Heritage Collection – 1895


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Heritage Collection – 1895

  • Heritage Collection – 1895

    • Andrew Carnegie influences:
      • Science & Technology – industrial development
      • Architecture and decorative arts (Bernd Collection)
      • Local History and Genealogy
      • U S Government Documents and Patents
      • Oliver Room Special Collections
  • Regional Resource Center Designation – 1961

  • Statewide Resource Center – 2001-date

    • E-reference and digital presence
      • CLP Web content, resource databases, permanent digital content
















IMLS Iron and Steel Heritage

  • IMLS Iron and Steel Heritage

  • Digitizing locally - 436 items (monographs and pictures) totaling 155,337 pages have been sent to the vendor. Now proceeding to digitize journal runs related to the topic.

  • Items and metadata stored in dSpace repository.

  • Social Networking component – FLICKR and website access via WordPress.

  • Public launch Spring, 2011.





Andrew Carnegie Online Collection

  • Andrew Carnegie Online Collection

  • This project includes photos, articles, letters and more about Andrew Carnegie's life and work. The Andrew Carnegie Collection is a joint effort of the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, funded by two LSTA grants to CMU, which digitized Carnegie related documents from the archives to the two libraries. This also includes the Carnegie Benefactions, previously digitized by CLP in 2007:

  • http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/pittsburgh/Carnegie/ - click on: Andrew Carnegie Online Collection .





LYRASIS Members and the Sloan Foundation – selected journal runs and monographs related to transportation at the turn of the 20th Century (about 25 titles) were sent to the Internet Archive for digitization.

  • LYRASIS Members and the Sloan Foundation – selected journal runs and monographs related to transportation at the turn of the 20th Century (about 25 titles) were sent to the Internet Archive for digitization.

    • Example: Railway Library http://www.archive.org/details/railwaylibrary01thom




Ask Here / PA

  • Ask Here / PA

  • 2009- 3,101 questions – a 66% increase over 2008. Covered 12-15 hours/week, almost half of which services the 24/7 national queue.

  • CLP users remain the biggest Quidget users in the state, relying more on the chat box than the sign-in procedure. As a result we have modified our VR schedule adding additional hours and dropping some telephone line hours of service

  • Text a Librarian

  • Ask CLP text reference service begins Sept. 2010



21st Century Reference Services – Convergence

  • 21st Century Reference Services – Convergence

  • Task Force - Charge: Document current reference services and practices at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Main and at branch locations, especially Squirrel Hill and Downtown & Business. March – June, 2010

  • Explore collections, services, trends, staffing and training with a goal of maximizing efficiencies and providing a service model for the future, considering the impact of digital reference content and communication, e-publishing and media, and e-reading devices that takes into account changing user demands for how content is provided. July, 2010

  • Reports are available at: http://www.carnegielibrary.org/presentations/jackson/



Social Networking

  • Social Networking

  • Eleventh Stack Blog - A books, movies, and more blog from the staff at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main. http://eleventhstack.wordpress.com/

  • From Haydn to Hip Hop: Music at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Take a virtual tour the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's nationally-renowned Music Department. You too can "know the score" as WQED's own Jim Cunningham and a group of talented local musicians guide you through this rich and diverse music collection. http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/music/haydntohiphop.html

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CLP Web Content

  • CLP Web Content

  • Tools and Research - http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/

    • Staff developed content and access
      • Music
      • Standards and Specifications (26,000 British, 2,700 ANSI)
      • Art files
      • Art and Architecture
      • AuthorLists
    • Booklists – fiction and nonfiction
    • Recommended websites
    • Commercial databases and reference products


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