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CONTENTdm Featured Collections: February 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 February are New Mexico's Digital Collections, Eugenics in North Carolina, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters.
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New Mexico's Digital Collections
University of New Mexico
New Mexico's Digital Collections consist of items from cultural heritage institutions in New Mexico. Materials include documents, photographs, maps, posters, artwork and music. Hosted by the University Libraries, University of New Mexico, each contributing partner selects their own content, then digitizes and describes their material.
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Eugenics in North Carolina
State Library of North Carolina
The eugenics movement was based on the belief that government intervention could help promote the biological improvement of humans. As part of the movement, many states, including North Carolina, enacted laws that allowed sterilization of the "mentally diseased, feeble minded, or epileptic." This project tracks the history of eugenics in North Carolina from the first sterilization law enacted in 1929 to the abolishment of the North Carolina Eugenics Commission in 1977.
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The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
University of Oxford
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 4,000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning and research. The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum and a set of specially developed educational resources.
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N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters
Claremont University Consortium
The N. A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters collection consists of fifty-six handwritten letters from 1855 to 1872. Newton Amos Chandler (1818?-1880) wrote these letters from San Francisco and California mining camps, and Nevada silver and gold rush locations. These letters offer insights on life in San Francisco and Virginia City, Civil War opinions in California and Nevada, and the opportunities and discouragements of a prospector.
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(2009 02 01)
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