Deborah Brent A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes ~ <http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23633.html> Mark Twain~ _____ From: owner-digital-collections@hulmail.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-digital-collections@hulmail.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Kosewski Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:17 PM To: digital-collections@hulmail.harvard.edu Subject: New Online Collection: "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930" For subscribers to Harvard's "Women Working, 1800-1930": The Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program has just launched "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930" at http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration. This second web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. The collection is available to Internet users everywhere. "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930," includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets, 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants. In addition to thousands of items that are now accessible to any Internet user, the collection includes contextual information on voluntary immigration and quantitative data. "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930," is made possible with the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The collection is part of a burgeoning international movement to provide educational materials on the Internet that the Hewlett Foundation has helped to pioneer and towards which the Foundation has disbursed more than $60 million in grants to advance the promise of open educational resources -- or OER, as it is known to educators. For a complete description of "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930," visit http://hul.harvard.edu/news/2006_1121.html. For further information on the Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program and on its future digital collections, visit http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu. For an overview of digital collections at Harvard, visit http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu. Subscribers to "Women Working, 1800-1930," will occasionally receive updates on digital collections at Harvard. If you prefer not to receive these mailings, please send an e-mail to ocpadm@hulmail.harvard.edu with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line. -- Peter Kosewski Director, Publications and Communications Harvard University Library Wadsworth House-1341 Mass. Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.7793 F 617.495.0370 http://hul.harvard.edu <http://636486.sigclick.mailinfo.com/sigclick/01020705/0A064D02/0 0064D04/17111201.jpg>