The Smithsonian Libraries, Archives and Museums have just announced the creation of their Collections Search Center.   This system allows the public to search over 2.3 million records.

Check out the press release below:

Smithsonian Libraries, Archives and Museums have worked together and created the Collections Search Center (http://collections.si.edu), a one-stop-searching center for the public for SI collections.  This fast growing Collections Search Center is hosted by OCIO and currently contains 2.3 million records with 280,000 online media such as images, sound files, videos, and online collections.

Collections are contributed by:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

National Air and Space Museum

National Museum of American Indians

National Museum of Natural History

National Portrait Gallery

National Postal Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Archives at the National Museum of the American Indian

Archives Center at National Museum of American History

Archives of American Art

Archives of American Gardens

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives,

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Human Studies Film Archives

National Air and Space Museum Archives Division

National Anthropological Archives

Smithsonian American Art Museum Photo Archives

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory – Chandra X-ray Observatory

We encourage you to look at and explore the search center and see the power of pulling our resources together.  The following includes just a few examples:

American Artist portraits

American Indian beadworks

African American pilots

Butterflies

This search center also supports the ability to read manuscripts page-by-page with zooming capability.  Please try these examples:

Notebook by Albert Samuel

Sitting Bull pictographic autobiography, 1882

We thank all the partners for making this effort possible.

Ching-hsien Wang,

Library and Archives Systems Support Branch,

Office of Chief Information Officer

This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for August are JCPenney Dynamo Digital Collection, Campi Phlegraei, Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, Digital METRO New York and Carlton R. Stewart Slide Collection.
Digital METRO New York

[Metropolitan New York Library Resources Council]
These Digital Collections created by members of the Metropolitan New York Library Council include scrapbooks, handbills, sheet music, trade cards, religious materials, photographs, letters, and postcards. Contributing institutions include Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Public Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Greenburgh Public Library, Lehman College, Maritime College, Queens College, and Yeshiva University.
These are just a few of the many outstanding digital collections created by CONTENTdm users. To access the entire Collection of Collections go to www.oclc.org/contentdm/collections/.

Questions about CONTENTdm? Please contact OCLC’s Support department by phone at 1-800-848-5800 and follow the prompts, or by e-mail at support@oclc.org, for more information about this update.