Category: Special Collections
John Muir letters highlighted in new Calisphere Themed Collection topic
Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the release of a new Themed Collection topic on Calisphere: The Letters of John Muir. The topic features 22 letters between Muir and notable contemporaries such as Asa Gray, Robert Underwood Johnson, Ralph […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2010-2011 Local History Digital […]
New Calisphere features enable better image discovery and browsing
Two recent enhancements to the Calisphere interface, plus the release of a slideshow widget for contributors, provide new ways to discover and view the more than 220,000 images in the collection. “More like this” Every image on Calisphere now includes […]
New Native American Rock Art topic on Calisphere
Did you know that humans have been living in California for an estimated 8,000-12,000 years? Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the addition of a new topic to California Cultures, featuring Native American Rock art in California. The topic […]
The LGBT Pride Parade: New on Calisphere
Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce a new themed collection topic on Calisphere. The topic features images of the 1977 and 1978 Lesbian and Gay Pride Parades in San Francisco. View it now! The images in this topic depict […]
Prototype interface released for searching archival authority records
CDL’s Digital Special Collections program is pleased to announce the public release of a draft prototype historical access system for the Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC). SNAC is a two-year research project, funded by the National Endowment for […]
New feature on Calisphere: Local History Mapped
Travel through California history with Calisphere’s newest feature: a set of interactive maps with hundreds of images from the past century, plotted at the locations they depict. With Local History Mapped, users can explore their neighborhoods and beyond by browsing […]
New on OAC and Calisphere: Local History Digital Resources
CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 1,200 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2009-2010 Local History Digital […]
Recruiting for Digital Special Collections Programmer Analyst
The California Digital Library’s Digital Special Collections (DSC) team is seeking a programmer analyst to help build and provide access to a world-class collection of historical and primary source materials. We need your expertise to uncover and share the remarkable, […]
New features for OAC Contributors: Dashboard and Search Box
Digital Special Collections is pleased to announce the release of two new features for OAC contributing institutions: the OAC contributor dashboard and an OAC search box for institution websites. OAC Contributor Dashboard The OAC contributor dashboard is a central, personalized […]