How many people are looking at these collections?

The UCSC Library Digital Collections had 11,447 page views in July 2015:

UCSC Library Map Collections	2523
UCSC Library Regional Oral History Collection	1482
UCSC Campus History - Photographs and Maps	1088
Branson DeCou Digital Archive	1073
Lick Observatory Digital Archive	980
Organic Farming-Sustainable Agriculture Oral Histories	764
Dibblee Digital Geologic Map Collection	674
UCSC Library Aerial Photographs	658
Hihn-Younger Archive	653
UCSC Campus History - Publications	561
Harry Mayo Surfing Photography Collection	395
Santa Cruz County History Digital Collections	328
Ansel Adams Photographs	146
Performing Arts Collections	122

In the Map Collections, the most popular item by far (viewed 142 times!) was the 1906 map of Santa Cruz County, drawn by the Punnett Brothers firm of San Francisco. The map shows not only roads and railways, but also land ownership with acreages, townships, school and supervisors districts, and the old Spanish and Mexican ranchos.

In the Regional Oral History Collection, visitors looked most at the oral history transcripts of  Professor Priscilla "Tilly" Shaw (literature faculty from 1966 to 1993),  Karen Sinsheimer (wife of former chancellor Robert Sinsheimer) -- both of whom recently passed away--, and the early histories of Oakes College and the Farm and Garden Project.

In the Branson DeCou collection, the most popular item was a scenic view of a desert landscape: Colorado Desert, California: landscape with sand verbena (Abronia villosa) and other shrubs. Perhaps visitors are looking for drought-resistant landscaping ideas!

 

University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Special Collections, DC1.815.0038L

Most popular items in November 2014

These were the items with the most views in November 2014:

	UCSC Campus History - Photographs and Maps. John Boit Morse, oilography exhibit opening, Stevenson Gatehouse: artist with Priscilla "Tilly" Shaw, professor of literature ua0050_neg_01669_08.tif John Boit Morse (1912-88), son of Samuel F.B. Morse, the developer of the Pebble Beach Golf Course, was a graduate of Yale University, a semi-professional hockey player, a World War II veteran, an advertising executive, and his father’s successor as president of Del Monte Properties, before he became a full-time artist in 1953. He was prominent as a philanthropist and artist in the Monterey Bay area. For more information about this exhibit, see the Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 17, 1967, p. 27, and September 24, p. 27.
Branson DeCou Digital Archive. Moscow: street scene, horse-drawn cart carrying a chest dc1_501_0071.tif Branson and Elsie DeCou visited the young Soviet Union around 1931, taking pictures in Moscow, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Odessa, and Yalta (the latter two now in Ukraine). Although most of the images show buildings and museums, many of them are street scenes or character portraits. These offer a unique and interesting glimpse of daily life in the Soviet Union between the two world wars.
Lick Observatory Digital Archive. Photometers: Photometry is a way to study stars by measuring the intensity of their light. Dr. Joel Stebbins (1878-1966) brought the Illinois photometer to the Lick Observatory to study Beta Lyrae, a binary star system. The director of the observatory, William Campbell, sought to obtain a permanent photometer. Edith Eleanor Cummings, a Lick Fellow, designed one for her doctoral studies at Berkeley, and in 1921 used it to study Beta Cephei. Her research revealed this triple-star system as a prototype for a new class of stars, ones with brightness that varies according to pulsations on their surfaces. See Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, pp 2048-2051 for Joel Stebbins, and pp. 485-487 for Edith Eleanor Cummings.
Illinois photometer brought to the Lick Observatory during the summer of 1915 by Dr. Joel Stebbins ua0036_glp_0250.tif	Photometer made by Edith Cummings for the 12-inch refracting telescope ua0036_glp_0199.tif
	UCSC Library Map Collections. Weber's map of Santa Cruz County, California / Published by C.F. Weber & Co., 1914. g4363_s5_1914_p82.tif This map shows utility lines (gas and electric), railroads, wagon roads, schools, ranchos, townships, reclamation districts and irrigation projects. It includes insets of the cities of Santa Cruz and Watsonville.