The first materials submitted by the Penn Libraries to the Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative – Masters Theses in Historic Preservation published between 1984 and 2003 – are now available in the Internet Archive.

You can find a list of the titles by performing FindIt or Franklin keyword searches for "historic preservation thesis full text." Franklin records contain a link to the full text records in the Internet Archive.

The Penn Libraries are committed to sending between 150 and 500 volumes monthly to the Internet Archive for digitization through May 2011. Future contributions to this project will be Judaica Americana and Pre-1923 Philadelphia Imprints.

The Penn Libraries joined the Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative in the fall of 2008. Funded by Lyrasis members and supported in part by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project offers Lyrasis members the opportunity to contribute important historical and archival materials for digitization as part of a regional digital collection. Through Lyrasis's partnership with the Internet Archive, the new digital resources are shared on the Web, ensuring unprecedented open access to the rare and special library collections of the Mid-Atlantic region.

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Jon Shaw