Round
One Awards
In the first round of the grants, nineteen
proposals were submitted to the Grant Review Committee and
the following five projects were awarded in January 1999:
Online Historical Reference
Shelf is a joint venture
of the Library Digital Initiative, the Harvard University
Archives, and the Radcliffe Archives. The project
was completed in September 2001. The new web site,
located at http://hul.harvard.edu/huarc/refshelf/ provides electronic access
to frequently consulted sources on the history of
Harvard and Radcliffe. To date, the Reference Shelf
includes:
annual reports of Harvard and
Radcliffe presidents and treasurers from 1825
to 1995
narrative histories
the current Harvard "Fact Book"
founding documents of both institutions
To accomplish this, the Harvard
College Library Digital Imaging Group has scanned
over 105,000 pages of text from the Harvard University
and Radcliffe Archives. The resulting digital images
were sent to a vendor for full-text conversion using
OCR and structural metadata was produced in XML
(extensible mark-up language). All of the digital
files are located in the Digital Repository Service
(DRS). Using a set of HUL systems and services for
management and delivery of digital library materials,
researchers can now browse and search these resources
online.
The project manager is Robin McElheny,
Associate University Archivist for Programs, 495-2461
robin_mcelheny@harvard.edu
Nineteenth-Century American
Trade Cards is a project
to catalog, digitize, and display through VIA 1,000
advertising trade cards selected from the Historical
Collections at the Baker Library. The project was
completed in September 2000.
As an indicator of consumer habits, social values,
and marketing techniques, trade cards are of interest
to scholars of business history, American studies,
graphic design and printing history, and social and
cultural history. Trade cards play a unique role in
American social and cultural history.
More infomation, including a
selection of trade cards from the project and searching
strategies for the collection, can be found at the
Historical
Collections of Baker Library web site.
The project manager is Laura Linard,
Director of Historical Collections, 5-6360
llinard@hbs.harvard.edu
The Hedda Morrison Photographs
of China is a project
to provide access through VIA to a photographic collection
from Harvard Yenching Library. Nearly 4,800 photographs
made by German photographer Hedda Morrison were cataloged
and digitized for teaching and research in the areas
of East Asian studies, history, architecture, fine
arts, sociology, religion and pop culture. Taken between
1933 and 1946, the collection documents the architecture,
streetscapes, clothing, religious practices and crafts
that in many cases have all but disappeared from modern
China.
The Harvard Geospatial Library
is a collaborative project among the Harvard Map Collection,
the HCL Environmental Information Center, the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, and LDI to create a system
for the discovery, analysis, and mapping of geospatial
data.
Phase I of the system went online in September of
2001 the most frequently requested geospatial data
sets: ESRI Data & Maps, Digital Chart of the World,
Census TIGER 2000, Boston Water and Sewer Commission
Database, City of Cambridge Data, and MassGIS. In
Phase II, over 1,000 data layers and 450 catalog records
were added and a major infrastructure upgrade led
to significant improvements in the system's performance
and to important new functions, including a new user
interface. The project was completed in June 2002.
HGL is now a fully supported service of the University
Library guided by an interfaculty steering committee:
http://hgl.harvard.edu/
Asian Art Images is a collaborative project between Harvard University
Art Museums (HUAM) and Fine Arts Library (FAL) to
provide access to 3,600 Asian art images. All images
were cataloged and digitized and records and images
were exported for display through VIA. Direct digital
photography of original artwork was used for HUAM
collections while FAL images were converted from transparencies,
glass plate, and film negatives. The project was completed
in March 2004.
The project manager is Sam Quigley,
Director Digital Information and Technology Harvard
University Art Museums, 6-4292
squigley@fas.harvard.edu
Round
Two Awards
During the second round, four proposals were
submitted to the Grant Review Committee and the following
two projects were awarded in October 1999:
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library received
a grant for Music from the Archive: A New Model
of Access to Rare and Unique Sound Recordings.
With the goal of improving access to rare and unique
sound recordings, this project will develop the methodologies
and technologies for the Library Digital Initiative
to integrate digital access to audio files and other
digital objects. The project will provide online access
to the finding aids, images and music from three collections
in the Music Library: the
Laura Boulton Collection of Byzantine and Eastern
Orthodox Chant, the Joseph
Jeffers Dodge Duke Ellington Collection, and the
Rubin Collection of Indian Classical Music.
