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CONTENTdm Featured Collections: March 2009
Organizations worldwide are using CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software to create thousands of outstanding digital collections and to provide easy access to their unique holdings.
This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for March are the University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections, the University of Scranton Digital Yearbook Collection, the Loyola Marymount University Digital Library Program and Ralph Metcalfe: The Olympic Years, 1932-1936.
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University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections
University of Southern Mississippi
The USM Digital Collections contain a selection of digitized items from McCain Library & Archives, home to the USM Libraries Special Collections. The digitized materials include photographs, audio recordings, sketches, correspondence, yearbooks, memorabilia, manuscripts, and other primary sources that cover Mississippi history and culture, the University of Southern Mississippi, civil rights and children’s literature.
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The University of Scranton Digital Yearbook Collection
The University of Scranton Weinberg Memorial Library
The Weinberg Memorial Library presents a digital collection of University of Scranton Yearbooks, published between 1916 and 2007. This 74-volume collection contains almost 20,000 pages and depicts the changing student body of the University of Scranton and its predecessor, St. Thomas College.
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Loyola Marymount University Digital Library Program
Loyola Marymount University
The Loyola Marymount University Digital Library Program has a comprehensive and holistic approach to digitization: balancing the educational and research needs of the community, the instructional, institutional and preservation goals of the library, and embodying the spirit and mindfulness of Jesuit tradition. The digital library program creates virtual copies of library materials and makes them accessible online. The documents, postcards, photographs and research resources available in these collections are searchable and organized in a structured manner.
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Ralph Metcalfe: The Olympic Years, 1932-1936
Marquette University Raynor Memorial Library
This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed materials documenting sprinter Ralph Metcalfe between 1932-1936, when the Marquette undergraduate was known as "The World's Fastest Human."
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