city directories, and
theater pamphlets from 1867 to
1918. The collection is catego-
rized into thematic groups and
features advertisements about
health care and hygiene prod-
ucts, liquor, tobacco, machinery,
manufacturing, transportation,
fashion, food and household
goods and local tourism. Due
to the lack of government drug
inspection and regulation dur-
ing this era, patent medicines
and medical treatments such
as tonics, tablets and electrical
body belts are well represented.
Access: http://content.lib.washin
gton.edu/advertweb/index.html
U.S. GOVERNMENT
PRINTING OFFICE
Federal Digital System
(FDsys)
This system gives users a one-
stop site to authentic, published
government information. FDsys
allows GPO to receive informa-
tion from federal agencies in all
three branches of government
and create a repository for per-
manent, public access. More
than 154,000 documents are cur-
rently accessible, with addition-
al documents being added daily.
FDsys offers multiple search
capabilities for users: searching
by Congressional Committee, a
Member of Congress, keyword
and date. FDsys will replace
GPOAccess in mid-2009, and re-
Comment and News
leases with additional function-
ality will occur throughout the
next several years. Access FDsys
at: http://fdsys.gpo.gov.
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
LIBRARIES
Global Music Archive:
Digital Collection of East
African Recordings
The Global Music Archive is a
multi-media reference archive
and resource center for tradi-
tional and popular song, music,
and dance of Africa and the
Americas. The GMA’s first data-
base, the Digital Collection of
East African Recordings, consists
of over 2,000 discrete musical
performances recorded by an
East African ethnomusicologist,
Centurio Balikoowa. Access:
http://www.globalmusicarchive
.org/.
VADS (VISUAL ARTS DATA
SERVICE)
Peter King Archiv
This digital archive includes
more than 1100 images of Peter
King’s sculptures in a wide va-
riety of materials as well as his
works on paper, film puppets,
and memorabilia. Access: http:
//www.vads.ac.uk/collections/
PKA.html.
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
Joseph McGarrity Papers
In addition to correspondence,
books, and newspapers, this col-
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lection includes. photographs of
Joseph McGarrity, the McGarrity
family, photographs and plates
of Irish and Irish American lead-
ers, as well as images of Realia
from Joseph McGarrity or col-
lected by him.. Access: http://
digital.library.villanova.edu/.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE
OF LAW – PENCE
LAW LIBRARY
Washington College of
Law Historical Collection
This rich collection documents
the history of the first law
school founded by women for
women. Ellen Spencer Mussey
and Emma M. Gillett founded
the Washington College of Law
in 1896. Access: http://www.
aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/collect/wcl/
wcl.shtml.
ONLINE
PUBLICATIONS
AMERICAN LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION /
ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH
LIBRARIES
A Guide for the
Perplexed: Libraries and
the Google Library Project
Settlement
This document by Jonathan Band
provides an informative sum-
mary of Google’s settlement
with the Association of Ameri-
can Publishers (AAP), and the
Authors Guild. Access: http:
//www.arl.org/bm~doc/google-
settlement-13nov08.pdf.
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ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH
LIBRARIES
The Research Library’s
Role in Digital Repository
Services
This report identifies key issues
surrounding repository develop-
ment, describes strategies that
libraries are using, and analyzes
trends in the user, technology
and policy environments. Strate-
gies for service deployment, such
as building partnerships within
and between institutions, are
also covered.
The report focuses on reposi-
tory services generally, rather
than concentrating on reposito-
ry technologies or content. Re-
pository services include services
to authors, contributors, and us-
ers, particularly of university-cre-
ated content. Some examples of
repository services provided by
research libraries include long-
term archiving and migration of
content, dissemination and ac-
cess management, metadata and
format management, search and
discovery tools, publishing, data
mining, etc. Access: http://www.
arl.org/bm~doc/repository-
services-report.pdf.
BLUE RIBBON TASK FORCE
ON SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL
PRESERVATION AND
ACCESS
Sustaining the Digital
Investment: Issues
and Challenges of
Economically Sustainable
Digital Preservation
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on
Sustainable Digital Preservation
and Access was launched by the
Microform and Imaging Review
National Science Foundation and
the Andrew W. Mellon Foun-
dation in partnership with the
Library of Congress, the Joint In-
formation Systems Committee of
the United Kingdom, the Coun-
cil on Library and Information
Resources, and the National Ar-
chives and Records Administra-
tion.
This interim report places eco-
nomic sustainability in a digital
preservation context, reviews the
literature on the economics of
digital preservation, and in-
cludes testimony from 16 digital
preservation experts. In review-
ing this synthesis, the task force
identified a series of systemic
challenges that create barriers
to long-term, economically vi-
able solutions. The Task Force’s
final report, due in late 2009,
will include practical recommen-
dations for sustainable econom-
ic models to support access and
preservation for digital data.
Access the interim report at:
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_
Interim_Report.pdf.
