New Collection of Rare Maps

Explore the latest addition to the UW Libraries Digital Collections: World and Regional Maps from the 16th -19th c.



http://content.lib.washington.edu/mapsweb/index.html

Last building from 1909 moves

Cunningham Hall - one of the last remaining buildings from the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition that took place on the UW campus was moved yesterday. How often do you get to see a 100 year old building move? Actually, how often do you see any building move? Two of Digital Initiatives' student workers were interviewed while they watched.

 

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Freshwater and Marine Image Bank

Digital Initiatives wants to acknowledge the fabulous work that Wayne Gloege accomplished over the years while creating the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank. Wayne digitized over 20,000 items including maps, photographs and engravings of freshwater and marine fish, shellfish and mammals and their habitats. This comprehensive resource also includes items on sport fishing, the Panama Canal, polar exploration, commercial fisheries and dams.

This database is accessed by people around the world and many of his images have been included on blogs and other social networking sites to illustrate ideas or because the images are interesting; in addition, hundreds of libraries around the world link directly to this database. The Freshwater and Marine Image Bank is an amazing resource. Thank you Wayne for all your hard work!

View the collection at http://content.lib.washington.edu/fishweb/index.html

New Collection: UW Student Newspapers Archive

This is a pilot project to provide access to digital facsimiles of the student newspapers published at the University of Washington's three campuses over time. These papers are the historical records of each campus as seen through the eyes of the students, faculty, and staff who contributed to each issue.

At this time we have digitized:

* Independent— November 1993 to February 1996
* Ledger— November 1996 to December 2005
* Daily— September 1967 to February 1968
* Commons— October 1995 to April 1997

Browse the newspapers by date or search by keyword across articles, advertisements, and photo captions. http://content.lib.washington.edu/dailyweb/index.html

Lost and found films at the Library

The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions. Some of the short films are easily identifiable, but many more remain mysteries. Who shot these films and why? Can you help answer those questions?

Read the full UWeek article at http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?id=50783.

Three AYPE exhibits open June 1 at Suzzallo/Allen Library

The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus will be in the Suzzallo Exhibit Room, 102, Women's Work at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in the lobby outside Special Collections in the south Allen basement and Capturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Frank H. Nowell, Exposition Photographer in the balcony above the north Allen lobby. All three will open June 1.

UWeek has more information about the exhibits at http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=50023. You can also view many of the featured images in the Libraries Digital Collections at http://content.lib.washington.edu/extras/ayp100.html