August 31st, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
Ethnic minorities in Oregon are the subject of this Oregon State University Library website and the collection “consists of images that document the lives and activities of ethnic minorities in Oregon.” With its streamlined homepage, visitors can focus on the collection and how to search or browse through it. Visitors are also welcome to contribute information on any unidentified photographs, by clicking on “Contact Us”, near the bottom of the homepage. In addition, visitors can also click on the “Browse” link to see every one of the 239 items in the collection. Those users with something more specific in mind should use the “Quick Links” drop down box in the top right hand corner of the homepage. Some of the subject areas that can be searched for are “African Americans”, “Indians of North America”, “Mexican Americans”, “Political Parades and Rallies”, and “Powwows”. The “Indexes” available to search are organized into headings like “Photographer”, “Subject” and “Geographic”, and they can be found below the “Quick Links” drop down box.
Access: http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/cdm4/client/cultural/index.html
Tags: Ethnic Minorities
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August 31st, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
Most people may have a sense of how American newspapers reported on the Civil War, but how did journalists over in London approach this four year conflict? The people at the Beck Center at Emory University, in collaboration with Sandra J. Still and Emily E. Katt, created this digital archive of the Illustrated London News during the Civil War years. The initial phase of this archive began in 1988 when Still and Katt began to collect the ten bound volumes of the Illustrated London News that they would eventually digitize with the assistance of the Beck Center. On the homepage, visitors can look over the various articles from the London News by clicking on the “Articles” area and then view the accompanying illustrative material that accompanied each article in the “Illustrations” area of the site. Visitors are also welcome to search the entire text or illustrations via a convenient search engine.
Access: http://beck.library.emory.edu/iln/index.html
Tags: American Civil War (1861-1865)
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August 26th, 2009 by Daniel Goldstein
Save details to image groups
In response to feedback from our user community, ARTstor has released two new features in the Digital Library. You will now see an icon in the ARTstor Image Viewer that allows you to zoom in and save a particular detail of an image to an image group. With this new feature, full views and multiple details of an image may appear together in any given group, as well as be exported for use in the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) or PowerPoint. This ability to save and share multiple views of the same image helps to meet the many teaching, research, and presentation needs of the ARTstor community.
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Nested folders
ARTstor has also enhanced the functionality of folders in the Digital Library. Instructor-level users can now create nested sub-folders that can be moved easily from one folder to another by dragging and dropping. For example, you can build draft versions of your image groups in a private folder and simply drag them to a public folder when they are ready to be shared. The addition of nested folders allows you to organize ARTstor content in ways that are meaningful and intuitive to you
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July 24th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
The New York Public Library’s excellent online exhibit on the year of gay liberation opens with an inviting digital poster with all the names of the gay liberation groups represented in the exhibit. Visitors can click anywhere on the poster to enter the exhibit. Take a look at the “Introduction” to learn about the history of gay liberation groups. About half a dozen or so of the groups are featured on the left side of the page, and the visitor can click on each one to read the story of their involvement in the gay liberation movement. Visitors who will be in New York City July through November can catch the “Traveling Panel Exhibition” at various libraries throughout the city, however, those visitors who won’t be anywhere near the Big Apple during those months, can “Download a PDF of the Panel Exhibition”. Finally, visitors should definitely not miss out on the link to the “LGBT Resources at the NYPL”, located in the lower left hand corner of the page. There are collections devoted to LGBT health, seniors, history and teens, as well as a list of other digital collections that are available.
Access: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/1969/
Tags: Gay Liberation Movement, LGBT
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July 24th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
As this website declares, “The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum celebrates women’s progress toward equality and their continuing contributions to our society.” Located on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., it holds the National Woman’s Party (NWP) historic collection of “records and artifacts that document the mass political movement for women’s full citizenship in the 20th century, both in the United States and throughout the world.” The physical and digital collection of the NWP consists of suffrage banners, the Suffragist magazine, political cartoons, and historic objects of women important to the suffrage movement, such as the chair of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the desk used by Alice Paul to write the Equal Rights Amendment. Visitors interested in browsing the collection can click on the “Browse Collection” tab at the top of the page to start browsing. The four time periods, “Suffrage”, “Equal Rights”, “International”, and “Contemporary”, are available to browse, and there is an interesting feature that allows the visitor to learn more about the period, before choosing one, by rolling their mouse over the title of a period. After visitors have chosen the period, the media type and media subtype can be chosen–everything from “Artifacts” “to “Sculptures” to “Records”.
