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Digital Collections and Digital Libraries
- Historical
Collection (Chicago State University)
- Chicago State University’s digital library of historical
images and information includes the history of the institution to 1979,
yearbooks, historical photographs of buildings and memorabilia from the era of progressive education. A collection of 18 flip books (and other formats) rounds out this digital collection.
URL: http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_csu_digi.php?CISOROOT=/csu_digi
- A History: Chicago State University, 1867–1979
- This is the official history of Chicago State University. Part I was
written by Edmund W. Kearney, a Professor of History, in 1969. The section
on the 1970s was written by E. Maynard Moore, an Assistant Vice President
at CSU, and appeared in 1979. This is an authoritative account of the
first 110 years of the university’s existence.
URL: A History: Chicago
State University, 1867–1979
URL: A
History: Chicago State University, 1867–1979
Other Popular Digital Collections
- OAISTER
- OAISTER is a union catalog of over 20 million records from over 1,000
contributers.
- Project Gutenberg
- An authoritative collection of works, many of which are extremely old
and/or rare. Contains free electronic books and many other types, including
digitized sheet music. Full text and thorough bibliographic details
are available for all.
Example: You can read Moby Dick (and most others)
on your Palm or Smartphone!
- Academic Earth
- Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars
URL: http://www.idal.illinois.edu/
- Chopin Early Editions
- A collection of digital images of early printed editions of musical
compositions by Frédéric Chopin. This collection was created
by the University of Chicago Library and, once completed, will include
its entire collection of over 400 Chopin early editions.
URL: http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu/
- Music Information Retrieval Research
- Virtual home of music information retrieval research.
URL: http://www.music-ir.org/
- A Digital Archive for Sudan
- The Sudan Open Archive provides free digital access to contemporary
and historical knowledge about Sudan. The initial version of the Archive
consists primarily of technical reports and unpublished grey literature
from the history of aid in Sudan, covering the period from the start
of Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) in 1989 to the present day.
URL: http://www.sudanarchive.net/
- State Library
of Tasmania Sheet Music Collection
- This site makes available about two hundred items from the rich holdings
of printed music in the State Library of Tasmania's Heritage Collections.
They range from the 1840s to the 1930s and include pieces for piano
and other instruments, brass band arrangements and songs of all sorts
- popular, sacred, patriotic, and even songs written to encourage tourists
to come to Tasmania.
URL: http://greenstone.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/
- Great
Lakes Shipping Database
- Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. Marine Historical Collection at University
of Detroit Mercy. Documents, publications, photographs, and negatives
collected by a Jesuit professor over a seventy year period dealing with
all aspects of Great Lakes Shipping from 1850 to the present day.
URL: http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=shipping
About Digital Collections
- D-Lib e-Magazine
- This on line publication is devoted to research and development of
digital libraries.
URL: http://www.dlib.org/
- International Federation
of Library Associations (IFLA)
- IFLA is the global voice of the library and information profession.
Their digital library site provides collections and resources of utility.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm
- Who
will create the metadata for the Internet?
- A librarian once said that “The OCLC wants
to catalog the Internet. Isn’t that like cataloging clouds?” A
discussion of issues surrounding problems and controversies with development
of metadata for the Internet.
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_12/thomas/index.html
- Art, Design, Architecture,
and Media
- This is a controlled Gateway to an Art and Architecture Thesaurus.
The developers discuss the issues surrounding the difficulty of providing
guides to information on the ’net.
URL: http://www.adam.ac.uk/adam/index.html
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