University Libraries

Digital Initiatives

The Digital Initiatives program launches projects across the University of Toledo to support research, teaching, and learning in a digital environment.  It oversees content development and curation on multiple projects sites described below.  Consulting is available to all interested UToledo community members who wish to submit collections as virtual exhibits or digital archives for long-term preservation.  Such material may include originally created photos, slides, historical manuscripts, oral history interviews, post-prints of scholarly works, student projects, and other unique primary source materials with great value for research and teaching.   Contact Arjun Sabharwal, Professor & Digital Initiatives Librarian, for more information.

University of Toledo Digital Repository

The University of Toledo Digital Repository contains digitized and born-digital material including university archives, manuscript collections, faculty and student research, specialized digital collections, U.S. Patent applications assigned to the University of Toledo, Blockhouse, college newspapers (Collegian), and many items of interest. [Website]

Toledo's Attic 

Since 1995, Toledo's Attic has been Toledo's and Northwest Ohio's virtual museum with a focus on the region's commercial, industrial, and social history from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries. Over the years, it has evolved into a public digital humanities project and a digital storytelling site while maintaining its intended virtual museum function. The site offers visitors historical essays, research articles (in Northwest Ohio History) photo galleries, videos, virtual exhibitions, student projects, and other resources needed for school, private, and scholarly research. Educators may peruse these collections for teaching history and preparing students for History Day and other events. [Website]

Archived location: Internet Archive, Wayback Machine, Toledo's Attic

The University of Toledo Open Journals

The University of Toledo Open Journal System site hosts six peer-reviewed academic journals managed by UToledo faculty, engaging UToledo students and researchers.  The journals include international publications as well as teaching journals involving UToledo students. [Website]

Virtual Exhibitions

As part of the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections' extensive curatorial program, virtual exhibitions have extended access to archival collections displayed in past exhibitions.  Virtual exhibitions continue to provide access to the exhibits in digital form once the physical exhibitions end, thus preserving the context, order, and relationship of curated exhibits. [Website]

Recent: The Heart of Any University: 50 Years of the William S. Carlson Library (February 7, 2024)

Selected virtual exhibitions in the digital repository:

Protest: Activism and Social Change, 1845-2015;

Rock and Mineral Exhibit, 2016-17;

“Vision, Faith, and Hard Work”: The University of Toledo at 150 

Other Web Projects

Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers [Exhibit Link]

Website created shortly following the original exhibition at the Carlson Library  in 2005.  It is also a resource for the Geography of Gypsies (Romanies) and Travelers course.    

 

Margaret M. Papp Perry Memorial Hungarian Culture Endowment Collection [Exhibit link]

Website providing information on the Margaret Papp Perry Memorial Hungarian Books Collection containing over 300 items preserved and made available for research at the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections.

Dorothy Price and Peggy Grant Collection [Exhibit link]

Website featuring the collection of art glass and masks gifted to the University of Toledo Librariesby Dorothy Price and Peggy Grant who collected them.