Books on the history of the College, long out of print and rarely available outside the confines of the Bowdoin College Library, are now freely accessible on the Web from anywhere in the world thanks to Bowdoin’s participation in the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative, a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural institutions across the country.

Through the Collaborative’s partnership with the Internet Archive, all items have been scanned from cover-to-cover and in full color, are fully text-searchable, and can be read either online or by downloading a PDF file.

“Preservation and access have always been the guiding principles of archives,” says Richard Lindemann, director of the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. Read more.