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"Digital Projects" have been defined by the Department as online representations of materials which are complete presentation all such items held by the department, or which are ongoing but intended to eventually be complete presentations.
Digital projects are thus distinct from "Exhibits", which are typically related to physical exhibitions of materials held by the department and highlight collections or aspects thereof, but do not attempt to represent the collection completely.
Within the category of Digital Projects there is a further division between those projects which directly correspond to collections held by the Department ("Digital Collections") and other Digital Projects which relate to materials held by the Department but do not directly correspond to any collection ("Digital Aides").
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Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
An ongoing project to create a computerized cataloguing system for the drawings of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, directed by art historian Robert R. Coleman. Of the 8,300 drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, descriptions for almost half are currently available for online searching.
North American Manuscripts Online
An ongoing project featuring images and, in many cases, textual transcriptions of manuscripts from the Department's North American collections. The project includes the following sites:
Manuscripts of the American Civil War currently includes collection descriptions of the Department's processed holdings, as well as images and textual transcriptions of one topical collection, one collection of personal papers, five diaries, 25 letter groups or correspondences, and two military records.
Manuscripts of Early National and Antebellum America currently includes collection descriptions of the Department's processed holdings.
Manuscripts of Colonial and Revolutionary America currently includes collection descriptions of the Department's processed holdings, as well as images of two record groups.
This Project features discussions, descriptions and images of coins, currency, and tokens used in Colonial and Confederation America, based primarily on examples in the Department of Special Collections. The following sections of the Project are currently available online:
Prémontré Architectural Sites Collection
This project provides access to nearly 800 archival photographs gathered over the years by Rt. Rev. Astrik L. Gabriel, O. Praem., that document architectural sites sponsored by the Order of Prémontré. All of these photographs date prior to World War II and are important documents of the many sites that were damaged or destroyed during the War.
This Project is a series of pages considering aspects of Irish philately, utilizing holdings in the Department of Special Collections. To date there are two sections available online:
- Part One: the Forerunners (a group of stamp-like items of political interest, printed prior to or just after the establishment of the modern independent Irish state in 1922)
- Part Two: the Overprints (overprint designates an addition to the face of a stamp after it has been printed — the Overprints are the first official issue of an independent Irish State)
The William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies
The Devers Program in Dante Studies supports rare book acquisitions in the John A. Zahm, C.S.C., Dante Collection, as well as teaching and research about Dante across the Arts & Letters curriculum, in particular in the Medieval and Italian Studies areas, through the sponsorship of conferences, fellowships, lecture series, seminars, and visiting professorships. It also sponsors print and electronic publications of scholarly research through the Devers Series in Dante Studies, published by the University of Notre Dame Press, and as a founding member of the ItalNet Consortium for the creation of scholarly internet resources in the Italian Studies area. The Devers Program also funds an annual program of research and travel grants for faculty and students.
A dictionary to aid people new to the field of heraldry in understanding written descriptions of armorials, such as those used in the descriptions of the Special Collection's Bookplate Database.
A searchable database image catalog of approximately 1100 sample bookplates and library stamps from the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame. The database was created during preliminary explorations of the cataloging and database methodology necessary to support a cooperative online bookplate registry.
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