Events > Partnerships Workshop
PARTNERSHIPS WITH CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL
SOCIETIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES
The Teagle Special Collections Project /
Workshop Three
Peabody Museum, Yale University
June 16, 2006
Accessing Special Collections
Relating to the State of Connecticut i n Repositories
Looking
Beyond Museums, Historical Societies, and Archival Institutions
Linda P. Lerman
Director
of Library Services, Norwalk Community College
Most libraries offer their users access to their own collections
and resources along with access to a wide range of sources
through local or regional online catalogs and finding aids
of museums, historical societies, and archival institutions.
While many of these institutions do have their own Internet
sites, there is a wealth of other open source resources that
are often overlooked.
This collection of internet resources provides faculty, librarians,
archivists, and students with readily available information
about Connecticut resources and special collections in other
repositories.
Yale University Library– Research
Tools
Select Research Guides by Subject
http://www.library.yale.edu/researchtools/
Select under Area Studies: “American
History and American Studies”
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/american/
Find under heading “Resources: Tools for Research” the
link to “Images” searching various Internet resources
containing images of Connecticut
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/american/images.html
Yale University – Digital
Image Resources
Use the following Yale’s Digital
Image Resources page to access all digital images relating
to Connecticut digitized at Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/refdesk/imageinfo.html
Yale University - Special Collections
http://www.library.yale.edu/special_collections/spclist.html
Search Yale Repositories by “Connecticut” in
conjunction with other terms e.g. “underground” followed
by “railroad” University of Connecticut Libraries, Thomas
J. Dodd Research Center:
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/
Select “Digital Collections” under the tab “Collections”
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/collections/digital.htm
Find links to Connecticut History Online (CHO)
Connecticut's past from the beginning of the nineteenth century
to the middle of the twentieth century. Scenes from Connecticut's
social, business, political, educational, cultural and civic
life as revealed in a vast collection of images.
Explore “Journeys, a virtual
tour through photo essays.”
Find links to Connecticut Historic Preservation
Collection (CHPC)
NELINET
http://www.nelinet.net/
New England Collections Online
http://www.nelinet.net/digital/necol/index.htm
Select: Digital Collections in New England or Digital Collections
About New England
Select Digital Collections in New England -- hyperlink to
Connecticut collections as follows:
Bridgeport Public Library Working, Voice from the
20 th Century
CT Historical Society, Mystic Seaport, Thomas J. Dodd Research
Center of the University of Connecticut Libraries Connecticut
History Online
Mystic Seaport Digital Projects
Quinnipiac University’s E-Texts (Selection
of digitized books in Connecticut History)
University of Connecticut Libraries Gateway to Digital
Collections (Colonial
Connecticut Records, 1636-1776; MAGIC
Historical Scanned Map Collection; Railroad
History; Benthic
Marine Macroalgal Herbarium of Long Island Sound Digital
Collection; Invasive
Plant Atlas of New England; Plant
Database of Trees, Shrubs, & Vines);
Yale University – Avalon
Project; Beinecke
Photonegatives Collection Database; Beinecke
Papyrus Collection Database; Oral
History, American Music (OHAM); Project
Diana: Online Human Rights Archive at Yale Law School; Yale
University Divinity School Library Digital Projects
Other Resources on the Internet
New England Archivists – Archives
in Connecticut
http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/resources/internet_resources/new_england/connecticut.html
Links from the New England Archivists to Other Internet Resources: http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/resources/internet_resources/index.html
Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the Association
of College and Research Libraries: http://www.rbms.nd.edu/links/spec_colls_web_resources.shtml
Under Table of Contents, select: “Library Exhibits
on the Web” - go to: Smithsonian Institution Libraries “Library
and Archival Exhibitions on the Web” Select the subject
term “Connecticut”
Connecticut’s Heritage Gateway
(Connecticut Humanities Council) Oral histories
http://www.ctheritage.org/history_resources.htm
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