Please welcome two new members of the Digital Collections Team: Georgia Ross White, Digital Collections Librarian, and Rhea Ray, Digital Projects Manager. Head to our blog https://t.co/EQvl3hJEIU for details!
Read this fantastic article by our very own and @SarahKetchley and @Elle_Gervais on translating digital humanities skills from college to career via @scholarlykitchn https://t.co/q19IMoCzWH
Today is World Digital Preservation Day! See our Scholarly Communication blog post on web archiving at UofSC Libraries -https://t.co/0hoWea9rWT #WDPD2021#digipres
Success story of a former student & current archivist, Chauna Carr! She helped #digitize intriguing pieces of #archival history here at #UofSC. Thanks for everything, Chauna! Esp. this fascinating #quilt, which you lovingly stitched together digitally.
https://t.co/SSIqpNK7RA
Check out our side-by-side comparisons of Mark Catesby's naturalist illustrations from 1731 and present-day photography, courtesy of our very own Kendall Hallberg. https://t.co/rzNqXsEIYo
#Naturalism#MarkCatesby#SouthCarolina#Flowers#Moths#RareBooks
We're pretty fast here; we set out templates, we organize papers, & we get crackin'. @CLIRnews Digital Assistant Kendall Hallberg is scanning "SC Council on Human Relations Papers", a grant funded civil rights #DigitalCollection we're working on w/ @UofSCCRC
at #UofSCLibraries
This #nationallibraryweek, we proudly gave a tour of @UofSClibraries’ #digitalcollections department to @Bob_Caslen. Our work is vital to primary source education, & we’re so pleased our university president stopped by to meet us & see our operations. Go #Gamecocks!
#ThrowbackThursday
1802 Plan of Conwayborough.
A plan of Conwayborough laid out and numbered agreeable to the direction of the Commissioners appointed by law for that purpose and exhibits the number and shape of each lot. Surveyed by William Hemingway.
We are enamored of the illustrations in "Stories from the Arabian Nights" (1907) retold by Laurence Housman and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. We recently acquired this first edition, first issue. Images courtesy of the Bentley Rare Book Museum.
"Though we have met with losses, the depressing effects of these adversities have been modified by hopeful existing indications of a full returning prosperity at no very distant day". -Governor Johnson Hagood, Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1881. https://t.co/xpqM8kM1Lp
“Bad handwriting enriches classroom experience” — how one faculty member used Libraries’ digital collections to get his students engaged: https://t.co/dD6SBUnWGc
Fascinating, right? Join us online Th Nov 12 @ 2pm for The Complete Piranesi, a talk with #Princeton Prof Carolyn Yerkes. Email [email protected] for this #Piranesi program link.
It's #WorldDigitalPreservationDay! "Let us take this day to celebrate the people responsible for keeping vast amounts of unique materials accessible for the future." - Kate Boyd. Read more about @UofSCLibraries#DigitalPreservation team great work here: https://t.co/liIUROwywG
We got our blog started 2 yrs ago this Sept, & how we've grown. We now have 1,020,031 digitized items, all open access. To search our repositories: https://t.co/o67pwJqF5x Our first blog: https://t.co/6X5uF7ZI8C
Be in touch! Ask questions. Use our digital collections!
During COVID, we have continued to provide you & our UofSC community w/ free access to historical, educational resources. We've added 4 new collections comprised of new manuscripts, postcards, photographs, & early printed books in our repository: https://t.co/av0lG6OEST Enjoy!👍