Digital Collections

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AfricaFocus

Africa Focus brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.

Africana Digitization Project, see Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

African Studies Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AfricanStudies

The African Studies Collection brings together primary and secondary resources, research and teaching materials created by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff, and unique or valuable items related to this field held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.

The Aldo Leopold Archives

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AldoLeopold

Aldo Leopold is considered by many to have been the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century. Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics.

American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/AmerLangs

Interviews with speakers of German-American and American English dialects from across the United States, complemented by rare recordings of ethnic music from the Mills Music Library, as well as a number of maps, short interpretive essays, and visual images. English translations and notes on aspects of linguistic and historical interest accompany the excerpted recordings.

The Antiquities of Wisconsin

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Antiquities

The Antiquities of Wisconsin, Increase A. Lapham's most important published work, includes 92 pages of text, illustrated with 61 wood engravings, and 55 lithographed plates and was the result of his research into the Indian effigy mounds found on Wisconsin's Landscape.

Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WIArchives

The Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids presents archival finding aids prepared and contributed by the following institutions: The University of Wisconsin Archives and Records Management Service, University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Department of Special Collections, Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.

Artists' Book Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/ArtistsBks

This database is an illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists' Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, the Artists' Book Collection contains over 800 titles.

The Arts Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts

The Arts Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the creative arts as broadly defined: visual, literary, musical, and performing.

Belgian-American Research Collection, see The State of Wisconsin Collection

Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/BrechtGuide

The Bibliography of Bertolt Brecht's Works in English Translation is a cooperative project of the International Brecht Society and the Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv (Akademie der Künste, Berlin) and aims to present a comprehensive listing of Brecht's works published in English translation.

Chambers's Book of Days

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/BookofDays

A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection with the Calendar. An electronic reprint of the original: Chambers's Book of Days. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts

This collection includes digitized primary materials significant to the decorative arts and material culture of Early America including electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources.

East Asian Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EastAsian

The East Asian Collection includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage.

Eastern European and Slavic Studies Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EastEurope

The Eastern European Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the study of this region including its history, literature, language, political science and more.

Ecology and Natural Resources Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/EcoNatRes

The Ecology and Natural Resources Collection presents writings about research in ecology and natural resources conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable titles held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.

Foreign Relations of the United States

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FRUS

The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.

U.S. Forest Products Lab Centennial Oral History Project

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FPLHist

This collection includes digital audio recorded interviews with 52 current and former employees of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory located in Madison, Wisconsin, conducted in preparation for the Laboratory’s centennial anniversary in 2010.

The German Studies Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/German

The German Studies Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to German Studies.

Global Perspectives on Design and Culture

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/GlobalDesign

Images and data that reflect issues of global identity, culture and community, and cross-cultural interface through the study of design of living environments. This collection supports curriculum taught by the Department of Environment, Textiles and Design; School of Human Ecology.

Gay Peoples Union Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/GPU

The Gay Peoples Union Collection presents digital copies of primary source materials documenting GPU -- the most important gay and lesbian rights organization in Milwaukee during the 1970s -- and Milwaukee's gay liberation movement. Materials were selected from collections housed in the UWM Libraries Division of Archives and Special Collections.

Great Lakes Maritime History Project, see The State of Wisconsin Collection

Guide to the Indexing of South Asian Studies Periodicals

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SouthAsiaIndex/

The Guide to the Indexing of South Asian Studies Periodicals identifies and lists South Asian periodical titles and notes to what extent a particular title has been indexed.

Historical Research in Europe: A Guide to Archives and Libraries (citation database)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistResEur

This citation database is intended to assist researchers who are planning to use European libraries and archives.

The History Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History

Selected by librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists, this collection includes published materials as well as archival documents, digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps, and other resources.

History of Science and Technology

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech

This collection presents writings about scientific research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and unique or valuable titles in science and technology held by the UW-Madison libraries.

Home Economics to Human Ecology: A Centennial History at the UW

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SoHECent

A digital collection of photographs and ephemera illustrating aspects of the past 100 years at the School of Human Ecology at UW-Madison.

The Human Ecology Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HumanEcol

The Human Ecology Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to human ecology.

Ibero-American Electronic Texts Series

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IbrAmerTxt

The Ibero-American Electronic Text Series is a project developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison devoted to Iberian and Latin American works in the humanities.

Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IcelOnline

Icelandic Online is a free-access, Web-based course in Modern Icelandic language and culture, with supplementary resources. Major partners in developing this project were the University of Iceland in Reykjavík and the UW-Madison.

Illustrated Shakespeare, see the Arts Collection

James Joyce Scholars Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/JoyceColl

Created in collaboration with Professor David Hayman, one of the pioneers of Joyce scholarship, this collection includes a broad range of works related to the study of Joyce including books currently out-of-print and Hayman's own highly-regarded publications on the subject.

Jónas Hallgrímsson, Selected Poetry and Prose

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Jonas

This resource presents a wide range of materials that introduce the work of Icelandic poet and natural scientist Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807-1845), generally acknowledged to be the most important and influential Icelandic poet of modern times.

The Literature Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Literature

The Literature Collection is a multilayered grouping of works in literature and the humanities including texts translated from Nordic languages, untranslated Spanish texts, and poetry. From medieval to modern, scholarly to satirical, there is something for everyone.