The project manager is David Ackerman,
Audio Preservation Engineer, 5-2794
dackerm@fas.harvard.edu
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
was funded for Western China and Tibet: Hotspot
of Diversity.
This project integrates material from the collections
of the Arnold Arboretum, the Harvard Map Collection,
the Botany Libraries, the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Harvard University
Herbaria to provide online access to a selection of
Harvard's historic and contemporary ethnographic and
natural history collections related to western China
and Tibet.
Beginning in 1924 with the Arnold
Arboretum's Expedition to northwestern China and
northeastern Tibet led by Joseph F. Rock, the historic
collections include plant and bird specimens, as
well as photographs of the region's landscape, architecture
and people. The Herbaria have been collecting contemporary
biological specimens from the same region. By relating
the historic and contemporary material from various
repositories, the project will provide students
and scholars with access to information about the
area's natural and ecological resources, as well
as the social and cultural history of the region.
Round
Three Awards
In the third round, seven proposals were submitted to the Grant
Review Committee and the following two projects were awarded
in April 2000:
The Francis A. Countway Library of
Medicine received a grant for Biomedical Image
Library (BIL). The goal of the project, a
collaboration between the Countway Library and the
Biomedical Imaging Laboratory at the Harvard School
of Public Health, is to develop a central catalog
and collection of biomedical images produced in support
of basic biomedical research. Biologists, medical
scientists, and clinicians will be able to use the
Biomedical Image Library to distribute their work
to the community or to identify and retrieve data
for novel analysis. Moreover, educators and students
will find a ready collection of images to support
learning. The library also provides access to data
such as stacks of serial sections that cannot be published
through traditional means.
The Photographic
Archives of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, with sponsorship from Tozzer Library, was
funded for Maya Archaeological Photographs from
the Carnegie Institute of Washington Collection, Phase
I. This project will provide access through
VIA to digital images of approximately 10,000 Maya
archaeological photographs selected from the Carnegie
Institute of Washington Collection. Many of the buildings,
monuments, and artifacts that are recorded in the
photographs no longer exist, are badly damaged or
are so difficult to access that they are unavailable
to researchers. The selected material represents all
of the images from the sites of Chichen Itza and Copan,
two of the most significant components of the collection.
The digital images, descriptive cataloging records
and searching capabilities will improve access to
the photographs for government researchers working
on accurate restoration and reconstruction of the
sites, linguists needing undamaged scripts, archaeologists,
historians, publishers, and producers.
Phase I was completed in July 2003.
The Peabody Museum was funded
in Round 6 for Phase II to
complete the collection.
The project manager is David Schafer,
6-5748 dschafer@fas.harvard.edu
Round
4 Awards
In the fourth round, five proposals were submitted to the Grant
Review Committee and the following three projects were awarded
(one in June 2001and two in July 2002):
LDI Grant funding was awarded to the Milman
Parry Collection of Oral Literature (MPCOL) with sponsorship
from Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies Library for The
Singer Continues the Song: Text and Music from the Milman
Parry Collection.
This project will provide networked access to a selection
of sound recordings and text images contained in the collection,
the largest single repository of South Slavic heroic song
in the world. The focus will be on selections from two collections,
the texts and recordings of oral literature made by Professor
Milman Parry of the Department of the Classics at Harvard
University in 1933-35 and the epic texts collected by Professor
Albert B. Lord in 1950-51.
The project will produce collection-level
records in HOLLIS that link to EAD finding aids in OASIS.
The finding aids will provide links to images of text
in Page Delivery Service (PDS) and audio files representing
the 1933-35 and 1950-51 collections. The project will
also participate in the development and testing of a new
OIS system for the creation of network accessible custom
databases (currently known as TED). The plan is to make
a searchable database of singers and songs and to provide
links to the digital content.
The project manager is David Elmer, Assistant
Curator of the Milman Parry Collection
delmer@fas.harvard.edu
Funding for A Project to Digitize,
Process, and Save Widener's Latin American Pamphlets
was awarded to the HCL Collection Development Department,
Widener Library. This project will catalog, microfilm, digitize
from the film and preserve three thousand Latin American
pamphlets in Widener and may serve as a prototype for similar
collection needs. Selection of material for the project
will begin with 19th century pamphlets from Argentina, Bolivia,
Cuba, Mexico and Peru. While the collection provides valuable
documentation of the region and includes material that is
scarce or unique, it has been underutilized because it is
not described at item level in Harvard's online catalog.
