The British Columbia Digital
Library
North American Collections: United States
The focus of this set of links is on collections
of electronic texts (not individual titles) preserved through libraries,
archives, museums and corporate or private initiatives. Listings here are
therefore primarily for the written word as expressed in manuscripts, books and
periodicals, including newspapers. A few non-book digital library collections
are included. Readers wishing further leads to non-book digital content should
consult one of the directories or guides.
Unless indicated, access to these Web sites is free and open to the
general public.
The national digital library collections of
Canada and the United States
contain material relevant to both countries.
See also Digital Collections by
Subject, for example, American
Texts.
- American Memory (Library of Congress).
Multimedia collection based on Library of Congress and other research
collections in the US. All the collections are searchable a variety of
ways.
- Making
of America (MOA) (Hosted by University of Michigan). Full-text
searchable/browsable selection of books and journals dating between 1800-1925
relating to the development of the United States. The initial collection was a
joint project with Cornell University which also hosts a
Making of America site.
Selections from both are also part of The
Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books
and Periodicals (American Memory, Library of Congress).
- National Academy Press. Washington,
DC: The National Academies. " ... created by the National Academies
to publish the reports issued by the National
Academy of Sciences, the National Academy
of Engineering, the Institute of
Medicine, and the National Research
Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United
States. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in
science, engineering, and health, ...." As of February 2002, over 2,500
free titles are full-text searchable or browsable by publication topic.
Hardcopy versions can also be ordered online. Date accessed: 2002-02-11.
Date added: 2002-02-11.
- National Transportation Library. Washington, DC: Bureau of Transportation Statistics,
U.S. Department of Transportation. Established in 1998, the National Transportation
Library includes a Digital Collection of transportation-related publications
and Web sites. Date accessed: 2004-06-04. Date added: 2004-06-04.
- NYPL Digital Gallery. New York, NY: New York Public Library, 2005-. Opened on March 3, 2005 to Internet access, contains over 275,000 digital images, chiefly pictorial in nature, but including book-like materials such as illuminated manuscripts. The site can be searched or browsed through a variety of options, including Library of Congress subject headings and by names associated with a specific image. Date accessed:
2005-03-07. Date added: 2005-03-07.
- Smithsonian Institution Digital Repository. Summary: Offers public access to Smithonsian Instituion research and policy publications and research papers. Powered by DSpace. Date accessed: 2007-11-27. Date added: 2007-11-27.
- Smithsonian Instituion Libraries, Galaxy of Knowledge. Summary: This site brings together a number of text- and image-based collections, including the Smithsonian Digital Library Collections. Date accessed: 2007-11-27. Date added: 2007-11-27.
- AmericanSouth.org. " An
Emory University Digital Library Research Initiative." Funded by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a " free, comprehensive repository
of materials and peer-reviewed resources related to the American South."
Includes searchable and browsable digitized research collections, essays,
and Web links. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
- Boston Library Consortium, BLC Clearinghouse of Digital Projects &
Staff. The consortium is " an association of academic & research libraries"
in New England. This site describes various digital/digitization projects undertaken by consortium members. Date accessed: 2004-10-16. Date added: 2004-10-16.
- Columbia River Basin
Ethnic History Archives. " A project of Washington State University Vancouver, the Idaho State Historical
Society, Oregon Historical Society, Washington State Historical Society, and
Washington State University Pullman." Multimedia archives documenting some
of the experiences of various ethnic groups in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
State. The digital collections are managed with CONTENTdm.
Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
- Digital Library of Appalachia.
"
A project of the Appalachian College Association, Appalachian Library
Information Cooperative Exchange (ALICE)." " Scope and Content: The Digital Library of Appalachia seeks to provide online access to archival and
historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central
Appalachian region. The thirty-three member libraries, archives, and museums
associated with the Appalachian College
Association, known collectively as ALICE (Appalachian Library Information
Cooperative Endeavors), seek to generate interest and encourage
continued scholarship for the entire region. Information in the database exists
as reproductions of color or black and white photographs, reformatted typed
pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal diaries and
correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, oral history
recordings and transcripts, and other related reproductions. As of December
2001, there are 1,000 items in this database." The collection can be browsed
by subject matter or by contributing institution. Date accessed: 2003-05-24.
Date added: 2003-05-24.
- Digital Horizons: A Plains Media Resource. This multimedia digital collection was established in 2007 by a consortium including Concordia College Archives, Moorhead, MN the NDSU Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives, Fargo, ND Prairie Public Broadcasting, Fargo, ND and the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND. Date accessed: 2010-04-10. Date added: 2010-04-10.
