Last update: Thursday, January 30, 2003

New and noteworthy

The Penn Library is unveiling its new Web site in February, with many new features. Go here to test drive the new site, learn more about it, and give us suggestions on how to improve the site and make it easier to use.

The Digital Library Projects site will also be getting an overhaul, with lots of new content, in the coming weeks. Watch this space for new developments!

Locally developed digital collections

Here are some of the digital collections developed locally at Penn, with information about each collection. See our full E-Resource offerings for lots more electronic resources, from Penn and beyond.

The listings here are grouped by content medium, to illustrate the different styles of interaction and technology used for each:

• Multimodal:
• SCETI (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image [about]
• Primarily text:
• Oxford - Cambridge eBooks [about]
• Site with access to full text (Penn only)
• Public preview site
• The Online Books Page [about]
• A Celebration of Women Writers [about]
• Primarily images:
• Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection Online [about]
• Penn/AIIS South Asia Archive Online [about]
• Primarily music:
• Robert and Molly Friedman Jewish Music Online Catalog [about]

Research and development

See this page for information on projects currently in development.

Tools and technology

Look here for information on the technology and practices underlying our digital library efforts. This section, when fully fleshed out, will include recommendations and standards for maintaining our digital library resources, and pointers to documentation on the technology that we use.

The following items are currently available for staff reference:

• Assigning persistent references in Penn's URS system
• Data farm (online data on library use)
• Summary documentation for digital library standards and software

Publications and presentations

See this page for public reports that our staff have made about our digital library activities.