Collection Development Policy

The Illinois Harvest / Large-scale Digitization Initiative is digitizing scholarly research contributions of the University and content about Illinois history, culture, and natural resources from the collections of the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. Content is being digitized in house, through our participation in the Open Content Alliance (OCA), and through contracts with other vendors. Current (2007) digitization projects include:

Open Content Alliance Scanning Center at the Oak Street Library Facility

Illinois history, culture, and natural resources
Chicago Field Museum Fieldiana Botany and Zoology series (special permission to digitize volumes still in copyright)
Famous Illinoisans, such as Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Black Hawk, William Jennings Bryan, Carl Sandburg, Ida Wells-Barnett, and Stephen Douglas
Illinois genealogy resources
Rural studies and agriculture
U.S. Railroad history
Works in translation

Outsourced Digitization Projects

Aerial photos of Champaign County (1936, 1954, 1960, 1966, 1973, 1975, 1982)
Arts of America, 1892-1900 (Central Art Association of American-Chicago emphasis)
Autoharp: Organ of the Campus Folksong Club at UIUC (1961-1964)
Bronze Tablets, 1925-2006 (plaques honoring top 3% of UIUC undergraduates)
Chicago Architectural Club Annuals (1894-1928)
E. St. Louis Illinois City Direcotires (various early 20th century volumes)
Green Fields of Illinois (sound recordings of the UIUC Folksong Club, 1960s)
Ilios (1970-1989)
Illinois Chemist (1915-1925)
Illinois Legislative Synopsis and Digest
Illinois Natural History Survey Technical Reports, 1980-2000
Illinois Natural History Survey Harvest Reports, 1980-2000
Illinois Socitey of Architect's Newsletter (1916-1935)
Nathan Ricker's translation of his 47 architectural treatises
Oral History Tapes from UIUC Student Archives
University of Illinois Board of Trustees Proceedings, 1922-1990
UIUC Engineering Experimental Station Bulletins, 1940-1973
UIUC Reading Educations Reports, 1977-1985
UIUC Reading Technical Reports, 1975-1995
Urbana Courier (1926-1935) (1916-1925 already digitized)
Various publications of the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1949-2006
Various University of Illinois Library publications

In-House Digitization Projects

James B. Reston Papers
Unica Project (100 Books in UIUC Library's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library--only known copies in existence)
UIUC Built Environment (300 large format architectural drawings of UIUC buildings)

Also Included in Illinois Harvest Portal

In addition to providing access to content being digitized as part of the initiative, the Illinois Harvest Portal is indexing complementary collections about Illinois history, culture, and natural resources held by other libraries in Illinois and throughout the nation. The Portal also integrates access to published scholarship by researchers in Illinois and elsewhere.

Currently indexed collections:

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• IDEALS: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship
• Teaching with Digital Content
• German Emblem Books
• Historical Maps Online
• Spanish Civil War
• American Library Association Archived Digital Collections
• Collins Collection of Irish Political Cartoons
• French World War I Posters
• Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
• Abraham Lincoln Books from the University of Illinois
• James Reston Papers

• Library of Congress
• Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
• American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
• The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

• Illinois State Library-- Illinois Digital Archives
• A University Goes to War, World War I Women
• Abraham Lincoln - Full-Text Books and Documents
• Arthur, Once Upon a Time - Local History Images of Arthur, Illinois
• Bloomington-Normal, Illinois Black History Project
• Coal Mining in Illinois, Machine vs. Man
• Oak Ridge Cemetery, Illinois Interment Records
• O'Hare International Airport Digital Collection
• Remembering the Houses of Western Springs, Illinois
• Cemetery Records of Ogle, Lee, Carroll, and Whiteside, Illinois Counties
• Cherry Valley, Illinois Local History
• Oral Histories of Centralia, Illinois
• Illinois Constitutions, 1818-Present
• Springfield Aviation Company Collection
• Eastern Illinois University Yearbook - The Warbler, 1919-1927
• Charles Overstreet Collection
• Illinois Blue Books
• Henderson County, Illinois Historical Society Museum
• Historic Maps of Aurora, Illinois
• Images of Loves Park, Machesney Park and Roscoe, Illinois
• Mining and Mother Jones in Mount Olive, Illinois
• Native American Collection in McLean County Museum of History and Illinois State University
• The Oral History Collection of the University of Illinois at Springfield
• Park Forest – An Illinois Planned Community
• Illinois State Library - General Collection
• The Living Museum - Back Issues Archive
• Social Justice and Activism at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois
• St. Charles, Illinois History - Then and Now
• World War I - Documents from the Illinois State Library
• World War II - Documents from the Illinois State Library
• World War II - Posters from the Illinois State Library
• World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, and the Founding and Early History of The Field Museum
• Vachel Lindsay Collection
• William Hayes Collection, 1820-1860
• Illinois in the Civil War - Documents from the Illinois State Library

• University of Chicago
• American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
• Archival Photographic Files

• University of Indiana
• Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection

• University of Iowa
• Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

• University of Michigan
• Archivision Architecture Images
• Lincoln Highway Digital Image Collection
• Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library
• The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
• The United States and its Territories, 1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism
• Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)

• University of Minnesota
• Northwest Architectural Archives: American Terra Cotta Photographs
• Immigration History Research Center Images
• Northwest Architectural Archives (William Gray Purcell Job Files)
• Kautz Family YMCA Archives
• Charles Babbage Institute (Burroughs Photo Database)
• Making of America Journals
• Making of America Books
• Northwest Architectural Archives (American Terra Cotta Company Photographs)

Other indexes searched by Illinois Harvest

The Illlinois Harvest Portal also allows users to simultaneously search any of the following indexing and abstract services:

• Articles in Multi-Subject
• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
• Scopus Database (Elsevier)
• Web of Knowledge -- Science, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities (ISI)

• Articles in Business Journals
• Business Premier Database
• ABI-INFORM Business Research and Trade Info Database
• EconoLit Database

• Articles in History Journals
• Historical Abstracts
• America: History and Life

• Articles and Conference Papers in Engineering
• Compendex (Engineering Index)
• INSPEC Database (ECE, Physics, CS)