The CCDL hosts nearly 40,000 digital objects organized into 55 distinct collections highlighting a variety of subject matter and formats.
The CCDL was launched in the Spring of 2006, it has grown to become internationally recognized as a leading digital library initiative in liberal arts college libraries. Collections consist of primary sources of information such as letters, artwork, video interviews and lectures, and photographs collected from the colleges, faculty, students, and special collections.
02/07/2014
15,000 Colorful Images of Persian Manuscripts Now Online, Courtesy of the British Library When a country is in the headlines almost every day, it can be easy to forget that today’s news isn’t the whole story. Iran’s modern story features its long, bloody war with Iraq, contested presidential election results, and protests that became part of the Arab Spring.
01/21/2014
Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images We are delighted to announce that over 100,000 high resolution images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements are no
01/18/2014
Medieval Cats Behaving Badly: Kitties That Left Paw Prints … and Peed … on 15th Century Manuscripts When Emir O. Filipovic, a medievalist at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited the State Archives of Dubrovnik, he stumbled upon something that will hardly surprise anyone who lives with cats today, a 15th century manuscript with inky paw prints casually tracked across it.
01/07/2014
Pitzer College Alumnus Char Miller '75 Hosts Discussion about Documentary on John Muir Pitzer College Alumnus Char Miller '75 Hosts Discussion about Documentary on John Muir
01/06/2014
The village of Gomitogo, only a few kilometres from Djenné, rises from the plain dominated by its lovely mosque. A visit to this ancient village - some say older even than Djenné- by the library staff the other day yielded wonderful results : the second phase of the British library project (EAP 690) includes looking for manuscripts in the villages surrounding Djenné
12/25/2013
Writing 'Rudolph': The Original Red-Nosed Manuscript The story's author, Robert L. May, had always felt like a bit of an outcast.
12/25/2013
Postcards of Christmas past.
12/25/2013
On Christmas, Browse A Historical Archive of More Than 50,000 Toys The Strong National Museum of Play, located in Rochester, NY, is a fun children’s museum. But the institution also has serious research archives, stuffed with toys, games, and records of the toy industry.
12/18/2013
Cultural Heritage Symbols We recently hosted an Iconathon with The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). Our goal of the workshop was to design cultural heritage symbols intended for use in institutions like...
12/17/2013
How L.A. Got One of the Country's Largest Urban Parks In 1896, Griffith J. Griffith gave Los Angeles 3,015 acres to create "a place of recreation and rest for the masses." Today, Griffith Park is nearly five times the size of New York's Central Park.
12/16/2013
A million first steps - Digital scholarship blog We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons* for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books and concern a startling mix of subjects. There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illum...