Benthic
Marine Algal Herbarium of Long Island Sound
Project Managers: Shelley Cudiner and Nancy Gillies, University
of Connecticut Libraries (Stamford)
Project Summary: This database is being created to produce an
identification database of collected and pressed specimens of algae
from the Long Island Sound for teaching purposes while at the same time
creating an image archive for UConn’s algal herbarium. The image archive
and compendium document all benthic marine macro algae species in the
Long Island Sound.
Charles
Olson's Melville Project
Project Manager: Melissa Watterworth, Curator of Literary and
Natural History Collections, Archives & Special Collections, Thomas
J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
Project Summary: In December 2001, the University of Connecticut's
Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
was awarded $40,000 by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to clean
and make accessible a series of hand-written cards produced by the poet
Charles Olson. The cards represent Olson's efforts to transcribe the
marginalia in hundreds of books owned by Herman Melville.
Colonial
Connecticut Records (CCR)
Project Manager: David Avery, Facilities Librarian, Director's
Office and Administrative Services,
University of Connecticut Libraries
Project Summary:
This digital collection is a searchable database of scanned images which
reproduce the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776,
Volumes 1-15. A new phase of the project is currently in development
which will provide full-text search capabilities throughout the 15 volumes.
Connecticut
Bibliography
Project Manager: Richard Bleiler, Humanities Bibliographer and
Library Liaison to English, German, Medieval Studies, and Philosophy,
Collections Services, University
of Connecticut Libraries
Project Summary: The Connecticut Bibliography contains approximately
10,000 citations to books and journal articles that discuss Connecticut
history and identity. These citations reference material published from
the early 18th century until the early 1980s and are derived from Connecticut:
A Bibliography of Its History (Hanover: University Press of New
England, 1986), volume 6 of the Bibliographies of New England History
compiled by the Committee for a New England Bibliography.
Connecticut
History Online (CHO)
Project Managers: Thomas Wilsted is the CHO Project Director.
This project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
(IMLS), is a collaborative effort by the Connecticut Historical Society,
Connecticut State Library, Mystic Seaport, New Haven Colony Historical
Society, and the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of
Connecticut Libraries. Phase I of the project is now complete. Phase
II of the project began in January 2003 and, when finished in late 2005,
will include many new materials and formats including broadsides and
maps. Many staff members throughout the University of Connecticut Libraries
have contributed to CHO.
Project Summary: CHO is an ongoing digital library project which
currently consists of 19th and 20th century photographs, drawings and
prints from three institutions depicting social, business, political,
educational, cultural and civic life with curriculum materials for grades
7-12. The website contains over 14,000 images. Geographical sites may
be searched using a Digital Geographic Locator developed by the University
of Connecticut's Map and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC).
Connecticut
Institute of Water Resources: Special Reports
Project Manager: Jonathan Nabe, Reference Librarian/Liaison to
the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University
of Connecticut Libraries
Project Summary: This is one of the library's newest digital
collections which makes available the Special Reports of the Connecticut
Institute of Water Resources (IWR). A total of 38 reports published
between 1966 to 2002 are now available online.
Digital
Collections Online (DCO)
Project Managers: Heidi N. Abbey, Digital Collections Librarian,
and Kathy Labadorf, Undergraduate Services/Reference Librarian at the
University of Connecticut Libraries
Project Summary: This resource includes information about and
links to digital collections worldwide, which range in subject from
classic American sheet music and Connecticut history to George Washington's
papers at the Library of Congress and Victorian literature. The database
currently contains over 200 collections and will be updated on a continual
basis.
Invasive
Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE)
Project Managers: In its pilot phase, the project manager from
the Libraries was Carolyn Mills, Reference Liaison Librarian, Life Sciences,
University of Connecticut Libraries. The project is now supported by
a grant from the USDA. Partners involved in the project include: the
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department of the University of Connecticut,
the University of Connecticut Libraries, the University of Connecticut
Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, the Silvio O. Conte
Refuge of the U.S. Fish & Wild Life Service, and the New England
Wildflower Society.
Project Summary: IPANE is a multi-faceted project designed to
provide comprehensive and up-to-date information about invasive plants
in New England. The goals of the project are to facilitate education
and research leading to a greater understanding of the dynamics of plant
invasions, and to support the early detection of new invasions, which
will enable rapid management responses. The project includes a web-accessible
atlas with images and descriptive information for the invasive and potentially
invasive plants in New England. Collection databases constructed from
herbarium specimens and current field records document the dates and
locations of invasive plant occurrences, making it possible to generate
maps that depict the distribution and spread of invasive plants across
New England.
Steam
and Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad
Project Manager: Laura Katz Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad,
Labor and Ethnic Heritage and Immigration Collections, Archives &
Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut
Libraries
Project Summary: The 460 black-and-white photographs that comprise
this digital collection are from the Fred Otto Makowsky Collection,
held in Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research
Center of the University of Connecticut Libraries. The photographs document
steam and electric locomotives owned and operated by the New York, New
Haven, and Hartford Railroad from the 1870s to the mid-1900s.
Scanned
Maps of Connecticut, 1676-1930
Project Manager: Sarah Mindel, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian,
Map & Geographic Information
Center (MAGIC), University of Connecticut Libraries. Please Note:
This project was created and managed by Patrick McGlamery, the former
Map Librarian.
Project Summary: MAGIC's historical map collection consists of
395 digitized maps of Connecticut, Long Island Sound, New England, the
Northeast Atlantic region, and the United States, from the period 1676-1930.
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Last Updated:
Thursday, June 29, 2006
