Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Launches FRANKLIN Digital Repository
This new online resource from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum went live earlier today.
From the FRANKLIN Web Site:
FRANKLIN is a virtual research room and digital repository that provides free and open access to the digitized collections of the Roosevelt Library.
FRANKLIN allows you to keyword search for archival documents and photographs and to search, browse, and view whole files, just as you could if you came to the Library’s research room in-person.
Now available online are some of the most important documents of the twentieth century – primary source documentation of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s experiences leading the nation through the Great Depression and World War II.
FRANKLIN launches with 350,000 pages of archival documents and 2,000 historical photographs, along with many detailed descriptions of archival collections not yet digitized. Users can search the digital collections by keyword or go directly browse the full lists of digitized archival folders in a virtual research room environment.
In the future all of FRANKLIN’s documents will also become available to online users of the National Archives online catalog, Online Public Access (or OPA).
FRANKLIN is the result of a special cooperative effort—a unique combination of public, nonprofit, and corporate support. The Roosevelt Library and its parent agency, the National Archives, worked with nonprofit partner the Roosevelt Institute to digitize a large amount of microfilmed archival documents. The Library’s digital partner and web host, Marist College, then developed and implemented FRANKLIN’s underlying database infrastructure based on the Archon platform. Marist runs the system using powerful servers manufactured by Marist and Roosevelt Library corporate partner, IBM.
Direct to FRANKLIN
See Also: Search FDR’s Calendar
Browse/search FDR’s daily calendar from 1933-1945
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