DIGITAL PRESERVATION
COALITION
What’s New in Digital
Preservation
Compiled by Najla Rettberg,
this excellent current aware-
ness source is divided into
four sections: “News from Or-
ganisations and initiatives,”
“Specific themes” (e.g., “Tools
and standards”), “Other pub-
lications,” and “Events.”. View
the latest issue (September–
ecember 2008) at: http://www.
dpconline.org/graphics/whats
new/issue19.html.
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UNIVERSITY OF
CONNECTICUT LIBRARIES
Digital Project Staff
Survey of JPEG 2000
Implementation in
Libraries
In the fall of 2008, David Lowe
and Michael J. Bennett conduct-
ed a survey of JPEG 2000 imple-
menters (and potential imple-
menters). Survey results (http://
digitalcommons.uconn.edu/libr
_pubs/16/) may be downloaded
as a standalone .xls spreadsheet
file, or viewed in html through
zip file extraction.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
For the Common Good:
The Library of Congress
Flickr Pilot Project
The report details how the Flickr
project has increased awareness
of collections in the Library’s
Prints and Photographs Division
and sparked creative interaction
with them. It has also given Li-
brary staff experience in social
tagging and Web 2.0 communi-
ty input and cast the Library in a
leadership role for other cultur-
al and government communities
exploring Web 2.0 possibilities.
Access: http://www. loc.gov/rr/
print/flickr_report_final.pdf.
Understanding PREMIS
This concise document (26 pages)
by Priscilla Caplan provides an
informative overview of the
PREMIS preservation metadata
standard. Caplan covers data
dictionary conventions, the
PREMIS data model, and the
three requirements for PREMIS
conformance. In addition, she
provides sample data diction-
ary entries for a simple seman-
tic unit and a container unit.
Appendices include a list of all
PREMIS semantic units, an object
example, and a glossary of
terms. Access: http://www.loc.
gov/standards/premis/under
standing-premis.pdf.
CONFERENCES
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES,
September 27 – October 2,
2009, Corfu, Greece
This conference covers a wide
range of topics, including con-
ceptual views of digital librar-
ies; user interfaces; metadata
schemas; digital curation; digi-
tal archiving and preservation;
legal issues; semantic web is-
sues; multilingual information
retrieval; Web 2.0 technologies;
and evaluation of digital librar-
ies. See the conference web site
for more information: http://
www.ecdl2009.eu/.
JOINT CONFERENCE ON
DIGITAL LIBRARIES, June
15–19, 2009 – Austin, Texas
Since 2001, the Joint Conference
on Digital Libraries has served
as the major international fo-
rum focused on digital libraries
and associated technical, practi-
cal, and social issues. JCDL en-
compasses the many meanings
of the term “digital libraries,”
including (but not limited to)
new forms of information in-
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stitutions; operational informa-
tion systems with all manner of
digital content; new means of
selecting, collecting, organiz-
ing, and distributing digital
content; and theoretical models
of information media, including
document genres and electronic
publishing. See the conference
web site for more information:
http://www.jcdl2009.org/.
CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS AND
REPORTS
DIGITAL LIBRARY
FEDERATION FALL FORUM
This forum covered a variety of
digitization topics: digital hu-
manities collaboration; assess-
ment activities for Aquifer’s
American Social History Online;
exposing digital resources to
search engines; the djatoka
JPEG 2000 image server; best
practices for shareable metada-
ta; the Library of Congress Flickr
Pilot Project; a usability study of
the Harvard Geospatial Library;
and digital preservation. Access:
http://www.diglib.org/forums/
fall2008/2008fallprogram.htm.
“ON THE RECORD”: A
FORUM ON ELECTRONIC
MEDIA AND THE
PRESERVATION OF NEWS
The Winter 2008/2009 issue of
Focus on Global Resources in-
cludes summaries of presenta-
tions and discussions held at this
forum. Access: http://www.crl.
edu/focus/toc.asp.
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WORLD LIBRARY AND
INFORMATION CONGRESS:
74TH IFLA GENERAL
CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL
The IFLA conference proceedings
include numerous papers from
presentations on digital pres-
ervation and mass digitization
projects. Other relevant presen-
tations included “The Release of
Canada’s Historic Census” and
“Through the eyes of Louis Shot-
ridge: sharing Alaska’s native
Tlingit history a digital archive
project at Penn.” Access these
papers at: http://www.ifla.org/
IV/ifla74/Programme2008.htm.
2008 NATIONAL DIGITAL
FORUM: CREATING
VALUE IN A DIGITAL NEW
ZEALAND
PowerPoint slides from presen-
tations on Flickr, digitization
standards, digital preservation,
the digitization of special for-
mats (maps, Chinese publica-
tions, and television programs),
and open source options for
digital archiving. Access: http://
ndf.natlib.govt.nz/about/
forum2008.htm
GRANT
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT
FOR THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Hu-
manities (NEH) has announced
$15.7 million in grant awards
and offers to 248 successful ap-
plicants. Grant awards that are
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related to digitization are listed
below. See the press release for
additional information: http://
www.neh.gov/news/archive/
20081218.html.
