Subject: NYPL Digital Library Collections
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 17:54:13 -0800
Message-Id: <v01520d07b1814ee97ba1@[207.93.41.93]> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 17:54:13 -0800 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: NYPL Digital Library Collections
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
May 14, 1998
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY LAUNCHES ONLINE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
<http://digital.nypl.org>
THE DIGITAL SCHOMBURG INCLUDES:
"Images of African Americans in the 19th Century" and
"19th-Century African American Women Writers."
The New York Public Library introduces its Digital Library Collections
web site, featuring a wide range of primary source materials from The
Library's four research libraries, at <http://digital.nypl.org>.
The first collection, the Digital Schomburg, comprises 56 texts and more
than 500 images representing African American history and culture. The
Digital Schomburg includes two components, "Images of African Americans
in the 19th Century" and "19th-Century African American Women Writers."
The images in Digital Schomburg document the social, political, and
cultural worlds of African American people from slavery to various
stages of freedom. The texts in the collection include essays, works of
fiction and poetry, and autobiography and biography--among them, Anna
Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South; Phillis Wheatley's Poems on
Various Subjects, Religious and Moral; and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl.
The materials are drawn primarily from The New York Public Library's
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the world's
leading research facilities devoted to the preservation of materials on
the global African and African diasporan experiences.
Other online collections currently in development include
* Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection,
1850-1910;
* The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Millennium Project;
* Urban Landscape Photography in the Romana Javitz Collection; and
* Berenice Abbott's Changing New York.
The Library participates in several cooperative projects, including
Marriage and the Law in the U.S. and the U.K.; the Global Migration
Project; Travels Along the Hudson, and Making of America II.
For more information about NYPL's Digital Library Collections, contact
Pamela Ellis at pellis@nypl.org or join the DLC mailing list at
<http://digital.nypl.org/email.cfm>.
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