Mass Digitization Collaborative
The University of Maryland Libraries were part of a 14-library pilot project with PALINET and the Internet Archive to digitize a selection of rare and significant books from the participants’ collections and make the electronic versions available via the Internet Archive’s website.
The program is funded by the PALINET membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The development of a mass digitization service is the first component of PALINET’s collaborative
digital collection strategy. The initial focus is on mass digitization of text.
The University of Maryland Libraries submitted eleven reels of microfilm containing the university’s course catalogs from 1859 through 1945 as part of the pilot project. These course catalogs document the early history of the Maryland Agricultural College through the end of World War II and online access to them will be a valuable asset to both researchers and to staff.
Links to the PDF files of the catalogs are available on the University Archives website. As additional catalogs and other materials are added to the Internet Archive, they will be available through the Internet Archives’ University of Maryland portal.
For more information about the PALINET Mass Digitization Collaborative, please visit PALINET’s website.