What Other Universities Are Doing
The following is a brief set of links to webpages that support special collections at other universities.
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America's library displays its special collection of manusrcipts, liturgies, rare books and art.
Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library: click on their "Subject Guides" to view synopses of the items in their special collection.
Yale University offers an array of various special collections, most of which are elegantly displayed. Pay attention to the Judaica Collection; notice their "Book Jacket Gallery", similar to our "Featured Books" page.
The University of Virginia includes a large, powerful special collections side to their website. The site provides electronic text, or full-text articles, manuscripts and even books online. Check out the Hebrew Resources.
The University of Pennsylvania's special collections main page provides links to brief descriptions of some collections as well as "Finding Guides" to specific items of others, which include the scope and content of the item and a biographical sketch of its author.
Using a slightly different approach, Harvard University publicizes its special collections through the pages of their rare book and manuscript library. Here, only brief descriptions of the collections appear, but they urge you to reference the university's online library search and database for detailed desciptions of collection holdings and catalogs (they provide instuctions on how to search for that particular item).
Princeton University lists all their collections as well as library departments on one page. Their special collections and rare books collection are a link from that page.
Revisions
Summer '99: The Summer '99 revisions were devoted to the Donors pages in order to give a broader and more thorough overview of the work of S.L. and Eileen Shneiderman. The revisions include the addition of more books and accompanying descriptions, a much expanded bibliography of Mr. Shneiderman's English articles, a page about his documentary The Last Chapter, and a page that includes his 1938 poem Elegy for my Shtetl as well as Marius Szanajderman's lithograph of the same name.
The revisions were consistant with the original structure, programming, and technical choices of the site. The only technical departure was a rethinking of the thumbnails. Despite the original sound logic of image-links leading to images and text-links leading to texts, we found that even the designers would instinctively click on the book covers, mistakenly expecting them to link to the book's page. So the book covers from the Donors page now link to their pages, and they can be enlarged from there, if so desired.
November 2001: In January 2001, Eileen Shneiderman published a new book in Yiddish (I. L. Peretz Publishers, Tel Aviv),
titled What Time is it on the Jewish Clock? It contains a selection of her
husband's writing, her introduction "Decades Together", and his
"Notes for an Autobiography". In November 2001 on the fifth anniversary of
S. L. Shneiderman's death, his extensive archives were made public at the
Diaspora Research Institute of
Tel Aviv University. A catalog of these materials will enable
scholars to find relevant documents through a box list and several
thematic lists.
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