New Resources at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Besides the additions to digital collections listed below, watch for UW-Superior's latest contributions to the Great Lakes Maritime History Project coming in late spring. Beginning in December, JDH Library staff will begin metadata creation for the digitization of several hundred maritime images taken by Superior photographer Hugh McKenzie as well as images by several other photographers from the late 1800's through the early 20th century. Photographs include a sequence of the wreck of the vessel, Mataafa, in November 1905 as well as images of port industries. To the right is an image of a drydock at the American Steel Barge shipbuilding yard.

New Resources Within Existing Collections

The Aldo Leopold Archives
Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Aldo Leopold Archive houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948. These additions represent Series 9/25/10-5: Research Areas and Projects. Most of the areas and projects in this series represent ongoing research efforts instituted by Leopold, usually in cooperation with others, and carried on under his supervision by a succession of graduate students. The bulk of the material pertains to research accomplished before World War II forced curtailment.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AldoLeopold

Digital Library of Decorative Arts
Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots: the greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone [full title]
1 issue, 104 pages, added 11/4/2008.

Edward Lear (1812-1888) began his art career while still a teenager. Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832), containing 42 large-format ornithological illustrations, was published before he was 20 years old. The volume is remarkable for its folio size and for content focused on a single family of birds. Under the patronage of Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby, Lear was able to travel abroad and develop his talents as a landscape painter. The original volume scanned for our online facsimile is held at UW-Madison, Memorial Library Special Collections, at Thordarson T 3524.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.LearParrots

Foreign Relations of the United States of America
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office. New additions include Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to congress with the annual message of the president, December 2, 1872, Volume I, Foreign relations of United States, 1894, affairs in Hawaii, and Foreign relations of the United States, 1901, affairs in China.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS

HISTORY COLLECTION

Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties with Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869
408 issues, 8,929 pages, added 11/18/08
American Indian treaties, like all treaties in American history, require ratification by the United States Senate to become law. Treaties negotiated with Indian peoples in the United States (the original treaties are part of record group 11, which is not currently digitized) are often a valuable source of information for researchers interested in American Indian policy. So too are the supplementary documents that offer context and additional information for the treaties. This collection has been created from the microfilm of record group 75, records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, specifically RG 75, Microcopy T494. These ten reels include instructions to treaty commissioners, reports, letters, and in some cases copies of the treaties. To facilitate use of the collection, descriptions from the List of documents relating to the negotiation of ratified and unratified treaties with various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869, a printed finding aid produced by the National Archives, have been entered beneath each treaty title. This information lists the instructions, records of treaty council proceedings and correspondence for each treaty where such exists and was included in the original National Archives record set.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.IndianTreatiesMicro

STATE OF WISCONSIN COLLECTION

History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life
The History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life collection is based on a bibliography compiled as part of the National Preservation Project for Agricultural Literature. Items in the bibliography, primary and secondary materials published through 1945, were initially ranked by a review panel for preservation microfilming. The latest additions include the Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.USAIN

Waterford Area Local History
Western Racine County pioneer families began staking their claims in the Waterford area in the fall of 1836. The early years of settlement are documented here by a collection of historical artifacts digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and newspapers. These additions include The Emerald, Waterford’s high school yearbook, for the 1940s through the 1980s. The Waterford Area Local History Collection was funded, in part, through grants from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in 2006 and 2008.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WaterfordLocHist


UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph Collection
The UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph collection consists of over 40,000 black and white photographic images of steamboats on the inland waterways of the United States, primarily the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers and their tributaries. The photos depict steamboats in every phase of their life span, in every aspect of their daily operations from the 1850s to the present, and in all sorts of settings as they went about their everyday business of hauling freight and passengers and towing barges and rafts. Besides steamboats, other types of images in the collection include steamboat captains, engineers, pilots, passengers and crews; city and town waterfronts; levees; locks and dams; and river-related activities such as fishing, swimming and clamming. The digitized collection now has over 4,600 images online.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/LaCrosseSteamboat

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN COLLECTION

Selections from the University of Wisconsin Archives
The University Archives holds an impressive collection of historic images that document topics such as Chancellors and Presidents, Memorial Union, Student Activities, and Athletics. The most recent additions focus on student protest and the University. This image collection now has over 840 images and continues to grow.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW.Archives


The Memorial Union Terrace: A Landscape History
The formal dedication of the Memorial Union took place on October 5th, 1928, but this history of one of the UW’s most iconic locations examines what stood at this site prior to the Union as well as the expansion, renewal, and other changes that occurred after the Union’s founding.
With pictures, map and other historic documents, this volume shows the dynamism of the Memorial Union Terrace.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW.MemTerr

In addition, watch for UW-Superior's latest contributions to the Great Lakes Maritime History Project. Beginning in December, JDH Library staff will begin metadata creation for the digitization of several hundred maritime images created by Superior photographer Hugh McKenzie as well as several others from the late 1800's through the early 20th century. Photographs include a sequence of the wreck of the vessel, Mataafa, in November 1905 as well as images of port industries.