The project will produce complete bibliographic records
in HOLLIS for each pamphlet with links to page images the
pamphlets in Page Delivery Service (PDS).
The project manager is Dan Hazen, Librarian
for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, 495-2427
dchazen@fas.harvard.edu
The Francis Loeb Library Harvard Design
School was funded for Web-based Course Material Archiving
Project - Study Phase. The Loeb Library
plans to create procedures and a technical infrastructure
for the documentation and archiving of digital course materials
in various formats. This project is a study phase to identify
formats of materials, copyright, documentation standards,
use/access model, technological infrastructure and implementation
methodology.
The project manager is Kevin Lau,
Head of Instructional Technology & Library Information
Systems, 496-9310
klau@gsd.harvard.edu
Round
5 Awards
During the fifth round, seven proposals were submitted to the
Grant Review Committee and the following five projects were
awarded in September 2002:
Digitization
of the Slide Library. Fine
Arts Library, Harvard College Library was awarded LDI funding
to digitize 100,000 teaching slides and make them available
through VIA. The creation of cataloging records for these
images is being funded through an Access
Project grant.
The project manager is Amy Lucker, Head
of Image Cataloging & Manager of Digital Information,
384-84065 lucker@fas.harvard.edu
Enabling Access to Historical Images
of the Harvard Medical School. Countway Library, Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections is funded to create a
finding aid for a collection of historical images of the
Harvard Medical School with links to 1600 images.
Legal Portrait Collection.
Special Collections Department, Harvard Law School Library
will use LDI funding to digitize, catalog in OLIVIA, and
make available through VIA images 4000 portraits of lawyers,
jurists, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages
to the late twentieth century.
The project manager is Steven R. Smith,
Curator of Art & Visual Materials, Special Collections Dept,
5-3150 smith@law.harvard.edu.
The Pickens Collection on China's
Muslims. Harvard-Yenching Library was awarded LDI
funding to digitize a collection of images documenting muslims
in China. 1000 photographs in 3 albums and 50 broadsides
will be digitized, cataloged in OLIVIA and accessible in
VIA. Images of album pages will be made available through
links in a finding aid to the collection.
The project manager is Dr. Raymond Lum,
Librarian for Western Languages, 5-0585
rlum@fas.harvard.edu
Russian Theatrical Designs in the
Harvard Theatre Collection. Houghton Library, Harvard Theatre Collection will digitize,
catalog in OLIVIA, and make available through VIA 500-600
images of Russian theatre designs including costumes and
sets.
The project manager is Fredric Woodbridge
Wilson, Curator,
5-2445
fwwilson@fas.harvard.edu
Round
6 Awards
In the sixth round, ten proposals were submitted to the Grant
Review Committee and the following five projects were awarded
in May 2003 and one was awarded in August 2004:
Jacques Burkhardt and the Thayer
Expedition to Brazil (1865-1866) Ernst
Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology was funded
to provide online access to the entire Jacques Burkhardt
collection of watercolors and pencil drawings (approximately
1000 items), as well as Thayer Expedition correspondence,
field notes, diaries, sketches, photographs, monographs,
specimens and specimen records.
In April 1865, the founder and director
of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Louis Agassiz, set
off for Brazil with his wife Elizabeth and a dozen assistants
on a fifteen-month collecting expedition financed by Boston
banker Nathaniel Thayer. Agassiz hoped that investigating
the distribution of the freshwater fish species in Brazil
would help him refute Charles Darwin's recently formed
theory of evolution. Among the assistants on the journey
was Agassiz's personal and principal artist Jacques Burkhardt,
whose fish watercolors and landscape paintings are a highlight
of the expedition's treasures.
The project manager is Robert Young, Special
Collections Librarian, 495-8253
ryoung@oeb.harvard.edu
Digital Scores from the Collections
of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library
received a grant award to create an expansible resource
of scanned images of rare and unique musical scores that
would be freely available via the Web for classroom and
research use at Harvard and to scholars all over the world.
The project will digitize 30 rare, unique, and fragile scores
that represent teaching strengths of the Harvard Department
of Music and demonstrate the concept of using multiple variant
print and manuscript versions of a single musical work for
research into historical performance practice. The digital
collection will draw on Harvard's extensive collections
of first and early editions of Bach family composers, Mozart,
and the multiple versions of 19th-century opera that open
our eyes to the richly varied performance traditions of
the operas of Europe.
