June 2015 345 C&RL News Joni R. Roberts is associate university librarian for public services and collection development at Willamette University, email: jroberts@willamette.edu, and Carol A. Drost is associate university librarian for technical ser vices at Willamette University, email: cdrost@ willamette.edu I n t e r n e t R e v i e w sJoni R. Roberts and Carol A. Drost Civil War Washington. Access: http://civil- wardc.org. The Civil War Washington website was created to examine the many changes Washington, D.C., experienced between 1860 and 1865. Through a collection of text, datasets, images, interpretations, and interactive maps, this digital resource chronicles the war’s effects on the city by using the methods of several fi elds, includ- ing computer-aided mapping, geography, and history. The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Ne- braska-Lincoln publishes and maintains the site. The National Endowment for the Hu- manities also provides funding and support. The Civil War Washington site is easy to navigate. A researcher will fi nd a large easy-to-use main menu on the homepage. The menu includes links to “Introductions,” “Data,” “Maps,” “Texts,” “Visual Works,” and “Interpretations.” The menu provides access to the rich collection of datasets, images, texts, and narrative accounts on the Civil War in Washington, D.C. On the “Maps” page, an interactive map- ping application combines historical maps with related historical information. This is particularly unique and helpful when researching digitized period maps of Wash- ington, D.C. The maps contain information related to hospitals, government buildings, theaters, freedman’s villages, churches, railroads, forts, and census records. The interactive map uses a basemap by Albert Boschke entitled “Topographical Map of the District of Columbia,” which was cre- ated in 1857 and included the location of all the buildings in Washington, D.C. Users can take advantage of this GIS-based map by moving between current and historical views, as well as accessing a search feature widget at the bottom of the map. If users want to search for a particular feature or place, then they can just type in the desired name into the text box. Another useful page on this site is the “Data” page. It includes a searchable rela- tional database with thousands of records that identify people, places, events, orga- nizations, and documents that relate to the Civil War in Washington, D.C. A researcher can browse this database by category or keyword. The Civil War Washington site is an excel- lent resource for researchers who want to understand the “social, political, and medical/ scientifi c transitions provoked or accelerated by the Civil War” on the nation’s capital city. —Tom Sommer, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, thomas.sommer@unlv.edu The Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Ac- cess: http://oceanleadership.org/. The Consortium for Ocean Leadership is an alliance of more than 100 public and private institutions. This nonprofi t provides “expertise in managing, coordinating, and facilitating scientifi c programs and partner- ships; infl uencing sound ocean policy; and educating the next generation of ocean leaders.” The consortium provides a broad range of support to its members and the public. This support includes logistical as- sistance with oceangoing vessels and drill- ing platforms. The sections on the site most likely to appeal to libraries and its patrons include “Ocean Policy & Legislation,” “Sci- entifi c Programs,” and “News & Resources.” “Ocean Policy & Legislation” provides a newsfeed for ocean policy effort that can serve as an excellent topic selection tool for undergraduate students. For example, current subjects include Arctic seismic test- ing and the endangered status of humpback whales. This section also provides a helpful Complete the Cycle: See Atlas and Zepheira at the ALA Annual Conference Booth 2824 Visible Library THE Learn how the Atlas Systems and Zepheira partnership enhances your library’s visibility on the Web and enables you to fulfill user demand for your resources as they discover them. The Visible Library. Visibility Awareness Interest Request ? Fulfillment C&RL News June 2015 346 primer on how policy is formed in the U.S. government and detailed information on ap- propriations for science and research in the U.S. federal budgeting process. “Scientific Programs” includes the Cen- sus of Marine Life (CoML). CoML is a rich and comprehensive collection of data about the diversity of undersea life. Data from the census is available in a number of for- mats suitable for a broad range of scholars and students. Faculty and Oceanography students are provided with databases and clusters of articles that report on data from the census. Lower division students are provided with more general reference in- formation and secondary reporting drawn from the census data. “News & Resources” offers a feed of news sources (which this reviewer found less student-focused than the Policy and Legislation newsfeed.) It also contains a very helpful glossary of acronyms, which is a highly useful feature that other sites would do well to emulate. Overall, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership site is a massive and diverse source of useful information for academic library users. It is so rich that librarians may find it more useful to break the site up into discrete subsites, such as the policy and legislation site and the Census of Marine Life, in order to direct users to the most immediately useful tool for their needs.—Nicholas Schiller, Washington State University Vancouver, schiller@van- couver.wsu.edu David Rumsey Map Collec tion. Access: http://www.davidrumsey.com/. The David Rumsey Map Collection has been earning praise and impressing visitors for 15 years with its outstanding collections, innovative technology, and open access ethos. Librarians, educators, scholars, and web technologists have watched the site grow in size and utility since an auspicious beginning in 2000, and it continues to be the premier online venue for discovering and experiencing historical maps. With a background in fine art, David Rum- sey brings a passion for visual culture to the project of creating this privately funded digital archive. Drawing from a print collection of over 150,000 maps, the site currently hosts more than 58,000 maps online. The collection emphasizes the Americas during the last 500 years, but the world and its other regions are well represented, too. The online collection can be searched, viewed in high resolution in any of several state of the art online viewers, and—amaz- ingly—images can be downloaded for personal use under a Creative Commons non-commercial license. A commitment to public access ensures that maps are chosen for digitization based on their interest to both the public and to specialists, putting the best of the print collection online for all to see and download. Front and center on the homepage is a concise yet thorough narrative introduction to the site, linked to serve as a starting point for exploration. Users of the site are treated, within a click or two, to fully responsive, high-resolution images, each accompanied by descriptive metadata. The site search is an effective way to search for maps via keyword, and results include facets in a side panel to narrow re- sults by date and geography. Alternatively, the MapRank Search interface queries the collection with a visual search using an embedded version of Google Maps. The search results appear as thumbnails, and their extents are visible on the base map, making them easy to evaluate for geograph- ical relevance. For detailed examination and analysis, the LUNA workspace allows the user to send selected maps to a new window, where they can be sized, zoomed, and juxtaposed at will. The David Rumsey Map Collection is an exemplary digital resource, rich in both content and context. A blog highlights re- cent additions and notable maps—a good place to start for those new to this extraor- dinary collection.—Jeremy Donald, Trinity University, jdonald@trinity.edu