Copley Library Annual Report 2017-2018

Copley Joins Online Archive of California

Early in 2018, the Online Archive of California (OAC) invited Copley Library’s Department of Archives, Special Collections and Digital Initiatives to be come a contributing member to its statewide online repository. By spring, we had officially joined more than 200 California member institutions comprised of libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies and museums. Most importantly, we had begun to actively contribute guides describing our archival collections to the OAC. The Online Archive of California is a free service of the California Digital Library administered by the Regents of the University of California. It focuses on providing an easy way to discover finding aids (detailed guides to archival collections) from a variety of California institutions. Its mission is to encourage the use of the primary source material these finding aids describe. So far, the Online Archive of California contains more than 20,000 finding aids and more than 220,000 digital images, and that number is growing! We are pleased to work with the OAC and, in doing so, hope to encourage research of USD’s unique contributions to California history.

An example of a USD finding aid in the Online Archive of California.

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