The Arts of the Book Collection has a growing collection of ephemera documenting the world of contemporary book arts. As information about book artists and events can be difficult to find, making the materials available on the Internet will offer improved access to a wider group of readers. This database is a pilot project with a small selection of the materials (200 items). AOB received permission from the artists to make these images available to the public and plans to include more material in the future.
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Digital historical documents relevant to the fields of law, economics, politics, diplomacy and government on the World Wide Web. Currently contains, among other things, The debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, reported by James Madison, materials relating to the Nuremberg trials, works by Thomas Jefferson, and materials relating to diplomatic relations between the United States and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. The Beinecke houses outstanding special collections devoted to American literature, German literature, Western Americana, and British literary and historical manuscripts. The Beinecke Images database contains hundreds of thousands of digital reproductions of historical materials in its holdings. Images may be freely downloaded for research, personal, and non-commercial purposes. To request digital images of original material or high resolution reproductions, contact beinecke.images@yale.edu
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This database provides detailed description and more than 7,500 digital images of photographs and films held in the archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and the Lingnan University Board of Trustees, which are held at the Yale Divinity Library. The database is an important resource for the study of education, medical work, architecture, and society in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Contact: Martha Smalley
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The Classics Collection comprises images from the teaching and research collections of the Classics Department. Some have kindly been provided by members of staff; others have been digitized from the collection that has been built up over the years by students and faculty of the Departments of Classics, History, and History of Art. The collection, which is in the process of development, ranges over the whole Mediterranean world. It includes images taken on site at the Dura and Gerasa excavations, maps, site plans, elevations, panoramic and detailed views of sites, and photos of all kinds of objects representing both high and low ancient material culture.
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United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs.
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Several collections including the AMICO Library of 100,000 images, the Beinecke Digital Collection and the Visual Resources Collection are available using the Insight Client. The Insight Client is software that must be installed on your computer. Using the Insight Client allows you to search all collections available in Insight as one (cross-collection searching). For information about the collections available in Insight see the Digital Collections in Insight page.
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The Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library is a faculty-library initiative that provides digital resources for teaching and research.
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This project digitizes Mexican state statistical abstracts and Nigeria price commodity statistics volumes from the library's Economic Growth Center Collection. The Mexico collection spans the years 1994-2000 for all 31 Mexican states. Users can browse PDF versions of the full text of each volume and, through a table-level metadata query system, can browse or search for selected tables within the volumes. The collection includes nearly 6,000 PDF files and more than 16,500 Excel files. The Nigeria collection provides PDF versions of the full text of selected volumes from the years 1977-2000 for 16 Nigerian states, for a total of more than 200 volumes. This collaborative project of Social Science Research Services, the Social Science Libraries and the Economic Growth Center is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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This interactive teaching tool contains a growing collection of images, interactive maps and data sets related to the City of New Haven. New Haven is a fine “model” for the larger issues of city life. A leading location for urban scholarship across several generations, and small enough to learn well in a short period, New Haven is a great place to learn about the great saga of city life in the New World.
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In the IMPA project, the Yale Divinity Library is partnering with five other archival repositories in Europe and North America to develop an online database of missionary photographs taken between 1850 and World War II. The database currently contains more than 10,000 images, of which nearly 3,000 have been contributed by the Divinity Library. This database is an important scholarly resource for missions historians, art historians, scholars of religion, historical sociologists, visual anthropologists, area specialists, and geographers. Contact: Martha Smalley
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The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection presents images of visual materials from The Lewis Walpole Library, whose collections record and support the ideas and culture of eighteenth-century Britain, focusing particularly on Horace Walpole and his world. The current focus of the Digital Collection is the Library's world-renowned collection of English caricatures and political satirical prints from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. This ongoing project to provide increased access to the library's rich holdings will, in time, include full catalog records available online for each item and take advantage of Luna Imaging's Insight software to manage and work with the images using the Internet. Further works to be added to the Digital Collection in the coming months include prints by Hogarth, prints and drawings by Bunbury, non-satirical prints, and drawings and watercolors related to Horace Walpole's collection and home at Strawberry Hill. A department of the Yale University Library and located in Farmington, Connecticut, the Lewis Walpole Library was bequeathed to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, who devoted his life to collecting the letters and works of Horace Walpole (1717-1797) and to editing the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence.
