January 04, 2006
New Resources at UWDC, January 2006
The following new resources were recently added to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. For more information about digital resources at UW, contact Peter Gorman (pgorman@library.wisc.edu) or visit the UWDC Web site at http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu.
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September 30, 2005
International Children's Digital Library
Found this amazing digital collection of children's books via Jen Robinson's blog librarisaurus rex.
The International Children's Digital Library is a 5-year research project at the University of Maryland. The primary goal is to create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet.
So far, the collection includes a little over 800 works. What I find so wonderful about this online collection is how it focuses on their primary user group, children 3-13. Adults are included in the list of user groups, but are not considered primary. Love that.
For a closer look at the user interface, read the rest of this entry.
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September 23, 2005
La Crosse History Unbound
Everything you ever wanted to know about La Crosse...and more! Organized by the La Crosse Public Library and the Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse History Unbound presents over 180 primary and secondary source materials, easily browsed by subject categories with a separate author and title list. The site contains everything from a study of Oneonta Food Storage Technology and an 1866 city directory, to a film clip from a 1913 parade.
Link: http://www.lacrossehistory.org/
Thanks Erika!
September 16, 2005
Green Bay Packer Yearbooks
Got some feedback from Society staff wondering if I was going to publicize the great digital content that we put online. Good idea, great idea in fact. So, I've created a category called "Tootin' Our Horn" and will make it a weekly addition.
This week's "Toot" goes to the addition of Green Bay Packer Yearbooks to the Turning Points in Wisconsin History collection. The Yearbooks cover 1960 through 1967, and include the glory years under Vince Lombardi.
Go Packers!
1962 Packer Yearbook cover photo showing Vince Lombardi being carried off the field by his team
September 01, 2005
The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946
This collection presents searchable data, digitized audio and visual
materials from two collections. including field recordings, notes, and photographs made during the summers of 1940, 1941, and 1946 by
UW-Madison faculty member Helene Stratman-Thomas for the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project; and recordings collected by song catcher Sidney Robertson Cowell during the summer of 1937 for the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration.
The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946 presents valuable
information about each folksong and audio files of many original
performances. There are also transcribed melodies, lyrics, performance photographs, and critical commentary listing concordant sources for the tunes and excerpts of field notes by the collector(s). Over 900 performances representing more than thirty ethnic or geographical sources are included. While vocal music predominates, instruments such as the accordion, guitar, Hardanger fiddle, psalmodikon, and tamburica are also presented.
Link:http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WiscFolkSong
August 01, 2005
History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life
This collection, provided by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, the documents Wisconsin’s agricultural history and rural life from 1870 through 1945. Publications from professional organizations, handbooks, and other reports present articles and statistics related to agricultural engineering and economics, animal and plant sciences, forestry, and rural education and sociology.
Included within these resources is a fascinating array of unexpected
topics. Search publications from the Wisconsin Farmers' Institute, The Wisconsin Cheesemaker’s Association or Northern Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechanical Association, to discover a recipe for egg lemonade; "He Didn’t Sell," a poem about not selling the family farm; The Romance of the Swiss Cheese Industry in Wisconsin; and a detailed account of Hog Cholera and Swine Plague. Early 20th century Wisconsin women’s experiences and opinions are also represented in several articles that present an appeal for more education and vocational opportunities for rural females including "Farmer’s Daughters," "Why Girls Should Study Domestic Science" and "What We Girls Want."
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July 26, 2005
IMLS Digital Collections Registry
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has developed a Digital Collections Registry of projects funded through the IMLS National Leadership Grant Program. Users can browse by subject, Object, Place, Title of Collections, Grant Project Name and Hosting Institution. You can also search all metadata fields.
The results page not only provides information on the digital collection, but also information on the hosting institution and project background. A nice addition.
A search of Wisconsin institutions found two entries. First, the Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent Collection developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison. Library (just a hop, skip and jump over the fountain to the east from WHS); and Second, American Journeys Collection developed by us, the Wisconsin Historical Society.
We need some more of this Wisconsin! Let's get going.
