Digital Stocking Stuffers

As we come up on the college’s holiday break, the Around the D Crew would like to wish all our readers happy holidays. The college will be closed from December 24 to January 3.  To keep you entertained, we’re offering a selection of new digital projects and blogs to explore.

First some new digital projects:

The North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project has completed a pilot project. It includes 23,483 digital images of papers dating
from 1752 to the 1890s with newspapers from Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville
(1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New
Bern (1751-1804), and Wilmington
(1765-1816).  In addition there is the full run of two politically opposed
newspapers from Salisbury
the Carolina Watchman (1832-1898) and The Western Carolinian
(1820-1844).  including a collection of 18^th century
newspapers.
http://exhibits.archives.ncdcr.gov/newspaper/index.html

From the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is the new Digital Library on American Slavery http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/. This resource provides genealogists and historians an easy means to search
through thousands of county court and legislative petitions (1775-1867) from
fifteen states and the District of Columbia that relate to race and slavery.
The Digital Library provides detailed information on more than 150,000
individuals who are party to the petitions, including 80,000 individual slaves
and 10,000 free people of color. The Digital Library of American Slavery grew out of the Race and Slavery
Petitions Project, directed by Loren Schweninger (the Elizabeth Rosenthal
Excellence Professor in History at UNCG).  Established in 1991, the Race
and Slavery Petitions Project was designed to locate, collect, organize, and
publish all extant legislative petitions and a selected group of 14,500 county
court petitions relevant to race and slavery.

From the archives of DePauw University is a new project with more than 20,000 photographs, documents, images of
objects, a full-text newspaper search and audio relating to DePauw, Putnam
County, Indiana and the United Methodist Church. Over fifty years of the campus newspaper and a
small number of alumni magazines are included as well. More is being added
daily at
http://digital.library.depauw.edu

New blogs to explore:

Duke University library staff are busy with 2 new blogs-

The Devil’s Tale,
http://library.duke.edu/blogs/rbmscl/ from the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library and Preservation Underground, http://dukelibrariespreservation.blogspot.com/. Each provides behind the scenes look a special collections and the work that goes in the those departments.

The Archives and Special Collections in Belk Library
at Elon University has recently created a blog–“Under the Oaks”.  It can
be found online at http://belkarchives.wordpress.com/.

Happy Browsing and Happy New Year!