It has happened. The UM Digital Library created and maintained by the former Library Systems Office is no longer available. Thanks to Ernest Shaw and Phil Redmon, redirects will take users to new sites. Thank you, Ernest and Phil!

Try these old links out to see how the redirects work. (You may get a page that indicates the link is broken. Wait a few moments.)

Sanborn maps:  http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=umcscsanic

MU college and department histories:  http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=sch

 

 

Our collection of digitized speeches by and about Daniel Webster is now available in HathiTrust. Of note, 45 of the 98 items contributed are new to HathiTrust. MERLIN catalog records have been updated and items can be found with an author search for “Daniel Webster Speeches.”

In this collection, you can find out what Daniel Webster said at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill monument in 1825, to the United States Senate in 1837 about a new plan to collect and keep public moneys, to the New York Historical Society in 1852, and much more. In the collection you’ll also find eulogies written about Daniel Webster and correspondence between Daniel Webster and others.

The Daniel Webster speeches are still available in the legacy University of Missouri Digital Library, but not for long. The sunset date for the legacy digital library will be in late 2016, and the migration of its collections is nearing completion. Most of the non-UM collections and some of the UM collections are in the Missouri Digital Heritage. More information about new and alternative collection locations will be available soon. 

This week’s issue of the Vox magazine includes an article, “50 years of Golden Girls: From twirlers to Columbia icons.”  If you look closely at the credits for some of the photographs, you’ll note that some of them are from the MU Libraries digital collections.  The digitized resources in our legacy digital library and the new MU Digital Library are enabling people to find information, including great photographs, that in the past required the time-consuming process of thumbing through volumes on site.  Now, open-access material and full-text searching make the process much easier.

http://www.voxmagazine.com/2015/09/50-years-of-golden-girls-from-twirlers-to-columbia-icons/

–Felicity Dykas