The project manager is: Constance Mayer,
Public Services Librarian, 495-2795
mayer@fas.harvard.edu
The Nature of Eastern Asia: Botanical
and Cultural Images from the Arnold Arboretum Archives
Arnold Arboretum Library of Harvard University was
awarded funding to provide on-line access to 4,521 images
of eastern Asia in VIA and to a historical monograph in
PDS. The project will create finding aids representing nine
collections in the photographic archives including those
of four renowned and intrepid explorers: Frank Meyer, William
Purdom, Ernest Henry Wilson, and Joseph Rock. The project
will facilitate use of an historical record, previously
inaccessible and largely unknown to humanities scholars,
that depicts the area's social and cultural history, its
landscapes, artifacts, people, and its natural and ecological
resources.
The project manager is Sheila Connor,
Horticultural Research Archivist, 524-1718 x142
sconnor@arnarb.harvard.edu
Maya Archaeological
Photographs from the Carnegie Institute of Washington Collection
(Phase II)
The Photographic Archives of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, with sponsorship from Tozzer Library, was
funded for a second phase of their project: Maya Archaeological
Photographs from the Carnegie Institute of Washington Collection.
This phase will provide acces in VIA to the remaining 30,000
images in the collection, after the completion of 10,000
images in Phase I (funded in Round
3).
The project manager is David Schafer,
6-5748 dschafer@fas.harvard.edu
Architectural Views of the World,
1870-1920: Digitization of Lantern Slides from the Fine
Arts Library Collection
The Fine Arts Library of the Harvard College Library was
awarded to convert the cataloging data and digitize the
images for 15,000 of department's 95,000 lantern slides.
The selected images document architectural views of North
America (including all material pertaining to Harvard University
architecture), Europe, and Northern Africa. About half of
these images are unique to this collection. This will include
some of the special collections such as those documenting
buildings at Harvard (including the Fogg Art Museum), as
well as the Byzantine architecture. The images and data
will be made available online through VIA.
The project managers are:
Amy Lucker, Head of Image Cataloging
& Manager of Digital Information, 384-84065, lucker@fas.harvard.edu
Martha Mahard, Curator of Historical Photographs and Special
Visual Collections, 496-1949, mahard@fas.harvard.edu
The Poet's Voice - A Digital Poetry
Collection
The Houghton Library Woodberry Poetry Room is creating a
digital collection of unique and historic poetry recordings
made by and for Harvard. These recordings, held by no other
institution, comprise a collection which uniquely documents
world literary history from the 1930's to the present; the
collection is utilized by scholars worldwide and in many
courses across the Harvard curriculum, but is also of interest
in its own right. Approximately 75 tapes, many of which
are readings by major poets, will be digitized and made
accessible to the Harvard community through HOLLIS and OASIS.
The project manager is: Don Share, Curator,
Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard College Library 5-2454
share@fas.harvard.edu
Round
7 Awards
In the seventh round, six proposals were submitted to the LDI Steering Committee for review.
The following projects were awarded: four in April 2004 and one in October 2005.
Image Digitization and Cataloging
Project to Support Core Course Offerings at the Harvard
Design School
The Visual Resources Department
of the Frances Loeb Library was awarded
funding to catalog and digitize 12,000 slides used in teaching
core architectural courses. The department will build an
in-house facility and create a workflow for ongoing digitization
services as part of the project.
Nuremberg Trials Project - Case
1 Medical Trial
Harvard Law School Library received funding to edit
and digitize 19,200 documents to complete all of the Medical
Case, Case 1 of the Nuremberg Military Trials.
The project manager is Cathleen Conroy,
Assistant Librarian for Administration, 6-2114 conroy@law.harvard.edu
The Geospatial Data Access Project
The HCL Harvard Map Collection was awarded grant funding
to increase awareness and use of geospatial data across
the university by providing GIS training and support; by
adding 322 georeferenced historical maps and 14 new data
sets to the Harvard Geospatial Library; and by the creation
of new map tools for course web sites.
The project manager is Bonnie Burns, GIS
Specialist, 5-2417
or 6-3670
bburns@fas.harvard.edu
New Testament and Archaeological
Slides from the Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School with sponsorship from Andover-Harvard
Theological Library was funded to catalog and digitize 9,000
teaching and research slides of archaeological sites and
objects primarily in Greece and Turkey dating from early
Christianity.
The project manager is Kathy Jones, Director,
Office of Information Technology and Media Services, 5-1969
katherine_jones@harvard.edu
The Development of American Capitalism
Baker Library was awarded grant funding to provide online access to key publications and documents that
directly support existing courses taught at Harvard Business School (HBS) and in the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences (FAS) on American capitalism and enterprise. Manuscripts, photographs, broadsides, corporate reports,
and trade cards will be drawn from Baker Library, Widener Library, Houghton Library, and the Government Documents Collection at Pusey Library.
The project manager is: Laura Linard, Director of Historical Collections, Baker Library, 617-495-6360. llinard@hbs.edu
Round 8 Awards
In the eighth round, the LDI Executive Committee received fourteen proposals and awarded the following four projects in September 2005:
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, with sponsorship from the Slavic Division of Widener
Library (HCL), was funded to provide online access to a collection of 764 transcripts of interviews conducted
with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. The collection is a unique resource for the
study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s with one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and
cultural conditions.
The project Manager is: Bradley L. Schaffner, Head, Slavic Division, Widener Library, Harvard University, 617-496-4383, bschaffn@fas.harvard.edu
Orchidaceae Type Specimen Project
The Harvard University Herbaria (HUH), with sponsorship from the HUH Botany Libraries,
was funded to provide online access to 7,050 type specimens of Orchidaceae, and 8900
pages of associated published text and illustrations that include original descriptions,
or protologues, for about 2000 of the type specimens. The study of plant diversity depends
upon verification of research materials by comparison with the type specimens and protologues.
The herbarium and library collections in Orchidaceae were selected because of their importance
to a large research and horticultural community - they are considered second only to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew, in geographic coverage and detailed documentation.
The project manager is: Gustavo Romero, Ph.D. Keeper, Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, HUH, 22
Divinity Avenue, romero@oeb.harvard.edu (617)495-2360
Digital Scores from the Collections of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library (Part II)
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library of the Harvard College Library received a grant award to continue their efforts to provide online
access to their collection of rare and unique musical scores (see Round 6, above). The content for part II of this project is
drawn from relevant holdings related to undergraduate and graduate teaching including music of the 18th century, and musical
modernism and the 2nd Viennese School.
The project manager is: Robert Dennis, Recordings Curator, Eda Kuhn Loeb
Music Library, Music Building; rjdennis@fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-2795.
Imaging the Urban Environment
The Harvard Map Collection of the Harvard College Library received a grant award to provide
online access to quality images of historical urban maps to be used in the classroom, as well
as for graduate and undergraduate research. Selected maps will represent the major urban areas
of the world for courses that focus on the historical development of the urban shape through time,
beginning with urban bird's eye views from the 1572 Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Among the cities included
in this project are: Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Providence, London, Paris, Barcelona, Rome, Venice,
Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Beijing, and Tokyo.
In addition to providing access to the maps in HOLLIS, the images will be georeferenced
and available through the Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL). This georeferencing will allow
patrons to view the images in conjunction with other geospatial data, such as modern road networks,
and download both for use in Geographic Information Systems.
The project manager is: Bonnie Burns, GIS Specialist, Harvard Map Collection, bburns@fas.harvard.edu, 5-2417
Round
9 Awards
In the ninth round, the LDI Executive Committee
invited proposals for participation in a web archiving development
project. In December 2005, three project partners were selected
to provide content and curatorial input to the project. For
more information, see: http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/projects/webarchive/index.html
Documenting Born Digital Harvard:
A Demonstration Project to Collect and Make Accesssible
Departmental History of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Sciences
The Harvard University Archives
The project Manager is:
, Senior Records
Analyst, Harvard University Archives
Constitutional Revision Kenkyukai
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Janpanese Studies
The project manager is:
, Reischauer Institute
Professor of Japanese Religions and Society , Department
of EastAsian Languages and Civilizations
Blogs: Capturing the Alternative Voice
Arthur and Elizabeth Sclesinger Library on the History of
Women in America
The project manager is:
, Executive Director
of the Schlesinger Library
Round 10 Awards
In the tenth round, ten proposals were submitted to the LDI
Executive Committee for review. The following four projects
were awarded in October 2006.
Harvard Forest Digital Classroom
Harvard Forest, with sponsorship from Arnold Arboretum
Horticultural Library and Harvard Forest Library, was
funded to catalog, digitize and provide access to resources
in support of current course work and historical research
on the 3000 acre Harvard Forest landscape. Resources will
include GIS digitized stand maps, photographs and slide
images, born digital images, stand records/forest inventory,
data and publications
The project manager is
,
Web and Systems Administrator, Harvard Forest.
