Working with a 10,000 page collection staff pioneered procedures and systems for indexing, linking, digitizing and searching primary source material for the web. Additionally, the images were linked to an online version of a book published by the UC Press, The Cigarette Papers. Two subsequent grants have funded additional collections and new strategies for managing large image files. While there are now several web-based image collections, significant work is needed for data structures that support effective, efficient access across multiple websites. External funds support this experimentation with the results applied to other image collections.
Students find it a valuable tool to communicate among themselves and with the instructor.