The Furness Shakespeare Collection is a library of the University of Pennsylvania whose curator of Research Services, Annenberg Rare Book & manuscript is Daniel Traister. Michael Ryan is the director of this poject but many Professors have helped in its development.
The Darlington Digital Library was created from the first major collection of books, manuscripts, atlases, and maps donated to the University of Pittsburgh. Most of the credit for assembling the Darlington Collection rightly goes to William M. Darlington, an attorney by profession who was born in Pittsburgh in 1815. Nevertheless, all those books, or at least most of them, are available on the web of the University of Pittsburg .
For that project of digitalization the University Library System (ULS) made a strategic internal investment of its own resources to provide the necessary staffing and equipment for the project.
While many library departments are involved in different phases of the project, the primary digitization responsibility falls on the ULS Digital Research Library (DRL). The DRL commenced scanning books from the Darlington library in the summer of 2006 and will continue its digitization activities for some time.
SOURCES:
* The Furness Shakespeare Collection.(2009) In University of Pennsylvania Library. Retrieved 13:02, October 14, 2009, from http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/
* The Darlington Digital Library (2009). In University of Pittsburg. Retrieved 13:04, October 14, 2009, from http://digital.library.pitt.edu/d/darlington/
