New and expanded digital collections

The Digital Projects Team would like to alert you to several new and expanded digital collections that are now available from the University Libraries:

• Greensboro Pictorials Collection:  http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/GSOPics.php
  This collection features seven pictorial books documenting local businesses and institutions in Greensboro and Central North Carolina in the early part of the Twentieth Century. This was a collaboration with the Greensboro Historical Museum.
• Greensboro Patriot: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/GSOPatriot.php
  Working with the Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative, we are placing 4600 issues of a Greensboro weekly newspaper dating from 1826 to 1922 online. Currently, issues through 1888 are available. The remainder should be online within the next two to three months.
• The Carolinian: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/Carolinian.php
  Phase II of this project will add issues of UNCG's newspaper from 1930-2005. Issues through 1956 are currently available online, while the remainder should be available by May. This project was also completed through the Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative.

In addition, new material has been added to the following collections:

• Greensboro City Directories: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/GSOcityDir.php
  Now includes directories through 1963. This project was a collaboration with the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Greensboro Public Library.
• Oral History Collections: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/OralHisCo.php
  Several new transcripts have been added and there is also a new audio recording of an interview with Dr. Harold Schiffman, in whose honor our music library has recently been renamed.
• Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project: http://library.uncg.edu/dp/wv/
  Several new photos, printed items, and oral histories have been added.

Please take a few moments to look at some of these collections and let me know if you encounter any problems or have any questions.

There will be many more items coming online in the next couple of months, including the Physical Education Pamphlets Collection, selections from the Bernard Greenhouse Collection, an exhibit featuring records from WUAG, our campus radio station, and our NC ECHO-funded North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project.

In addition, we hope to be moving to an upgraded version of the CONTENTdm software within two months. This should provide an enhanced user experience and a cleaner interface.

All our digital collections can be viewed at this link: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/.

Greensboro city directories online

The online collections of UNCG University Libraries now include the city directories published in Greensboro from 1884 to 1923. These volumes were provided by the Greensboro Public Library and the Greensboro Historical Museum and were digitized in 2011 under the supervision of the Digital Projects Unit of UNCG University Libraries. Digitization was completed by the Internet Archive as part of a Sloan Foundation Grant, administered through Lyrasis' Mass Digitization Collaborative.

The city directories are an amazing resource for genealogists, building researchers, and historians, providing names, addresses, and even occupations for most Greensboro residents. Many also include a "reverse lookup" section that allows users to find  what business or residence was located at a given address at some point in the past. Also of interest is the fact that some of the older directories are "segregated" into "white" and "colored" sections, illustrating the social order of the Reconstruction Era South.

As time and resources permit, we hope to add more city directories to the online collection.