The University of Toledo

Digital Initiatives Projects Overview

Canaday Center

• Virtual Exhibit (in progress): Medicine on the Maumee: A History of Health Care in Northwest Ohio - Temporary Website with Visitor Information
• Virtual Exhibit: Wholly Toledo: The Business and Industry that Shaped the City (completed, Fall 2011)
• Virtual exhibit: Margaret Papp Perry Memorial Hungarian Book Collection (completed, May 2011)
• Digitization of Canaday Center manuscript collections and finding aids (ongoing)
• Digital content development in the University of Toledo Digital Resource Commons (ongoing) - Scroll down to Recent Submissions
• Disability History Virtual Exhibit: From Institutions to Independence (completed, Spring 2009)
• University of Toledo Authors and Artists Exhibit 2010 - Virtual Exhibit (completed April 2010)
• Vertical Files Digital Collection (in progress)

Carlson Library

• Gypsies, Romanies & Travelers (completed, Summer 2009)
• Dorothy Price/Peggy Grant, Masks and Art Glass Collection (completed, December 2009)

University of Toledo

• Collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality (ISPS): ISPS Website and Digital Archive
• Intellectual Property Portal - (completed, Summer 2010) Information portal with copyright, far use, and other important intellectual property-related information for faculty, students, and administrators

Toledo-area Community Projects

• Toledo’s Attic – We have developed a brand new site using Joomla 2.5.7 with lots of legacy and new contents, including over 8,000 photos, 50 historical essays, and many flash and slide presentations.   We also use social media to interact with new types of audiences in Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest, HistoryPin, Twitter, and others.