From: Judith Henchy <judithh@u.washington.edu>
Date: Feb 16, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: [Vsg] Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell U
This online resources of early travel narratives from Cornell's collection
includes many titles from Vietnam.
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:39:15 -0800
> From: Benito Vergara <bvergara@sfsu.edu>
> To: psg-l@sfsu.edu
> Subject: Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell U
>
> Colleagues,
>
> Join the Southeast Asia Program in celebrating the completion of Cornell
> Library's IMLS funded project "Southeast Asia Visions," a digital
> collection of first-person travel narratives of more than 350 titles
> with over 10,000 images individually described.
> http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu
>
> SOUTHEAST ASIA VISIONS is a digital collection of European travel
> accounts of pre-modern (1613 - 1920s) Southeast Asia from Cornell University
> Library's John M. Echol's collection many of which are housed in the
> Asia Rare collection. The collection Web site provides contextual information
> as well as access to full text and image descriptions for more than 350
> books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the
> collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand
> observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia.
> Along with their narratives, these accounts include some 10,000 images,
> drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color. The goals
> of developing this digital collection are both to meet the curricular needs
> of courses taught at Cornell University and to make these texts and images
> accessible via the Internet to students and scholars worldwide. It
> presents scholars an excellent opportunity to look anew at pre-modern Southeast
> Asia.
>
> With the public launch of the digital collection in DLXS, the collection
> Web site, and electronic resource records available in the CU catalog
> for all Visions collection titles, it is appropriate to thank once more the
> more than forty Library staff who have worked very hard over the last
> three years on this project. Library departments involved in the project
> include: Echols Collection, Asia Collections, DCAPS, CTS/LTS, Library
> Systems, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Finance, IRIS
> Admin, Library Communication and Design, DLIT, Access Services, Preservation,
> and the Library Annex.
>
> In addition, several Echols Collection student employees provided
> essential support providing metadata for the images. Former Echols Collection
> curator Allen Riedy was the initial Principal Investigator of the grant
> project that began in December 2002 and David Block became PI after
> Allen's departure from CUL in 2003. Special thanks also to the Southeast Asia
> Studies Program faculty and students who have provided important
> assistance and feedback.
>
> To everyone who has made this project successful -- Congratulations!
>
> Kari Smith
> Project Manager, IMLS Grant: Southeast Asia Visions
>
>
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> Kari R. Smith, Project Archivist
>
> Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
> Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
> tel: 607-255-3530 http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/
> email: ks344@cornell.edu
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