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DLF Colleagues -- At Mount Holyoke, we are doing a bit of an environmental scan looking for institutions who are taking a comprehensive approach to the notion of campus collections. We are looking for places that are trying to bring together virtually collections that are spread throughout the institution (beyond library, archives, and museum). We know about the following efforts: Yale has a portal, Primary sources @ Yale: http://www.yale.edu/collections_collaborative/primarysources/overview.html Harvard recently held a symposium, The Things Harvard Has @ https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/in-news/things-harvard-has narrower scope, but Oberlin's recently launched architectural images project @ http://www.oberlinlibstaff.com/omeka_oca/ brings together archival images and historical information with current Facilities dept. info. We're looking for similar efforts to create a virtual entry point into all the primary source collections that the College has amassed over all its years of existence (175+). This could be digitization of those collections or it could be metadata/finding aids/collection description. For MHC, these collections include (in addition to the archives and museum): historic dress collection athletic clothing collection early furniture collections math collection of 3D models biology and geology collections of specimens plaster casts in Art scientific instruments Greenhouse/botanical collections Japanese teahouse collection Observatory collections If you are doing similar work, we are also interested in hearing about the ways in which you are tying your initiatives into the curriculum and how you are aligning your resources, eg: scanning/digitization/metadata efforts, etc. across collections. Please email me if you can help us! I'm happy to summarize, if there is interest. thanks much, Erin Stalberg Director of Discovery and Access Library, Information, and Technology Services Mount Holyoke College [log in to unmask] 413.538.2228 ############################ To unsubscribe from the DLF-ANNOUNCE list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://lists.clir.org/scripts/wa-CLIR.exe?SUBED1=DLF-ANNOUNCE&A=1