Can't Get Enough? Try These Pages

For those of you who can't get enough of everything political, take a look at some of the offerings at American Memory from the Library of Congress. A recent message the LOC's Digital Library Specialist describes them this way:

"In celebration of the upcoming election, twenty-nine pieces of sheet music selected from presidential campaigns from 1868 to 1920 have been added to the Library of Congress's Performing Arts Encyclopedia at http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/. These songs extol the worthiness of those who became president, such as Ulyesses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson, as well as those who lost the elections, such as William Jennings Bryan and Horace Greely. Third parties also are featured in these songs, including the Greenback Party, the Labor Party and the Bull Moose Party.

The link to the digitized sheet music may be found in the center column of the Encyclopedia's Home page, under the heading: " Presidential Campaign Songs."

The Performing Arts Encyclopedia also contains a special feature, Patriotic Melodies : < http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/patriotic/patriotic-home.html >--which tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage. A combination of hymns, national songs, music of the theater, radio and television, military themes, and poetry, all of this music demonstrates that while over history many things have changed, this expression of pride and hope remain a constant part of the American experience."

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Are you voting for the first time, or perhaps have a new polling place?

• Find out where to vote at: http://maps.google.com/vote Just type in your street address and zip code.
• You can check your voting 'status' with the state of Wisconsin at: https://vpa.wi.gov/
• In Minnesota you can see a copy of the ballot you'll be voting on at: http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/
• What is the profile of young voters? Check it out at Civic Youth, including statistics on Voter Turnout and Registration Laws under 'state maps': http://www.civicyouth.org/

Need to see what candidates think and how it matches with your philosophy? Here are some links that might help. The JDH Library and the University of Wisconsin Superior do not endorse any candidate, but we support participatory government. Be a responsible citizen and exercise your right to vote.

• Rock the Vote http://www.rockthevote.com/electioncenter/
• http://2008election.procon.org/ ProCon includes all presidential and vice-presidential candidates, including 3rd Party
• Washington Post ("right-leaning" newspaper) http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/
• The New York Times ("left-leaning" newspaper) http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/index.html
• Project Vote Smart - type in your zip code to see ALL candidates, federal, state and local http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm
• State Races: Wisconsin - from WisconsinVote, includes "The 30-second Candidate: A Toolkit for Analyzing Campaign Advertising" at: http://www.wisconsinvote.org/30second.cfm
• State Races: Minnesota - From Minnesota Public Radio: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate/

Laura Jacobs, Information Literacy Librarian

Try These New Resources On the Web

Tired of searching the whole Web when you are doing research for a class? Here are a couple of cool new resources to tap into.

DocuTicker (http://www.docuticker.com/) “offers a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations.”

IssueLab (http://www.issuelab.com/content/index.php) makes it easy to learn about and access the knowledge and analysis that vital, non-profit organizations worlwide collect and publish. You can browse a range of issues to find archived materials from variety of nonprofits.

...And, speaking of digital content, have you checked out all the digital resources available through the library? The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/Collections.shtml found under the alphabetic list of databases on the library webpage) has an amazing array of material. The Antiquities of Wisconsin is the full text of the work of Encrease A. Lapham on Indian effigy mounds. The Arts Collection has primary and secondary materials relating to the creative arts as broadly defined: visual, literary, musical, and performing. Speaking Out: Women, Poverty and Public Policy resulted from a conference on welfare reform and women's economic security held at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire from October 29-31, 1998. The State of Wisconsin Collection presents writings about the State of Wisconsin and unique or valuable materials that relate to its history and ongoing development. The collection includes published material as well as archival materials such as books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources -- including a subgrouping of material called the Great Lakes Maritime History Project that comes from our own UW-Superior archives. The UW Digital Center is also responsible for bringing the Foreign Relations of the United States series to the Web. This is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.