The Artemas Ward House and Its
Collections
The History Department, with sponsorship from the Collection
Development Department in Widener Library, Harvard College
Library, was funded to catalog, digitize and provide access
to photographs, books, installations and select objects
from the Artemas Ward house including 500 objects on the
first floor, the first floor rooms and 315 photographs of
the rooms in 1910.
The project manager is
, Librarian
for Collections Digitization, HCL
Medieval Manuscript Digital Project
at Houghton Library
Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library was funded
to catalog and digitize 30 medieval and renaissance manuscripts.
The project manager is
,
Florence Fearrington Librarian of Houghton Library
Digital Scores from the Collections
of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library (Part III) Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
of the Harvard College Library was funded to continue cataloging
and digitizing selected material from a collection of rare
and unique musical scores (see Rounds 6 and 8 above,). This
selection includes 218 scores from the 18th and early 19th
centuries; scores of 19th and early 20th century operas;
19th-century indices and facsimile manuscripts of medieval
and renaissance music and chant; and works of Harvard composers
and notable musicians from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The project manager is:
,
Recordings Curator, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
Access
Projects
Access Project funding is designated for populating Harvard's
online catalogs. The following projects have been awarded access
funds:
Harvard College Library Finding Aids Conversion
Pilot Project (HCL)
Through the LDI Internal Challenge Grant Program, Houghton
Library, HCL will conduct a two-year pilot project to develop
a model for full-scale conversion to EAD of finding aids at
Harvard. A minimum of 48,000 pages will be converted and contributed
to OASIS as part of this project.
Schlesinger
Library Encoded Archival Description Evaluation and Retrospective
Conversion Project (Radcliffe)
Over the course of 30 months, Schlesinger Library will investigate,
evaluate, and select an EAD mark-up methodology to convert finding
aids to browser-usable formats, and to contribute a significant
number of finding aids to OASIS.
Retrospective
Conversion of the Slide Library Card Catalog (HCL)
Through LDI funding, HCL's Fine Arts Library (FAL) will convert
catalog cards for nearly 250,000 core teaching slides, import
the data into OLIVIA and make the records available through
VIA. FAL will digitize 100,000 of these slides through an LDI
grant, Digitization of the Slide Library, awarded in Round 5.
Baker
Library Trade Catalogs (HBS)
With LDI support, Baker Library of the Harvard Business School
will create catalog records for 4,500 trade catalogs from its
Historical Collections Department. These records will be available
through HOLLIS, the Baker On-Line Catalog, and OCLC. The project
will also establish historical corporate authority data.
The Incunabula and Solomon M. Hyams Collections
Access Project (HMS)
Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, is using
LDI support to catalog some 800 incunabula titles and approximately
4,000 other items from the Hyams Collection of Judaica. These
include pamphlets, incunabula, manuscripts, and monographs.
When the grant project is complete, this material from Countway's
Rare Books and Special Collections will be made available
through HOLLIS, OCLC, and RLIN.
Loeb Design Library Electronic Finding
Aid Project Phase I and II (GSD)
In Phase I, Frances Loeb Library of the Harvard Design School
converted and created data for 10 EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
electronic finding aids that were contributed to OASIS. Phase
I also configured the Library's database to enable the export
of EAD formatted finding aids in the future so that the Harvard
Design School can continue contributing records of their collections
to OASIS.
In Phase II, 3 additional collections are
being processed, and finding aids for those collections are
being added to OASIS.
Pre-1601 English Law Collection Access
Project (LAW)
Special Collections Department, Harvard Law School Library
was awarded LDI funding to create HOLLIS records for approximately
2,000 English law titles printed before 1601.
Creation
of Descriptive Metadata for Images Used in Teaching a Sequence
of Required Architectural History Courses Visual Resources Department
(GSD)
Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Design School was awarded funding
to create catalog records for approximately 2400 used in teaching
a sequence of required architectural history courses at the
Harvard Design School.
Cataloging of Antiquarian Cartographic
Materials. (HCL) Harvard Map Collection
was awarded funding to catalog 2,500 titles representing some
4,000 - 5,000 pre-1900 imprint sheet maps including local
materials from New England, Colonial America, the United States,
and early Canadian maps.