Access: http://www.nwpcollection.org/NWPArchWeb/index.jsp
Tags: Citizenship, Civics, Primary Sources
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July 17th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
Columbia University Libraries is pleased to establish the Tharchin Collection, dedicated to the memory of Gegen Dorje Tharchin (1889-1976), also known as “Tharchin Babu.” As founder of the Tibet Mirror Press in Kalimpong, India, Gegen Dorje Tharchin was the renowned editor of the Tibet Mirror and many other Tibetan-language publications which circulated among Tibetan readers on both sides of the Himalayas, and as far as New York, from the early 1920s through the late 1960s. The Tibet Mirror (Tib. Yul phyogs so so’i gsar ‘gyur me long) was published from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong, and chronicles the most dramatic social and political transformation to have occurred in Tibet during a time when vernacular writing was relatively scarce, and a Tibetan media practically non-existent. The paper also relayed information about World War II, the independence of India, and other global news to Tibetan readers in Lhasa, Gyantse, Kham, etc., and to traders and aristocrats who frequently traveled from Lhasa via the Chumbi Valley to Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Calcutta. In 2007, Paul Hackett (Ph.D., Religious Studies, Columbia University) and Christina Harris (Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, City University of New York) donated to the C.V. Starr East Asian Library a total of 97 unique issues of the Tibet Mirror, representing nearly 30% of the paper’s full run. With assistance from Columbia University Libraries’ Preservation Department and Digital Programs Division, these holdings were microfilmed and digitally scanned for online public access. The cornerstone of the Tharchin Collection is comprised of the newspaper holdings and their digital presentation.
Access: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_6981643_000/index.html
Tags: Newspapers
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June 18th, 2009 by Daniel Goldstein
“The California Digital Library has licensed three huge segments of the vendor Archivision’s fantastic images of architecture and public art for all UC campuses. The Archivision Base Collection has 16,370 images “representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites”. Archivision Module One has 5,893 images that build on the above periods and also includes Ancient and Islamic Egypt. Archivision Module Two has 6,395 images of Early Modern and 
Modern European architecture, Islamic Turkey, and more US sites. All the collections include drawings and plans that complement Scott Gilchrist’s stunning photographs. You can explore the more than 28,000 new images through ARTstor – look under “Institutional Collections”. (text courtesy UCSB’s VRC blog, the Red Dot.)
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May 30th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth’s easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies.
Access: http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
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May 30th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web. The database provides links to a growing number of manuscripts. Basic information about the manuscripts is fully searchable, and users can also browse through the complete contents of the database. As the project develops, a richer body of information for each manuscript, and the texts in these codices, will be provided, where available.
The Catalogue first began to take form in Christopher Baswell’s talk at the MLA conference in December, 2005. Generous support by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) at the University of California, Los Angeles, has enabled Professors Matthew Fisher and Christopher Baswell to develop this site, and make it publicly available in its current form through the CMRS web site. An additional grant from the UCHRI (University of California Humanities Research Institute) made possible additional data entry, and substantive refinements to the back-end technologies in place.
Access: http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/index.php
Tags: Medieval Manuscripts
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May 29th, 2009 by Roberto C. Delgadillo
In an effort to chronicle the garments worn by men and women (especially those of the middle classes) during the 16th century, Dr. Jane Malcolm-Davies at the Textile Conservation Centre at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton has undertaken the task of photographing and analyzing effigies. The result is a wonderful database of images offering detailed information on Tudor dress. The effigy images are in chronological order from 1510 to 1604. Detailed information for each image includes the name of the deceased, a description of the monument and clothing depicted, and the geographical location of the effigy. More than 150 different effigies are represented.
Access: http://www.tudoreffigies.co.uk/default.asp
Tags: Effigies, Tudor Costume, Tudor England
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