- New
England Collections Online. Southborough, MA: NELINET, Inc. Summary:
" A collaborative
effort of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other
organizations to coordinate and manage the creation, storage, access, and
maintenance of a web-based digital library of historical, social, cultural,
economic and scientific resources related to New England." As of January
2004, institutions in the states of Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
are represented in the directory of digital collections. Date accessed:
2004-01-12. Date accessed: 2004-01-12.
- Western
Trails: A Collaboration of Cultural Heritage Institutions from Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
The States, District of Columbia and Territories
Contents
Statewide Digitization Projects: A Guide to
Information Sources. Ken Middleton. Murfreesboro, TN: Middle Tennessee State University.
Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virgin Islands
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Alabama
- AlabamaMosaic. Montgomery, AL: Network of Alabama Academic Libraries. Hosted by the Auburn University Digital Library. Summary: " AlabamaMosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history,
culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures
from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories
electronically accessible to Alabama residents and scholars throughout the
world."
Date accessed: 2007-04-08. Date added: 2007-04-08.
- Auburn University Digital Library. Auburn, AL: Auburn University Library. See also
Digital Collections by
Subject. Date accessed: 2007-04-08. Date added: 2007-04-08.
- Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Public Library. Powered by CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2007-04-08. Date added: 2007-04-08.
- Office of the Governor and Alabama State Legislature, Alabama
Virtual Library. This site provides access through an authentication
server to a wide variety of commercial databases. Date accessed: 2002-09-16.
Date added: 2002-09-16.
- University of Alabama, Clinical Digital Libraries Project. Established
in 1997 as a joint investigatory project of the university and the University
of North Texas, links are found on this page to all of the participating
libraries in Alabama and Texas. Some of the resources in the individual
digital libraries are restricted and others are links to publicly available
resources. Date accessed: 2002-09-16.
Date added: 2002-09-16.
- University of Alabama, University Libraries Digital Collections Production Center.
Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date accessed: 2004-03-24.
Alaska
- Alaska State Library, Alaska
Gold Lode. Developed within the Alaska's
Gold educational Web site as part of the Alaska Gold Rush centennial
in 1999 by the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, Alaska Department of
Education and Early Development, this full-text searchable or browsable database
contains digital facsimiles of primary sources on Alaska history. Date accessed: 2002-09-16.
Date added: 2002-09-16.
- Alaska Virtual
Library and Digital Archives Blog. Documents activities by the Alaska
State Library, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Consortium
Library, University of Alaska Anchorage, to create an Alaska Virtual Library
and Digital Archives. The blog is maintained by Caroline Sturm and was created
on January 2, 2003. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
- University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, Alaska
Digital Archives. A searchable/browsable digital collection of historic
moving images and photographs. The site also includes some virtual exhibits.
Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
- University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library,
Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database:
First Contact and First Observations in the Literature Pertaining to Eskimos.
The database contains close to 200 searchable digital renditions of first-contact
accounts. Date accessed: 2002-09-16.
Date added: 2002-09-16.
Arizona
- Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, Arizona Memory Project. Launched in March 2006 and uses CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2010-02-09. Date added: 2010-02-09.
- Northern Arizona University, Cline Library, Colorado Plateau Digital Archives. Date accessed: 2004-06-25. Date added: 2004-06-25.
- University of Arizona, Library, Digital
Library Initiatives Group. Among the full-text resources provided
for free via the Projects link are Books of the Southwest (produced by the
Southwest Text Electronic Center) and various periodical titles. Date accessed:
2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
- University of Arizona, Library, Southwest
Text Electronic Center. Production facility whose main product is Books
of the Southwest. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
Arkansas
- Arkansas Digital Library.
Fayetteville, AS: University of Arkansas Libraries and others. Project site
under development since 1998 for a digital library to serve the needs of
Arkansas higher education institutions. Some digitized material from the
Special Collections unit of the university library is available. Date accessed:
2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
American Native Press Archives, Digital
Library. Summary: " The Native Writers Digital Text Project brings the works of Native poets and
writers of fiction and other prose to readers world wide. Featuring out-of-print
literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people
of Canada, the project seeks to broaden the definition of “Native Writing” not
only by focusing on writers who are not ordinarily anthologized, but also by
publishing works which originally appeared in “ephemeral” sources, the
periodical press, especially in those publications edited and produced by
Natives. Each selection is prepared by a student editor working with one of the
American Native Press directors. Students learn the principles of editing and
preparing a work for publication. They also research and write the accompanying
biographical and background essays." Date acccessed: 2004-02-24. Date added:
2004-02-24.
California
- California State University, Northridge, San
Fernando Valley History Digital Library. Multimedia collection with
basic keyword search or controlled vocabulary subject index (pick list).