There's lots more to explore, from an Iclandic dictionary to the writings of James Joyce scholars. Give it a try!

In case you haven't noticed there are two new links on our library's home page. There is the Trail Databases link and the Distance Learning link.

Trial Databases provides links to databases that we are considering subscribing to. We would love your input and have provided a comment form at the top of the Trial Databases page.

Distance Learning has helpful links and important contact information for students in our university's distance learning program.

Important Reserve Information

Library Reserves – Important Information for Faculty who anticipate using Library reserves Summer and Fall 2007.

The Library has seen growth in the number of reserves. Thus we ask that requests for Summer reserves be received by May 11th. Fall reserve requests should be submitted by May 25th. This will insure that reserves are processed and ready for student use at the start of the Summer and Fall terms.

Faculty who have Spring 2007 reserves will receive information in early May about the disposition of those reserves. If you plan on continuing to use Spring 07 reserves for summer and/or fall courses it is very important that you return the response sheet you will receive. If no response is received, we will assume that you are not using these materials this summer/fall and they will not be available for student use after May 25th.
Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Jody Johnson, Library Reserve Coordinator
jjohnso2@uwsuper.edu
394-8194

Some Helpful Sites...

Tiny URL
This site allows you to shrink down those long URLs. For instance, let's say you want to send a friendly this neat link to pictures of old library catalog cards. But look at how long this link is!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.library.upenn.edu/
exhibits/pennhistory/library/cards/card4.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.library.upenn.edu/
exhibits/pennhistory/library/cards/cards.samples.html&amp;h=215&w=362&sz=50&tbnid=
a7MoPpd1_VIJ:&tbnh=69&tbnw=117&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlibrary%2Bcard%2Bcatalog%2Bcards%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DRNWE,RNWE:2004-09,RNWE:en%26sa%3DN

Not very manageable, is it? However, if you go to http://tinyurl.com/ and plug in the link above you get this much more usable link: http://tinyurl.com/2xsk6x


Del.icio.us
This site is a social bookmarking site. Once you set up an account you can bookmark any site in order to share it with others. Professors might want to set up an account for a particular class with a list of sites that will aid students in the course!
Here's a test site I set up: http://del.icio.us/uwslibrary

Trial of EBSCO's Education Research Complete

To Login to the Free Trial:

Go to: http://trial.ebscohost.com
User Id: ebsco1
Password: trial1

Trial will be active until 4/30/07

New Trial Library Trial - FAITS

FAITS:

1. Go to www.faulknerlibrary.com

2. Click on the link for "Returning Subscriber"

3. When prompted, enter the user id: uwsuper, and password: uwsuper. They are case-sensitive.

Access will be available through February 12th.

GPO FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY OFFERS FIRST-EVER DIGITAL COLLECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

WASHINGTON-As the Nation pauses to remember the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) teams up with the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law, to provide the American public a website of authentic Civil Rights historical publications.

"GPO is honored to be participating in this project," said Judith Russell, Superintendent of Documents. "This is an example of GPO's mission to improve service to the public and assure permanent access to digital collections."

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library, which is a GPO Federal Depository Library, has been scanning hundreds of historical Civil Rights publications to make this digital collection possible. These documents are provided by USCCR. With a couple strokes of the keyboard, Americans can access Civil Rights documents such as The Civil Rights Act. These documents are accessible at: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp

"The Commission has continued to play a vital part in the efforts to combat discrimination in America. By providing access to the historical record of this important federal agency, the Thurgood Marshall Law Library will offer the public an opportunity to examine the efforts of the Commission more closely, while aiding the Commission in its role as a clearinghouse for information about civil rights," said Kenneth L. Marcus, United States Commission on Civil Rights.

"In conjunction with the Thurgood Marshall Law Library's strategic plan to enhance its civil rights collection in support of the School of Law's teaching and research mission, the Library has worked since 2001 to create a complete electronic record of United States Commission on Civil Rights publications," said Bill Sleeman, Assistant Director for Technical Services at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library.

