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Lancaster Digital Collections has published twelve webpages of “iconography-inspired sacred art,” with downloadable images made available by permission of the artists. I especially like the paintings of Janet McKenzie [previously] and Khrystyna Kvyk [previously]. FREE ZOOM CONVERSATION: Social music with Dan Zanes, July 16, 2025, 8 p.m. ET: I met the Baltimore-based folk musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes [previously] two years ago at a local family concert they put on. Joyous, bighearted, faith-filled, community-focused, committed to social justice—I love who they are and what they’re about and all the rich music they share. In a social media post on June 11, Dan posed the question, “Is there anyone out there who wants to become a music maker and help uplift their community?” Followed by a generous offer:...

No cost, this is a different approach. It will be through a series of Zoom lessons (unless you live down the street). Whether you’re a beginner or someone who’s been dabbling and wants to take it out of the house, I can get you to a confident place so you can play for and with people.”... You just have to promise to put in the practice and to share your music freely in your community! And to teach someone else what you’ve learned. “There are so many ways to make positive social change,” Dan says, “and creating music in our communities is certainly one of them.” I believe he has already selected a set of students to...

On July 9, he wrote on social media: Social music in chaotic times, people! Let’s talk about it. I’ve been hearing from many folks who want to be more useful in their communities and see music as the way. Through our vision we have affirmed our ambition to be digital leaders and take a digital-first approach to all we do. This approach is surfaced through a wide range of our work, from delivering cutting edge learning resources and digital collections, to providing digital opportunities to engage with our Special Collections and Archives.

We launched a new generative AI Research Assistant on our OneSearch discovery service ready for the 2025-26 academic year. The Research Assistant was developed by our vendors Clarivate and enables natural language searching of the extensive Primo Discovery Index of scholarly sources, including books, journal articles and conference proceedings. The Research Assistant underwent a period of testing by our Faculty Librarian team and is now available to all students and staff at Lancaster University. To try it out, simply visit OneSearch and select the Research Assistant option. For guidance on using AI appropriately within your learning and research, see the University's Principles for the Educational Application of Generative AI. Focusing our attention on digital resources, archives and research collections, continuing to move away from a dependency on print.

Moving from curating content to creating dynamic collections. We have extensive print and digital collections, including specialist databases, special collections and archives and digital collections. The library holds wide ranging and diverse collections, with hundreds of thousands of print and online books, and over 400 specialist databases, providing access to primary source materials, academic journals and expert subject resources. Unique archives, collections and rare books are available to access from our Special Collections and Archives, as well as through Lancaster Digital Collections. The library has an extensive collection of resource databases and primary source materials. Browse a selection of the resources we hold below and explore the full range in the A-Z of databases.

The Gale Primary Sources cross-search interface provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions The Special Collections and Archives are housed in the Lancaster University Library. They are available to anyone by appointment, and some are available digitally through Lancaster Digital Collections. Special Collections and Archives aim to support the needs of all staff, students and external users in the research, teaching, learning and engagement with the materials within our rare book and archive collections in... Our Vision describes our approach to developing and managing the unique collections held by the Library at Lancaster University. Our collections are available to anyone by appointment and there is no need to have a research topic in mind to view our holdings.

We can provide virtual access to our collection and some are available digitally through Lancaster Digital Collections. Special Collections and Archives aim to support the needs of all staff, students and external users in the research, teaching, learning and engagement with the materials within our rare book and archive collections in... You can find information about our collection on OneSearch or follow the options below to find out more about the distinct collections we hold: We hold over 30 unique collections including over 15,000 rare books and 1000s of original documents. This page is testing whether or not you are a human visitor to prevent unwanted bot traffic. It will refresh momentarily with the content you requested.

Now available online to the public, scans of the scrapbooks provide a window into life in Lancaster County as far back as 1738. Lancaster, PA | In June 2024, LancasterHistory completed a large digitization project of four historic scrapbooks and 850 individual historic documents, creating a total of 3,565 digital scans of the items that are now... The funding for the project came from a Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) Historic Archives & Records Care (HARC) grant LancasterHistory received in 2021 for $5,000. The project focused on the digitization of four of the most significant and frequently requested scrapbooks in the LancasterHistory Archival Collections: the George Steinman Album & Papers, the Marietta Scrapbook, and two scrapbooks kept... Reuss of Columbia, Pennsylvania. Scrapbooks provide a unique record of individuals, families, organizations, and associations that can evade formal archival collections, such as handwritten or typed personal letters or notes and other ephemera and memorabilia chronicling daily life.

However, materials used to save items in scrapbooks are often detrimental to the long-term preservation of the objects, including poor-quality paper and harmful tapes and adhesives that can become brittle or yellow over time... Because of the fragile conditions of each scrapbook listed above, access to each has been restricted for more than a decade despite their popularity and importance to the public and researchers. The Steinman Album and Papers (1738-1955) contain documents that represent local, state, and national history. The Album, compiled by George Steinman (1847-1920), contains a treasure trove of photographs and ephemera of places, people, and events related to Lancaster County. They are as varied as Postlethwaite’s Tavern (Lancaster’s first seat of municipal government), hotels and taverns, firehouses, the Conestoga Massacre of 1763, churches, cemeteries, Ephrata Cloister, prominent citizens and their homes, the Stehli Silk... Later items in the Album include marginalia (handwritten notes in the margins) made by John Gibson, who donated the collection to LancasterHistory in 1968.

Please click here to view the digitized George Steinman Papers, Series 1 Steinman Album. An accompanying collection of papers includes original correspondence, documents, photographs, and ephemera that largely relate to 18th and 19th-century Lancaster. The Revolutionary War is highlighted, with documents and images related to George Washington, Lancaster’s Atlee family, and General Edward Hand. There are images relating to the Christiana Resistance in 1851 and to buildings in early Lancaster, including the Old Jail, the British Prison, and Postlethwaite’s Tavern. Also included in the collection are currency printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1764 and Confederate States currency and bonds. Please click here to view the digitized George Steinman Papers, Series 2 Documents, Images, & Ephemera.

Friday 10 September 2021, 12:00pm to 3:00pm Join us online on Friday 10th September, 12:00 - 3:00pm, for the public launch of Lancaster Digital Collections, part of our Library Festival... Join us online on Friday 10th September, 12:00 - 3:00pm, for the public launch of Lancaster Digital Collections, part of our Library Festival. Lancaster Digital Collections shares and preserves unique and distinctive visual and multimedia collections created by Lancaster University and its partners. It is the outcome of a collaborative partnership with Cambridge University, and is based on their Cambridge University Digital Library platform. It follows the University of Manchester’s launch of Manchester Digital Collections in 2019, and is the third of what we hope will become a vibrant community partnership of digital collections platforms.

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