Syracuse University Libraries Launch New and Expanded Plastics Digital Collection

From Syracuse University Libraries:

Syracuse University Libraries has launched its new online Plastics Collection comprised of digitized content from the Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC’s) plastics collecting area. This new landing page for the collection reimagines the previous site, which formerly focused on the digital photography of more than 3,000 objects from the Plastics Artifacts Collection. The new Plastics Collection brings in additional archival content from other digitized collections, including the Antique Comb Collector’s Club Collection, the Edwin F. Bushman Collection, the Syracuse Ornamental Company (Syroco) Collection, and the forthcoming Plastics Media Collection, which will feature company and manufacturer product commercials and infomercials, footage of workers engaged in production, educational media about plastic materials and compositions, symposia and more.

“This new Plastics Collection space acts as a digitized meta-collection,” said Déirdre Joyce, Head of Digital Stewardship and the Digital Library. “It will allow us to feature and contextualize related, digitized materials and better represent the full scope of SCRC’s holdings in this area. We are excited to continue exploring new ways to add to and describe these resources and further share them with our students and researcher community for their creative use and reuse.”

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The redesigned online resource was produced and curated by the Libraries’ Digital Stewardship team, partnering with SCRC, as part of its new Digital Collections website. Users can browse the plastics collections by manufacturer, material type, process, subject or tradename.

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