Bibliographical Center for
Research
Project Title: Digital Preserva-
tion for Digital Collaboratives
Project Description: The imple-
mentation of workshops on
digital preservation designed
specifically for leaders of collab-
orative digital library programs.
Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
Project Title: Case Studies on
Sustainability for Digital Re-
sources in the Humanities
Project Description: A coopera-
tive agreement between NEH
and Ithaka to perform two case
studies on the topic of long-
term sustainability for digital
scholarly projects.
University of Illinois
at Urbana
Project Title: The Institute for
Computing in Humanities, Arts,
and Social Science
Project Description: Endowment
for three staff positions in the
Institute for Computing in the
Humanities, Arts, and Social
Science and support for faculty
workshops and other programs.
University of Virginia
Project Title: High Performance
Computing for Processing and
Analysis of Digitized 3D Models
of Cultural Heritage
Project Description: Consulta-
tion with the staff of the Na-
tional Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center on the crea-
tion of highly accurate three-di-
mensional models for the study
of art and architecture.
Microform and Imaging Review
University of Washington
Project Title: Digital Humanities
Commons
Project Description: Endowment
to support faculty and student
fellowships and graduate cours-
es on digital humanities, other
humanities programs, and a
part-time research assistant.
NATIONAL HISTORICAL
PUBLICATIONS AND
RECORDS COMMISSION
(NHPRC)
In November 2008, the NHPRC
recommended $2.15 million for
23 projects in 13 states and the
District of Columbia for preserv-
ing and publishing historical
records. The following projects
involve digitization.
American Institute of
Physics
Project Title: Digitizing the Sam-
uel A. Goudsmit Papers
Duke University
Project Title: ROAD 2.0: Digitiz-
ing Outdoor Advertising
Railroad Commission of
Texas
Project Title: Digitizing Histori-
cal Oil & Gas Hearing Files
University of Florida
Project Title: America’s Swam:
The Historical Everglades
Project
University of Iowa
Project Title: Henry A. Wallace
Digital Collection Project
University of Minnesota
Project Title: Digitizing the His-
torical Records of the American
Social Health Association
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OTHER
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OMEKA 0.10B RELEASE
The Center for History and New
Media, in partnership with the
Minnesota Historical Society, has
announced a major new release
of its Omeka web publishing
platform, version 0.10b. Omeka
0.10b features:
• Free and open source publish-
ing suite for scholars, librarians,
archivists, museum profession-
als, and cultural enthusiasts
• Unqualified Dublin Core struc-
ture is interoperable with exist-
ing digital collections systems.
• W3C, 508 standards compli-
ant
• Improved exhibit building
• Element sets for institution-
specific metadata sets
• Web 2.0 functionality: Syn-
dicate content with RSS/ATOM
feeds; tag items with keywords;
personalize favorite items; in-
vite users to share in content
creation.
• Plugins: geolocation, bi-lin-
gual sites, user-created content,
document browsing, batch
uploading, or build one to suit
project needs.
• Themes: easily choose, modify,
or build your own site design.
• Data migration tools: Coming
soon for popular content ma-
nagement systems
See the Omeka web site (http://
omeka.org/) for more informa-
tion.
THE UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN AND OCLC
PARTNERSHIP
The University of Michigan and
OCLC have announced that they
have formed a partnership that
will ensure continued public ac-
cess to open-archive collections
through the OAIster database,
and will expand the visibility
of these collections to millions
of information seekers through
OCLC services.
Launched in 2002, OAIster
uses the Open Archives Initia-
tive Protocol for Metadata Har-
vesting (OAI-PMH) to provide
a portal to open archive collec-
tions. OAIster now includes over
19 million records contributed by
over 1,000 organizations world-
wide.
Under the partnership, OAI
ster.org will continue to func-
tion as the public interface to
OAIster collections, through
funding provided by OCLC to
the University of Michigan. Lat-
er in 2009, metadata harvesting
operations will transfer from
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the University of Michigan to
OCLC.
See the press release for
more information: http://www.
oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/
20096.htm.
DIGGING INTO DATA
CHALLENGE
Digging into Data Challenge
(http://www.diggingintodata.
org/) is an international grant
competition sponsored by four
leading research agencies: the
Joint Information Systems Com-
mittee (JISC) from the United
Kingdom, the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities (NEH)
and the National Science Foun-
dation (NSF) from the United
States, and the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Coun-
cil (SSHRC) from Canada.
Applicants will form interna-
tional teams from at least two
of the participating countries,
and will address how scale af-
fects humanities and social sci-
ence research. For instance,
they may answer the question,
“what do you do with a million
books?” Winning teams will re-
ceive grants from two or more
of the funding agencies and,
one year later, will be invited to
show off their work at a special
conference.
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