New digital projects from Digital Content Group
- Digital Libraries for the Decorative Arts
This collection offers a variety of documents, electronic facsimiles, images, links and resources related to the decorative arts in the past and present with a special focus on Colonial America. The Chipstone Collection consists of images and descriptions of early American furniture from the Chipstone Foundation in Fox Point, Wis. Other resources include books on material culture, a list of associations and museums, guides and more, as well as links to the UW-Madison Material Culture program.
Visit the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts
- The Arts Collection
Mills Music Library includes online searchable databases of sheet music and lyricists compiled by Mills Music Library. The collection includes records of items dating before 1900 and an index of sheet music by Wisconsin composers and lyricists, or with Wisconsin subjects. General arts-related material includes the Illustrated Shakespeare project. Illustrated Shakespeare is a collection of works by various authors, including Songs of Shakespeare, a collection of Shakespeare's poetry and prose illustrated by the Etching Club. Also among these publications are books of illustrations based on plays such as Two Gentlemen of Verona, and images of Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare lived.
Mills Music Library Special Collections
Illustrated Shakespeare
- Area Studies-related resources
Visitors to the sites in this collection can view images, listen to audio and learn about a variety of cultures. Sites feature digitized projects concerning South and Southeast Asia and Africa. The South and Southeast Asia Video Archives is a bibliographic database that allows users to select a country, language, subject or collection to find a list of videos held by the UW-Madison Libraries that relate to their search topic. The SouthEast Asia images and Text project (SEAiT) houses a collection of 500 slides from the Philippines. In the fall of 2003, the Digital Content Group will update the site with more than 2,000 slides of Laos from Laotian studies specialist Joel Halpern. Two other collections relating to the field of Area Studies are The Africana Digitization Project and Africa Focus. The Africana Digitization Project is an electronic facsimile collection and a searchable grouping of works relating to Africa; much of the material was originally produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. Africa Focus contains digitized images and field recordings from Africa contributed of the years to the UW-Madison's African Studies Program.
South and Southeast Asia Video Archive
SEAit project
Africana Digitization Project
Africa Focus
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University of Wisconsin Collection
This collection contains books, magazines and photographs relating to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The materials explore numerous topics, including a history of the School of Human Ecology. The collection also includes an electronic facsimile collection with University of Wisconsin alumni magazines, an early alumni directory from 1921 and a four-volume history of UW-Madison. a collection of Wisconsin Alumni magazines and a history of UW-Madison. The Wisconsin Alumni magazine is a project in progress; only one third of the issues are currently online. The completed project will span 90 years of UW history, from 1899 to 1989. The collection will be updated in fall 2003 and will include images and ephemera from the UW-Madison archives, the Badger Yearbook and the Wisconsin Engineer magazine, a magazine published by and for UW-Madison engineering students.
Home Economics to Human Ecology: A Centennial History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Wisconsin: A History
Wisconsin Alumni magazine
The University of Wisconsin Collection
- University of Wisconsin Libraries Digital Repository
This collection currently has a potpourri of resources. The Academic Library in the American University, a work by Stephen E. Atkins, focuses on the academic library and its role in pre- and post-World War II America, its relationship to the faculty and the fiscal matters with regards to the university's budget. Progetto di costituzione per il popolo Ligure, or the constitution for the Ligurian Republic, is an Italian work written in Genova, Liguria and dates back to 1797. The province of Liguria is located in northwestern Italy. The Diepnosophists, or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus, written by Athenaeus of Naucratis, depicts a celebration honoring the learned men. The author takes a unique twist by taking readers through a feast; each chapter describes a different food, a metaphor for "the delicious feast of words," according to the author.
The Academic Library in the American University
Progetto di costituzione per il popolo Ligure
The Diepnosophists, or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus
- The State of Wisconsin Collection (forthcoming)
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (UWDC) recently added a resource titled Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters to this collection. Currently comprised of 66 issues, Transactions allows users to explore 70 years of published articles and stories; the earliest issue on the site is from 1930 and the digitized project continues until winter of 2003. Another component of The State of Wisconsin Collection is the Belgian-American Research Collection, which contains images, oral histories and publications relating to one of the nation's largest concentration of Walloon-speaking Belgians in northeastern Wisconsin. The electronic facsimile collection, called the Wisconsin Pioneer Experience, is a digital collection of letters and other original sources documenting life in nineteenth-century Wisconsin. Other additions in late-2003 include the Wisconsin Academy Review and the Wisconsin Traditions of Social Care image collection. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters
Belgian-American Research Collection
Wisconsin Pioneer Experience
- History of Science and Technology
This electronic facsimile contains writings about scientific research at UW-Madison and unique or valuable titles in science and technology held by the UW-Madison libraries. The latest addition to this collection, Wohlmeinende, treue, und sehr nützliche Ermahnungen an die Anfänger in dem tiefsinningen Studio der Hermetischen Philosophie by Johann Anton Moscherosch von Wißelsheim, that dates back to 1765. Written in German, the work discusses early modern science, philosophy and the supernatural.
Wohlmeinende, treue, und sehr nützliche
- Ecology and Natural Resources Collection
Soils of Wisconsin by Francis Doan Hole, explores the variety of soils and their formations and stresses the soil's importance in the state's economy, natural resources and physical health. DCG will add three new projects in the fall: Department of Natural Resources Technical Bulletins, Images from the Aldo Leopold Collection and Bordner Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory.
Soils of Wisconsin
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