MCLS Communique

June’s Featured CONTENTdm Collections

June 14th, 2010 Kelly Bayee

This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site.  The featured collections for June are Albertsons Library Digital Collections, Dakota Lithographs and Engravings, Utonian Yearbooks and Fort Wayne Area Economic Development.

The organization names below are linked to each organization’s record, if available, in the OCLC WorldCat Registry.  OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.

Albertsons Library Digital Collections
Boise State University

This collection contains photos, documents, maps, and other resources from the Special Collections at Albertsons Library at Boise State University in Idaho.  The materials document the history, culture, and people of Idaho and the American West.

Dakota Lithographs and Engravings
North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives

The Institute for Regional Studies has acquired over time a small collection of original lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts published in nineteenth-century periodicals that help document the early settlement era in North Dakota.  The collection includes images of the bonanza farm era, Indians, weather, politics, and small-town life.  Almost the entire collection has been digitized and is available online.  The high resolution image versions have been mounted for this collection, enabling the researcher to view each image in greater detail.

Utonian Yearbooks
University of Utah

The Utonian is the annual yearbook of the University of Utah.  This collection created by the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University includes digitized versions of the Utonian from 1905 to 1981.  The yearbooks are all full text searchable and are presented using JPEG2000 images.

Fort Wayne Area Economic Development
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne; IPFW

The Fort Wayne Area Economic Development digital collection highlights the planning and economic development documents and reports, maps and data for Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana.  The collection is a collaborative project between the IPFW Community Research Institute and IPFW’s Helmke Library.

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