PALNI Libraries share a CONTENTdm Digital Library server located in the PALNI computer room in Indianapolis. Fifteen digital library collections [1], with more than 35,000 digitized images and objects, may be browsed and searched through a shared web interface. Also, a major digital archive of digitized peace studies material [2], can be searched through a customized user interface, developed by Earlham College, Goshen College, and Manchester College, for their joint Plowshares Project [3].

Select any of the following to browse or search the PALNI digital library collections:

• Browse or Search across any of the fifteen PALNI digital library collections [5], including:
  
  
  • The Pelton Botanicals Collection from Butler University,
  • The Winona Railroad collection from Grace College,
  • An Oral History of the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg, Indiana,
  • A collection of civil war images from Montgomery County, Indiana,
  • Progressive Era Reformers, Monroe and Culla Vayhinger
  • A variety of architecturally interesting images from the various PALNI campuses.
  
  
  
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  Search the Plowshares Digital Library Archive for Peace Studies [7].
  
  
  • The Plowshares Digital Archive includes minutes, diaries, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, ranging in date from the 1700s to the present.
    
  • The archive chronicles the social justice efforts of the students and faculty of Earlham College, Goshen College, and Manchester College, as well as the members of their affiliated historic peace-churches - Quakers, Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren.
    

CONTENTdm is a standards-compliant digital library system that supports keyword searching, Dublin Core [8] metadata, standard data formats for digitized content, and Open Archives Initiative data harvesting. As of the end of 2007, PALNI's digitized collections are in an active stage of development, and now include more than 35,000 digitized images and objects, along with associated Dublin Core metadata. In January, 2008, PALNI implemented a major new release of CONTENTdm, and recently migrated the system to a new, more powerful server.

Please return often to see the latest additions to PALNI's digital library.