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Number of books digitized to date:1,512
Brandeis recently digitized Octavo (1971-1981), the publication of the Society of Bibliophiles at Brandeis University. The Bibliophiles were a group of rare-book enthusiasts and donors in the early years of the Brandeis library. It is to the members of the Bibliophiles that Brandeis owes most of its treasured Special Collections.
Number of books digitized to date:1,384
Brandeis continued to digitize items from the Children's Literature collection in September. More Animals by Oliver Herford features an entertaining series of poems and pictures of numerous animals.
Number of books digitized to date:1,274
Number of pages scanned to date:410,097
Featured this month is The Complete Cynic: Being bunches of wisdom culled from the calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner, digitized from the Brandeis collection of Children’s Literature. Bound in illustrated paper-covered boards over plaid cloth spine, the book features striking graphics.
Number of books digitized to date:1,004
Number of pages scanned to date: 337,916
Featured this month are the Brandeis University General Catalogs (undergraduate) and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences course catalogs. The catalogs (1948-present) are a rich resource that provides much more than course offerings. Particularly in the early years of the school's founding, they were used as a promotional publication that featured photographs of campus buildings (new and old), campus maps, and even master plans (with fold-outs). In addition to documenting the physical campus, catalogs included comprehensive listings of: University Fellows; endowment, scholarship, and loan funds; research grants; student prizes; and faculty who taught General Education S, a former course requirement for all students at Brandeis.
Number of books digitized to date: 905
Number of pages scanned to date: 315,347
In January, LTS scanned M.T. Ciceronis Orationum volumen primum published in 1519. The book was printed by the Aldine Press, renowned in the history of typography. The title page features a woodcut anchor and fish, the Aldine trademark.
Number of books digitized to date:845
Number of pages scanned to date: 312,237
In November, Art and Artists of Our Time by Clarence Cook was digitized from the Creative Arts Collection. The six volume set features numerous oversized full page illustrations.
Number of books digitized to date:160; 839
Number of pages scanned to date: 309,763
Featured this month is The history of the Boston Theatre, 1854-1901, a four-volume set describing and illustrating the productions mounted by theater companies in Boston, season by season, between 1854 and 1901.
Number of books digitized to date:160; 777
Number of pages scanned to date: 286,909
Featured in June are selected volumes from Tsukunft, an American Yiddish monthly founded in 1892. This major journal's orientation has been secular and socialist, however most major Yiddish writers wrote for it. It continues to be published about twice a year.
Number of books digitized to date: 731
Number of pages scanned to date: 259,251
Featured this month: Brandeis University Bulletin, Brandeis University's official publication from March 1947 to April 1970.
Number of books digitized to date: 680
Number of pages scanned to date: 239,807
Featured this month: Brandeis Review/Magazine, 1982 - winter 2009, the alumni magazine of Brandeis University.
Number of books digitized to date: 610
Number of pages scanned to date: 211,204
Featured this month: Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes
Number of books digitized to date: 551
Number of pages scanned to date: 186,805
Featured this month is the 500th book digitized by LTS: Cristobal Colon: su vida, sus viajes, sus descubrimientos
Number of books digitized to date: 499
Number of pages scanned to date: 171,080
Featured this month, Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida, as told by a Knight of Elvas
Number of books digitized to date: 394
Number of pages scanned to date: 142,604
The discovery of America and the landfall of Columbus, published in 1921 by Rudolf Cronau, contains a number of rich illustrations and maps depicting the travels of Christopher Columbus as he navigated the "New World." Like many of the rare books digitized by LTS, many of the illustrations and maps in Cronau's work are foldouts--pages in a book that extend or "fold out" beyond the dimensions of the spine and covers. This is another book from the McKew Parr Collection on Magellan and the Age of Discovery.
