{"id":1542,"date":"2012-11-09T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2012-11-09T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:06:53","slug":"harvard-to-contribute-special-collections-materials-to-digital-public-library-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/11\/09\/harvard-to-contribute-special-collections-materials-to-digital-public-library-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard to Contribute Special Collections Materials to Digital Public Library of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 31, 2012\u2014<a title=\"The Harvard Library\" href=\"http:\/\/library.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Harvard Library<\/a> plans to share several collections with the\u00a0<a title=\"Digital Public Library of America\" href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digital Public Library of America<\/a> (DPLA)\u2014becoming the first DPLA content hub.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Library contains a wealth of special collections, and is dedicated to providing open access to them, where possible, through digitization and online dissemination. Through its collaboration with the DPLA, Harvard will contribute to global access to knowledge by linking to select digitized special collections.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Darnton, Harvard University Librarian and DPLA Steering Committee member, noted, \u201cBy making their special collections available to the public through the DPLA, research libraries can contribute mightily to the democratization of access to knowledge.\u00a0 Harvard\u2019s collections, built up since 1638, form the largest university library in the country. \u00a0By supporting the DPLA, we will make the choicest items in them accessible to everyone in America\u2014and eventually, we hope, to everyone in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to the DPLA\u2019s call, the Harvard Library is actively exploring what collections it could contribute.\u00a0 Work remains to be done on various fronts before a final decision is made about specific collections, but the Harvard Library looks forward to making a number of its collections available to the DPLA.\u00a0 Among them, the following have already been digitized and could be available to the DPLA before its launch in April 2013:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Colonial Harvard<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 An online guide and an expanding digital data base with thousands of items\u2014diaries, commonplace books, correspondence, legal documents, University records, drawings, maps, student notebooks, scientific observations and lecture notes\u2014that form the documentary history of Harvard and serve as one of the great social history collections on the evolving United States.<\/li>\n<li><em>Daguerreotypes<\/em>.\u00a0 Harvard\u2019s 3,500 daguerreotypes gathered in an online collection.\u00a0 The images include some of the earliest photographs of the moon, views of the first use of ether and rare portraits of African-born slaves.<\/li>\n<li><em>Digital Scores and Libretti<\/em>.\u00a0 First and early editions and manuscripts of works by J.S. Bach (and family), Mozart, Schubert and others.<\/li>\n<li><em>Zoology<\/em>.\u00a0 The Jacques Burkhardt Collection comprising 976 scientific drawings of fish and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates.\u00a0 The collection also includes field notes, correspondence, diaries, photographs and specimen records from Louis Agassiz\u2019s 15-month Brazil expedition in 1865-66.<\/li>\n<li><em>Digital Maps<\/em>.\u00a0 Over 1,000 maps and atlases, many georeferenced for use in GIS.\u00a0 Includes maps of New England towns, London, China, pictorial maps by Ernest Dudley Chase, fire-insurance and real-property atlases and maps from the Revolutionary War.<\/li>\n<li><em>Trial Narratives<\/em>.\u00a0 More than 450 pamphlets and chapbooks printed in the United States and the United Kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century.\u00a0 They recount trials for murder, rape, divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry and the custody of children.<\/li>\n<li><em>Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts<\/em>.\u00a0 More than 75 rare works in English, French, German, Italian, and Greek.\u00a0 From the collection of Houghton Library, these manuscripts reflect a broad range of subjects in history, literature, religion, science and geography.\u00a0 This selection also includes richly illuminated books of hours used for private devotion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/ht.ly\/f2sQz\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 31, 2012\u2014The Harvard Library plans to share several collections with the\u00a0Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)\u2014becoming the first DPLA content hub. 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