Hello Everyone, Cornell Library Digital Collections http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/ Summary Descriptions of the CDL Collections What is the Making Of America (MOA) Collection? The Making Of America (MOA) Collection is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials that document 19th-century America. The Cornell University and the University of Michigan libraries have cooperated in the initial phase of MOA (1994-1996), which was funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation. For more information, see About the MOA. What is the Math Book Collection? The Math Book Collection is a collection that of consists of 571 books that were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library. All books were disbound and all pages scanned. This collection was part of a greater whole known as the CLASS project (see below) which dealt with a joint effort on the part of Xerox and Cornell University to digitize materials. This collection is viewed via the Hunter User Interface using Dienst 5.1 protocols. Some materials are viewed using an older interface using Dienst 3.5. What is the Ezra Cornell Collection? The Ezra Cornell Collection is a collection of Ezra Cornell's correspondence, diaries, and a published family genealogy. The materials in the collection were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library. This collection represents Cornell University's first effort to make a large manuscript collection available over the web. Ezra Cornell was a self-educated businessman with strong interests in politics and education. His interest in new technologies led him to play a critical role in promoting the widespread adoption of the telegraph. His correspondence consists of hand-written letters sent and received, drafts of outgoing letters, documents or drafts of documents, and occasionally letters between persons other than Ezra Cornell. Cornell's 33 diaries and notebooks address a wide variety of topics, and his letterbooks are bound copies of outgoing letters concerning the telegraph industry and the founding of Cornell. The collection is viewed via a locally-developed user interface using Dienst 3.5 protocols. It may also be accessed in Internet Explorer 5.0 or later via a finding aid encoded in XML according to the Encoded Archival Description standard. What is the Digital Preservation (CLASS) Collection? The Digital Preservation Collection consists of digital surrogates for materials on the history of the United States, New York State and local history, and core agricultural history titles. The collection consists of 456 general monographs, 42 Cornell dissertations, and 691 New York State historical pamphlets and monographs. We are in the process of making these images available for online viewing. What is the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture Collection? The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is an electronic collection of agriculture texts published between the early 19th - late 20th century representing all areas of agricultural sciences and disciplines and selected because of their importance in agricultural history. Over 750,000 pages are included in this collection. The collection also includes 599 agricultural books that were selected for a project funded by the NEH to scan books and then convert the scanned images to microfilm. Who is involved at Cornell? Cornell Digital Library Collections represent a collaborative effort between a number of units in the Cornell University Library, including the Library Systems Office, the Information Technology unit in the Albert Mann Library , the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC), and the Department of Preservation and Conservation. Staff from the Computer Science Department and Cornell Information Technologies have also contributed to the projects. I hope this information helps. If you have problems or further questions please let me know. :-) Thanks, Mike ************************* Michael G. McManness, a Jayhawk through and through, eating, sleeping, and bleeding Crimson and Blue near the University of Kansas. Family genealogist and research historian. "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." --- Phillip Brooks *************************