[SOLAR-L] Search Guides to Manuscript Collections

[Hensler, Deborah]

I know this was already posted to MELIBS-L but wanted to make sure
everyone has seen this annoucment about a wonderful new resource!
 
 
 
Search Guides to Manuscript Collections 
http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/eadsearch/
<http://www.library.umaine.edu/speccoll/eadsearch/> 
 
 
We are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot web site for searching
finding aids located in special and archival collections in Maine. This
searchable database indexes the full text of 250 finding aids in Maine.
A finding aid is a descriptive guide for an archival or manuscript
collection. Typically, it includes information about the origin,
history, content, date and format of the records, as well as the
physical and intellectual arrangement of them.
 
Two repositories currently contribute to the database: Special
Collections of Fogler Library, University of Maine, and the Edmund S.
Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College. This is
a collaborative, pilot project to test an enhanced search engine for
finding aids encoded in EAD (Encoded Archival Description) and located
in special and archival collections throughout Maine. 

We have formed a working group, including members from the University of
Maine, Bates, Bowdoin, the Maine State Archives and Northeast Historic
Film, to develop a grant  proposal which would advance the pilot system
to its next phase of development, streamlining functionality and the
user interface, and providing a venue for hosting finding aids
statewide, and perhaps regionally. 
 
Marilyn Lutz, Maine Info Net
Kat Stefko, Bates College
 
October 16, 2008

 

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Deborah Hensler
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Maine State Library
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