What's New on the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

[Roy Tennant]

What's New on the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

We've had a number of major new additions since my last message. Here is a 
summary. To keep up with new additions on a regular basis, see our 
What's New page at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/new.html . Let me know if 
you have any questions or comments.
Roy Tennant
SunSITE Manager


A New Look!
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Yes, Virginia, we've changed our look yet again, but this time it is a 
fairly minor change. As of today we are now displaying advertisements on 
our splash screen (the entry page). No, we are not pitching laundry 
detergent, but rather SunSITE resources. The ads are selected at random 
from a growing pool of ads, all of which may be seen at 
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Admin/ads.html . 

New Resources
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Entirely new additions to SunSITE include:

* California Heritage
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
A new collection of archival finding aids and thousands of photographs 
relating to California history. This project is supported by the National 
Endowment for the Humanities, and builds on the work of Daniel Pitti and 
others to develop an international standard for encoding archival finding 
aids in SGML.

* DigLibns: Digital Librarians Discussion List
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/DigLibns/
In support of our mission to help others build digital libraries, we 
created a discussion list in December focused on practical issues and 
procedures of interest to those building digital libraries. The 
discussion numbers more than 1,200 participants world wide.

* Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) Database
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/PATH/
The world's largest bibliographic database pertaining to intelligent 
transportation systems (beam me up, Scotty!), and the fruit of Steve 
Morris' labor at the Institute for Transportation Studies Library.

* NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/NCSTRL/
The archive of UCB computer science technical reports, as well as 
simultaneous searching of similar archives around the world.

* Video Welcome Message from Peter Lyman
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/lyman.html
A video welcome from Peter Lyman produced by the Berkeley Multimedia 
Research Center.

* South Asian Diaspora Database
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SouthAsianDiaspora/
A database to facilitate networking among people interested in the South 
Asian Diaspora, managed by Suzanne McMahon.

* PubLib and PubLib-Net
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/PubLib/
In our quest to further the development of digital libraries everywhere, 
SunSITE now hosts the premier discussions for public libraries and 
librarians.

* Bibliographies
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Bibliographies/
A new SunSITE section of bibliographies, inaugurated with Phyllis 
Bischof's African American Theses and Dissertations, 1907-1990.

* Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
A searchable and browseable index to the best Internet resources on a 
wide variety of topics. The index is being constructed online by a group 
of California librarians, and now numbers in excess of 2,500 annotations.

Major Updates to Existing Resources
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Almost nothing remains the same on SunSITE, but these are the major new 
additions to these sections of the server:

* Emma Goldman Papers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
More of Goldman's writings have been added to 
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Writings/. There are new sections on Movies 
(inaugurated with a brief newsreel) at 
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Movies/ and Curricula that provide teachers 
with materials to use in association with SunSITE resources to teach 
important concepts (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Curricula/).

* Jack London Collection
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
A new section on Jack's journalism has been added at 
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Journalism/, more critical works have 
been added, a new group of nine letters, and more of London's writings 
have been added, including the illustrated novel _Burning Daylight_.

* Literature @ SunSITE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
We continue to chip away at a core literature collection with the 
addition of Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_ and Thoreau's "Civil 
Disobedience". Watch for much more as we tool up this project.

* Madera Method
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MaderaMethod/
K-12 classes are now actively using this site to learn history and 
writing. The site also continues to grow with much more historical 
material added, including excerpts from historical newspapers, 
photographs, and more. 

* Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
In a flurry of activity over the last several months, we have added seven 
texts to this collection, including works by Chaucer, Chretien DeTroyes, 
and Apollonius Rhodius.