Little Magazine Interview Index

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/LittleMagInt

The Little Magazine Collection, one of the most extensive of its kind in the United States, holds approximately 7,000 English-language literary magazines published in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia/New Zealand, mostly in the 20th century.

Mills Music Library Special Collections

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/MillsSpColl

Presenting the following (digital) music collections: Americana Sheet Music Collection, Civil War Band Collection: 1st Brigade Band of Brodhead, Wisconsin, Cuca Records Database, Paramount Records Discography, Popular Sheet Music Collection, Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, Wisconsin Sheet Music Database.

Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos & Maps 1885 - 1992

http://www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/Milwaukee/index.html

Presented by UW-Milwaukee, this collection includes images of Milwaukee neighborhoods and provides documentation of the city's development from the mid-1880s to the early 1990s.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History

http://www.uwm.edu/Library/digilib/milrep/index.htm

Presented by UW-Milwaukee, this collection includes 1,800 images documenting 195 performances of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater between 1977 and 1994.

New Communication Technologies, Their History and Social Influence: An Annotated Bibliography (19th Century-)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/NewComm

This annotated bibliography covers scholarship on the history and influence of new communication technologies.

The Wisconsin Oneida Language Preservation Project

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Oneida

The Wisconsin Oneida Language Preservation Project presents original stories and curriculum, with accompanying audio, that teaches the Wisconsin Oneida language. Materials presented here include Kindergarten Curriculum, Songs, and Stories in both English and written Oneida language.

Parenthood in America

http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu

Proceedings of a national conference held in Madison, Wisconsin in April, 1998 to discuss parenthood as a developmental process.

Portal to Asian Internet Resources

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/PAIR

The Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources.

PrimateImages: Natural History Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/PCLNatHist

The PrimateImages database is a collection of photographs and information about nonhuman primates. This site contain photographs of most known primate species as well as related images such as habitat, maps and food sources.

PrimateLit

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/PrimateLit

The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.

Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/PBO

In partnership with the University of Alabama Libraries, this project presents books bound in 19th century decorative book bindings.

Ravenstein Atlas des Deutschen Reichs, see The German Collection

The Real Estate Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/RealEstate

The Real Estate Collection is intended to provide online access to scholarly research, teaching materials and examples of commercial work in real estate done by celebrated University of Wisconsin professor James A. Graaskamp and others.

The Science Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Science

The Science Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials created by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.

South African Voices

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SouAfrVc

South African Voices is a three-volume work that includes: A Long Time Passed, Created in Olden Times, and The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry

South and Southeast Asia Video Archive

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SEAvideo

The South and Southeast Asia Video Archive presents an extensive bibliography of video tapes produced in Asia for an Asian audience.

South Asian Periodicals Index

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SAJournals

The South Asian Periodicals Index provides bibliographic citations to the extensive periodical literature published in and about South Asia.

SouthEast Asian Images & Texts

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SEAiT

A digital archive of historical images for Southeast Asia, reflecting a broad spectrum of topics including History, Geography, Anthropology, and Political Science of the region.

Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/speakingout

This publication is the result of a conference on welfare reform and women's economic security held at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire from October 29-31, 1998.

The State of Wisconsin Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI

The State of Wisconsin Collection presents writings about the State of Wisconsin and unique or valuable materials that relate to its history and ongoing development. The collection includes published material as well as archival materials such as books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources.

The Steamboat Collection, see The UW-LaCrosse Steamboat Collection

The University of Wisconsin Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UW

This collection includes images, manuscripts, papers, and books, all relating to the University's history or mission, including selections from the UW archives, Badger yearbooks, and other pertinent resources.

The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/UWBoR

This collection consists of the digitized minutes of the meetings of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents from 1921-1991. The 70-year scope of this collection captures the expansion of the University of Wisconsin from one four-year campus in Madison with 7,344 students to a statewide system of 26 campuses annually serving more than 173,000 students and over one million Wisconsin residents through statewide Extension.

The UW-La Crosse Steamboat Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/LaCrosseSteamboat

The UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photograph collection consists of over 40,000 black and white photographic images of steamboats on the inland waterways of the United States, primarily the Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers and their tributaries.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum Collection

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Zoology

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum provides support of zoological research within the Department of Zoology, throughout the state and region, nationally and internationally by collecting, curating and managing, and making available for research study and university instruction collections of approximately 500,000 zoological specimens.

The Wisconsin Collection, see The State of Wisconsin Collection

Wisconsin Electronic Reader

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WIReader

Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals and tidbits from Wisconsin history. Many first hand accounts - profusely illustrated.

Wisconsin Historical Society Finding Aids, see Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Wisconsin Pioneer Experience, see The State of Wisconsin Collection

Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes and Plat Maps

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/SurveyNotes

The field notes and plat maps of the public land survey of Wisconsin, conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office. This work established the township, range and section grid; the pattern upon which land ownership and land use is based.

Women's Audio-Visuals in English (citation database)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WAVE

Women's Audio Visuals In English (WAVE) lists documentary, experimental, and feature film and video productions by and about women, drawn entirely from distributors' and producers' catalogs and websites, reviews in periodicals, filmographies, reference works, and library catalogs.

Women's Studies Core Books (citation database)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/ACRLWSS

The Women's Studies Core Books database lists book titles currently in print, selected by academic librarians who volunteer to maintain a subject area. The project assists Women's Studies librarians and collection development librarians in building Women's Studies collection.