Its mission is to establish ongoing mechanisms for the selection and preservation of primary source materials about Yale's history, provide comprehensive and effective description and access to the Yale documentary record and implement and participate in programs to promote the study and appreciation of the history, accomplishments, and contributions of the University and the Yale community. Among the digital aspects of the Archives 300 program are databases created to clarify Yale's historical organizational structure and an online component of an exhibit on Yale architecture. Avalon Project The Avalon Project, a collaboration between the Yale Law School and Yale Law Library, makes historical and present day legal documents available online. This international collection focuses primarily on modern documents but contains some documents from before the 18th century. There are currently 3,500 documents available.
Documents are available in full text with supporting documentation linked where appropriate.
The Yale University Library is creating over three years a database of c. 25,000 digital images to support teaching, learning, and research in American Studies. Since the initial organizational meeting in April 1999, a number of institutions have expressed a keen interest in participating. The Beinecke Photonegatives Database contains approximately 19,000 images of photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, objects, and illustrations and selected pages from printed works in the Beinecke's collections. The images were scanned from the Photonegative File, a file containing negatives and color transparencies of images selected for reproduction or study by patrons over the last twenty years. Data describing these images in most cases is very brief but generally includes call number and subject or author.