Category: #s1b

Erasing Borders Through Digital Discovery: EXPLORE Chicago Collections as the Foundation for Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives, Museums (and Others)

Aug 25, 2016

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Jill Hallam-Miller

in #BUDSC16, #s1b, Building Bridges: Collaborating Within and Across Institutions, Digital Posters

Tracy J. Seneca (University of Illinois at Chicago), Ellen Keith (Chicago History Museum), and Scott Walter (DePaul University) In November 2015, Chicago Collections launched its foundational digital project, EXPLORE Chicago Collections, a “one-stop shop” providing access to primary source materials (and expertise) to citizens, students, and scholars with an interest in primary source collections related…
Crossing Institutional Boundaries to Create a Collaborative Digital Archives: The Collegewomen.org Project

Aug 17, 2016

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Jill Hallam-Miller

in #BUDSC16, #s1b, Building Bridges: Collaborating Within and Across Institutions, Digital Posters

Eric Pumroy (Bryn Mawr College), Joanna DiPasquale (Vassar College), and Beth Seltzer (Bryn Mawr College) The Collegewomen.org project is a collaborative effort by the colleges once known as the Seven Sisters to create a portal that brings together the institutions’ extensive collections of letters, diaries and scrapbooks that document the lives of the first generations…