The South Carolina State Library is pleased to announce newly added South Carolina digital collections to the Opening History project. Opening History is a registry of websites nationwide that users may search and browse. The site contains a multitude of fascinating digital content organized for easy access by subject, location, and object type, such as images, manuscripts and three-dimensional objects.
The South Carolina State Library has participated in the Opening History project by surveying library and cultural organizations websites across South Carolina and identifying those with collections of digital content to incorporate into Opening History.
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Amanda Stone, Innovation and Digital Librarian at the South Carolina State Library, has worked with the Opening History Project to include over 150 separate digital collections from South Carolina institutions such as the University of South Carolina, Georgetown Public Library, and Wofford College. According to Stone, "These digital libraries represent a wide variety of historical time periods, places, and people throughout our state, from photographs of the 1886 Charleston Earthquake to the scrapbook of educator and civil rights activist Modjeska Monteith Simkins."
Opening History is a project of the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) registry. Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the DCC's purpose is to bring together digital collections funded by IMLS National Library grants. Opening History was created to highlight non-IMLS-funded digital collections. A nationwide Opening History and DCC projects blog, called Sowing Culture, contains highlights of newly-added sites.
For a complete list, visit the State Library's Digital Collections page: http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/digital-collection and for more information, please contact Amanda Stone, 803-734-4816 or astone@statelibrary.sc.gov.
