The FHSU Master's Thesis Collection contains nearly 3000 manuscripts (approximately 2700 online) spanning 80 years from 1930 through the present. As part of the ongoing mission of Forsyth Library to provide top-notch service to FHSU students and faculty, Forsyth Library Digital Collections Initiative …
The Space Race 1958 - 1975 Timeline Search
Welcome to the FHSU | Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center Digital Repository of Space Exploration. Forsyth Library and the Kansas Cosmosphere have the mission of providing access to rare, one-of-a-kind archives and artifacts related to the exploration of outer space.
The Digital …
Collection of photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showing life in Western Kansas. Images from the Collyer Community Alliance Association, a local historical society based in Collyer, Kansas.
Articles from the Journal of Business and Leadership (JBL), published by FHSU's Department of Business and Leadership. Volumes 1 - 6, 2005 - 2010. Vist the JBL website here.
Over the years, the Reveille Yearbook collection has been one of the most used and inquired about collections in Forsyth Library's Archives and Special Collections. It was published between 1914 and 2003. Currently the online collection has forty-one issues available for viewing, but more will be added over the next year.
Rare items that have been digitized for online viewing. Items include original letters from Ben Franklin, dating to the 1760s-70s, the New York Times newspaper from April 17, 1865, and other items of unique historical interest.
This digital collection features images from glass plate negatives that were produced by W.R. Gray Studio in St. John, Kansas. The original glass plate negatives are located in the Stafford County Historical Museum in Stafford, Kansas.
The names as seen under “People” are as they are written (and sometimes misspelled) in the …
Dr. Lyman Dwight Wooster's glass negatives and slides feature the early history of Fort Hays State University. The original negatives and slides are located in the Archives and Special Collections.
The Forsyth Library and Sternberg Museum of Natural History have begun a collaboration to photograph fossils in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection. The first part of this partnership will focus on the digitization of an extremely well-preserved specimen of Mosasaur, a dinosaur that thrived in this region.
The Sternberg Museum of …
As part of an ongoing project to identify, catalog and appraise the large amount of art on campus, the FHSU Art Department is scanning & photographing individual pieces of art and uploading them into Digital Collections.
The Forsyth Library Archives and Special Collections hold a large number of materials from the personal collection of archaeologist Dr. George Sternberg. One of the most sought-after collections is this series of photo albums and glass-plate/film negatives taken by Dr. Sternberg during his numerous archaeological digs from 1910s …
FHSU Master of Liberal Studies (MLS) Collection contains the manuscripts of Culminating Experiences written by students in the MLS program. These papers are written to meet requirements for awarding of the MLS degree.
The Johnson Collection consists of letters, envelopes, programs, and other memorabilia from the Kansas Territorial Days through the early 1900's. The collection was donated to Forsyth Library from Tim Johnson.
Our Digital Projects:
As part of our efforts to support the library’s mission of providing and sustaining the free flow of information, we have developed multiple digital collections falling under the guidance of the Forsyth Library Digital Collections Initiative (FLDCI) [see About Us].
It is our ongoing mission not only to provide access and retrieval, but also to develop and maintain a “safety zone,” in which the new digital information generated by us will be preserved for the long-term using, whenever possible, industry-wide best practices, well-established standards, and open source formats and software solutions.
One of our current innovations under development is the employment of interactive search interfaces using open-source software developed by MIT's SIMILE Widgets program. These are intended to facilitate searching by providing data visualization of our digital collections. We are using Timeline, Exhibit, and Timeplot Widgets to provide interactive search avenues for our users. Click on the links to the timelines and interfaces in the appropriate collections to try a different search experience.
Commercial use or distribution of any work on this Web site is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Fort Hays State University holds copyright to selected works featured on this Web site, for which those rights were granted by the donor, in accordance with U.S. and international copyright laws. Copyright to some material, however, may belong to the authors or their descendants, or may be in the public domain. Requests to reproduce any work on this site should be sent to s_severson@fhsu.edu.
Parties who have questions or who wish to contest the use of specific works on this site may contact the Forsyth Library Digital Collections Initiative (FLDCI). Takedown notices must include a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, proof of copyright ownership, a statement that (under proof of perjury) you are the rights holder or an authorized agent, and identification of the material claimed to be infringing. Takedown notices will be handled in accordance with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act DMCA.
Two copyright provisions that relate to Congressional Papers are Sections 105 and 101 of the United States Copyright Act. Section 105 states that "copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government." Section 101 states that a "work of the United States Government is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties.
A few restrictions apply to NASA documents. Under no circumstance should the appearance of the NASA symbol or seal be considered to imply an endorsement of or relationship with Fort Hays State University. Images with the seal are used for educational purposes. According to NASA: "NASA still images, audio files and video generally are not copyrighted. You may use NASA imagery, video and audio material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages. . . . This general permission does not extend to use of the NASA insignia logo (the blue "meatball" insignia), the retired NASA logotype (the red "worm" logo) and the NASA seal. These images may not be used by persons who are not NASA employees or on products (including Web pages) that are not NASA sponsored." http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html
For more information about our digital collections, or if you are interested in beginning a digitization partnership with us please contact:
Sherry Severson
Cataloging Librarian/Digital Content Specialist
s_severson@fhsu.edu | 021 Forsyth Library | 600 Park Street, Hays, KS 67601-4099 | Phone: 785-628-5282 | Fax: 785-628-4096
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