New Digital Collection to be Created by ASERL

ASERL (of which UK is a member) has announced plans to create a new shared digital collection entitled “Intellectual Underpinnings of the American Civil War. This new online collection will contain 5,000 digital items from rare and special collections held by the 38 research libraries that belong to ASERL. The items will be online for public use by 2011, which is the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War.” The full press release is available on the ASERL web site at http://aserl.org/documents/ASERL_Intellectual_Underpinnings_Civil_War.pdf