The University of Chicago Library Digital Activities & Collections

Digital Collections

The Library creates a variety of online finding aids and retrospectively digitized collections and also supports related initiatives on campus by providing systems administration and programming support to faculty-driven projects and collections.


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American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936

Digital images from more than 4,500 glass lantern slides, glass negatives, and photographic prints created by faculty members and students of the University of Chicago Department of Botany between 1891 and 1936.
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Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World

Digitized volumes from the Library's Ancient Near East and Classics collections.
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Archival Photographic Files

Ongoing project to digitize the Archival Photographic Files which contain more than 60,000 images and are the principal archive of historic photographs of individuals, buildings, and events associated with the University of Chicago.
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Archives and Manuscripts Finding Aids

This system provides web-accessible electronic finding aids for the Library's archives and manuscript materials.
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A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 World's Fair

Digitized pamphlets selected from the official collection of pamphlets, brochures, and booklets published specifically for the Fair and issued between 1933 and 1935.
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Chicago Pile #1: The University of Chicago and the Manhattan Project

A project to digitize a selection of items from the Enrico Fermi papers, including manuscripts, documentation, journals, and photographs in order to highlight the pre-eminent role University of Chicago researchers played in the development of Atomic Energy.
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Chopin Early Editions

Digitized versions of all the scores in the University of Chicago Library's Chopin collection. Users can search or browse the Chopin Early Editions collection via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, plate numbers, publishers and place of publication.
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Database of Chinese Bronze Inscriptions
Status: under construction

This project will address the lack of a high-quality database of early Chinese bronze inscriptions for scholarly research and study.
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Digital Reformatting Program

As part of its broader mission to preserve and provide long-term access to Library's collections, the Preservation Department is engaged in an ongoing program to digitize Library materials.
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Digital South Asia Library

The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users.
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eCUIP Digital Library Project

An ongoing collaboration with the Chicago Public Schools/University of Chicago Internet Project (CUIP) to build a K-12 digital library of materials for use by both teachers and students in the Chicago Public School System.
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Electronic Full Text Sources (EFTS)

EFTS provides the primary means of access to, as well as information on, full-text scholarly resources available at the University of Chicago.
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Electronic Open Stacks (EOS)

EOS provides access to page-turned, image-based texts.
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Electronic Reserves

Program to convert course reserve material to electronic format for delivery over the web.
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Fathom Archive

This Library archive offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by University of Chicago faculty, researchers, and departments. It includes lectures, articles, interviews, and exhibits.
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The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

A collaboration between the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky, to digitize 745 rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and manuscripts presenting a wide-ranging historical overview of the Ohio River Valley and trans-Appalachian West from the earliest Euro-American settlement to the passing of the frontier beyond the Mississippi River.
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Goodspeed Manuscript Collection

The Goodspeed Manuscript Collection Project is creating a collection of 21,600 high-quality page images from 65 Greek New Testament manuscripts, ranging in date from the 7th to the 17th century, and 114 papyri fragments.
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Ida B. Wells Collection
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A project to digitize the Ida B. Wells collection, including manuscripts, letters, newspaper articles, and photographs.
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Italian Women Writers (IWW)

The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) is a long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors.
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Kanji Alive

Kanji alive is an interactive web-based tool which allows students to study and look up Kanji by their meaning, pronunciation, stroke order, or radical.
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Macroeconomic Time Series Data Source Locator

This resource provides information about macroeconomic data sources available at the University of Chicago categorized by year, geographic location and subject.
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Mamluk Bibliography Online

The Mamluk Bibliography is an on-going project of the Middle East Documentation Center at the University of Chicago, the aim of which is to compile comprehensive bibliographies of all primary sources relating to the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria, as well as all research and discussion--scholarly and popular--germane to the subject.
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Mesopotamia Digital Image Learning Collection

A collection of digitized objects drawn from the Mesopotamia collection of the Oriental Institute and presented for a K-12 audience.
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Philip M. Klutznick Papers

Project to preserve and make available the papers of Philip M. Klutznick.
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Rose and Chess

Two medieval French manuscripts separated a century ago, Le Roman de la Rose and Le Jeu des échecs moralisé, have been reunited by the University of Chicago Library; digital facsimiles of both manuscripts are available online.
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The Smart Museum of Art Online Collection

Searchable database of records and images of items at the Smart Museum. The Smart Museum of Art Online Collection catalog was developed by The ARTFL Project and is being maintained by the Library.
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Special Collections Exhibition Catalogues

Program to make available texts and images of selected University of Chicago Library exhibition catalogues in electronic form.
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The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae

A digital collection of Antonio Lafreri's Renaissance-era Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae prints which major monuments and antiquities in Rome.
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The University of Chicago Centennial Catalogues

The University of Chicago Centennial Exhibition Catalogues presents the text and images from four catalogues published in 1991-92 to accompany a series of exhibitions celebrating the centennial of the University of Chicago.
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