CONTENTdm Featured Collections: May 2008

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

The featured collections for May are Empire Period Drama, Student Art in the Library and Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection.

Included in the collection information below is a link to each organization’s record, if available, 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.

 Empire Period Drama  http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fempire

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (University of Warwick Library) -  http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/65501

This collection contains 65 French plays from the Napoleonic Empire period in French history, 1800-1815. The collection was created by the University of Warwick Library and is taken from the Marandet Collection of 18th and 19th century French drama held in the University Library's special collections. All the plays in the collection are full-text searchable.

 Student Art in the Library
 http://mdon.lib.ipfw.edu/68.html

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft Wayne)-
http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/963 

This collection showcases two-dimensional artwork by IPFW students. Pieces are entered in a faculty-judged competition, with the winners and other selected pieces then shown in a semester-long exhibition in Walter E. Helmke Library. The first exhibition was held Spring 2007.

 Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection
http://warner.lafayette.edu/

OCLC WorldCat Registry record (Lafayette College) - http://www.worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/2518

The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection is a photographic record of a U.S. consul's impressions of urban and rural life in Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Totaling 340 photographs and postcards gathered by Warner between August 26, 1937 and March 8, 1941, these images provide a snapshot of Taiwan's hybrid culture of Chinese, Taiwanese, Austronesian and Japanese influences.

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(2008 05 13)