The U.S. Government Printing Office is the Federal Government's primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, authenticating, and preserving published U.S. Government information in all its forms. GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three Branches of the Federal Government. In addition to publication sales, GPO makes Government information available at no cost to the public through GPO Access (www.gpoaccess.gov), and through partnerships with more than 1,250 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program. For more information, please visit www.gpo.gov.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement. Members include Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, Vice Chairman Abigail Thernstrom, and Commissioners Jennifer C. Braceras, Peter N. Kirsanow, Arlan D. Melendez, Ashley L. Taylor, and Michael Yaki. Kenneth L. Marcus is Staff Director. Commission meetings are open to the media and general public. For more information, please visit www.usccr.gov

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library, the University of Maryland School of Law, boasts over 400,000 volumes of American and foreign legal materials and an outstanding collection of electronic sources. A full range of research support services by experienced law librarians make the Library an excellent research facility for scholars, the judiciary and the practicing bar. For more information please visit: www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall.

The following new resources were recently added to the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.

NEW COLLECTION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON ZOOLOGY MUSEUM COLLECTION
The Galápagos Collection 20 volumes / 1,225 pages, added 12/05/2006 The collection of Galapagos materials that includes anatomical specimens, images, and papers at the UW-Madison Zoological Museum (UWZM) is unique and rare. Since 1978, UWZM has been one of only 3 museums granted permission by the Ecuadorian Government to collect, preserve, transport, and maintain scientific anatomical specimens from the Galapagos Islands. The first group of materials to be added to the digital collection includes important texts, both books and journal articles related to the flora and fauna of the Galapagos. Scholars can learn about the giant tortoise, birds, and vegetation of this unique environment, as well as read about early travels to the Galapagos. Soon to be added are stunning photographs of the wildlife and the plants of the Islands, offering researchers a seldom seen view of this important world. This digitization project is funded by a Brittingham Grant.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Zoology

NEW RESOURCES WITHIN EXISTING COLLECTIONS FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
20 volumes / 17,754 pages, added 12/05/2006 The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office. New additions cover the years 1955-1957 and span such topics as the Arab-Israeli Dispute, Foreign economic policy, Suez Crisis and much more.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS

THE STATE OF WISCONSIN COLLECTION
Appleton Public Library Local History Collection
11 volumes / 3,913 pages, added 12/05/2006 The newest additions to the Appleton Public Library Local History Collection offer views of Outgamie County from the mid-1800s up to 1989 and offer a plethora of resources for genealogists and local historians and of course citizens of the area. Titles include, The Appleton Review. Appleton's 75th Anniversary Celebration and George Washington Bicentennial, 1857-1932, Wright's Appleton City Directory for the years 1887-88, 1891-92, 1893-94, and 1925, and many other books exploring the Fox Valley. The Appleton Library Local History Collection is collaborative project completed by the UWDCC and the Appleton Public Library. The Appleton Library Local History Collection was funded, in part, through a 2005 and 2006 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant. This grant provided financial support for public libraries to digitize and make available online, their local library resources.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.AppletonPlats

Brown, Door, Kewaunee & Shawano Counties: Historical Atlases, Directories & Plat Maps
1 volumes / 192 pages, added 12/05/2006
This collection of historic materials includes plat books and atlases providing accessibility to early information about Northeastern Wisconsin, specifically Brown, Door, Kewaunee and Shawano counties.
Green Bay and Fort Howard Directory is the most recent addition to this project, completed with Nicolet Federated Library System and funded through a 2006 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant. The
1874 directory includes information on the early settlement of Green Bay as well as a business and street directory.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.NicoletLocHist

Waterford Area Local History
1 volume / 49 pages, additional images, added 12/05/2006 The early years of settlement are documented here by a collection of historical artifacts digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and newspapers. Many Waterford area agencies contributed content to this collection including Waterford Public Library, the Village of Waterford, Waterford Area Chamber of Commerce and descendants of pioneer families. The newest addition to this collection is, A History of the Waterford Graded Schools—District 1, which in the words of the author, "is an attempt to give as simply as possible a history of education in Waterford against historical background and colorful present." This project was completed with Waterford Public Library and funded through a 2006 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WaterfordLocHist

Neenah Public Library Local History Collection
1 volume / 139 pages, additional images, added 12/05/2006 Neenah, a city of 25,000, is a part of the Fox Cities and located in east-central Wisconsin, on the northwest shore of Lake Winnebago. The Neenah Public Library's digital collection presents the history of Neenah primarily from the early 1800's to the 1950's. The newest inclusion to this collection is, the Neenah Historical and Architectural Survey Project: Intensive Survey Report. The 1982 report lists districts and individual properties potentially eligible to the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of Neenah, Wisconsin and includes photographs and maps of historic Neenah. This project was completed with Neenah Public Library and funded through a 2006 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.NeenahLocHist