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Digital Library
The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of more than 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories, making unique historical treasures accessible to students, researchers, and the general public in Louisiana and across the globe. The items in the Louisiana Digital Library are as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana, with photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more documenting the state’s history and culture.View all collections
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The LDL Fest: Register Now!
The Louisiana Digital Library invites you register for our first-ever LDL Fest!
What?
A three-day event to celebrate our state's digital cultural heritage.
Day 1: Workshops
LDL Welcomes Ascension Parish Public Library
We're excited to welcome Ascension Parish Public Library to the LDL! In this Member Highlight, Christopher Achee, Assistant Library Director, tells us what's coming up.
Interview with Will Olmstadt
As part of our series Connecting with Colleagues: An Occasional Series of Interviews with LDL Participants, we talked to Will Olmstadt, Executive Director of the Health Sciences Library at LSU Health Shreveport, about his strategies for fostering professional development.
While most LDL contributing institutions have one or two trained content administrators, Olmstadt encourages staff from across the library to attend LDL trainings, allowing broad familiarity with LDL content administration.
LDL Subject Guide Recommendation
LDC Board Meetings-2020-04-30
A Story of Precarious Black Freedom in Joseph Watson’s Correspondence
The Joseph Watson Correspondence digital collection, contributed by LSU Special Collections, offers insight into the precarious freedom of antebellum black northerners through the story of a Philadelphia mayor’s attempt to return free black children who were kidnapped and sold into slavery. The correspondence also offers an example of dialogue between a white northerner and white southerner that smooths over some of the harsh realities of slavery for the sake of cross-regional cordiality.
- Read more about A Story of Precarious Black Freedom in Joseph Watson’s Correspondence
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LDL Connects with Humanities Amped
Last week, Leah Powell and Sophia Ziegler presented a workshop at the Humanities Amped Educators meeting. They talked to middle and high school teachers about using the LDL to teach data literacy in the classroom.
LDL Welcomes Louisiana State Archives
We’re excited to welcome Louisiana State Archives as a new member of the LDL. In this Member Highlight, Archives Specialist Heaven Smith explains the State Archives’ plans to contribute photographs, manuscripts, and historical government documents, including the particularly noteworthy Huey P. Long Impeachment Trial Transcripts.
Grant Allows LDL Practitioners a Chance to Learn Together
We’re thrilled to announce important news for our LDL community: LSU Libraries has been awarded a grant from Collections as Data: Part to Whole, an effort made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will allow LDL practitioners to gather and collaboratively explore policies and practices around creating digital content for the LDL.
LDL Welcomes Calcasieu Parish Public Library
In this week’s Member Highlight, we hear from Aaron Webster, User Access Librarian at Calcasieu Parish Public Library. Calcasieu recently received an Institute of Museum and Library Science Memory Lab Network Grant, which will provide funding for community digitization stations. The resulting digital content will highlight the culture of southwest Louisiana and will ultimately be accessible on the LDL. Below, Webster shares some of the library’s more immediate plans for digitization.
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