The Binghamton University Libraries’ Digital Collections is a gateway to born-digital and retrospectively digitized materials unique to the Binghamton University community, a small portion of which is restricted to on-campus only. The purpose of the Libraries’ digital collections is to provide access to materials in order to enhance scholarship, teaching, and community engagement. The collection will continue to grow as more of our collections are digitized and described, and as we develop partnerships with the campus and community.
Contact us to learn more about how you can partner with the Libraries to develop digital collections.
We invite you to explore our collections below.
Our Digital Collections
Oral History and Interviews
This collection includes oral history projects created by the Libraries as well as collections of oral history interviews donated by researchers and community organizations.
Local History Digital Collections
Local history resources focus on the history of Broome County and its surrounding areas.
George E. Green Letter CollectionDaniel S. Dickinson Statue PapersJulie Cizenski Postcard Collection
Civil War Digital Collection
This collection includes digitized letters and diaries, many of which were written by soldiers at the front, or in Army hospitals, to their family and friends back home.
Browse Civil War Collection
Binghamton University Music Recitals
An audio collection of concerts and recitals given on campus by students, faculty, and outside musical groups. This collection includes access to the recordings (on-campus only) and scanned copies of the programs.
Browse Recital Collection
Edwin A. Link and Marion Clayton Link Collection
Edwin A. Link and Marion Clayton Link were local inventors, industrialists and pioneers in aviation simulation, underwater archaeology, and ocean engineering. The digital collection includes scanned images and correspondence.
Browse Link Collection
Binghamton University Photograph Project 2000 - present
Includes over 100,000 digital photographs taken by the university’s photographers. The images document important moments in the university’s history and also day to day life on campus.
Browse University Photograph Collection
University Archives
The University Archives houses a collection of materials relating to Binghamton University. Digitised materials include campus publications, bulletins, reports, and photographs.
Browse University Archives
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Collection
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour started the Kurdish Heritage Foundation, Kurdish Library and Kurdish Museum all out of her home in Brooklyn, NY in the early 1980s. The collection includes digitized images of costumes and jewelry as well as weavings, crafts, carpets and other textile art.
Browse Saeedpour Kurdish Collection
Max Reinhardt Archives and Libraries
Max Reinhardt was a celebrated theatre director. The collection includes digitized promptbooks and photographs. Reinhardt's illustrious career takes on added significance because it coincides with a major shift in the evolution of the modern theater: the ascendancy of the director as the key figure in theatrical production.
Browse Max Reinhardt Archives
Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations Web Archive
A web archive of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. The activities of the Center fall loosely into four categories: hosting international scholars, sponsoring major conferences and scholarly meetings, initiating and supporting Research Working Groups, carrying on an active publication program. The Libraries have preserved the entirety of the Center's website using the web archiving service, Conifer.
Browse Archive
Institute for Development Anthropology Papers
The Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) was an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institution founded in 1976 by Michael Horowitz, Thayer Scudder, and David Brokensha. Their goal was to focus on themes of equitable economic growth, environmental sustainability, resolution and social conflict, and participatory government. The Libraries’ have digitized the Institute’s Working Papers as well as a selection of reports.
Browse Institute for Development Anthropology Papers
Women's March Archives
A collection of images from the campus community and the community at large of the January 21, 2017 Women's March. The collection includes images taken from the Binghamton protest as well as protests from around the country.
Browse Women's March ArchivesAbout our Digital Collections
Our main source of our digital collections is from the Libraries’ Special Collections. While we have been digitizing materials from Special Collections for many years, this represents a very small portion of our special collections. We encourage you to visit our Libraries to view our unique Special Collections.
We also partner with other departments on campus to build digital collections in support of research projects, digital scholarship projects, and exhibits.
Our digital collections platforms include Omeka and BePress’ Digital Commons. We use Ex Libris’ Rosetta for digital preservation. We have also submitted several of our collections to New York Heritage. We use Dublin Core for descriptive metadata.
Propose a Digital Collection
We are able to support the creation of new digital collections whether the materials have been digitized or not. Building a new digital collection provides preservation and access, and ensures the availability of materials for teaching, learning, research, and scholarship.
Contact us to learn more about how you can partner with the Libraries to develop digital collections.
Rights
Many items in our digital collections are copyrighted. If you want to reuse any material in our collection you must seek permission, or decide if your purpose can qualify as fair use under the U.S. Copyright Law Section 107. If you think copyright or privacy has been violated, the University Libraries will investigate the issue. Please see our take down policy.
If using any materials in this online digital collection for educational or research purposes, please cite accordingly.
Accessibility Statement
Ensuring that our digital collections are accessible is a priority for the Libraries. As such, we are committed to providing an equitable experience for all individuals by following accessibility standards, responding to user feedback, and providing support and accommodations.
We aim to ensure that new digital collections are created with accessibility in mind and are working to improve the accessibility of older collections.
We believe it’s essential for everyone to be able to request, retrieve, and access our digital collections, especially our audio and video digital collections. If you desire access to a recording, we will make all efforts to provide a transcript in a timely manner. Please contact orb@binghamton.edu to make a request.
