A. Collections

Michigan County Histories and Atlases

The Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library Directors. The collection is projected to provide access to 192 histories dating from 1866 to 1926. There are 195 volumes in 164 titles currently online. The collection is made possible, in part, through a generous Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micounty.

LLMC-Digital

The Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) is partnering with the Law Library Microfilm Consortium (LLMC) to produce LLMC-Digital. LLMC is a non-profit cooperative serving member libraries' needs for preservation, space recovery, and collection development on film and on-line. In its first 27 years of operation, it filmed over 7,500 titles, some 90,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history. Its backfile comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform. That backfile, and future filming of some 10,000 volumes per year, are being made available for on-line access through the hosting services of SPO. LLMC-Digital had nearly 4,000 volumes and 3.4 million pages online as of early August 2004. LLMC-Digital is currently comprised of four collections: Collection contains legal titles generated in or for the British colonies which became part of modern Canada. Parting from LLMC practice with most other jurisdictions covered in the Common Law Abroad project, due to the high interest in Canada within the LLMC community, this collection also includes many titles published post-independence.

The interface includes a specially developed Title-Volume-Page search, which allows users to navigate to a known page or to all online volumes for a title via a drop-down list of titles and search boxes to designate volumes, parts, and pages.
http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/l/llmc/

Common Law Abroad-British Canada

Collection contains legal titles generated in or for the British colonies which became part of modern Canada. Parting from LLMC practice with most other jurisdictions covered in the Common Law Abroad project, due to the high interest in Canada within the LLMC community, this collection also includes many titles published post-independence.

U.S. Federal-Executive

Collection contains all titles offered by LLMC generated by any U.S. federal department, agency, commission, or other rule-making and enforcement body dependent upon the executive supervision of the President of the United States.

U.S. Federal-Judicial

Collection contains all titles offered by LLMC generated by any of the U.S. Federal Courts, as well as those statutory organizations, such as the Federal Judicial Center, which facilitate the administration of the courts.

U.S. Federal-Legislative

Collection contains all titles offered by LLMC generated by the U.S. Congress, its committees and temporary commissions, and those agencies, such as the GAO, Library of Congress, and the Copyright office, which report directly to Congress.

Evans Digital Imprint Text Creation Partnership

The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the Evans Early American Imprints Collection. Evans is the most significant collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America, and the Text creation partnership seeks to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works. NewsBank/Readex is producing digital page images and searchable OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for the overall collection. The standards-based editions created and owned by Text Creation Partnership will link directly to the corresponding Newsbank/Readex page images and will provide a research and instructional tool of enduring scholarly and instructional value.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/evans/

Digital General Collection

We have brought together all print materials converted to electronic text into a single collection, called the Digital General Collection. This collection includes materials that have been reformatted digitally for preservation, as well as digital collections. The collection consists of more than 20,000 volumes at present, and we expect to add more than 3,000 volumes per year.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/g/genpub/

Center for Japanese Studies Publications

The Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) is working with the Center for Japanese Studies to make its publication series more accessible, both through the Web and through print. The Out-of-Print Books Online has 38 out-of-print titles and includes Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies and the Bibliographical Series, published by the Center from 1951 until 1979 and now out of print. In addition, a number of Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies now out of print have also been made available in searchable and downloadable formats. All volumes may be searched and downloaded for free. Users will also soon have the option of purchasing a quality reprint from the Center. In addition, SPO and the Center for Japanese Studies will soon release the first of a planned series of faculty selected reprints, entitled, CJS Faculty Series: Motion Pictures Reprint Series (edited by Abé Mark Nornes). This collection contains production materials from The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1946), and the Prewar Proletarian Film Movements Collection, including rare monographs, journals, censored newsletters and leaflets, and Quicktime films.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/c/cjs

Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project

This collaborative translation project built by scholars and translators around the world now has almost 200 articles. New enhancements will be released this fall including use of a bilingual controlled vocabulary created in collaboration with ARTFL, revised article metadata and content, and new support for cross-references and non-Latin characters.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/d/did