CONTENTdm Featured Collections: April 2008

This month, three collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the CONTENTdm Web site.

The featured collections for April are The James Whitcomb Riley Recordings, The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection and Picturing the New World: The Hand-Colored De Bry Engravings of 1590.

Included in the collection information below is a link to each organization’s record in the OCLC WorldCat Registry. OCLC’s WorldCat Registry allows libraries worldwide to manage and organize their data for vendors and third parties by creating and maintaining a comprehensive institutional profile in a single, Web-accessible location.

  James Whitcomb Riley Recordings  http://www.imcpl.org/resources/digitallibrary/jameswhitcombriley.html 

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (Indianapolis Marion County Public Library) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/10541

Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley reads 17 of his poems and stories recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1912. These recordings have never been published and are now available to the public for the first time

  The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/jfabc

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/50898

The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection includes close to 5,000 artists' books, multiples, video and audio recordings, periodicals, digital works, reference books, ephemera, exhibition catalogs and examples of experimental art practices, all created over the last four decades by artists of local, national and international significance.

  Picturing the New World: The Hand-Colored De Bry Engravings of 1590  http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/debry/

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2147

Theodore De Bry's engravings of North America provided many Europeans with their first glimpse of the New World. De Bry's illustrated edition of A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, containing engravings that were based on the watercolors of John White, was published in 1590. The images shown on this site are from a rare hand-colored edition of the book in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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