CARLI debuts its digital library service

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.illin
ois.edu/ 

 

For more information about the Saskia archive:

 

http://www.saskia.com/

 

For more information about CONTENTdm:

 

http://contentdm.com/

http://www.oclc.org/co
ntentdm/ 

 

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: berniesuillinois.edu

 

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