The British Museum

If you are interested in the history of Great Britain, then look no further than the British Museum Web site. The British Museum site is a portal into the collections of one of the great museums of the world, designed for all ages and levels of interest

Columbia University Libraries’ digital collections

Columbia University Libraries has assembled a group of fascinating digital collections that span a wide range of subjects. These include 18 online exhibitions that highlight their collections in a way that provides a comprehensive look into American and World history

Documenting the American South

If you’re interested in researching the American South, then the University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill has an extensive digital collection for you. Documenting the American South is a fascinating digital collection that is geared towards K–12 and college-level students and teachers. The collection provides its users a variety of sources ranging from texts, images, and other materials that originate from various libraries of the UNC. These materials provide a springboard into several aspects of the American South and the Tar Heel State

UNLV Special Collections in the twenty-first century

University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Special Collections is consistently striving to provide several avenues of discovery to its diverse range of patrons. Specifically, UNLV Special Collections has planned and implemented several online tools to facilitate unearthing treasures in the collections. These online tools incorporate Web 2.0 features as well as searchable interfaces to collections

Memorial Hall Museum Online: American Centuries.

If you are researching the history of New England online, the Memorial Hall Museum’s American Centuries site is a valuable place to start. It is geared toward educators and elementary through high school students, providing users access to primary sources and interactive activities from the Memorial Hall Museum in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts

Institutional Repository and Archival Collaborations at UNLV Libraries: Who\u27s In, Who\u27s Out?

The University Archives has become an integral part of an academic institution. It has met its role as the repository for the rich history of an institution. They have met the challenges of a changing environment at many points in their history. The most recent change being the addition of born-digital materials into their collections. However, there is an opportunity to collaborate with another unit within academic libraries. The introduction and growth of institutional repositories (IR) on college campuses has provided an opportunity for university archives. An IR’s goal is to preserve the intellectual output of an institution. This is a large scale task, but IR’s from across the country are now achieving this goal with the help from university archives

Working together: Journal of Western Archives & Western Roundups

The idea of a Journal of Western Archives began in the early 2000s after plans were being made for a super regional meeting in Las Vegas, NV. It was during this collaborative time that University Archivists Gordon Daines proposed an idea to then Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists President John Murphy. Gordon wanted to establish a journal that would be for archivists working in the western United States. He noticed that as a researcher himself at BYU that archivists in the western United States didn’t publish as much as archivists in the eastern United States. In 2002, Gordon approached CIMA about establishing a task force to investigate the idea of a journal for archivists working in the west. In 2002, the CIMA Council created the Journal Task Force and charged it with investigating the creation of a journal that would deal with Western related archival issues. The Task force was composed of CIMA, SRMA, SCA, SSA members. A business plan was created that included a marketing plan, editorial policy and a financial plan

Oral history on the web

This session will examine how oral history is increasing its relevance in a changing digital landscape. This session will not only showcase a few oral history collections currently online, but how oral historians can place them there. Further, this session will explain the basic steps to uploading your interviews (audio, video and transcriptions) to the Web with some practical tools. This session will also showcase a new method of access for oral history researchers. This new method is the digital collection. For example, the University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has created the digital collection entitled, “Nevada Test Site Oral History Project.” This digital collection will be showcased so that oral historians can see the more advanced methods of access to our patrons. Further, they will learn how departments within academic institutions work together to create this useful new tool for our oral history researchers. This session will discuss the important role that large and small oral history research centers can play in a changing digital environment. An environment that provides access to the recorded history of the American Southwest

The Well‐Rounded Archivist: A UNLV University Archivist Perspective

I’m going to be focusing on three main themes today: The first theme will be “Being a University Archivist.” Next will be the things that I “Wish I had Known.” Lastly, I’m going to provide you a series of thoughts and feelings that center around my “Advice for New Archivists.