Message-Id: <199810151350.GAA42386@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:47:52 -0400 From: Steve Ferguson <mailto:ferguson@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU> Subject: Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton announces its To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
DEPARTMENT OF RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AT THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF ITS PORTFO IO WEBSITEURL: http://libserv3.Princeton.EDU/rbsc2/portfolio/portfolio.html
The Department's collections include many photographs, prints, and drawings in addition to its quarter-million books and several million manuscripts arranged over 1000 collections. One method of prov ding access to these collections is supplying photographic and other copies of items in its collections to students, scholars, publishers, as well as the general public. Requests for copies today come by a variety of ways, yet always originate either though use of the item in the reading room or by reference to a reproduction of an item in a published book. The Portfolio website provides a new, additional way for users to view an item in the collections.
Based on the idea of a "photography stock book," yet only digital, the Portfolio site provides users thumbnail and enlarged images as well as identification for each. The 452 images on the site are among those most frequently requested for reproduction in past years. Images are arranged in the following series:
American Graphic Arts -- 32 color and b/w prints and drawings, 17th to 20th centuries European Graphic Arts -- 71 color and b/w prints and photos, 15th to 20th centuries Albert Einstein - 2 b/w photographs and 1 print Woodrow Wilson - 50 b/w photographs F. Scott Fitzgerald - 48 b/w and color photos, drawings, and dustjacket plus 9 relating to Zelda Ernest Hemingway - 43 b/w photographs Sylvia Beach -- 20 b/w photographs Lewis Carroll -- 153 b/w and sepia photographs, arranged in five series Graphic Americana -- 27 color images, including composites of 19th cent American ephemera General - 5 images
Also included are fax-back or mail-in forms relating to ordering reproductions of the images. One special feature is found in the Woodrow Wilson series. Here the user can build a cumulated order interactively, adding selections to a virtual cart, the contents of which are toted up when the user finishes choosing.
In the near future, more pictures will be added. A series of portraits of American Indians is now being prepared.
One final note: Those not interested in ordering copies may just want to browse the various series, where among other d lights you can see the first American woodcut, or one of the earliest maps printed in North America, or several photogr phs of Alice by Lewis Carroll.
Comments can be sent to staff at either mailto:rbsc@princeton.edu or mailto:mudd@princeton.edu
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Stephen Ferguson / Curator of Rare Books / Assistant University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections / Princ ton University Library / One Washington Road / Princeton, N.J 08544-2098 / email: mailto:ferguson@princeton.edu tel 609-258 3165 fax: 609-258-2324 URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson