Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh have created a joint digital archive of Andrew Carnegie materials on the Web at http://diva.library.cmu.edu/carnegie/. Integrating five physical collections in one searchable full text resource, the site demonstrates a larger vision, which is to facilitate and host a digital repository of Andrew Carnegie materials held by institutions worldwide. The inaugural Andrew Carnegie Collection online was funded by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants from 2007 to 2009.
"The Andrew Carnegie Collection not only includes interesting and plentiful source materials but represents a great opportunity to make a whole that truly is more than the sum of its parts," said Gabrielle V. Michalek, head of the Archives and Digital Library Initiatives Department at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. "We look forward to getting feedback from users. We especially hope to hear from other Carnegie archivists who might wish to join us."
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Users of the integrated Andrew Carnegie Collection will be able to access numerous photographs; listen to Carnegie speak; read his writings and other documents that detail his provision of libraries, church organs and scholarships, and his founding of Carnegie Tech; and the work of many Carnegie institutions. Digitization makes it possible for users to search and find related materials in all of the collections, and to see, hear, use and study them at any computer with Internet access.
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