Digital Collections Bibliography

Resources for Learning About Digital Collections
at the University of Connecticut

Of Special Note:

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE: builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide. Sponsored by The Library, UC Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

Digital Library Federation. http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm

Hazen, Dan, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill-Oldham. Selecting Research Collections for Digitization (CLIR, 1999): http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html

Smith, Abbey, Why Digitize (CLIR, 1999): http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html

Also Worthwhile:

Conservation Online Digital Imaging list. http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/imaging/

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. http://www.ninch.org/

International Journal on Digital Libraries. http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/index.htm

Center for the Study of Digital Libraries at Texas A&M. http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/

Brown University, Scholarly Technology Group: Supports the development and use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching, and scholarly communication. STG pursues this mission by exploring new technologies and practices, developing specialized tools and techniques, and providing consulting and project management services to academic projects.http://www.stg.brown.edu/stg.html

Harvard University Library Digital Initiative Website, an information-rich site that describes the technical and organizational infrastructure behind Harvard's ambitious digital initiative. Despite the difference in scale, there's much here that we can learn from. The homepage is available at http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/index.html . Papers on the Digital Repository model are at http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/repository.html. A call for Projects and Project Guidelines is at http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/current_call.html. "Advice" (i.e., technical information and standards) on metadata and reformatting is at http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/advice.html

Buckland, Michael. Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Library/Redesigning/html.html (with a supplement at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Library/Redesigning/supplement.html)

Social Aspects of Digital Libraries: and invitational workshop held at UCLA, February 15-17, 1996.http://www-lis.gseis.ucla.edu/DL/UCLA_DL_Report.html

Conway, Paul. Preservation in the Digital World. (1996)http://www.clir.org/cpa/reports/conway2/

Examples of Digital Collections

Of Special Note:

American Memory, Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL): a library of technical reports, some of which are on the Cornell server, others on servers at participating universities. A classic model for distributing technical material. http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/

University of Virginia Libraries, Special Collections Digital Center. Serves the teaching and research mission of the University of Virginia by providing digital access to the resources of the Special Collections Department of the University Library. The Center's users include faculty, students, and staff of the University of Virginia as well as researchers from other universities, colleges, and scholarly institutions. In addition to responding to direct user requests, the Center has undertaken a number of library-sponsored projects, such as digital exhibitions, and works in cooperation with other organizations and centers on Grounds to further the mission of the University. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/scdc.html

University of Virginia Libraries, Electronic Text Center. Seeks to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML texts and images, and to build and maintain a user community adept at the creation and use of these materials. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Also Worthwhile:

Cornell Institute for Digital Collections. http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries provide electronic access to portions of the congressional papers from the late U.S. Senator John Heinz (R-PA). Named in the senator's memory, the Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS) allows researchers to currently search, browse, view and print over 648,000 digital images from the Senator H. John Heinz III Archives. http://heinz1.library.cmu.edu/HELIOS/

Library and archival exhibitions on the web. http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/online-exhibitions-title.htm

Documenting the American South: a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. The Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors DAS. http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/index.html

Everglades Digital Library integrates various kinds of resources -- research reports, historical materials, and course materials -- under a broad concept. Largely but not exclusively text-based. http://everglades.fiu.edu/library/index.html.

Cleveland State University, Cleveland Digital Library. http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/

The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program is an effort to preserve, digitize, and provide access to significant archival and library collections. The DLP transfers rare and unique Virginia materials into an integrated, user-friendly electronic research environment. Since its inception in 1995, the Program has digitized more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80 fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids. http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm

Florida International University Digital Library Project. http://www.fiu.edu/~diglib/

New York Public Library Digital Library Collection. http://digital.nypl.org/

Central New York Library Resources Council. http://clrc.org/digindex.htm

Yale University: Imaging America. http://www.library.yale.edu/art/about.html and Project Open Book, a research and development program that explored the feasibility and costs of large-scale conversion of preserved material from microfilm to digital imagery. http://www.library.yale.edu/preservation/pobweb.htm

Created by L. K. Smith, 5.11.00
Revised by H. Abbey, 11.27.00
Last Updated: Monday, February 23, 2004