OCLC begins electonic archiving project

Abstract

The OCLC Online Computer Library Center has agreed to collaborate with 11 institutions in a pilot test electronic archiving project that will allow input from users so that use patterns and issues related to electronic archiving may be studied. Online Computer Library Center (http://www.oclc.org)

The OCLC Online Computer Library Center has agreed to collaborate with eleven institutions in a pilot test electronic archiving project. The pilot will allow input from users to that use patterns and issues related to electronic archiving may be studied.

The initial project will include:

* The Irish American Advocate from UGO Productions: 10,000 pages of newspapers dating back to the early 1900s.

* 1,000 photographs from the Grand Rapids Public Library's Robinson Collection of All.American Girls Professional Baseball League.

* 50,000 pages from the New York public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

* Shakespearian costume and set designs from the Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design, and maps of Illinois and the Northwest Territory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with the Follett Corporation.

* Regimental histories from Know College and the Museum of the Confederacy's CPA Virtual Civil War Library.

* Images from the Library of Congress's Mathew B. Brady Collection of Civil War photographs.

* Two l9th century journals on technology and railroads from the University of Chicago.

* A monographic set of the writing and speeches of Edmund Burke from Northwestern University

* A collection provided by the U.S. Government Printing Office to explore issues relating to permanent public access to government information via the Federal Depository Library Program.

Once digitized, OCLC will store the information in a robotic automated cartridge system which can handle over 2.9 terabytes of information (400 million typed pages). It will be housed at OCLC headquarters in Dublin, OH. For more information contact: OCLC Online Computer Library Catalog, 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, OR 43017-3395. Telephone: [phone]. Fax: [phone]. URL: http://www.oclc.org.