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The University of Virginia recently launched Book Traces, a project that allows students to submit books (1800-1923) from the university’s library stacks that exhibit interesting notes, marginalia, or inserts by previous owners with the goal of saving nineteenth century material culture.
An online exhibition that marks the 40th anniversary of Georgetown’s Lauinger Library with a look at the origins of the University’s book collections.
In 2011, the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book and Manuscript Library launched the Penn Provenance Project on the image-sharing site Flickr with the goal of identifying provenance by crowd-sourcing and tagging digital images with their bibliographic information. Since its inception, it has exceeded one million views and identified previously unidentified stamps, inscriptions, and other provenance in their collection. Renamed the Provenance Online Project, it now posts provenance images from a number of sources.
University of Pennsylvania scholar Mitch Fraas created a Mapping Books blog to demonstrate his research on the history of Penn’s rare books. Much of Fraas’ work deals with mapping the movement of books using original locations, owners, and subject fields of Penn’s rare book and manuscript collection.
Medieval Fragments Project – SADLY, NOW DEFUNCT
In 2012, the Harry Random Center and archivist Micah Erwin launched the Medieval Fragments Project on Flickr with the hopes of identifying binding waste from medieval manuscripts in their collection through crowd-sourcing and tagging by date and region. By January 20, 2014, the Medieval Fragments Project reached 67,000 views and 94 of their 116 medieval fragments were identified.
In 2008, the Boston Public Library created a Flickr photostream to showcase historic photographs in its collection. Since then over 91,000 photographs have been shared, allowing viewers to “comment” and “like” their favorite images.
The Rare Books of the Shimeon Brisman Collection in Jewish Studies uses Omeka as an image-sharing archival platform to showcase 400 rare books from the Shimeon Brisman collection at Washington University in St Louis. These books capture Jewish history, culture, and thought, and serve as a valuable resource for modern day scholars.