[Web4lib] CARLI debuts its digital library service

[Sloan, Bernie]

The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)
announces the launch of the CARLI Digital Collections, a digital library
powered by CONTENTdm.

 

The first offering of the CARLI Digital Collections is the Saskia
digital image archive from Scholars Resource. This archive is available
to the 180 consortium member libraries at no direct cost to the library.


 

CARLI's Saskia collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings,
sculpture and architecture, including images from many important
collections: the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and
the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and
Egypt. The images are displayed in both high resolution and thumbnail
format. Additionally, the descriptive data about the images includes
references to the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history
texts.

 

CARLI, a new academic library consortium in its first year of operation,
was formed by the consolidation of three Illinois academic library
consortia. For more details about CARLI's programs and services see:

 

http://www.carli.illinois.edu/ 

 

For more information about the Saskia archive:

 

http://www.saskia.com/

 

For more information about CONTENTdm:

 

http://contentdm.com/

http://www.oclc.org/contentdm/ 

 

Bernie Sloan

Senior Information Systems Consultant

Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois

616 E. Green Street, Suite 213

Champaign, IL  61820-5752

 

Phone: (217) 333-4895

Fax:   (217) 265-0454

E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu