Bear River Watershed Historical Bibliography Digital Collection

2005 Research Initiation Award Report

Investigators

Cheryl Walters—Head of Digital Library, Library and Instructional Support, Utah State University
Brad Cole—Department Head, Special Collections & Archives, Library and Instructional Support, Utah State University
Dan Davis—Photograph Curator, Special Collections & Archives, Library and Instructional Support, Utah State University
Bob Parson—University Archivist, Special Collections & Archives, Library and Instructional Support, Utah State University
Steve Sturgeon—Manuscript Curator, Special Collections & Archives, Library and Instructional Support, Utah State University

Summary

Using funding from the USU Water Initiative, we created a website with fully searchable digital facsimiles of a wide variety of primary resources in the USU archives that document changing conditions and developments in the Bear River Watershed. They are now accessible at http://digital.lib.usu.edu/bear.php. The digital collection, still growing, currently contains 426 maps, photographs, cyanotype prints, slides, reports, theses, and manuscripts, including a late-1800s plat book. While functioning as a discrete collection in Utah State University’s Digital Library, these resources are also part of an integrated collection of digitized water research resources from the collections of major western universities called the Western Waters Digital Library, http://www.westernwaters.org.

Contact Information

Cheryl Walters
CheWal‹at›ngw.lib.usu.edu