CONTENTdm Featured Collections: July 2009

Ohio Memory

Ohio Historical Society; State Library of Ohio

Established in 2000, the mission of the Ohio Memory Project is to provide access to historical treasures of Ohio, bringing together primary sources from all parts of the state in an digital library that celebrates state and local history, encourages cooperation between archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and other cultural organizations and allows the global community to discover and explore Ohio’s rich past. The project includes materials contributed by more than 330 institutions from all of Ohio's 88 counties.

Pulp Fiction Cover Art

University at Buffalo, SUNY

The University of Buffalo Libraries’ George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection includes more than 30,000 pulp fiction books and magazines. A selection of cover art images, representing more than 500 crime fiction and science fiction volumes found in the Kelley Collection, is featured in UBdigit. Colorful and dynamic, the cover art highlights a variety of artistic themes and imagery, reflecting the social and cultural trends of the period in which these covers were created. Cover images are searchable by author, title, artist, publisher, dominant colors and more. Expansive content analysis facilitates searching on character types, clothing, objects, weapons, scenery and other figures depicted on the covers.

Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years 1900-1925

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The LSTA-grant funded digital collection Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years 1900-1925 brings together a wide range of original source materials found in the rich collections of UNLV Libraries Special Collections as well as items from the Nevada State Museum and the Clark County Museum. The project contains more than 1,500 digitized items; including photographs, correspondence, newspapers, maps and ephemera from several mining and railroad manuscript collections documenting both large historical events and the more private and social lives of individuals and their communities during the mining boom in Southern Nevada.

Voices of Freedom

Virginia Commonwealth University

Voices of Freedom was produced by the Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative, a non-profit organization incorporated in 2002 to produce videotaped oral histories of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia. Voices of Freedom focuses on statewide activities from the 1950s through the early 1970s and includes stories about the Jim Crow segregation laws that prevailed up until the mid-1960s; stories about the struggles to change the laws and to change public attitudes; and advice from these civil rights veterans to future generations of Virginians/Americans.  There are eleven videotaped interviews (edited down to about 25 minutes) of leaders and activists in Virginia's Civil Rights movement, along with the complete transcripts.