New Collections Added to Stanford Digital Repository in October 2012

This project, focused on digitizing Gould's extensive holdings of rare books, is part of the Stephen Jay Gould Papers project that enables research and educational communities to discover and access this unique collection of materials. Stephen Jay Gould was a renowned evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, historian of science, educator, popular science author, polymath, and an enthusiastic collector. Books digitized under this project are also being sent to Google and will be visible in the Google Book Search.   This is a continuation of the digitization efforts for this collection.Example image: http://purl.stanford.edu/tw375rb5052
Added to SDR: 130 additional volumes, consisting of approximately 44,000 scanned pages
Collection Contact: John Mustain

Gaihozu MapsKnown collectively as "Gaihozu Maps", these maps of Japan and territories outside of Japan (referred to as "Gaihozu") were produced by the Japanese Land Survey Department of the General Staff Headquarters. Created between the Meiji era and the end of WWII, this collection is part of a world-wide effort to preserve this historically and scientific important set of materials.  More information about this collection is available at: http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/260487/920d476824/ARCHIVE.  Branner Library holds ~10,000 of these maps.  This is a continuation of the digitization efforts for this collection.
Example image:  http://purl.stanford.edu/nd744mx5158
Added to SDR: 7 additional maps, 14 images
Collection Contact: Julie Sweetkind-Singer and Salim Mohammed 

Memorial Library of MusicThe Memorial Library of Music (MLM), contains over 1,500 printed and manuscript scores of operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and choral works by major composers from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Mascagni, Debussy, and Stravinsky. Digitization of these materials enables SUL to more easily provide access to these often rare and exciting materials. 
Example image:  http://purl.stanford.edu/wt096ny3863 (Betthoven score)
Added to SDR: 11 scores and related materials consisting of over 329 digitized images
Collection Contact:  Jerry McBride
 

Patron and Internal One-off RequestsSeveral patron-driven requests for materials, often directly in support of scholarship or research, were accessioned into SDR.  Some of the items include:

Statuta Civitatis Massiellie (Stanford Codex 342: Statutes of Marseille). This 326 page 13th century manuscript describes statutes covering every aspect of life in the Middle Ages.  Digitization of this remarkable manuscript is particularly important for current research happening both here and at Yale.  This manuscript is available online at http://purl.stanford.edu/ps908vt5059  Collection Contact: John Mustain
Lapp Princess Press Artbooks.   2 art flipbooks, 42 images.  A set of eleven flipbooks created in the late 1970's by leading artists, the goal was to make these $3 book as accessible as possible to the public.  While now valued at considerably more than $3 each, digitization and accessioning into SDR helps to fulfill their original goal. Example image is available online at: http://purl.stanford.edu/sz246gv8396.  Collection Contact:  Peter Blank
Anderson photograph collection of YWCA in China, 1920s-1940s.  38 images selected from the photo graph collection.  Example image is available online at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nw896yt3745  Collection Contact:  Charles Fosselman. 

Inclusion in the Stanford Digital Repository ensures that these materials are available to researchers and scholars (while upholding appropriate access restrictions), now and in the future through a secure, sustainable stewardship environment.  While many of these objects are already discoverable via SearchWorks others will get SearchWorks records in the coming months.  All materials are currently available via the item’s PURL (a persistent URL which ensure that these materials are available from a single URL over the long-term, regardless of changes in file location or application technology). 

Questions about the Stanford Digital Repository service should be directed to sdr-contact@lists.stanford.edu.