I’m excited to announce that we’ve just added a group of new institutions and collections to the Western Waters Digital Library. Here is an overview of the new content now available in WWDL along with our other collections:

University of Houston Digital Library – The Digital Library makes available digital collections of materials documenting the University of Houston, city of Houston, and state of Texas, as well as other historically and culturally significant materials.

Galveston 1915 Hurricane Photographs

These 124 photographs capture the devastation wrought by the hurricane that hit Galveston Island on August 17, 1915. The collection features black-and-white and sepia-toned images of destroyed buildings, streets, railroads, causeway, and beachfront, taken by Rex Dunbar Frazier in the immediate aftermath of the storm.

Browse University of Houston items in WWDL

Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC – OpenSIUC is an institutional repository offering permanent, reliable, and free access to research and scholarly material produced at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

The collections harvested into WWDL from Open SIUC include publications and reports from the Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center, conference proceedings from the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR), and articles from the Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education.

Browse OpenSIUC items in WWDL

Southern Methodist University Digital Collections - Ongoing projects include the creation of digital collections relating to Texas, the Southwest, the U.S. West, Mexico, Civil War, World War II, and more. Specialized holdings include Texas art, photography, and currency notes; Civil War and World War II photography; Mexican photography and imprints, and much more.

The Edward C. Fritz papers, 1950s-2008 digital collection contains 361 documents and photographs that record the 1970s debate over the canalization of the Trinity River in Dallas, one of the many environmental causes for which Edward C. “Ned” Fritz (1916-2008) campaigned. Fritz’s papers are held at SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

Browse Southern Methodist University Digital Collections in WWDL

Digital Commons @ USU – DigitalCommons@USU provides open access to scholarly works, research, reports, publications, and journals produced by Utah State University faculty, staff, students, and others.

Water-related resources from DigitalCommons@USU includes Watershed Sciences faculty publications and theses and dissertations, and Utah Water Research Laboratory papers and reports.

Browse Digital Commons@USU items in WWDL

Weber State University Digital Collections - Weber State University Digital Collections provide access to unique materials from Weber State University Special Collections and Digital Archives. Among these collections is the Utah Construction Utah International Collection, which includes scrapbooks documenting the construction of the Hoover Dam.

Browse Weber State University items in the WWDL

The Digital Scholarship Lab at the Marriott Library is working on maps to showcase our institutional partners and highlight selected places covered by the Western Waters Digital Library. You can get a preview of the maps here. We are still in the process of adding data to the maps, but there is a great deal to currently explore.

We ran the WWDL harvest last week, and the latest update includes new items in our index from:

Digital Collections of Colorado

Claremont Colleges Digital Library

ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University

We are also in the process of adding some exciting new collections! Stay tuned for details.

It is always great to see new items being added to collections that Western Water’s picks up. Recently Colorado State University Library has been adding items from the Agricultural Water Conservation Clearinghouse.

From the collection description, “The AWCC is a comprehensive information resource system with a central focus on agricultural water management and conservation. The AWCC Library currently contains over 6,500 bibliographic entries that encompass multiple subject areas including irrigation systems, agricultural water conservation policy, cropping systems, drought tolerance, water supply and storage, and more. Grey literature that is accessible through the Colorado State University Libraries digital repository, Digital Collections of Colorado, is topic specific and includes conference proceedings, government documents, white papers, and reports.”

Browse a subset of AWCC records in WWDL here.

This month’s WWDL harvest is live, featuring new items added to the collection from the following partners:

• ResearchWorks at the University of Washington
• Colorado State University Libraries Digital Repository
• Claremont College
• New Mexico Digital Collections
• ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University

Enjoy searching the updated site!

The monthly harvest for WWDL has run and our index of records is updated!

One of the nice things about the recent WWDL server and software upgrade is the stable URLs we now have at the record level for WWDL items. We’ve recently added social sharing buttons to WWDL records through Add This, so you can easily post them to your twitter, facebook, pinterest boards and more. Check out the social sharing buttons on the top of this record for Bureau of Reclamation slide presentations.

The monthly harvest for Western Waters has been completed, enjoy searching the updated index!

Western Waters Digital Library has a new search widget. You can copy and paste it into your own web page or template if you would like to add a WWDL search box to your web site.

You can copy and paste the code for the widget from the WWDL About page.

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