W.E.B. Du Bois Papers & Photos online via UMass Amherst Libraries
W.E.B. Du Bois Papers
http://credo.library.umass.edu/
The University of Massachussetts - Amherst Libbraries Department of Speical Collections will make more than 40,000 digital objects from the Du Bois Papers available, with the remaining 60,000 items to follow in the next two years. The Library is planning a launch celebration for October 27, 2011 at 10 am, on the Lower Level of the Du Bois Library. Part of the collection is online now: http://credo.library.umass.edu/
“Du Bois’s papers will be now be available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, from a Parisian activist with a laptop to a Ghanaian teenager on a cell phone or a sixth grader in a computer lab in Springfield,” says Rob Cox, Head of Collections, Special Collections and University Archives.
The collection includes correspondence, writings, and nearly 900 photographs spanning Du Bois’s entire lifetime.
From the website:
"Credo is an online repository containing the digital collections held by the UMass Amherst Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). SCUA presently houses more than 30,000 linear feet of archives and rare books, the vast majority of which are available only to users who are able to visit our collections in person. In an effort to make these unique materials more widely and freely accessible, SCUA and the Libraries’ Systems Department began to develop Credo in 2009, with the goal of making the repository a central hub for exploring SCUA’s collections from anywhere at any time.
With the generous support of the Verizon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, SCUA simultaneously embarked upon the massive project of digitizing the complete papers of the African American intellectual and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois. By the time that Credo was launched in June 2011, more than 40,000 digital objects from the Du Bois Papers were already available, and within two years, we expect to include the remainder of the collection -- another 60,000 items. SCUA plans to add significant content to Credo in the coming years both digitized and born digital, representing the breadth of our collecting interests from university history to social change, the history of New England, and innovation and entrepreneurship.
We do not expect the work of Credo ever to be truly finished and as such we welcome comments and feedback from our users. To send us your comments, please email us at credo at library.umass.edu.
http://credo.library.umass.edu/
The University of Massachussetts - Amherst Libbraries Department of Speical Collections will make more than 40,000 digital objects from the Du Bois Papers available, with the remaining 60,000 items to follow in the next two years. The Library is planning a launch celebration for October 27, 2011 at 10 am, on the Lower Level of the Du Bois Library. Part of the collection is online now: http://credo.library.umass.edu/
“Du Bois’s papers will be now be available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, from a Parisian activist with a laptop to a Ghanaian teenager on a cell phone or a sixth grader in a computer lab in Springfield,” says Rob Cox, Head of Collections, Special Collections and University Archives.
The collection includes correspondence, writings, and nearly 900 photographs spanning Du Bois’s entire lifetime.
From the website:
"Credo is an online repository containing the digital collections held by the UMass Amherst Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). SCUA presently houses more than 30,000 linear feet of archives and rare books, the vast majority of which are available only to users who are able to visit our collections in person. In an effort to make these unique materials more widely and freely accessible, SCUA and the Libraries’ Systems Department began to develop Credo in 2009, with the goal of making the repository a central hub for exploring SCUA’s collections from anywhere at any time.
With the generous support of the Verizon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, SCUA simultaneously embarked upon the massive project of digitizing the complete papers of the African American intellectual and activist, W.E.B. Du Bois. By the time that Credo was launched in June 2011, more than 40,000 digital objects from the Du Bois Papers were already available, and within two years, we expect to include the remainder of the collection -- another 60,000 items. SCUA plans to add significant content to Credo in the coming years both digitized and born digital, representing the breadth of our collecting interests from university history to social change, the history of New England, and innovation and entrepreneurship.
We do not expect the work of Credo ever to be truly finished and as such we welcome comments and feedback from our users. To send us your comments, please email us at credo at library.umass.edu.