American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) - A national membership organization of conservation professionals. Its members include conservators, educators, scientists, students, archivists, art historians, and other conservation enthusiasts in over twenty countries around the world.
ARMA International - Association serving more than 10,000 information management professionals in the U.S., Canada, and over 30 other nations. ARMA International members include records and information managers, MIS and ADP professionals, imaging specialists, archivists, hospital administrators, legal administrators, librarians, and educators.
ARTstor Digital Image Library- The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline.
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - Builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide.
California Digital Library (CDL) - CDL licenses more than 8,000 journals and 200 databases on behalf of the University of California libraries.
Calisphere - University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California. Seelist of contributing institutions.
Cambridge Digital Library -
While parts of the Library's manuscript collections have already been published in print, microfilm and digital formats, it is now building a substantial online resource so that its collections will be more accessible to students, researchers and the wider public.
The Foundations of Faith Collection will include important works from many religious traditions, particularly Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. The Library's faith collections are breathtaking. They include some of the earliest Qur'anic fragments on parchment, the first known Qur'anic commentary written in Persian, an important selection of devotional works and mystical treatises and an outstanding collection of theological works including the unique extant copy of the Kitāb al-Tawhīd by al-Māturīdī.
The Library has a collection of over 1000 manuscripts in Hebrew covering a wide range of texts; Bibles, commentaries, liturgy, philosophy, kabbalah, literature and legal documents. Most of these are in codex form thought there are also scrolls and fragments; some date back to the earliest collections in the Library. The oldest manuscript in the collection is a copy of the Ten Commandments written on papyrus, and thought to date from the 2nd century B.C. The Library also holds the world's largest and most important collection of Jewish Genizah materials, including the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection - 193,000 fragments of manuscripts considered by many to be as significant as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Foundations of Science Collection will focus on original scientific manuscripts, beginning with the papers of Isaac Newton and his contemporaries. Cambridge University Library has very strong collections in the history of science. In addition to our Newton collections, the Library holds the papers of, among many other famous scientists, Charles Darwin, Lord Kelvin, Adam Sedgwick, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, James Clerk Maxwell and Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The Library holds the archives of Cambridge's famous Cavendish Laboratory and is also the repository of the Royal Greenwich Observatory archives, which includes the papers of the Astronomers Royal and the Board of Longitude.
CAMiLEON Project - Developing and evaluating a range technical strategies for the long term preservation of digital materials. CAMiLEON stands for Creative Archiving at Michigan & Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New. Emulation has been proposed as a digital preservation strategy that would enable obsolete systems to be run on future unknown systems, making it possible to retrieve, display and use digital documents with their original software. An apparent advantage of this approach is its potential to capture the 'look and feel' of digital objects as well as their intellectual content. Emulation as a preservation strategy raises many issues that the project will evaluate.
Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) - Organization working on securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure our global digital memory and knowledge base.
DSpace Project - The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. Research institutions worldwide use this open source system in a variety of ways -- as an institutional repository, a learning object repository, for records management, and more.
Electronic Research Collections (ERC) - A partnership between the United States Department of State and the Federal Depository Library at the Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). ERC has two purposes. First, it is responsible for electronically archived information products produced by State Department from 1990 to 1997. UIC also works to assure that the electronic archives are easily accessible and clearly organized. Second, the UIC depository librarians work with the State Department public affairs staff to answer email questions from the public, and help users find other information sources about U.S. foreign policies and programs.
Europeana -
Enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.
Explore Cornell - A multimedia magazine dedicated to Cornell University research, instruction, and facilities. The mission is to increase public access to the university's most valuable asset: knowledge.
Fihrist - Islamic manuscripts catalogue online.
The combined holdings of Oxford and Cambridge form the second largest collection of Islamic manuscripts in the UK and are of considerable intellectual significance. Both libraries have been collecting Islamic manuscripts since the 17th century and still continue to acquire manuscripts by donation or through purchase.
There are many early and rare items with broad subject coverage including:
literature, religion, philosophy, poetry, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine.
Freedom Archives, The - 8000 hours of audio and video recordings documenting social justice movements locally, nationally, and internationally from the 1960s to the present. The Archives features speeches of movement leaders and community activists, protests and demonstrations, cultural currents of rebellion and resistance. This oral history is in a searchable database. You can download programs and clips.
Hathi Trust Digital Library - A repository for universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Listing of partners here.
Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project - Features texts and photographs documenting the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Includes a historical overview with suggested readings. Created by Northwest College, John Taggart Hinckley Library.
ibiblio.org - Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
i2s - Designs, manufactures and sells high-end digitizing systems and restoration software for fragile, old, bound books, for the international electronic document management market.
Information Access Alliance - Over the past two decades, increased concentration in the publishing industry has been accompanied by significant escalation in the price of serials publications, eroding libraries' ability to provide users with the publications they need. Nowhere does this seem more troublesome than in the market for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals and legal serial publications where pricing, as well as marketing practices for electronic publications, threatens library budgets and ultimately the widespread availability of important writings to the public. The Information Access Alliance believes a new standard of antitrust review should be adopted by state and federal antitrust enforcement agencies in examining merger transactions in the serials publishing industry.
International Records Management Trust (IRMT) - Supports developing country requirements for managing official government records. The range of Trust program areas and project work has expanded along with the growth of technological applications and global development concerns such as good governance, accountability, human rights, economic reform, cultural heritage, and sustainable development.
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project - Focuses on the Camp Harmony assembly center in Puyallup, Washington, and highlights materials documenting the history of Japanese-Canadian internment. From the University of Washington Libraries.
Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj)- Preserves and disseminates the culture and history of Japanese Americans, with a special focus on the Santa Clara Valley. Features photos and oral histories, and also provides educational resources, including films and speakers.
Japanese American National Museum, Manabi and Sumi Hirasaki National Resource Center- Links to online collections and resources documenting internment history available at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), which includes the Civil Liberties Archives and Study Center. Includes incarceration fact sheets and a map of the internment camps, with links to basic data about the camps, chronologies, FAQs, and bibliographic references.
Library and Archives Canada -
Collects and preserves Canada's documentary heritage, and makes it accessible to all Canadians. This heritage includes publications, archival records, sound and audio-visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents such as websites.
Luna Imaging - Enables universities, museums, and corporations to build, manage and share digital image collections. Also see Client List.
Moving Image Collections (MIC) - A directory of moving image archives worldwide that collects information in areas such as size and formats of collection, archive roles and audiences served, collection preservation status and issues, and collection genres. Moving images are unique in the use of multiple information streams (audio, visual and textual) to provide a compelling and immersive educational experience.
Naropa University Archive Project - Preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the University's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S. literary avant-garde.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery - Your gateway to the NYPL's rare and unique collections in digitized form. NYPL Digital includes searchable databases.
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) - A global library cooperative. OCLC member libraries are engaged in a unique cooperative venture to further access to the world's information and reduce information costs.
Perseus Digital Library (aka Perseus Hopper) -
Its flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. But it is applying what it has learned from Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond. The larger mission of Perseus is to make the full record of humanity - linguistic sources, physical artifacts, historical spaces - as intellectually accessible as possible to every human being, regardless of linguistic or cultural background.
Project Gutenberg -
A place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
RASCAL (Research And Special Collections Available Locally) - Search and browse information about the wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives across Northern Ireland. The Directory consists of comprehensive descriptions of collections available to researchers in the humanities and social sciences recording details of content, location, format, and access.
Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum (SERIALST) - An an informal electronic forum for most aspects of serials processing in libraries. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to): cataloging, acquisitions, collection management, serials budgets and pricing concerns, binding, preservation, microfilm and other non print serials media, union list activities, announcements, news, and job postings that are of interest to the serials community.
Society of American Archivists (SAA) - U.S. national archival professional association providing leadership to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of the nation's historical record.
Society of Archivists - Promotes the care and preservation of archives and the better administration of archive repositories, advances the training of its members, and encourages relevant research and publication.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) - A research center located at the University of California, Irvine. It is administered by a director who reports to the UCI Vice Chancellor for Research. Founded in 1972 the TLG represents the first effort in the humanities to produce a large digital corpus of literary texts. Since its inception the project has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (8 c. B.C.) to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453 and beyond. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era. TLG research activities combine the traditional methodologies of philological and literary study with the most advanced features of information technology.
University of Michigan Web Archives -
Preserves websites created by academic departments, administrative units, research groups, cultural institutions, student groups, faculty members, and the athletic department at the University of Michigan.
Alex - Catalogue of electronic texts, a collection of digital documents in English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
Archaeology Data Service (ADS) - Collects, describes, catalogues, preserves, and provides user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research.
