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From: "Michael G. McManness" <>
Subject: [NC-Cemeteries] Cornell Library Digital Collections
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:31:21 -0600

Hello Everyone,

Cornell Library Digital Collections

http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/

Summary Descriptions of the CDL Collections

What is the Making Of America (MOA) Collection?

The Making Of America (MOA) Collection is a multi-institutional initiative
to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital
library of important materials that document 19th-century America. The
Cornell University and the University of Michigan libraries have cooperated
in the initial phase of MOA (1994-1996), which was funded by The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation. For more
information, see About the MOA.

What is the Math Book Collection?

The Math Book Collection is a collection that of consists of 571 books that
were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library. All
books were disbound and all pages scanned. This collection was part of a
greater whole known as the CLASS project (see below) which dealt with a
joint effort on the part of Xerox and Cornell University to digitize
materials. This collection is viewed via the Hunter User Interface using
Dienst 5.1 protocols. Some materials are viewed using an older interface
using Dienst 3.5.

What is the Ezra Cornell Collection?

The Ezra Cornell Collection is a collection of Ezra Cornell's
correspondence, diaries, and a published family genealogy. The materials in
the collection were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University
Library. This collection represents Cornell University's first effort to
make a large manuscript collection available over the web. Ezra Cornell was
a self-educated businessman with strong interests in politics and education.
His interest in new technologies led him to play a critical role in
promoting the widespread adoption of the telegraph. His correspondence
consists of hand-written letters sent and received, drafts of outgoing
letters, documents or drafts of documents, and occasionally letters between
persons other than Ezra Cornell. Cornell's 33 diaries and notebooks address
a wide variety of topics, and his letterbooks are bound copies of outgoing
letters concerning the telegraph industry and the founding of Cornell. The
collection is viewed via a locally-developed user interface using Dienst 3.5
protocols. It may also be accessed in Internet Explorer 5.0 or later via a
finding aid encoded in XML according to the Encoded Archival Description
standard.

What is the Digital Preservation (CLASS) Collection?

The Digital Preservation Collection consists of digital surrogates for
materials on the history of the United States, New York State and local
history, and core agricultural history titles.

The collection consists of 456 general monographs, 42 Cornell dissertations,
and 691 New York State historical pamphlets and monographs.

We are in the process of making these images available for online viewing.

What is the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture Collection?

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is an electronic
collection of agriculture texts published between the early 19th - late 20th
century representing all areas of agricultural sciences and disciplines and
selected because of their importance in agricultural history. Over 750,000
pages are included in this collection. The collection also includes 599
agricultural books that were selected for a project funded by the NEH to
scan books and then convert the scanned images to microfilm.

Who is involved at Cornell?

Cornell Digital Library Collections represent a collaborative effort between
a number of units in the Cornell University Library, including the Library
Systems Office, the Information Technology unit in the Albert Mann Library ,
the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC), and the Department of
Preservation and Conservation. Staff from the Computer Science Department
and Cornell Information Technologies have also contributed to the projects.

I hope this information helps. If you have problems or further questions
please let me know. :-) Thanks, Mike

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Michael G. McManness, a Jayhawk through and through, eating, sleeping, and
bleeding Crimson and Blue near the University of Kansas. Family genealogist
and research historian. "Character may be manifested in the great moments,
but it is made in
the small ones."
--- Phillip Brooks

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