1. West Meets East: Digitizing Humanities at University of Pittsburgh
Michael Dabrishus
Haihui Zhang
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
July 1, 2015
Stanford University

2. University Library System (ULS) at PITT
*More than 6.8 million volumes
*More than 185,000 journal titles including e-journals
*Over 1 million e-books
*More than 700 electronic database resources

3. 1. A Pilot Project
Modern China Studies
Year 2002
In 2003, ULS received a two-year grant ( ) from NEH and was the only individual institution in the NEH Brittle books and serials category to receive an award that includes a component to digitize materials for access.
37 titles (approximately 10,500 pages)
In 2004, a US-China cooperative project titled “China-US Million Book Digital
Library Project” became well-known through making it available on the web. Another project, a partnership between Google, Inc., and five research libraries (the “Google 5”), was also announced in However, two years earlier in 2002, ULS at Pitt received funding from National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to catalog and preserve 3,000 acidic and rare books from our Chinese monograph collection.

4. Although the final product can’t be compared with full-text searchable products today and the usage number has decreased as shown in Table 2 due to more and more Chinese ebooks becoming available in past ten years, the pilot project did enable the DRL to experiment with adapting new methodologies, tools, and techniques for creating, processing, and indexing digital library content for foreign language materials.

5. 2. Digitization of East Asian Special and Unique Collection
Two digitized projects of Japanese art collection:
Tsukioka Kogyo: The Art of Noh,
Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection

8. 2. Digitization of East Asian Special and Unique Collection (Cont.)
Szeming Sze Papers
Dr. Szeming Sze (施思明), Son of Dr. Alfred Sao-ke Sze (施肇基, Zhaoji Shi)
a variety of documents relating to the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO)
the entire collection of the Szeming Sze Papers was digitized and opened to the public at
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9. Sze Szeming Papers (Cont.)
Alfred Sao-ke Sze (1877–1958)
Szeming Sze (1908 – 1998)

10. Sze Szeming Papers (Cont.)

11. 2. Digitization of East Asian Special and Unique Collection (Cont.)
Chinese Land Records
land deeds, property trade documents, possession draw documents, tax bills, etc.
It includes 220 pieces
span over three hundred years from the Ming Dynasty ( ) to the mid-twentieth century
only online collection of Chinese Land Records with open access status available on the internet
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12. Chinese Land Records

13. 3. An Exploratory Pilot Project
Gao Archive
Gao Minglu (高名潞)
Contemporary Chinese Art
manuscripts, artists’ diaries and correspondences, art groups’ documentations, records of historical events and debates in both visual image and text, art works, underground publications, exhibit catalogs, etc.
A proposed digitizing project of Gao Archive since 2014

14. Gao and Gao Archive

15. Gao and Gao Archive

16. 3. An Exploratory Pilot Project (Cont.)
complex and challenging
a wide range of materials including printed volumes, visual materials, manuscripts, audio recordings, images
scatted throughout China and the U.S.
legal concerns on ownership
funding
collaborative work among library, academic department, center, etc. campus-wide
departments and units within the library including library IT, archives, technical services, preservation, web service, etc.

17. THANKS 谢谢