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CONTENTdm Featured Collections: November 2008
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 November are A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University; Archivo histórico de la Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Gran Canaria; Cuban Postcard Collection and Milwaukee Historic Photos.
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A Digital Collection Celebrating the Founding of the Historically Black College and University
HBCU Library Alliance
This collection of primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives includes several thousand scanned pages and represents HBCU libraries first collaborative effort to make a historical collection digitally available. Collections are contributed from member libraries of the Historically Black College and University Library Alliance and include photographs, university correspondence, manuscripts, alumni letters, and memorabilia ranging from the early 1800's until today.
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Archivo histórico de la Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Gran Canaria
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The Royal Economic Society of Friends of Gran Canaria, started in 1776, is the oldest non-governmental, civil institution in the Canary Islands, Spain. Thanks to an agreement with the University of Las Palmas Gran Canaria, some 18,000 pages of its historical archive were digitized. This collection documents the Society’s activities from 1776 to 1967 and includes some outstanding historical items—materials related to Puerto de la Luz, the city planning for the capital, the rescue of Canarian prisoners in Africa and the reestablishment of the School of Commerce.
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Cuban Postcard Collection
University of Miami
A selection of over 500 postcards of Cuba and the Cuban experience outside the island produced from the turn of the 20th century to the present. It includes real photo, printed photo, and artist drawn postcards and provides views of the many parts of the island as well as various aspects of Cuban communities in the United States and abroad.
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Milwaukee Historic Photos
Milwaukee Public Library
The photos from Milwaukee Historic Photos digital collection are pulled from the Milwaukee Public Library's historic photograph collection. The entire collection includes over 50,000 photographs of Milwaukee dating from the late 19th century to present day. The current digital collection is only a small fraction of the total available photos, but is being added to all the time. The photos were donated to the library by individual donors, various city departments, and businesses and corporations.
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These are just a few of the many outstanding digital collections created by CONTENTdm users. To access the entire Collection of Collections, visit www.oclc.org/contentdm/collections/.
(2008 11 01)
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