Wow! This is pretty neat. I did a few searches for the usual, obvious
things (maps and cartography) and found some interesting records.
Perhaps of interest to the list.
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Subject: Northwest (U.S.) Digital Archives
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:49:28 -0600
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Jodi Allison-Bunnell
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From: Jodi Allison-Bunnell [[log in to unmask]]
Date sent: 4 Oct 2007
The Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA), a program that provides enhanced access to archival collections and facilitates collaboration among archives, libraries, and museums in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, has completed its grant-funded programs with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), and reached a major milestone in its quest for long-term stability. The NWDA, which began in 2002 with support from the NEH and NHPRC, is now a program of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, an academic library consortium with 34 member institutions in Washington and Oregon.
The NWDA website is located at http://nwda.wsulibs.wsu.edu/ and is free to all researchers. Researchers can find information about more than 4500 archival collections located in the Northwestern United States through keyword, subject, repository, and genre searches. The database offers researchers the ability to find detailed information about collections across institutions, at a greater level of detail than is available through any other tool. Collection information is also exposed to search engines.
As an Alliance program, NWDA will continue to pursue its goals of creating great information services through collaboration. The merger will allow the NWDA to create a robust future that will include both sustaining its current database, building a digital content program, and continuing active involvement with national-level conversations on the present and future of access to archival materials across diverse institutions.
Participating institutions have agreed to pay member fees to sustain the program beyond grant funding and continue open and free access for researchers. Member institutions are the Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Gonzaga University, Idaho State Historical Society, Seattle Museum of History & Industry, Whitman College, Montana Historical Society, University of Montana, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon State University, University of Oregon, the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies at Western Washington University, Pacific Lutheran University, University of Washington, Washington State University, Lane Community College, University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Alaska State Libraryıs Historical Collections, Whitworth University, Lewis & Clark College, the University of Idaho, Portland State University, the Washington State Historical Society, the Seattle Municipal Archives, Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, Willamette University, Western Oregon University, Portland Community College, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Central Oregon Community College, and Oregon Institute of Technology.
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Jodi Allison-Bunnell
Northwest Digital Archives Program Manager Orbis Cascade Alliance [log in to unmask]
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