The Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) has an ongoing program to produce and acquire digital library collections. SULAIR's newly formed Digital Services Group manages a variety of digitization labs, including the Robotic Book Scanning Lab, featuring the first fully automated page-turning and book scanning device in the world. In these labs, SULAIR develops online resources of digitized books, journals, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and audio and visual materials. Digitizing materials provides enhanced access to existing collections, and can serve as a way to acquire new collections using innovative digitizing technologies.
The following is a sample of collections recently made available online:
- The GATT Digital Library: This site provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994. Over 30,000 public documents and 300 publications of the GATT are accessible from this site, a digital library created in a partnership between (SULAIR) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
- Stanford University Publications: This site provides online access to selected catalogs and administrative publications of Stanford University published between 1891 and 2001. (Publications from other universities are also available.)
- Survey of Race Relations: This site provides access to digital copies of all items in the Survey of Race Relations collection held at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. The survey contains documents and papers related to an investigation conducted in the early 1920's of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological, and social conditions among Chinese, Japanese, and other non-European residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada.
- Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project: This collection includes reference works, source collections, and primary and secondary books in the broad area of medieval and modern thought.
Links to these and other collections can be found at a new portal for collections digitized by SULAIR:
http://collections.stanford.edu/
Check back frequently, as new content will be added often.
