[NHCOLL-L:1786] Great Lakes Flora and Fauna resource

[Terri Geitgey]

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The University of Michigan Library and its project partners, the Fish and 
Mammal Divisions of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and the 
Fungus Collection of the University of Michigan Herbarium, are pleased to 
announce a new digital library resource, "Flora and Fauna of the Great 
Lakes Region," at http://www.lib.umich.edu/programs/greatlakes/index.html.

The web site provides access to specimen materials selected from the three 
museum divisions' extensive Great Lakes holdings. When complete, the 
resource will include 11 sub-collections, containing many images as well as 
collection data. A working prototype for a system to provide integrated 
access to all of the Museum Divisions' collections and additional content 
such as field notes and other supplementary information, the site is 
intended to facilitate access to natural history collections for the 
general user as well as the specialist interested in searching across 
domains.  The web site was developed using the Library's DLXS suite of 
tools for building digital libraries.

Content will continue to be added to the online collections through 
December 2002.

This project was funded by a generous grant from the Institute of Museum 
and Library Services, Library-Museum Collaboration Program.

For additional information, contact Terri Geitgey, Project Librarian, at 
tgeitgey at umich.edu