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Teaching with Digital Archives
CETLA | IL09 Alliah Humber, HU Libraries
Spring 2010
Overview• What are Digital Archives?
• Information Formats
• Types of information
• Digital Archive Sites
Workshop Goals • To provide participants with the information
resources pertinent to their subject area of focus
• To enable participates to select, locate, access, retrieve, evaluate, organize, and preserve information
• To provide hands-on practice with a variety of database search interfaces and management tools
Digital archives:preserve and provide access to the electronic archival records
comprise of digitized images of historical records ranging from paper-based materials to analog media
have records that are born-digitally
designed with the user in mind
increase access to special collections!
Types of Information (digitized)• birth, marriage, death records• ephemera• photographs• broadsides • carte-de-visitas• news clippings• Objects• military records• Correspondences• Television programs• Audio recordings• Etc…
Types of Digital Archives• Government
o State Archives / County / Local Archiveso State Libraries / Special Collectionso State Historical Societies / Museum
• Academic o University Libraries / Special Collectionso Archives / Special Collectionso Institutional Respositories
• Non-profit • Foundations, • organizations, Institutes
• Open Web Objects/Units
@ Howard http://www.howard.edu/library• African American Biographical Database
• Black Drama
• International Index to Black Periodicals
• Accessible Archives
• LexisNexis
• Ethnic News Watch
• JSTOR | ProjectMuse
#1place to search /discover collections
WorldCat maintains a collection of over 50,000 libraries including Howard University. It is considered the world's largest network of library content and services. www.worldcat.org
SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
NYPL Digital Gallery | Results -
National Archives
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
"Dealin'" with poet and Pan African supporter Haki Madhubuti
Odetta Gordon performs "Give Me Your Hand"
eCommons@Cornell: A feminist perspective on environmental ethics: Carol Gilligan, Val Plumwood, the effects of the sexual revolution, daycare vs. parental care, Wendell Berry The Unsettling of America
Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
The Fort Scott Tribune - Google News Archive Search
Sophie Tucker Receives Honor from Noble Sissle - Jet Magazine, November 26, 1953 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
