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In partnership with the Boston Library Consortium and the Open Content Alliance, LTS is digitizing books and other out-of-copyright works to make them freely accessible online through the Internet Archive.
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You can access all books digitized by the Open Content Alliance on the Internet Archive website. For a list of books digitized by Brandeis, click here.
LTS is concentrating on digitizing unique items held in the Archives and Special Collections department as well as items from the Judaica and Creative Arts Music collections.
From the Archives and Special Collections department: The Alfred Dreyfus book collection is comprised of works by a number of authors relating to the infamous Dreyfus Affair, in which Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer, was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894. The case's blatant anti-Semitism brought many supporters to Dreyfus's cause, including the renowned French writer Émile Zola. Such efforts on Dreyfus's behalf helped to secure his exoneration in 1906. The books in the collection include late-nineteenth-century accounts as well as later works on diverse aspects of the Dreyfus Affair. See L'affaire Dreyfus: Criminelle machination politique, religieuse, sociale et administrative .
The McKew Parr Collection on Magellan and the Age of Discovery was donated to Brandeis in 1961 by Charles McKew Parr, who assembled the library of several thousand items while gathering material for his biography of Ferdinand Magellan. The books in the collection date from the early fifteenth through the twentieth centuries and are primarily in Spanish and Portuguese, but also include English, French, Dutch, and Latin texts. The collection will be of interest to scholars examining contemporary accounts of European exploration and colonial history, particularly that of Spain and Portugal, as well as twentieth-century scholarship on these topics. See Nouvelles annales des voyages .
From the Judaica Collection: Brandeis owns a number of important works covering myriad subjects relating to Judaism. Many of these works have already been digitized. See Zionism and world politics; a study in history and social psychology .
From the Creative Arts Music Collection: LTS is working with Boston Consortium Libraries to coordinate digitization of early 20th century works relating to music including important biographical works and encyclopedias. See Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 are available.
Online library gets FBI to back off: read about the FBI's attempt to see records held by the Internet Archive.
Some Libraries Shun Google in Book Battle: report appearing on NPR's All Things Considered, April 22, 2008.
Boston Library Consortium press release on the digitization initiative with the Open Content Alliance.
New York Times article about the Open Content Alliance
Please contact Evan Simpson for more information on the OCA Project, at esimpson@brandeis.edu or 781-736-4693.
