Tuesday, June 5, 2012

First item in Hal Sayre Papers collection available

The first item in the Hal Sayre Papers collection from the UCB Archives is available in the CU Digital Library in the form of Sayre's handwritten, first-person diary recounting the Sand Creek Massacre. The print collection includes numerous diaries, extensive personal and business material, maps, legal papers and business records. A short description of the collection is available on the Archives website (p. 143) and in the MARC record in Chinook.

The Sand Creek diary is being published ahead of the rest of the collection to coincide with the Chief Niwot Exhibit at the Boulder History Museum, which runs through November 25, 2012.

As always, significant collaboration was required to present this material. Metadata Services worked with Debbie Hollis in Special Collections, Holley Long in Libraries IT, and Bruce Montgomery & Dave Hays in Archives to make the beginnings of this collection available, which will be amended over time with additional digitized material.

Please direct questions about the metadata portion of this digitization project to Michael Dulock.

 

Women Poets of the Romantic Period collection available in the CU Digital Library

Through a collaboration between UCB Special Collections, Libraries IT and Metadata Services, the Women Poets of the Romantic Period collection is now available in the CU Digital Library. The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries has a significant collection of first and early editions of poetry by women writers of the British Romantic Period (1770-1839). The digital collection comprises twenty-one volumes, with more to be added as volumes are digitized. The collection was published to coincide with the 20th-anniversary conference of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association, taking place in Boulder from June 7-10, 2012.

Metadata for the collection was created by crosswalking the existing MARC records for the entire 400+ volume print collection into a MODS template. Following some manual clean-up, the record set was imported into LUNA and records for the digitized volumes set to display. Metadata Services worked closely with Holley Long in Libraries IT and Debbie Hollis and Amanda Brown in Special Collections in order to create the records.

Please direct questions about the metadata portion of this digitization project to Michael Dulock.