SLIS students have done class projects, internships, hourly jobs, and scholarship positions with the IU Digital Library Program (DLP). A number of our faculty and alumni have worked with digital library projects and collaborate in the usability testing of IU's digital music library research funded by the National Science Foundation.
- Digital library work offers new career paths for SLIS alumni.
- Digital library collections provide new forms of information access - globally.
- Digital library projects help to preserve history.
Sample Collections Available:
Victorian Women Writers Project
Full text of works by 19th century British women writers that include novels, political pamphlets, children's books, verse drama
U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1971
Includes more than 2,200 photographs from the Calumet Regional Archives at IU Northwest.
Note: Stephen McShane (MLS'89) is the Director of the Calumet Regional Archives, Gary, Indiana
Charles Cushman Collection
Includes 18,000 works of the amateur photographer
Visit the Digital Library Program at: www.dlib.indiana.edu
Posted November 14, 2003