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The following is a list of data contributors we have harvested MODS records from, with a description of each and a count of how many records we have gathered from each of them. Currently, we have 624,196 records from 20 data contributors (updated 9 September 2008). California Digital Library (CDL) (27855 records) The California Digital Library (CDL) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. The CDL is available to a broad spectrum of users -- students, teachers, and researchers of all levels. Through the CDL, all have access to information previously available only to scholars who traveled to collection sites. MODS records are from a number of the UC campuses and include the Ralph J. Bunche Papers, Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee Records, and the Santa Ana History Room Photograph Collection, among other collections. There are 79 collections in all. A Celebration of Women Writers (317 records) A Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. The goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing by providing easy access to available on-line information. The repository provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women. Columbia University Libraries Digital Program Division (44853 records) The Columbia University Libraries Digital Program Division was created in September 2002 to help shape current and future digital library projects into a coherent, Libraries-based digital program. The new division creates a focal point for digital library planning and coordination as well as a higher level of support for the implementation of key technical infrastructure components needed for Columbia's evolving digital library. MODS records are from the Papers of John Jay, Digital New York City and Lehman Special Correspondence Files sets. Cornell University Library Windows on the Past (3443 records) Cornell University Library Windows on the Past is a grouping of selected digital collections of historical significance. MODS records are from the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, the New York State Historical Literature Collection, the Making of America Collection and HEARTH (the Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History). Deep Blue at the University of Michigan (41012 records) Deep Blue at the University of Michigan provides access to and preservation for the best scholarly and artistic work done here. It includes working papers, technical reports, images, videos, and more. Deep Blue uses DSpace open-access software, developed at MIT. MODS records are from the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), Department of History, and Ross School of Business - Working Papers Series collections, among others. There are 65 collections in all. Digitized Books from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (11044 records) Digitized Books from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the repository of currently digitized (selected) books from our UIUC's collection of over 11 million volumes. The goal of the Illinois Harvest / Large-scale Digitization Initiative is to enlarge the digital collections of the University of Illinois and to provide enhanced access to those collections, as well as to digital resources about Illinois and by Illinois scholars from collections and institutions around the country. This work is being done in conjunction with OCA (Open Content Alliance). MODS records are from the Abraham Lincoln, Notable Illinoisans, and Fieldiana Anthropology collections, among others. There are 36 collections in all. Harvard University Library Virtual Collections (25400 records) The Harvard University Library Virtual Collections contains a selection of the Library's web-accessible collections, including Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics, Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crimes and Broadsides, Immigration to the United States (1789-1930), the Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection, Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K. (1815-1914), The Poet's Voice: A Digital Poetry Collection, and Women Working (1800-1930). MODS records are from all the sets noted above. Indiana University Digital Library Program (21603 records) The Indiana University Digital Library Program is dedicated to the selection, production, and maintenance of a wide range of high quality networked resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere. MODS records are from the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, the Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music and the Starr Sheet Music Collection. Library of Congress Digitized Historical Collections (275736 records) The Library of Congress Digitized Historical Collections is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress is working to digitize the distinctive, historical Americana materials from the Library's collections and to make them available online to users worldwide. MODS records are from the Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress Maps, American Cartoon Prints (1766-1876), and Library of Congress Panoramic Photographs collections, among others. There are 50 collections in all. New York University: Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (470 records) The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is a consortium of institutions, artists, and scholars dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas. The Digital Library Team works in conjunction with the Hemispheric Institute and NYU's Humanities Computing Group. Northwestern University: World War II Poster Collection (358 records) Northwestern University: World War II Poster Collection contains a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945. They were collected and preserved by the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library. Issued by various U.S. government agencies, these posters represent the government's effort, through art, illustration, and photographs, to pull the American people together in a time of adversity for the country and its population. OCLC Research Publications (327 records) OCLC Research Publications contains works produced, sponsored, or submitted by OCLC Research. In general, the works are research-oriented and are in the subject area of library and information science. Many items describe OCLC Research projects, activities and programs and were originally published by OCLC, while others are from peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The repository contains current publications back to 1997, all "born digital" publications. PBS Frontline Video (7 records) PBS Frontline Video contains records linking to Frontline programs, from "Country Boys" to "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?". Since 1983, Frontline has been an American public television's public affairs series. Southern Spaces (62 records) Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, online journal exploring the real and imagined places of the American South and their connections with the wider world. Submissions come from scholars, photographers, and visual artists in such areas as geography, southern studies, regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's studies, LGBTQ studies, and public health. Stanford University: Reports of the Immigration Commission (42 records) The Reports of the Immigration Commission from Stanford University include statistical reviews, emigration and immigration conditions in Europe and other parts of the world, occupations of immigrants (including extensive coverage of immigrants in the industries of the time), living conditions, conditions of immigrants in major metropolitan and agricultural areas, the schooling of immigrant children, social and cultural organizations and societies of immigrants, and immigration legislation at the state and federal levels. The reports are from the 2nd and 3rd sessions of the 61st Congress, issued to the Senate by the Dillingham Commission. "A Summons to Comradeship": World War I and II Posters and Postcards (4909 records) "A Summons to Comradeship": World War I and II Posters and Postcards is one of two of the most significant collections in the world of posters from World War I and World War II, both located within close physical proximity, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Libraries owns six thousand items and the Minneapolis Public Library's collection consists of nearly two thousand posters. Both collections contain posters from government, commercial, and charitable organizations. These collections are multi-national in scope and cover veterans' benefits, war bonds and loans, military recruitment and morale, civil defense, industrial production, freedom and loyalty campaigns, international welfare organizations, prices and rationing, transportation, health and safety, labor organizations, films and theatre, food production, sports and leisure, recruiting of women in military and non-combatant organizations, special events, anti-war movements, and other topics. University of Chicago Library Metadata Repository (1103 records) The University of Chicago Library Metadata Repository contains records from the University of Chicago's Electronic Text Services (ETS) for full text searchable texts and Electronic Open Stacks (EOS) for image-based texts. MODS records are from the Archives and Manuscripts Finding Aids, Chopin Early Editions and First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 collections. University of Michigan Library Repository (11595 records) The University of Michigan Library Repository text and image resources made available through the Scholarly Publishing Office, Humanities Text Initiative and Image Services, units of the Digital Library Production Service at the Libraries. The repository creates new ways for users to search and access Library content, opening up UM library collections to users throughout the world. MODS records are from the Historical Mathematics Collection, Michigan County Histories, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, The Transportation History Collection, and Making of America collections. The University of Southern California Digital Archive (151766 records) The University of Southern California Digital Archive provides access to photographs, maps, manuscripts, records, texts and sound recordings owned by USC and collaborating institutions. Particular emphasis has been placed on materials related to Los Angeles and the Southern California region, the western United States, and the Pacific Rim. USC has developed this "meta-collection" to unite and provide access to the unique information owned and housed by many different regional institutions that, when viewed together, expand the research opportunities and knowledge of the Southern California region. MODS records are from the Automobile Club of Southern California Collection, 1892-1963, the Greene & Greene Digital Archive and the Los Angeles Examiner Collection, among others. There are 20 collections in all. University of Tennessee (UT) Libraries, Digital Library Center (2294 records) The University of Tennessee (UT) Libraries Digital Library Center received a UT grant to participate in the Initiative to Improve Teaching, Research and Service by adding to UT's digital library collections. MODS records are from the From Pi Beta Phi to Arrowmont, The Emancipator Newsletter and Finding Aids collections.
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