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Digital Collections at Stanford
March 31, 2008
So my friend Adán sends me the recent announcement about the RaPID initiative, Stanford University’s “prototype federated search service tailored to the environment of an academic research library.” Following the links in the announcement I found “three demonstrations of federated search within the Stanford environment,” one of which is to the rapidly increasing Digital Collections at Stanford.
Some of these I knew about already (the Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection, for instance), but others I heretofore knew nothing about, including: Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database (a searchable file of copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for US Class A books published in the US between 1923 and 1963); the Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project (a project to digitize “printed reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought”); and the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection (which includes fascinating material about a truly fascinating individual – there is lots of audio and video here, including a recording of Fuller singing and speaking to Edwin Schlossberg. Be aware that you need to create a (free) account to search this last file).
I have to admit to a growing obsession with “hidden collections,” and am truly excited that digitization is increasingly bringing them to the forefront of researchers’ – and librarians’ – awareness.
More as it happens,
Cheryl
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on March 31, 2008 | Comments (0)
