News
October 31, 2001
California State University Northridge introduces
comprehensive online San Fernando Valley History Digital Library
California State University Northridge has announced a new
CONTENTdm-based website containing comprehensive materials relating to
the History of the San Fernando Valley. The site features a rich
collection and uses keyword searching as well as "pre-selected
queries" created using CONTENTdm's Query Builder Tool to assist users
in navigating the database. Media items gathered from public and
private collections include photographs, maps, and numerous documents
from the subject time period (posters, correspondence and even menus).
The site can be viewed at http://digital-library.csun.edu/
The information that follows is excerpted from the 'History of the
Project' section of the CSUN site.
"The San Fernando Valley History Digital Library is the first effort
to assemble, digitize and make globally available historically
significant documents, manuscripts, photographs and related graphic
materials from public and private collections in the San Fernando
Valley. It provides full, open and equal access to materials
demonstrating the socio-economic changes and cultural evolution of the
San Fernando Valley from the early 19th century through the end of the
20th century.
The San Fernando Valley History Digital Library project creates a new
and important link between the Library's traditional service
community, our client groups, and the University's extensive holdings
of non-circulating primary source materials. This Internet project
will also expand the Library's user group globally, reaching all
scholars researching the history of greater Los Angeles through the
network. The digital library database will bring together, for the
first time, significant historical photographs, illustrations, maps,
manuscripts, documents and related graphic materials from a variety of
collections located on the CSUN campus, including the Center for
Photojournalism and Visual History, the Geography Department Map
Library, and the University Library's Special Collections, which
includes the Urban Archives Center and the University Archives. Added
to these items will be a number of selected images from fourteen local
historical societies in the San Fernando Valley. The web pages of the
historical societies will be linked to the project."
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