Louisiana
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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Interview with Will Olmstadt

Wed, 06/17/2020 - 13:24 -- lpowe17

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.

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A Story of Precarious Black Freedom in Joseph Watson’s Correspondence

Tue, 02/18/2020 - 10:11 -- lpowe17

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.

Grant Allows LDL Practitioners a Chance to Learn Together

Mon, 01/06/2020 - 13:43 -- lpowe17

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

Tue, 12/17/2019 - 09:50 -- lpowe17

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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Permissions/rights/reproduction and information requests:

The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is composed of collections from many different institutions. Permission to publish and acquire images or requests for more information about materials that you find in the LDL should be directed to the institution that contributed the item to the LDL. To find the contact who can help you, find the field called "Contact Information" next to the image of interest to you. The Louisiana Digital Library is a service provider only and has no authority to grant permission to publish or supply high-resolution images.

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The Louisiana Digital Library platform has been developed by LSU Libraries on behalf of the Louisiana Digital Consortium. It runs on the Islandora open-source digital repository software.

LSU Libraries' Technology Initiatives: lsudiglib@lsu.edu.

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About the Louisiana Digital Library (LDL)

The Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is the front door to Louisiana's digital cultural heritage. Members include public libraries, academic libraries, museums, and archives from arcross the state.

Currently, there are 25 participating institutions in the LDL. Each institution contributes the digital items and the descriptive text for their collections.

  • Calcasieu Parish Public Library
  • Delgado Community College
  • East Baton Rouge Parish Library
  • Law Library of Louisiana
  • Louisiana State Archives
  • Louisiana State Museum
  • Louisiana State University
  • Louisiana State University at Alexandria
  • Louisiana State University at Shreveport
  • Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
  • Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport
  • Louisiana Tech University
  • Loyola University New Orleans
  • McNeese State University
  • Nicholls State University
  • Northwestern State University
  • Southern University
  • State Library Of Louisiana
  • The Historic New Orleans Collection
  • Tulane University
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • University of Louisiana at Monroe
  • University of New Orleans
  • Vermilionville Living History Museum & Folklife Park
  • Webster Parish Library

The LDL is built with Islandora, an open source digital library system based on FedoraDrupal, and Solr.

Information about the Louisiana Digital Consortium can be found here: http://louisianadigitalconsortium.org

 

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