DLTS, in partnership with Archival Collections Management (ACM), Special Collections, and Application Architecture and Development (AAD), has launched the redesigned Finding Aids and Finding Aids publication system.
Coca Crystal Video Recordings and Papers published
Coca Crystal (1947-2016) was a journalist, television personality, and political activist. She contributed to the East Village Other, writing about counterculture politics with a strong focus on women’s issues.
Sir William Jones Manuscripts collection: 18th Century comparative linguistics studies
We just published the manuscripts of Sir William Jones (1746-1794), a British lawyer in India and pioneer of comparative linguistic studies. Included are documents in Sanskrit and Persian relating to astrology, botany and law.
Syria collection published
Acquired from photographer Xenia Nikolskaya and researcher Heba Habib, the Syria Collection includes 1,255 photographs including black and white gelatin silver prints and color photographs.
Letters to the Sugar Plum Fairy
We have just published the finding aid for the Joe Campbell Collection of Dorothy Dean Letters; these objects were photographed by the members of our Imaging Lab.
Spanish Civil War Poster Collection
We have just published the finding aid for the Spanish Civil War Poster Collection, including digitizing many of these gorgeous and important artifacts.
Searchable PDFs now live: The Masses
Announcing our first collection with searchable PDFs!
Audio collections are coming!
DLTS published our first full audio collection, Fales’s Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Archive, earlier this year. We’ve been hard at work on the next several collections, including a re-publication of Voices from the Food Revolution that allows HTML5 streaming (and removes…
DLTS goes 3D
Digital Library Technical Services has joined the computational imaging crowd. We’ve done a short test of Reflectance Transformation Imaging, or RTI. This technology compiles multiple digital images into a virtual object that can reveal new information about the surface of…
Poly Portraits Nearing Completion
We have just digitized the last of the Poly Portrait collection, which features some interesting shots of the many scientists who graced the halls of the school now known as Tandon. Here’s an example: