Our digital collections catalog ImPAC features a growing number of the Library Company’s graphic, ephemera and bindings collections. It complements and supplements the descriptive records in our on-line catalog WolfPAC, and the on-line exhibitions and featured collections mounted on our website. Users may browse the digital collections or search for images by creator, title, subject or keyword(s). Thumbnail images are displayed beside the descriptive records with the option to enlarge the images.

ImPAC currently contains 35 digital collections including almost 5,000 images. It features digital images from our 19th- and early 20th-century photographic collections, a sampling of Civil War ephemera, comic valentines, song sheets, finding aids from the John A. McAllister Collection, and an ongoing project to document published portraits of American women. In addition, ImPAC includes a growing number of digital images of 19th-century cloth book bindings and book cloth grains.

ImPAC is still in implementation. It is a work in progress. In addition to a growing number of new digital collections, users will see many changes and improvements in the content, the design of the public access pages, the structure of collections hierarchies, and the image viewers. Please feel free to send comments and criticisms to Nicole Joniec, Print Department Assistant and Digital Collections Manager at repros@librarycompany.org.

The Library Company gratefully acknowledges the support of the William Penn Foundation which provided funding for the purchase and implementation of ImPAC, and the expert technical advice and assistance provided by Walt Rice of R & R Computer Solutions. The DigiTool system was purchased from the Ex Libris Group.