A View to Hugh is an award-winning processing blog is intended to provide information about the project's progress, to provide glimpses into how photographic archivists work, to highlight interesting discoveries mad along the way, and to foster discussion and input from the many “Friends of Hugh”—residents of the state to which he devoted his life and any other interested parties.

Scholars, patrons, and the public are encouraged to "Visit often, make comments, help us identify people and places depicted in the Morton photographs, and enjoy treasures from this wonderful and important collection!"

BERLIN: A major archive in Germany has purchased 15 custom-made scanners to digitize and catalog a huge collection of virtually untapped Holocaust records.

The archive at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen contains testimony from Holocaust survivors as dictated to humanitarian workers in displaced persons camps after World War II. Survivors detailed the horrors they endured in concentration camps and spoke of their plans for the future while workers recorded the testimony on tabloid-sized sheets of paper.

Kathrin Flor, a spokeswoman for the tracing service, said the archive has never been systematically researched, and could fill important historical holes about the fate of survivors after the war.

This digital collection presents a selection of historical maps and photographs of Tibet from the holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. The collection includes a unique set of 50 photographs of central Tibet and Lhasa taken by two Mongolian Buddhists, G. Ts. Tsybikoff and Ovshe Norzunoff, who visited Tibet in 1900 and 1901. The photographs represent the first photographic images of Potala Palace in Lhasa and other Tibetan monasteries. In addition, over 800 images of Tibet have been drawn from the extensive photographic collection of Harrison Forman. Photojournalist and explorer, Forman undertook three expeditions to remote areas of northern Tibet between 1932 and 1937. The photographic collection is supplemented by four plans of the city of Lhasa and six historical maps of Tibet selected from the map collection of the American Geographical Society Library.

The play remains a crowd pleaser and is performed to this day. Binghamton University's Special Collections holds a beautiful rendition of the play published in London by Hodder & Stoughton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, the text is accompanied by a number of colored plates which brilliantly illustrate the play's characters.

Using CONTENTdm, we hope to bring our collections to the world beginning with the extraordinary Link Collections!

The Wizard of Id deals with the goings-on of the run-down, oppressed Kingdom of Id. It follows people from all corners of the kingdom, but concentrates on the court of a tyrannical dwarf-sized monarch, known only as "the King". The jokes center on the idea that people are stuck with the King as their ruler, and that his administration's incompetence has led to a kingdom that is, amusingly, poorly kept. The cast is large for a daily cartoon strip, and there are recurring jokes for each character and for the kingdom itself, so that from day to day it appears as if it were several comic strips based in the same place.

http://digilab.browardlibrary.org/sothisisflorida.html

The seventy Floridiana books and pamphlets on exhibit from the collections of the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book chronicle the evolution of American book design and publishing from 1873 to 1999.

The exhibition begins by showcasing gracefully designed pre-dust jacket decorative cloth bindings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A few decades later, in the 1920s, paper dust jackets begin to dominate. For the next twenty years the dust jacket gains more marketing prominence while decorative cloth bindings become less noteworthy. By the 1950s-1960s the dust jacket has won the publishers' visual battle for the reader's eye and the illustrated publishers' cloth and paper bindings practically disappear. The exhibition closes with predictably triumphant, wildly colorful and exuberant paper dust jackets from the 1970s-1990s.

Patriotism has long been part of the fabric of life in America. In fact, a 1998 study done by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found that Americans are the world's most patriotic people and are prouder of their country than any other people in the world. Expressions of pride, love of country, and nationalism take many forms. It's a Grand Old Collection showcases these forms of patriotic expression as they are represented in the University Libraries' Special Collections. Included are letters and publications from the Civil War era, World War II maps of D-Day, music and song books, and a 48-star flag.

We invite you to visit Special Collections, located on the second floor of the Glenn G. Bartle Library and experience patriotism in the stacks!

Professor Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Director of the Creative Writing Program, recently donated her papers to the Binghamton University Libraries. Professor Gillan, a renowned poet, short story writer, and essayist, has been a member of the Binghamton University faculty since Fall 2001. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Poetry Center and the Cultural Affairs Department at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey for twenty years.

Professor Gillan has written eleven books of poetry and co-edited four poetry and fiction anthologies with her daughter, Jennifer. She has both written poems in Italian and translated poems into Italian. Her poetry, stories, and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies and numerous magazines and journals. Her papers include her personal journals from 1954 to 2007; nearly all of her published work; drafts of poems and stories from 1957 to the present; DVDs, CDs, and audio tapes of programs on which she was featured; forty years of correspondence with well-known poets, fiction writers, editors, and scholars; feature articles on her and reviews of her work; photographs of her with many of the most prominent poets of the last thirty years; and the Poetry Center and Cultural Affairs Department archives.

Enjoy learning about the founders of the Cleveland Museum of Art, take an architectural tour of the museum, or see the 1916 Inaugural Exhibition.

If you have any questions or need further information, please call the Special Collections Reference Desk at (607) 777-4844.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court.

The FBI sent a national security letter, or NSL, to the Internet Archive in November and included a gag order barring site founder Brewster Kahle from talking to anyone other than his lawyers about the request. Kahle, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit to challenge the subpoena, arguing that the NSL program is unconstitutional, and the FBI withdrew the NSL on April 22.

The settlement between the FBI and the Internet Archive allowed Kahle to break the gag order, a standard part of an NSL request. The Internet Archive's challenge of the NSL is only the third case that the ACLU is aware of in which an NSL has been challenged in court, said Melissa Goodman an attorney for the civil liberties group's National Security Project.

All academic libraries have within their holdings books bound in 19th century decorative bindings. These materials are significant in their place within the fabric of American history and culture, but efforts to present these bindings in a collection that is representative of the era as a whole and to make them available virtually, via the World Wide Web have been limited.

PBO, a significant digital collection of decorative bindings, along with a comprehensive glossary and guide to the elements of these objects, will strengthen the growing interest in and create broader awareness for this “common” object called the book.