New additions to Amherst College Digital Collections

If you’ve been following this blog, then you may already be familiar with the Amherst College Digital Collections — ACDC for short. ACDC is the result of collaboration between Robert Frost Library Digital Programs and Technical Services departments, and Amherst College’s Information Technology department. ACDC focuses on digitizing and making available unique or rare content from collections owned by the Library or the College at large, as well as open access scholarly content created by Amherst College faculty.¹ The Amherst College Digital Collection continues to grow with monthly ingests of new content, including materials from the Archives and Special Collections.

Here are a few highlights from recent additions to ACDC:

51 books from the Younghee Kim-Wait/Pablo Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection

https://acdc.amherst.edu/browse/partOf/Younghee+Kim-Wait+(Class+of+1982)_2F_Pablo+Eisenberg+Collection+of+Native+American+Literature

The Native American Literature Collection continues to be a very exciting collection, highly used in classes and by visiting researchers. Now there are 51 books from this collection freely available to the public through ACDC.

asc-479053 — Indian Melodies by Thomas Commuck

A sermon: preached at the execution of Moses Paul, an Indian, who was executed at New-Haven, on the 2d of September 1772, for the murder of Mr. Moses Cook, late of Waterbury, on the 7th of December 1771

22 Medieval manuscripts:

https://acdc.amherst.edu/browse/partOf/Manuscript+Collection

Thus far, 22 of Amherst’s 24 Medieval manuscripts have been added to ACDC. These manuscripts, primarily from the late-fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, have been digitized as part of a Mellon-funded Five Colleges digitization project. More about that project here. Included in this collection are manuscripts of Cicero, Horace, Persius, and Frontinus.

20 Years of the Amherst College Catalog:

https://acdc.amherst.edu/browse/partOf/Amherst+College+Catalogs

Amherst College Catalogs from 1975-1997 are now available on ACDC. These College Catalogs are a source of information about the growth and history of the College as well as the College’s role in adapting to and shaping changes in higher education in the United States. Recent catalogs include information such as the mission statement; academic calendar; lists of members of the corporation, faculty, administrative and professional officers; admissions requirements; courses of instruction; professorships, readerships, and lectureships; prizes and awards; and enrollment.