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - Builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide.
Bibliomania - Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts, including Brewer's Phrase and Fable, Webster's Dictionary, Simonds History of American Literature, Roget's Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Quotations, The Koran, and more.
California Digital Library (CDL) - University of California's "library without walls". Online Archive of California (OAC), Counting California, Melvyl Catalog, California Periodicals Database, electronic journals, specialized and reference resources.
California Heritage Collection - An online archive of more than 30,000 images illustrating California's history and culture, from the collections of the Bancroft Library. Selected from nearly two hundred individual collections, this unique resource uses the latest online archiving techniques to highlight the rich themes of California's history.
CalPhotos - Almost 300,000 images of plants, animals, people, and landscapes.
CARRIE - A full-text electronic library created by Lynn Nelson, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kansas, and managed by Kendall Simmons, Government Documents Library, University of Kansas.
Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) - Cultural and scientific sources, inclduing: Ancient Art and Architecture, Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs, Collection of Political Americana, Contemporary African Artists, Death of the Father, Digital Himalaya, Fantastic in Art and Fiction, Frick Project, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Luna Insight, GloPAC/GloPAD, Icelandic and Faroese Photographs of Frederick W. W. Howell, IMAG/CU, Invention & Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, Making of America I & II, MESL Project, Museum Online, Projecting America, Project Harvest, Rome Photo Collection, Saganet Project, Samuel J. May AntiSlavery Collection, Utopia Project.
Cornucopia: Discovering UK Collections - A project of the Museums and Galleries Commission, providing a comprehensive database of UK museum collections.
Digital Clendening - The largest collections within the Digital Clendaring are the Selection of letters written by Florence Nightingale and its classic images in medicine. Other components include portraits of medical men and women scanned by Christophe Blosser and Robert Chaplin; the Ralph Herman Major photograph and slide collection of historical medical sites, figures, and artifacts organized by Janice Lee; Chinese Public Health Posters; Japanese Medical Prints; the Samuel J. Crumbine papers; and the Rudolf Virchow manuscripts.
Digital Dada Library - This collection provides links to some of the major Dada-era publications in the International Dada Archive. These books, pamphlets, and periodicals are housed in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries. For reasons of copyright, no documents published after 1923 have been included.
Digital Library and Archives (DLA) - A collaboration of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VirginiaTech) community to create online resources such as electronic journals and to use library services such as electronic reserve centralized access to course materials. In addition, DLA designs and maintains systems including those for electronic theses and dissertations and digital images. Special Collections, including rare books, manuscript collections, and the University Archives, collects and preserves unique historical materials, providing access to them in their original form online.
Digital Scriptorium - A growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series (Frank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.) and equally strong holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night.
Dramas of Haymarket, The - Examines selected materials from the Chicago Historical Society's soon-to-be-completed Haymarket Affair Digital Collection, an electronic archive of CHS's extraordinary Haymarket holdings.
DSpace - As a joint project of MIT Libraries and the Hewlett-Packard Company, DSpace provides stable long-term storage needed to house the digital products of MIT faculty and researchers.
Eserver.org - Website hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works (over 30,000 in all).
ExLibris - A comprehensive directory of special collections libraries that support digitization and make content such as manuscripts, art images, and electronic texts available over the Internet.
Glasgow Digital Library - Organized digital collections of material relating to social, political, and economic conditions, events, people and actions in Glasgow, Scotland.
Handbook for Digital Projects - A guide to managing digital conversion projects focused on meeting the information needs of libraries, museums, archives, and other collection-holding institutions.
Hawaiian Newspapers, War Records and Trust Territory Image Collections - Images of Hawaiian language newspapers published from 1834 to 1948; war-time photographs from the Hawai'i War Records Depository (HWRD), which was created in 1943 to document the impact of the war upon Hawai'i and its populace; and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands archive of photographs (including the Micronesian archipelagoes of the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas during the U.S. administrative period from 1947 to 1994) visually documenting the U.S. administration's programs in education, health, political and economic development.
ibiblio - Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. A conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) - The IFLA is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Links archived by the IFLA at it's old site (here) include electronic resources for bibliography, electronic journals, electronic text, electronic media, electronic text research centres, refereed electronic publications, and preprint archives.
Also see new IFLAnews and publications.
