Calisphere

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Description

The Calisphere web site is a free public gateway to digitized primary resources selected from the libraries and museums of the 10 UC campuses and more than 100 cultural heritage organizations. This single, easy to navigate portal provides access to more than 150,000 historic and cultural photographs, diaries, documents, oral histories, fine arts, and other unique resources. Calisphere also provides a single point of access for more than 300 UC-created web sites and collections that reflect the diverse interests and scholarship of UC, including the humanities, social sciences, math, and science resources.

Additional features include:

Themed Collections: Themed Collections consist of 10-30 hand-selected images and a brief summary describing the unifying themes behind the chosen images. Some examples include Women Workers at the Richmond Shipyards, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Dust Bowl Migration. The collections were especially designed for teachers and the subject areas are aligned with the California State Board of Education Content Standards. CDL staff partnered with the Interactive University at UC Berkeley and worked closely with Calisphere’s advisory board of teachers and librarians to create these collections.
California Cultures: California Cultures will be a sub-site of Calisphere. It will provide access to more than 15,000 selected images from UC collections documenting ethnic communities in California and the West. The site also offers five teacher-created lesson plans and essays documenting six historical eras of California history.

Calisphere’s Relationship to the OAC

The content in Calisphere is drawn primarily from the digital content from the Online Archive of California (OAC) web site. The OAC web site will continue to be maintained after Calisphere goes live. It will remain as an archival finding aid site that serves the needs of archivists, historians, and researchers.

For further information, contact Rosalie Lack: Rosalie.Lack@ucop.edu

Additional Information

Administration: Calisphere is administered by CDL's Digital Special Collections program
Technical Framework

Contributing to Calisphere

Calisphere Advisory Board

Debbie Carton
Teen Reference Librarian, North Berkeley Branch Public Library

Robert W. Duvall
History Teacher & Department Chairman, Hanford West High School

Peter Milbury
Library Media Teacher, Chico High School

Ann Travis
History Teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District

Outreach Materials

Flier [PDF]
California Cultures Poster (8.5 x 11 version) [PDF]
Japanese American Internment Poster (8.5 x 11 version) [PDF]
Discover your world (Yosemite) Poster (8.5 x 11 version) [PDF]
World War II Poster (8.5 x 11 version) [PDF]
Social Reform (Black Panthers) Poster (8.5 x 11) version) [PDF]
University of California Launches Calisphere Web Site. See August 21 press release [PDF]
Calisphere First Year in Review [PDF]

Projects

Calisphere iTouch History

Presentations and Publications

Assessment Activities

Calisphere UI Testing Findings and Recommendations: Findings and recommendations from user interface testing held at Chico High School in September 2005. [PDF]
Interactive University Teacher Assessment: Report from Interactive University on the use of digital objects by teachers in the classroom. [PDF]
American West assessment findings: Report on interviews conducted with teachers, librarians and other end user interviews. July 1, 2004. [PDF]

Document owner: CDL Digital Special Collections (oacops @ cdlib . org)

Last reviewed: March 2009

URL: http://cdldir.ucop.edu/inside/projects/calisphere/index.html

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