The Binghamton University Libraries' digital collections are a gateway to born-digital and retrospectively digitized materials unique to the Binghamton University community, a small portion restricted to on-campus only. The purpose of the Libraries’ digital collections is to provide access to materials to enhance scholarship, teaching, and community engagement. The digital collections will continue to grow as more of our collections are digitized and described and as we develop partnerships with the campus and community.
More about Digital Collections
We encourage the campus community to partner with the Libraries to create new digital collections. Use the Digital Collections Project Request Form to propose an idea. You may also contact us to learn how to partner with the Libraries to develop digital collections.
We invite you to explore our collections below.
Our Digital Collections
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University Archives
The University Archives houses a collection of materials relating to Binghamton University. Digitised materials include campus publications, bulletins, reports, and photographs.
Browse University Archives![A photo of a classic style chrome microphone](/libraries/about/img/collections/microphone.jpg)
Oral History and Interviews
This collection includes oral history projects created by the Libraries as well as collections of oral history interviews donated by researchers and community organizations.
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Binghamton University Yearbooks
Binghamton University’s yearbook was published under several different titles. It was first called The Colonist in 1948, then became The Yearer in 1970, Pegasus in 1973 and finally Binghamton University in 2004. This Digital Collection includes digitized yearbooks from 1948-1972.
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Local History Digital Collections
Local history resources focus on the history of Broome County and its surrounding areas.
George E. Green Letter CollectionDaniel S. Dickinson Statue PapersJulie Cizenski Postcard Collection![A scan of a telegraph sent during the Civil War era](/libraries/about/img/collections/civilwar.jpg)
Civil War Digital Collection
This collection includes digitized letters and diaries, many of which were written by soldiers at the front, or in Army hospitals, to their family and friends back home.
Browse Civil War Collection![Baxter hugs a young visitor to the Binghamton campus](/libraries/about/img/collections/baxter.jpg)
Binghamton University Photograph Project 2000 - present
Includes over 100,000 digital photographs taken by the university’s photographers. The images document important moments in the university’s history and also day to day life on campus.
Browse University Photograph Collection![Profile photo of Max Reinhardt](/libraries/about/img/collections/reinhardt.jpg)
Max Reinhardt Archives and Libraries
Max Reinhardt was a celebrated theatre director. The collection includes digitized promptbooks and photographs. Reinhardt's illustrious career takes on added significance because it coincides with a major shift in the evolution of the modern theater: the ascendancy of the director as the key figure in theatrical production.
Browse Max Reinhardt Archives![A group of poets posing outside Swat Sullivan's Hotel in Binghamton](/libraries/about/img/collections/big-horror.jpg)
Binghamton Community Poets' Big Horror Reading Series
The Binghamton Community Poets were founded in 1983 by native Binghamton poet and educator Richard Martin. That year he started the “Big Horror Reading Series” at a local coffee house. Many of the readings between 1987 and 1996 were videotaped. This streaming video collection features nationally and internationally known writers as well as local community writers and musicians.
Browse Big Horror Reading Series![Richard Martin reads a selected poem on stage at Swat Sullivan's Hotel in Binghamton](/libraries/about/img/collections/richard-martin.jpg)
Individual Poems from the Binghamton Community Poets' Big Horror Reading Series
The twelve excerpted poems found here are an introduction to the Binghamton Community Poets' Big Horror Reading Series. They are linked not only to the full individual readings in Rosetta but also to the catalog records for the books in which they are published. This creates a unique convergence experience, as the catalog record “comes alive” and users can see and hear an excerpt from the book before they take it off the shelf to read.
Browse Individual Poems from Big Horror Reading Series![Edwin and Marion link board a plane](/libraries/about/img/collections/linkabout.jpg)
Edwin A. Link and Marion Clayton Link Collection
Edwin A. Link and Marion Clayton Link were local inventors, industrialists and pioneers in aviation simulation, underwater archaeology, and ocean engineering. The digital collection includes scanned images and correspondence.
Browse Link Collection![A student playing violin as part of a recital](/libraries/about/img/collections/recital1.jpg)
Binghamton University Music Recitals
An audio collection of concerts and recitals given on campus by students, faculty, and outside musical groups. This collection includes access to the recordings (on-campus only) and scanned copies of the programs.
Browse Recital Collection![Open books sitting on a desk with various books in the background](/libraries/about/img/collections/gdat.jpg)
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
Many graduates have elected to make their dissertations, capstones, and theses available online through the Libraries' institutional repository, ORB. This collection also includes pre-1978 dissertations that have been digitized by the Libraries.
Browse Graduate Dissertations and Theses![A red and white geometric pattern on a piece of fabric from the Kurdish collection](/libraries/about/img/collections/saeedpour.jpg)
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Collection
Vera Beaudin Saeedpour started the Kurdish Heritage Foundation, Kurdish Library and Kurdish Museum all out of her home in Brooklyn, NY in the early 1980s. The collection includes digitized images of costumes and jewelry as well as weavings, crafts, carpets and other textile art.
Browse Saeedpour Kurdish Collection![A group of people pose in front of a poster image of Fernand Braudel](/libraries/about/img/collections/fbc.jpg)
Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations Web Archive
A web archive of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. The activities of the Center fall loosely into four categories: hosting international scholars, sponsoring major conferences and scholarly meetings, initiating and supporting Research Working Groups, carrying on an active publication program. The Libraries have preserved the entirety of the Center's website using the web archiving service, Conifer.
Browse Archive![A screenshot of the Immanuel Wallerstein website](/libraries/about/img/collections/wallerstein.jpg)
Immanual Wallerstein Website
Dr. Immanual Wallerstein was a distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University until his retirement in 1999. Dr. Wallerstein also served as the head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations until 2005. In 1998, the Fernand Braudel Center (FBC) at Binghamton University published Dr. Wallerstein's first commentary. Between 1998 to 2019, Dr. Wallerstein produced two commentaries a month. His 500th was the last commentary he published. This web archive collection provides access to the commentaries that Dr. Wallerstein published on his website.
Browse Archive![The logo for Institute for Development Anthropology. A wireframe illustration of the Earth](/libraries/about/img/collections/logo.jpg)
Institute for Development Anthropology Papers
The Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) was an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institution founded in 1976 by Michael Horowitz, Thayer Scudder, and David Brokensha. Their goal was to focus on themes of equitable economic growth, environmental sustainability, resolution and social conflict, and participatory government. The Libraries’ have digitized the Institute’s Working Papers as well as a selection of reports.
Browse Institute for Development Anthropology Papers![Two pose holding a sign at the Women's March in Binghamton](/libraries/about/img/collections/march.jpg)
Women's March Archives
A collection of images from the campus community and the community at large of the January 21, 2017 Women's March. The collection includes images taken from the Binghamton protest as well as protests from around the country.
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