The advanced search engine includes the ability to browse by multimedia
or search by multiple fields. Content is in digital facsimile format. Date
added: 2002-01-29.
- California State University, Sacramento, Library, California
Underground Railroad: A Digital Archive. Powered by CONTENTdm,
a multimedia collection on slavery in California. Date accessed: 2004-08-04.
Date added: 2004-08-04.
- Claremont Colleges, Libraries, The Digital Library. Includes both open and restricted content. Date accessed: 2005-05-23. Date added: 2005-05-23.
- Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), Von der Ahe Library, Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2009-01-14. Date added: 2009-01-14.
- San Diego Library Consortium, The
Circuit. Union database with capability for a genre search for " Online
resources" which produces, as of February 2001, over 27,000 catalog entries
held by consortium members or linked to catalog entries. Many of these online
resources are restricted access.
- Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources, SUL/AIR
Digital Library Program. Digital library services at Stanford University
are available through the Humanities Digital Information Service,
the Social
Sciences Data Service, and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS). See also
Digital Collections by
Subject. Date accessed: 2002-04-12. Date added: 2002-04-12.
- University of California, International
and Area Studies Digital Collection. Summary: " UCIAS is a
partnership of the University of California Press, the California Digital
Library (CDL), and internationally oriented research units on eight UC campuses.
The Digital Collection publishes articles, monographs, and edited volumes that
are peer-reviewed according to standards set by an interdisciplinary UCIAS
Editorial Board and approved by the University of California Press. UCIAS makes
digital versions of these works available free of charge to a global network of
scholars and encourages international intellectual exchange and research
collaboration. Selected volumes may also be published in hard copy by the
University of California Press." Date accessed: 2003-12-20. Date added:
2003-12-20.
- University of California Libraries, California
Digital Library (CDL) contains public access and university-only digital
content. A special site, CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org,
contains all publicly accessible digital collections, products and
services from CDL, including the eScholarship
Repository. Date updated: 2003-12-20.
- University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
contains links to collections, software tools and support information for
building digital libraries.
- University of California, Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office,
Oral Histories
Online! Collection. SGML-encoded transcripts based on audio recordings with
supporting research material. See also
Digital Collections by
Subject.
- University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA
Digital Library. Date accessed: 2003-12-20. Date added: 2003-12-20.
- University of California, Santa Barbara,
Alexandria Digital Library Project
is in development as a server for geographical resources such as maps, aerial
photographs and remote sensing (satellite) data.
- University of California Press,
E-Books. As of January
2001, over 50 titles available online. Subject areas are: International
Studies, Classics, Literature, History, Anthropology, Politics, and Religious
Studies.
- University of Southern California,
Archival Research Center, Digital
Archive. Multimedia archives of photographs, maps, manuscripts, dissertations, records, texts
(publications), and sound
recordings owned by USC and partnering institutions with particular emphasis on
materials related to Southern California. Date added: 2002-01-05.
- University of Southern California, Learning
with ISLA. The USC started development of the Information System for Southern Los
Angeles, an integrated or multimedia digital archive, in 1996. This site
is for educators and provides backdoor access to ISLA. The ISLA
Web site itself does not yet (as January 2002) appear to be functional
and it appears ISLA has been or is in the process of being superseded by
the Archival Research Center's Digital
Archive.
Date added: 2002-01-06.
- University of Southern California, Libraries, Electronic
Resources. This page provides access via drop-down list, alphabetic
list, subject
list or keyword search to all electronic resources selected by librarians. Electronic
resources include both publicly accessible and materials restricted to students,
staff or faculty of the university. Date added:
2002-01-05. Date updated: 2002-01-06.
Colorado
Connecticut
- Connecticut Digital Library
(iCONN). Summary: " iCONN is part of the Connecticut Education Network.
It provides all students, faculty and residents with online access to essential
library and information resources. It is administered by the Connecticut State Library in conjunction with
the Department of Higher Education. Through
iCONN, a core level of information resources including secured access to
licensed databases is available to every citizen in Connecticut. In addition,
specialized research information is available to college students and faculty."
Date accessed: 2004-01-13. Date added: 2004-01-13.
- Connecticut History
Online: Photographs, Drawings and Prints About Connecticut History.
" A collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Thomas J. Dodd
Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and Mystic Seaport."
Includes a series of photo essays based on the ca. 14,000 digitized images
and educational resources geared to intermediate/middle/junior school and
high school students. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
- See also New
England Collections Online.
- University of Connecticut Libraries, Digital Collections.
Date accessed: 2003-03-20. Date added: 2003-03-20.
- Yale University, Yale
Divinity School Library, Digital Projects and
Research Websites. See also Digital
Collections by Subject.
