MCLS Communique

April’s Featured CONTENTdm Collections

April 9th, 2010 Kelly Bayee

This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site.  The featured collections for April are The Southern: Florida Southern College’s Student Newspaper, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection, and H. L. Bolley Photograph Collection.

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.

The Southern: Florida Southern College’s Student Newspaper – http://archives.flsouthern.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/Southern

[WorldCat Registry] Florida Southern College – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/596

This collection contains issues of The Southern newspaper, Florida Southern College’s student newspaper, from 1908 to the present.  Newspapers published during the construction of the Child of the Sun structures (1935-1959), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, were cataloged first.  Note: Some issues are lost.

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) – http://twudigital.cdmhost.com/cdm4/index_p214coll2.php?CISOROOT=/p214coll2

[WorldCat Registry] Texas Woman’s University – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2944

The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Collection represents the official archive of the post-war organization of the WASP of World War II, donated to Texas Woman’s University in 1992 and added to by members who served in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, the Women’s Flying Training Detachment, and the meshing of those two organizations to create the WASP.  The collection includes over 300 oral histories, 3,000 images, and over 300 separate collections of manuscripts, clothing and textiles, and artifacts.

Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection – http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/index_car.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcar

[WorldCat Registry] Virginia Commonwealth University – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/113670

These 15 oral history interviews deal with the history and culture of Carver, a primarily working class African American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia, just north of VCU’s Monroe Park campus.  The interviews were originally recorded in 2000 as part of a grant funded project described as a “Living Newspaper.”

H. L. Bolley Photograph Collection -  http://library.ndsu.edu/digital/bolley-photograph-collection/

[WorldCat Registry] North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives – http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2205

The H. L. Bolley Photograph Collection consists of lantern slides taken by Professor Henry Luke Bolley, Dean of Biology and Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology at North Dakota Agricultural College.  Most of these images were taken in 1903, when the College and the United States Department of Agriculture funded a trip to allow Bolley to study the chief flax growing areas in Holland, Belgium, Northern Germany, and Russia.

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