Funded Projects
Round One Awards
Round Two Awards
Round Three Awards
Round Four Awards
Round Five Awards
Round Six Awards
Round Seven Awards
Round Eight Awards
Round Nine Awards
Round Ten Awards
Access
Projects
LDI Concludes Challenge Grant Program
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- Online Historical Reference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
The project manager is , Associate University Archivist for Programs, 495-2461
Final Report - 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 , Director of Historical Collections, 5-6360
Final Report - 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 project was completed in April 2001. For more information: http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/morrison/
The project manager is , Librarian for the Western Languages Collection, 5-0585
Final Report - 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/
Final Report - 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
Final Report
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 , Audio Preservation Engineer, 5-2794
Final Report
- 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.
The project was completed in July 2003. Visit the project web site at: http://arboretum.harvard.edu/library/tibet/expeditions.html
The project manager is , Horticultural Research Archivist, 524-1718 x142
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Final Image Specifications
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 project was completed in July 2003. Visit BIL at:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:bioimlib
The project manager is , Information Research and Development Specialist, 2-3236
Final Report
- 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 , 6-5748
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Round Four Awards
In the fourth round, five proposals were submitted to the Grant Review Committee and the following three projects were awarded (one in June 2001 and 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 LTS 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 , Assistant Curator of the Milman Parry Collection
Final Report - 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).
Visit the project web site at:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:latampdc
The project manager is , Librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, 495-2427
Final Report - 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 ,
Head of Instructional Technology & Library Information Systems, 496-9310
Final Report
Round Five 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
Final Report - 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.
Visit the project web site.
The project manager is Baker, Records Manager/Archivist, 432-6205
Final Report - 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.
Visit the project web site.
The project manager is , Head, Special Collections Dept, 6-2115
Final Report - 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 , Librarian for Western Languages, 5-0585
Final Report - 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 , Curator,
5-2445
Final Report
Round Six 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.
Visit the project web site:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:mczartco
The project manager is , Special Collections Librarian, 495-8253
Final Report - 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.
Visit the project web site. http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/collections/digital.html
The project manager is: , Recordings Librarian, 495-2794
Final Report - 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 , Horticultural Research Archivist, 524-1718 x142 - 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 , 6-5748
Final Report - 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
Martha Mahard, Curator of Historical Photographs and Special Visual Collections
Final Report - 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.
Visit the project web site:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:poetsvoi
The project manager is: , Curator, Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard College Library 5-2454
Final Report
Round Seven 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.
Contact , 5-4010
Final Report - 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 , Assistant Librarian for Administration, 6-2114
Final Report - 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 , GIS Specialist, 5-2417 or 6-3670
Final Report - 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 , Director, Office of Information Technology and Media Services, 5-1969
Final Report - 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: , Director of Historical Collections, Baker Library, 617-495-6360
Round Eight 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: , Head, Slavic Division, Widener Library, Harvard University, 617-496-4383
Final Report - 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: , Ph.D. Keeper, Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, 495-2360
Final Report - 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.
Visit the project web site. http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/collections/digital.html
The project manager is: , Recordings Curator, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, 617-495-2795.
Final Report - 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: , GIS Specialist, Harvard Map Collection, 5-2417
Final Report
Round Nine 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/systems/wax/
- 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 Archives, 5-5961
Final Report - 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, 6-5844 - Blogs: Capturing the Alternative Voice
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
The project manager is: , Executive Director of the Schlesinger Library, 6-4754
Final Report
Round Ten 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, (978) 724-3302 x242
Final Report - 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, 4-9405
Final Report - 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, 5-2441
Final Report - 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.
Visit the project web site. http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/collections/digital.html
The project manager is: , Recordings Curator, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, 5-2794
Final Report
Access Projects
Access Project funding is designated for populating Harvard's online catalogs. The following projects have been awarded access funds:
- Harvard 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.