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The Manuscripts and Archives Digital Image Database consists of over 10,000 digital reproductions of photographs, drawings, posters, text documents, and other images taken from the Yale University Archives, various manuscript collections, and publications that can be found in Manuscripts and Archives.
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The Cushing/Whitney Medical Digital Library is a growing collection of digital resources made available on the Web for scholarship. The Medical Digital Library Committee coordinates the library's digitization activities. Its goals include expanding access to the library's unique collections for scholarly research, and life-cycle management of digital objects. The collections are powered by Greenstone digital library software. There are currently three collections in the Digital Library. The George E. Palade Electron Microscope (EM) Slide Collection consists of 31 scans from lantern slides of some of the earliest electron micrographs taken by George Palade, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1974 (shared with Albert Claude and Christian DeDuve), and his collaborators both at the Rockefeller University (1945-1973) and at Yale (1973-1990). The Peter Parker Collection consists of 83 mid-nineteenth century oil paintings in the Historical Library rendered by Western-trained artist La Qua of Chinese patients with tumors under the care of Yale-trained medical missionary, Peter Parker. The largest collection is the Historical Library's Portrait Engravings Collection with over 2000 images of physicians and scientists in the searchable by sitter as well as by artist and engraver. The Website also points to other sources of images from the Medical Library.
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The Music Library is digitizing letters of composers for improved access to manuscript collections. Contact: Susan Lovejoy
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A central repository for information about the public health of the greater New Haven area. Includes statistics, data, documents, citations, photographs, and more.
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Access to digitized versions of selected printed issues of the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper of Yale University. The full text of these issues is indexed and searchable through the web interface. The Yale Daily News, founded on January 28, 1878, is the oldest college daily newspaper published in the United States. The historical archive begins in 1878 and is not yet comprehensive: issues will continue to be added up to January 2001, when the Yale Daily News Current Online Issue Archive begins.
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The M.D. thesis at Yale, a tradition dating from 1839, has remained an essential part of the contemporary medical education curriculum. Students must create their own hypothesis, identify a faculty research mentor, develop a research protocol, be it literature review, laboratory study or clinical investigation, execute this protocol using current scientific standards and produce a printed thesis. Traditionally, print copies of the final thesis have been transferred to the Medical Library, and research results often appear in scholarly publishing. Unfortunately, locked shelving and skeletal cataloging for medical theses present barriers to access. The Office of Student Research and the Medical Library have begun to address these access barriers with this project. A repository of research findings will be available to a global audience, while respecting the student right to have their work published in high-impact peer-reviewed literature. With the Spring 2002 call for graduating medical student participation, the YMTDL Project team began processing digital copies of the theses and addressing institutional policy issues, with a goal of publicly launching the YMTDL in the early Spring of 2003 (http://ymtdl.med.yale.edu). The technology is based on the ETD-db project at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (http://scolar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db). The Yale Library has also formally joined the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (http://www.ndltd.org/) with the public debut of this project.
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The Yale Visual Resources Collection was established more than 60 years ago as the slide and photograph collection dedicated to supporting teaching in the visual arts and architecture. Over the years, the collection grew to include more than 300,000 lantern slides and 35mm slides as well as nearly 200,000 mounted photographs providing comprehensive coverage for the visual arts and architecture. The Visual Resources Collection has embraced the transition to digital teaching and now develops collections primarily for online access and display in the electronic classroom. The digital collection is comparable to the analog slide collection in size and scope and continues to grow in response to curricular needs. Principal users of this resource include the History of Art Department and the professional Schools of Art, Architecture, and Drama, but the department serves the entire Yale community to support and encourage the use of visual materials in all areas of the arts and humanities.
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The Yale University Art Gallery Digital Collection is a growing collection available with high-resolution images through Luna and DL services; and through the internet via the Gallery’s object browsing tool - http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu. The mission of the Yale University Art Gallery is to encourage appreciation and understanding of art and its role in society through direct engagement with original works of art. The Gallery stimulates active learning about art and the creative process through research, teaching, and dialogue among communities of Yale students, faculty, artists, scholars, alumni, and the wider public. The Gallery organizes exhibitions and educational programs to offer enjoyment and encourage inquiry, while building and maintaining its collections in trust for future generations.
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