I just created a rudimentary page for CBI on the American Historical Association's Archives Wiki. The wiki is designed to be useful to historians and archival researchers of all disciplines. Please feel free to go in and edit our page with information you've found useful if you've done research here, or let me know here in the comments what information you'd like included.
Please check out the Public Historian, a really interesting blog written by a PhD student in the history of sci/tech/med program here. Full disclosure - her latest post is full of some nice things to say about CBI.
The Computer History Museum has announced the inauguration of a new online search system for research in their collections and artifacts: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/.
See http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/computingthen for an exciting new resource in the history of computing: "Computing Then." It's the history portion of Computing Now, a web portal from IEEE focusing on promoting the content of IEEE publications through selective free published content. Computing Then will focus heavily on print content and podcasts from the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (a journal edited by CBI's own Jeff Yost) in addition to video interviews from other IEEE CS journals.
The site's official launch is tomorrow, so this is a sneak preview! :-)
For all you U of M folks:
The Library Portal team is pleased to announce a new feature to MyLibrary: the ability to save citations. Since the middle of January, library users have been able to save favorite e-journals and indexes to the MyLibrary interface on the MyU Portal and the libraries' web site. This service has been surprisingly popular with over 1,650 individual users making use of the functionality.
Now users can also save citations to MyLibrary. This is done through a new menu option on "Find It" menus called "Save citation/journal to MyLibrary." We encourage you to give it a try on your own MyLibrary page at:
https://www.lib.umn.edu/mylibrary/
Of course, this new functionality is not meant to compete with RefWorks. It is meant to be a really simple and easy way to save a citation and come back to it later.
Tom asked me to post the following about an exciting resource that we now have available on our website:
With support from Cisco Systems, CBI digitized the entire run of the journal ConneXions—The Interoperability Report (1987-1996). ConneXions was a central forum for discussing the technical issues and international standards that made the Internet into a seamless, interoperating network. The collection includes many articles by leading members of the Internet community as well as reports on varied managerial, technical, and organizational initiatives. The scanned PDF files are available as individual monthly issues as well as yearly compilations; the site totals 1.5 GB. ConneXions was published by the Interop Company, and this site is with the permission of its successor firm, CMP United Business Media. Ole Jacobsen is presently editor and publisher of The Internet Protocol Journal .
We have a new collection processed and ready for use: the I. Bernard Cohen Papers, CBI 182. Emilia, our visiting library student from Illinois, did a great job arranging and describing the collection. Thanks, Emilia!
Paul Ceruzzi has recently started a blog for the IT History Society, located at http://ithistory.org/blog . Since the subject matter will be so pertinent to CBI research and collections, I'll be following Ceruzzi's blog closely. Welcome to the blogosphere, Paul!
CBI is happy to announce that we have scanned and made available, with permission, the first of three of James Cortada's bibliographies of the history of computer applications. The other two will be forthcoming. The volume is available on CBI's Hosted Publications webpage. The file is rather large, so it may take some time to open on your computer. Enjoy!
Take a look at the new and improved website for the University of Minnesota's Archives and Special Collections department!
I just wanted to call your attention to a new archives wiki set up by the AHA, located at http://archiveswiki.historians.org/index.php/Main_Page. They're hoping to use it for historians and other scholars to share information about specific archives. Right now, the archives listed seem pretty arbitrary (the only archives listed in the state of Minnesota is the Minnesota Historical Society), but it'll be very interesting to see where this goes.
The ArchivesNext blog has a thought-provoking post on this topic.
Two new finding aids available on the web site!
1) Kenneth W. Kolence Collection of Association for Computing Machinery Publications, and
2) The Robert W. Pomeroy Papers.
Enjoy!
The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine program here at the U has created a blog for their departmental news, discussions, and information. They're welcoming contributions from friends of the program as well as current faculty and staff, and best of all, they've linked to the CBI blog :-) Go on over and check it out!
Another collection is now available for research use. Donald Ross, a professor of English here at the U, recently donated his collection on computing, education, language, and the humanities to CBI. It's been processed and the finding aid is online at http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/cbi00197.xml.
A new, important collection is now available to CBI researchers! Historian James W. Cortada has donated to CBI his research files for his three-volume Digital Hand, along with a set of IBM publications and archival documents. The finding aid to this collection is located at http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/cbi00185.xml.
Unfortunately, our Burroughs Collection photograph database is currently having technical difficulties and is unavailable for searching. I will let you know when it goes back up; in the meantime, you can always search the Burroughs Corporation Records finding aid for all Burroughs photographs (and other materials) that have not been scanned. I apologize for the inconvenience!
This came around on a U of M Libraries listserv. It's an online alphabetizer that could be useful, I thought, for bibliographies. Are there other research applications that you can think of?