Joanna DiPasquale is the Digital Projects Librarian at Vassar College.  Contact her at jdipasquale AT vassar.edu.

Vassar College astronomy class, 1878

Vassar College’s new digital library presence is almost ready to go!  Built on open source platforms and brimming with new content, we’ll be going live for the research and teaching communities very soon.  But we want to give our readers a sneak peek before the public sees it:

http://digitallibrary.vassar.edu

Our new digital library includes:

• Search capabilities that provide results across a variety of collections;
• “Search inside the book” feature for many of the items available;
• Ability to zoom in, enlarge, and navigate through items unique to Vassar College.

New features are coming soon!  They include:

• “Search inside the book” feature available for all student diaries and letters;
• New collections, including Bidloo’s Anatomia, Vassar’s millionth book;
• Citation downloads;
• …and more!

Elwell, Abbie (Nickerson). Diary, 1878

We’d love to hear your thoughts on what we’ve done so far.  Just go to http://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/contact and choose the category “Feedback about the digital library.”

Happy exploring!