New York Public Library - Provides free and open access to thousands of The New York Public Library's digitized images, taken from the Research Libraries' collections. At its inception, the Image Gate database contains approximately 80,000 images spanning a wide range of subjects. This number will grow as The Library digitizes more images
Imperial War Museum - The Imperial War Museum is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present day.
Internet Archive - Founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Iincludes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in its collections.
Internet Classics Archive - Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary.
LibriVox - Volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.
The goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Making of America - A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints, representing a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
Media Resources Center (MRC) - MRC is the University of California, Berkeley library's primary collection of materials in electronic non-print (audio and visual) formats. The formats found in MRC include videocassettes and video discs; Digital Versatile Discs (DVD); compact audio discs; audiocassettes; slides; and computer software, including interactive multimedia materials. The permanent collection of the Center comprises materials in a wide range of subject fields, with emphasis on titles which have interdisciplinary interest. The collection includes dramatic performances, literary adaptations, speeches, lectures and events, documentaries, including one of the strongest collections of works by independent film and video makers in the US. Virtually every currently-available video version of Shakespeare's plays; major PBS series; radio documentaries and interviews from the Pacific Archives and National Public Radio, and an excellent study-level collection of international cinema works are just a few of the resources you will find in the Media Center.
Memory of the World Programme - UNESCO has launched the Memory of the World Programme to guard against collective amnesia calling upon the preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world ensuring their wide dissemination.
Modern Painters I - Electronic edition of John Ruskin's Modern Painters I. The present edition includes 2,500 facsimile pages from the significant editions published in Ruskin's lifetime, a complete collation of varients (see textual notes), details about selections used in other publications, extensive information on the critical ceception of Modern Painters, over three hundred images of works of art, and over a quarter of a million words of annotations on a wide variety of topics.
New York Public Library (NYPL) Picture Collection - A collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. Images of New York City, costume, design, American history and other subjects.
New Zealand Digital Library - Provides several document collections, including historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines.
Online Archive of California (OAC) - A digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. Primary sources include letters, diaries, manuscripts, legal and financial records, photographs and other pictorial items, maps, architectural and engineering records, artwork, scientific logbooks, electronic records, sound recordings, oral histories artifacts and ephemera.
On-line Books Page - An index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet. Pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts.
Perseus Digital Library - A non-profit enterprise, located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University whose goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible, including primary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome, early modern English literature, history of London, and much more.
PictureAustralia - A service hosted by the National Library of Australia to provide a single access point to the digitised pictorial collections of a range of cultural institutions including the Australian War Memorial, the State Library of New South Wales, the State Library of Tasmania and the State Library of Victoria.
Project Gutenberg - Information, books and other materials available in forms that computers, programs and people can easily read, use, and search.
Psychedelic Sixties, The - 19th Century Precursors, 20th Century Precursors, The Beats: New York, The Beats: San Francisco, The Black Mountain Poets, Ken Kesey & the Merry Prankster, Timothy Leary, 1967, The Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War, Rock Music, New York Weighs In, 1968, Social Protest, Illicit Drugs, Hippies, 1969, Four Radical Groups, Protest at the University of Virginia, Woodstock, Posters, Rock Handbills: the University of Virginia Library Department of Special Collections has mined two of its richest literary collections for the items shown here: the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature and the Marvin Tatum Collection of Contemporary Literature.
Ransom Center: Collections - From the Gutenberg Bible to the scripts and costumes of Gone With The Wind, from Joyce's Ulysses to the great works of the modern stage, the Ransom Center's collections are dazzling in their range and stunning in their originality.
Recorded Sound Reference Center - Provides access to the commercial and archival audio holdings of the Library of Congress. The collection dates from 1926 when Victor Records donated over 400 discs to the Library's Music Division to supplement its print and manuscript holdings. In the custody of the Motion Picture Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division since 1978, the collection has grown to include over 2 million items encompassing audio formats from cylinders to CDs.
Russian Archives Online -
Russian archival collections of photographs and films, audio, clips and transcripts from the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and many more.
Saganet - Material consists of the entire range of Icelandic family sagas. It also includes a large portion of Germanic/Nordic mythology (the Eddas), the history of Norwegian kings, contemporary sagas and tales from the European age of chivalry. A great number of manuscripts contain Icelandic ballads, poetry or epigrams. These Collections are kept in The National and University Library of Iceland, The Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland and in the Fiske Icelandic Collection at Cornell University.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography - Presents over 3,800 articles, books, and a limited number of other textual sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. It covers digital copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, digital rights management, digital repositories, economic issues, electronic books and texts, electronic serials, license agreements, metadata, publisher issues, open access, and other related topics. The bibliography is selective. All included works are in English. The bibliography does not include digital media works (such as MP3 files), e-mail messages, letters to the editor, presentation slides or transcripts, unpublished e-prints, or weblog postings. Most sources have been published from 1990 through the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included.
SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) -
Allows users to search across 1.8 million of the Institution’s library, archive, and research holdings. Using the latest indexing technology, the new SIRIS Cross Catalog Searching Center provides easy "one-stop searching" of these records. Within the more than 1.8 million records, the SIRIS Cross Catalog Searching Center also provides access to over 190,000 online media assets including digitized photographs and art works, oral history sound files, electronic journals, online exhibitions, digitized manuscripts, language recordings, and online finding aids.
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) - A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Early Canadiana Online - The first large-scale online collection of early Canadian print heritage. It currently offers twelve online collections totalling over three million pages of digitized content and is continually expanding.
Online Book Initiative (OBI) - A large collection of text and related materials ranging from Shakespeare and The Bible to novels, poetry, standards documents, etc.
Project Libellus - An ongoing attempt to provide a library of classical Latin (and Greek) texts with minimal redistribution restrictions. The archive is physically located at the University of Washington, Seattle, and is currently being run by Konrad Schroder and Owen Ewald.
Project Runeberg - A volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.
Renascence Editions - An online repository of works printed in English between the years 1477 and 1799.
Scholar's Lab at the University of Virginia - Caters to the digital research and scholarly analysis needs of faculty and advanced students in the humanities and social sciences.
Southwestern Classics On-line - Many of the classic books about Texas and the Southwest are largely inaccessible to all but a few collectors, or to hard-core historians willing to commit the time and expense to travel to a few major libraries. In an attempt to make these books available to a wider range of students and interested readers, this site undertakes the task of digitizing some of them. Many are over 100 years old, and contain a wealth of history and accounts written by the pioneers who experienced the early history first hand.
SMETE Digital Library - Online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Access teaching and learning materials in science, math, engineering and technology.
Tibetan Book of the Dead - University of Virginia Library special collections exhibition of sacred Tibetan texts on death and dying.
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the 20th Century - This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. These talent brochures are drawn from the Records of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, held by the University of Iowa Libraries. One of the largest booking agencies for the Chautauqua performers, the Redpath bureau managed a vast talent pool.
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 - Includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while more than 500 of the titles are available to the public.
Universal Digital Library - Carnegie Mellon University project to make available all the authored works of mankind so anyone can access these works via the Internet from any place at any time. Million book collection.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) - A searchable on-line archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community, especially higher education, for teaching, learning and research. Numerous arts, design, and fashion collections are already online.
WebExhibits - High quality exhibits - from the general interest to the highly academic - on the web.
World Digital Library (WDL) -
Makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. WDL partners are mainly libraries, archives, or other institutions that have collections of cultural content that they contribute to the WDL.
World Public Library Collection - Project Gutenberg Consortia Center's Blackmask Online collection includes 15,000 PDF eBooks. The World Public Library Blackmask Online is one of the most complete single online collections of classic literature. All of the eBooks have been beautifully digitally re-mastered from its original. All 15,000 files are included in the WPL search engine. A separate title list can be generated by using the search engine results page.
Yale Digitized Content - Provides a way to search across Yale's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio, and video documenting people, places, and events that form part of Yale's institutional identity and contribution to scholarship.
KWSnet is a human-edited subject directory of the web with special attention paid to U.S. national and international news, the arts, culture, media, politics, law, science and technology. It is based in San Francisco, California. KWSnet's Twitter and RSS Feed direct you to some of the best writing and reporting on the web. KWSnet also provides additional Twitter List Feeds, including News, Cultural and Interesting People Feeds; City Feeds; and Topical Feeds. KWSnet's Video Gallery presents embedded video from artists, journalists, and political activists worldwide.
Use KWSnet Search to search within this site and Ctrl-F to search within individual pages. The Site Index provides a complete alphabetized listing of all pages. KWSnet contains over 110,000 annotated links to resources worldwide.
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