- A History: Chicago State University 1867-1979
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This developing site contains a written history and illustrations from the early history of the institution.
The book is available in two representations.
Popular and Requested Digital Collections
- 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!
Digital Collections from the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)
- Digital Library, Chicago State University
- Chicago State University’s developing digital library.
- SASKIA Art Images Collection
- This collection purchased by CARLI contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, as well as archaeological sites.
- The Jack Bradley Photojournalism Collection (Bradley University)
- The Cullom-Davis Library at Bradley University holds over 1,000 images in Special Collections which were donated by Jack Bradley, a retired photographer for the Peoria Journal Star.
- The Argus, 2004- (Illinois Wesleyan University)
- This collection of The Argus, Illinois Wesleyan University's student-run newspaper, begins with the Spring 2004 issues.
- John Wesley Powell Collection of Pueblo Pottery (Illinois Wesleyan University)
- This collection of over 100 specimens of pottery and a few wooden and basketry objects was presented to Illinois Wesleyan University in the mid 1880's.
- World War II Correspondence (Illinois Wesleyan University)
- A collection of letters written by former IWU faculty member Fred "Bud" Brian to members of his family during his time in the Army Air Corps: 1943-1945. Many of these letters contain drawings and some have photographs and telegrams associated with them.
- The Doc Horrell Photo Collection (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
- The Special Collections Research Center in Morris Library holds the entire collection of photographs made by Southern Illinois photographer C. William "Doc" Horrell documenting the region's coal mines and those who worked in them.
- Campus Archival Documents (University of Illinois at Springfield)
- This collection includes documents pertaining to the history of Sangamon State University (1970-1995) and its successor, the University of Illinois at Springfield (1995-present).
- Campus News Archives (University of Illinois at Springfield)
- Includes the newsletter SSU Journal (1973-1982), the newsletter SSU/UIS Weekly (1984-2002), and the SSU Alumni Association magazine Sangamon (1973-1976).
- Local History Resources (University of Illinois at Springfield)
- This collection features selected resources relating to the history of Springfield and central Illinois drawn from Archives/Special Collections in Norris L Brookens Library at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
- Manuscripts and Special Collections (University of Illinois at Springfield)
- This collection features selected manuscript, printed material, and archival collections drawn from Archives/Special Collections in Norris L Brookens Library at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
- Outstanding Student Masters' Theses (University of Illinois at Springfield)
- This collection includes Masters' Theses that won or were nominated for the annual UIS Outstanding Thesis Award, starting in 2005.
Other Online Collections and Resources
- Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL)
- IDAL emphasises electronic resources and services that support “instruction,
study, and research by students, faculty and staff in all eligible Illinois
higher education institutions.”
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
