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Slide 1: Teaching with Digital Archives CETLA | IL09 Alliah Humber, HU Libraries Spring 2010
Slide 2: Overview • • • • What are Digital Archives? Information Formats Types of information Digital Archive Sites
Slide 3: 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 • •
Slide 4: 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 with the user in mind access to special collections! designed increase
Slide 5: 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…
Slide 6: Types of Digital Archives • Government o o o State Archives / County / Local Archives State Libraries / Special Collections State Historical Societies / Museum • Academic o o o University Libraries / Special Collections Archives / Special Collections Institutional Respositories • Non-profit • • Foundations, organizations, Institutes • Open Web Objects/Units
Slide 7: @ HU Moorland Spingarn Research Center
Slide 8: @ 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
Slide 9: #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
Slide 10: SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information S
Slide 11: NYPL Digital Gallery | Results -
Slide 12: National Archives
Slide 13: African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizensh
Slide 14: USC Digital Library
Slide 15: Virginia Memory
Slide 16: African Online Digital Library - Portal Page
Slide 17: Detroit Public Television's American Black Journal
Slide 18: "Dealin'" with poet and Pan African supporter Haki Ma
Slide 19: Odetta Gordon performs "Give Me Your Hand"
Slide 20: Brandeis Institutional Repository - Home
Slide 21: eCommons@Cornell : A feminist perspective on environmental ethics: Carol G Plumwood , the effects of the sexual revolution, daycare vs. parenta
Slide 22: Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography
Slide 23: The Fort Scott Tribune - Google News Archive Search
Slide 24: Sophie Tucker Receives Honor from Noble Sissle - Je
Slide 25: Questions? Comments? ahumber@howard.edu