omg....i'm drooling. thank you!

me? what? what'd I do? ;P

umm, I'm not actually with this particular museum (though I correspond with them from time to time). I believe they're administered by Aleph, which uses Ex Libris to display their works. Beyond that, I'm not sure if they're using another database for this project. One of the museums in this group, Center for Jewish History, uses KE software's EMu, but I don't believe that to be connected to this project.

Here's the press release I received:

Center for Jewish History launches CJH Digital Collections, an online multimedia
catalog of Jewish cultural materials

New York, NY, 30 March 2007 -- The Center for Jewish History in New York
launched CJH Digital Collections today, an online multimedia catalog of
materials documenting Jewish culture and history from across the globe. The
catalog, available on the Web at digital.cjh.org/, currently contains
more than 13,000 unique images, 200 archival finding aids and 40 audio files,
most of which are available to the general web public, and is continuing to grow
rapidly as the Center and its five Partners continue to take advantage of the
benefits that digitization can offer.

Contained within the initial catalog are diverse and eclectic digital materials
that represent the unique strengths of each of the Center's five Partners.
Examples range from the American Sephardi Federation's collection of French
engravings, to the American Jewish Historical Society's Lower East Side
Photograph Collection, to the Leo Baeck Institute's Collection of German Decrees
from the 16th and 17th Century, to the YIVO Institute's rare Hebrew and Yiddish
books and children's books, to the Yeshiva University Museum's Abe Grub�re
collection of fashion designs from the 1940's and 1950's.

The majority of the content within CJH Digital Collections was digitized over
the last 18 months by the Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory at the Center, which
was also the unit responsible for implementi ng the sophisticated digital asset
repository and delivery system.

"We've been working hard over the last couple of years to create a significant
corpus of high-quality digital content from the rich collections of the Center's
five partners, and to implement a secure digital repository and delivery system
worthy of this valuable and unique content," says Tony Gill, the Director of the
Digital Lab. "Although we will continue to simultaneously improve the system and
add further content, we felt that CJH Digital Collections was finally ready to
be launched to the public."

Bruce Slovin, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Jewish History, added: "We
are grateful to the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation for providing the funds that
enabled us to create the Center's Digital Lab. Their generous gift enables us to
expand the Center's services by offering efficient and around-the-clock-access
to our digital collections to anyone si tting at a computer at home or in a
library anywhere around the world. We look forward to adding even more digital
images in the future."

The Center for Jewish History is the nation's leading repository for books,
documents, photos, ritual objects, art, and other materials that detail Jewish
life around the world and across the centuries, and also a vital and vibrant
focal point for the celebration of the Jewish experience. Opened to the public
in 2000, the Center brings together under one roof an unprecedented partnership
among five distinct world-renowned organizations into an integrated focal point
for the celebration of the modern Jewish experience: the American Jewish
Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute,
Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Now
housed side by side in one facility, the five partners offer visitors access to
a vast collection of mor e than 100 million documents, 500,000 books, tens of
thousands of photographs, plus film, art and artifacts, paintings and textiles,
and more.

For more information about CJH Digital Collections, visit
digital.cjh.org, or contact Tony Gill at tgill@cjh.org.

Ivy, you totally beat me to it. I was going to e-mail this to you.