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Digitization Center

Waldo Library, # 0156 - 0157a
Phone: 269-387-4776
Fax: 269-387-5519
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Digitized Collections

This is a growing resource of digital collections including photographs, maps, diaries, artwork, etc. These unique collections have never been this accessible. Primarily from WMU Libraries holdings they are designed for faculty and student Internet access under 'Fair Use' guidelines. See copyright page

• South Asia Map Collection
  This collection is made up of intermediate scale maps published by the Army Map Service primarily in the 1940's and 1950's. Currently only maps of Afghanistan are available.
• Index Map Collection
  Index maps for map series and sets, such as AMS (Army Map Service), visually annotated to show local WMU Libraries holdings.
• Costume History Collection
  Our collection is currently comprised of four books housed in the Special Collections and Rare Books Room of Waldo Library. Each of these books illustrates aspects of dress from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.
• World War II Propaganda Collections
  The Howard Mowen Collection and the Edwin W. Polk Collection are two significant donations which now form a unified collection of Nazi German and Allies publications, photographs, and ephemera known as the N.S.D.A.P. Collection.
• Cistercian Liturgical Research Resources from the Cistercian Studies Collection at WMU
  Contains the full run of the journal edited by Father Chrysogonus Waddell of Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist, KY, Cistercian Liturgy Series, and Selections from the Chrysogonous Waddell Archive.

• Medieval Document Collection
  A sampler of Cistercian and other materials: antiphonary, glossed Bible pages, legal scroll, etc. Also see medieval document digitization services.
• Caroline Bartlett Crane Everyman's House Collection Recently updated with more comprehensive metadata, more zoom capability, and new items: book and photos. National home design winner, built in Kalamazoo, Michigan by Caroline Bartlett Crane: a mixed collection of blueprints, letters, and photos.
• Yearbooks of Western Michigan University
  Yearbooks from 1906 through 1975 available in digital form as searchable pdf files (some very large).
• (External) Ward Morgan Photography Collection
  A collection of commercial photographs showing mid 20th century culture in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area.
  View in (External) CONTENTdm the (External) Making of Modern Michigan web interface or LUNA
• United States Civil War Collection
  Diaries and more from the mid 1860s, with full transcriptions, extensive metadata, and helpful browse categories.
• African American History Book
  'Michigan Manual of Freedmen's Progress' book, 1915 edition, fully digitized including photographs, charts, and searchable text in pdf format.

Other Digital Collections and Items

• Image Catalog
  For locating art images for instruction and research. Thousands of slide and digital images from the Visual Resouces Library collection. Need BroncoNet ID.
• Portfolio Collection
  Varied images of diverse items demonstrating Digitization Center services. The collection contains copyrighted materials.
• Selected Examples of Print Images
  Depicting a history of print methods with analysis and technical information. (Complete selection is not available due to copyright).
• Early Americas, Medieval Spanish Documents
  Spanish Department collaborative grant project; Two Cabeza de Vaca transcriptions of 16th century manuscripts at the Early Americas Digital Archive. (External) Relaçión general
  (External) Commentarios de Álvar Nv´ñez Cabeça de Vaca
• QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) Demo
  Example of an African beaded necklace produced as a QTVR movie from 72 separate photographs of the item.

Selected Noteworthy Digital Resources

• (External) Making of Modern Michigan Collection
  A collective of over 50 libraries in Michigan
• (External) MeL
  Michigan eLibrary
• (External) David Rumsey Maps Collection
  Over 18,000 rare 18th and 19th century maps
• (External) Other Visual Collections
  Over 300,000 images from over 50 collections
• (External) CONTENTdm Collection of Collections
  Here you will find records representing a sampling of collections created by the hundreds of libraries and cultural heritage organizations using CONTENTdm today. Some records represent individual collections; some connect you to entire digital libraries. Each record attempts to describe the breadth and depth of the resources you will find when you access the site using the URL listed in each record.
• (External) LUNA commons.org
  LUNA Commons is a source for finding content from digital collections built in Luna Insight Software (Luna Imaging, Inc.) and presented in the new LUNA browser.

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