The Office of Digital Collections and Research (DCR) of the University of Maryland Libraries supports the teaching and research mission of the university by facilitating access to digital collections, information, and knowledge. This is accomplished through enhancing access to selected library resources through the development, maintenance, and preservation of digital collections; by serving as a knowledge resource within the university for digital library issues and development; by participating in national and international initiatives which further the development of new forms of scholarly communication, tools, standards, and applications; and by providing training and support in digital library standards and formats.
The Office of Digital Collections and Research and the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection are proud to announce the launch of The National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection.
From a “colorized” view of Luna Park, a great Coney Island amusement park that burned in 1944, to the long-ago streets of Baltimore, the National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection preserves unique and engaging images of people and places in early twentieth-century America. These postcards also provide unique evidence of the evolution in American architecture, with rare glimpses of buildings or places that may no longer exist or have dramatically altered over time.
The online collection represents a small sampling of the approximately 20,000 postcards available in the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection. The Libraries will continue to add images to this collection.
For more information about the entire collection please visit http://www.lib.umd.edu/NTL/postcards.html.
Please explore the site and send us any feedback, questions and comments at http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/contact.jsp.
Susan Schreibman, head of Digital Collections and Research (DCR) has been offered a term appointment as Director of the Digital Humanities Observatory, a new program started by the Royal Irish Academy with a €28 million grant from the European Union. To accept this position, Dr. Schreibman has taken a ten month leave of absence from the University of Maryland Libraries.
Taking her place as managers of DCR are David Kennedy (Information Technology Division) and Jennie Levine (Archives and Manuscripts). Both bring their solid credentials and past experience with the University of Maryland Library system to their new roles. We would like to take a moment to welcome them to DCR.
The UM Libraries Office of Digital Collections and Research and the Gordon W. Prange Collection are proud to announce the launch of The Prange Digital Children’s Book Collection.
The online collection provides access to children’s books published in Japan during the early post-World War II years, 1945-49. Currently, 200 children’s books are available.
The University of Maryland Libraries and the National Diet Library of Japan (NDL) are working collaboratively to preserve and provide access to the Prange Children’s Book Collection in digital format and on color microfilm. Eventually, 8,000 titles from the Gordon W. Prange Children’s Book Collection will be available. Digitization of those volumes is ongoing and new titles will be mounted on a rolling basis.
Due to copyright restrictions, access to the full contents of the books are limited to the University of Maryland College Park campus. However, access to book records and thumbnails of book covers are available to all.
