CONTENTdm Featured Collections: December 2007

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, three collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the CONTENTdm Web site. The featured collections for December are the John Muir Photographs, Percent for Art and the Travel Journal and Album of Collected Papers of William Tennent III, 1740 – 1777.

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. 

John Muir Photographs - http://library.pacific.edu/ha/digital/muir/index.asp

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (University of the Pacific) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/360

These images represent all of the photographs of John Muir that are located in Special Collections at the University of the Pacific. Most of the photos are from the John Muir Papers. Others are from in the Muiriana Collection and the James Eastman Shone Collection of Muiriana.

Percent for Art - http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/oac/index.html

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (University of Oregon) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2429

The Percent for Art Statewide Digital Collection and Database is a grant-funded project in collaboration with the Oregon Arts Commission. Currently, the database offers access to over 3900 items, encompassing a 30-year period, and reflecting artworks in 105 state projects around Oregon.

Travel Journal and Album of Collected Papers of William Tennent III, 1740 – 1777 - http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/tennent.html

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (University of South Carolina-Thomas Cooper Library) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2685

This online collection contains William Tennent's Travel Journal and Album. The journal covers Tennent's trek though the S.C. back-country, at times in the company of William Henry Drayton and Rev. Oliver Hart in an effort to persuade Loyalist "Tories" to join the Patriot cause. The album contains papers documenting Tennent's life as a Presbyterian minister in the Colonies of New Jersey and Connecticut, the courtship of his wife despite her mother's objections, and his 1772 arrival in Charleston, S.C., to serve the Independent or Congregational Church among other topics.

These are just a few of the many wonderful digital collections created by CONTENTdm users.
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(2008 01 16)