MCLS Communique

March’s Featured CONTENTdm Collections

March 17th, 2010 Kelly Bayee

This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site.  The featured collections for March are Bethine Church Collection, John Muir Correspondence, Charlotte Harbor Area Historical Society and Ulysses Samuel (U.S.) Cleveland Collection, and Edward J. McCauley Photographs.

Included in the collection information below is a link 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.

Bethine Church Collection – http://digital.boisestate.edu/cdm4/index_bchurch.php?CISOROOT=/bchurch

[WorldCat Registry] Boise State University – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/772

The Bethine Church Digital Collection provides access to photographs of Bethine Church, wife of the late U.S. Senator Frank Church.  The collection includes photographs of Bethine’s extraordinary life as a wife, mother, as the ‘third senator’ from Idaho due to her active participation in public life during her husband’s tenure in the Senate, as well as her recent accomplishments in the Idaho Democratic Party, Sawtooth Mountain Recreation Area, and Sawtooth Society.

John Muir Correspondence – http://library.pacific.edu/ha/digital/muircorrespondence/

[WorldCat Registry] University of the Pacific – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/360

This collection consists of the correspondence of pioneering environmentalist John Muir from 1856-1914.  The vast majority of the letters were sent and received by Muir, although the collection also includes some correspondence of selected family members and colleagues.  Muir’s correspondence offers a unique first-hand perspective on his thoughts and experiences, as well as those of his correspondents, which include many notable figures in scientific, literary, and political circles of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Charlotte Harbor Area Historical Society and Ulysses Samuel (U.S.) Cleveland Collection – http://ccflhistory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/p15007coll1

[WorldCat Registry] Charlotte County Library System – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/8969

U.S. Cleveland was a celebrated Florida author and historian.  In 2004, Mr. Cleveland’s home was destroyed by Hurricane Charley.  Afterwards, he donated the remains of his vast collection of photographs and historical artifacts to the Charlotte County Historical Center for preservation and display.

Edward J. McCauley Photographs – http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/mccauley/

[WorldCat Registry] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2147

Edward Johnson McCauley (1926-2003) was a photojournalist and life-long resident of Burlington, North Carolina.  He spent more than twenty years on the staff of the Burlington Daily Times-News, covering a wide variety of events in Burlington, across Alamance County, and in other parts of North Carolina.  This digital collection contains a selection of images from the Edward J. McCauley Photographic Materials taken between the years 1952 and 1972, mostly for the Burlington Daily Times-News.  A majority of the images in this digital collection center around political campaigns and elections as well as other events in and around Alamance County, North Carolina.

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