Number of books digitized to date: 361
Number of pages scanned to date: 131,873
Following previous updates from January and June 2008, LTS completed digitizing Nouvelles annales des voyages from the McKew Parr Collection on Magellan and the Age of Discovery. In January, the first volume in the set was digitized, and in June of 2008, volumes 2-41 were completed. Volumes 42-45 are now available digitally. For a list of digitized books in the McKew Parr Collection, click here.
Number of books digitized to date: 311
Number of pages scanned to date: 113,848
LTS digitized Da Asia de João de Barros e de Diogo de Couto in October, an important historical work printed in Lisbon in 1778-1788, documenting the first Portuguese discoveries in Asia, Africa, and Brazil. It is comprised of 13 parts in 24 volumes, and contians numerous foldout images of maps and illustrations. Written in Portuguese, this is an important historical work on European exploration and colonization, and includes historical accounts of Magellan and his discoveries in the Americas.
Number of books digitized to date: 279
Number of pages scanned to date: 99,364
From the Creative Arts Music collection, LTS digitized an important work published in 1905 titled Old Violins. Compiled by music scholar H.R. Haweis, Old Violins contains chapters discussing important violin and bow makers as well as descriptions and illustrations of hundreds of violins. Included is a "violin dictionary" listing over 1000 violin and bow makers.
Number of books digitized to date: 234
Number of pages scanned to date: 86,912
Digitization of a three volume set titled The Imperial dictionary of universal biography: a series of original memoirs of distinguished men, of all ages and all nations was completed in August. Published in successive parts between 1857 and 1863, this rich biographical resource presents a window into the morays and ethics of the era.
Number of books digitized to date: 231
Number of pages scanned to date: 83,234
In June, LTS began digitizing a significant multi-volume work from the McKew Parr Collection on Magellan and the Age of Discovery titled Nouvelles annales des voyages. 41 of the 45 volumes have now been digitized. This set begins with the first volume of Nouvelles annales des voyages which was digitized in January 2008 as one of the first books included in this project. Many of the works in the 45 volume set contain interesting foldout images, or pages in a book that extend or "fold out" beyond the dimensions of the spine and covers. Foldouts usually display maps, illustrations, diagrams, or tables of information, in this case mainly maps and illustrations.
Number of books digitized to date: 174
Number of pages scanned to date: 60,217
LTS continued to digitize items from the Judaica and Creative Arts Music collections in May. Of note is the rare 1874 Descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments in the South Kensington museum, which features an extensive essay on the history of musical instruments and drawings and descriptions of hundreds of instruments from around the world.
Number of books digitized to date: 134
Number of pages scanned to date: 49,226
A second book containing foldout images was successfully digitized in April. See Social aspects of the Jewish colonies of South Jersey where, following the Foreword, appears a map of the locations of Jewish colonies in South Jersey circa 1921.
Number of books digitized to date: 107
Number of pages scanned to date: 37,152
Our first book containing a foldout image has been successfully digitized. Foldouts are pages in a book that extend or fold out beyond the dimensions of the book itself. Foldouts usually display maps, illustrations, diagrams, or tables of information. The ability to scan foldout maps and illustrations in books was not in place until very recently, and we were very interested to see how foldout pages were treated digitally--how cleanly they would be scanned and displayed. To view the first foldouts digitized see pages 509-514 in Le procès Zola, devant la Cour d'assises de la Seine et la Cour de Cassation.
The first ten books digitized by LTS and the Open Content Alliance are available online at the Internet Archive!
The first ten books are:
Bohr, Niels Henrik David: The theory of spectra and atomic constitution
Faria, Manoel Severim de: Noticias de Portugal, offerecidas a el rey N.S. Dom Ioao o IV
Fétis, François-Joseph: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique:
Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 are available.
France, Anatole: L'église et la république : avec un portrait de l'auteur par Bellerey-Desfontaines gravé par Perrichon
Nourisson, Benoît: L'affaire Dreyfus: Criminelle machination politique, religieuse, sociale et administrative
Rohn, Karl und Papperwitz, Erwin: Lehrbuch der darstellenden Geometrie:
Volume 1 and Volume 2 are available.
