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About the Iowa Heritage Digital Collection (IHDC)

 IHDC Website

 

The Iowa Heritage Digital Collections (IHDC) Web site was established in 2003 as an online collection of Iowa history and culture created by bringing together documents, images, maps, finding aids,  interpretive and educational materials, and other media from collections held by a wide range of organizations throughout Iowa. These organizations include colleges and universities, public libraries, historical societies, and museums. Users of IHDC can search across these multiple collections to explore a gold mine of Iowa history and culture.

Since 2003, staff at the University of Iowa’s main library has hosted, developed and maintained IHDC. But in 2009, the State Library will assume those duties. With the able assistance of the university staff, the data will be migrated to State Library servers and the day-to-day operations will be taken over by State Library staff .


The State Library will continue to work with the current IHDC Project Committee to develop and grow the collections.

In the fall of 2008 the State Library created a Digital Projects Team to work with current and new institutions that wish to add to collections in IHDC or add new collections to it. State Library staff will provide training and technical assistance. New collections can be added starting in the late summer or fall of 2009.

Committee for the Iowa Heritage Digital Collections Project


Check out Iowa Heritage Digital Collection at http://www.iowaheritage.org/ to see a wide variety of fascinating information about Iowa history and culture.


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Barb Corson — last modified Jan 15, 2009 03:07 PM