PACSCL events are designed to create learning and professional development opportunities for those employed at PACSCL member institutions. They also serve to create networks and improve collaborations among PACSCL staff and communities.
Turn pages on your desktop! Download entire manuscripts to your tablet! Compare pages from different manuscripts using IIIF! Earlier this fall, the BiblioPhilly project team uploaded all 475 manuscripts to the Internet Archive, offering new possibilities for researchers and the general public. The collection, which can be reached at http://archive.org/details/bibliotheca-philadelphiensis, can be searched by date, […]
See PACSCL projects and member tables and activities on display at this Archives Month Philly centerpiece event at the Free Library of Philadelphia October 30.
What better way to celebrate all those members of the House of Representatives in white at last night’s State of the Union address than to celebrate the new collections added to our In Her Own Right Database. More than 600 new records, representing photos, letters, diaries, school records, and much more, cover women’s activism in […]
PACSCL-ORGANIZED PROJECT TO DIGITIZE 140,000 PAGES OF EARLY MEDICAL EDUCATION RECORDS FROM SEVEN PHILADELPHIA LIBRARIES. Two-year initiative headquartered at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announced the 2018 awards in its Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives […]
The PACSCL Board of Directors recently accepted the membership application of the Wolfgram Memorial Library of Widener University, welcoming the organization as its fortieth member. “The Philadelphia area enjoys the intellectual and economic contributions of a robust higher-education sector, and the records held at Widener University’s library will add an important new dimension to the […]
–Will affect BiblioPhilly, Philadelphia Area Archives Research Portal, PACSCL Diaries Project– Researchers encouraged to download images and finding aids before the migration The servers housing the three PACSCL resources hosted at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries will be moving over the year-end break. They will be unavailable from Wednesday, December 26 through Tuesday, January 1. […]