- Yale University Library, Electronic Text Collection.
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
- Florida International University Libraries and others,
Everglades Digital
Library. Part of the Everglades Information Network, this joint project
offers access to multimedia electronic collections documenting the
Everglades.
- State University System of Florida,
PALMM (Publication of Archival, Library
& Museum Materials) is an initiative to create digital content among the
archives, libraries and museums of the SUS institutions. A site-search engine
and a site list are used to locate content. See also
Digital Collections by Subject.
- State University System of Florida, Florida
Heritage Collection. A subset of PALMM focused on arts, culture, history,
sciences, social sciences. Date accessed: 2002-09-16. Date added:
2002-09-16.
- University of Central Florida Libraries, Orange County Regional History
Center, Orange County Library System, Central
Florida Memory. Multimedia digital collection powered by CONTENTdm.
Date accessed: 2004-08-04. Date added: 2004-08-04.
- University of South Florida, USF Libraries Digital Collections.
Includes a collection of English language and Latino periodicals, a 16th century book on costume,
and local histories of Florida and its communities. Date accessed: 2004-04-17.
Date accessed: 2004-04-17.
- University of South Florida, USF Libraries Digitization Services.
" A digital collection production facility serving the USF Libraries." Date accessed: 2004-04-17.
Date accessed: 2004-04-17.
Georgia
- Emory University, Lewis
H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services. Free and restricted
access electronic works. See also
Digital Collections by
Subject.
- Emory University,
Virtual Library
Project. Established in 1996, provides access to free and restricted
electronic works.
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Library and Information Center, Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2005-02-14. Date added: 2005-02-14.
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Library and Information Center, Digital Initiatives Department. Date accessed: 2005-02-14. Date added: 2005-02-14.
- University of Georgia Libraries, Books and Periodicals in DjVu format.
List of titles: http://djvued.libs.uga.edu/dbooks.html.
Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.
- University System of Georgia, Digital
Library of Georgia. " A GALILEO initiative." " ...a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books,
manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, audio, video, and other materials."
See also
Digital Collections by
Subject. Date updated: 2003-05-24.
Hawaii
- Hawai'i Digital Library. Hilo, HI: Hale Kuamo'o and others, 2004-. Bilingual site interface. This site contains works about Hawaii written in English and is a sister project to Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, which consists only of works in Hawaiian. The Hawai'i Digital Library uses the Greenstone Digital Library software. Date accessed: 2005-10-08. Date added: 2005-10-08.
- Hawaii State Archives, Digital Collections. Honolulu, HI: Hawaii State Archives. Includes World War I Service Records, 1919-1926 and the Government Office Holders Collection, compiled by Archives staff. Powered by the Greenstone Digital Library software. Date accessed: 2007-12-30. Date added: 2007-12-30.
- Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Hilo, HI: Hale Kuamo'o and others, 2003-. Bilingual site interface. Summary: " Ulukau includes materials written in Hawaiian and, where they exist, their translations. ... Ulukau was founded by Hale Kuamo'o and is co-sponsored by Hale Kuamo'o, Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani, University of Hawai'i at Hilo and the Native Hawaiian Library, Alu Like, Inc." Ulukau uses the Greenstone
Digital
Library software. For works in English on Hawaii see the Hawai'i Digital Library. Date accessed: 2005-10-08. Date added: 2005-10-08.
- University of Hawaii Libraries, Image Repository. Includes digital facsimiles
and Adobe PDF files of Hawaiian language newspapers and research
materials.
Idaho
- Digital
Atlas of Idaho. Funded by the Idaho's Board of Education, " The Digital Atlas of Idaho
Project (DAI) delivers natural history information to a variety of audiences,
including K-12 educators, college students, agency personnel, businesses,
non-governmental organizations, and the public at large. It is available online
and on compact disc. It contains detailed written descriptions of Idaho's
natural history, photographs, maps, sounds, and glossaries." Date
accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
Illinois
- CARLI Digital Collections. Summary: " The CARLI Digital Collections was established in 2006 as a repository
for digital content licensed or created by the member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)." The site is powered by CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2006-04-29. Date added: 2006-04-29.
- Chicago Public Library,
Digital
Collections.
- Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL). Consortium established in 1999 to license electronic resources for use by any post-secondary academic library in Illinois which is also a member of ILLINET (Illinois Library and Information Network). IDAL is administered by the University of Illinois' Office for Planning and Budgeting. On July
1, 2005, IDAL, the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO), and the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program (ICCMP) merged to become the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois CARLI. Date accessed: 2004-10-06. Date added: 2004-10-06. Date updated: 2006-04-29.
- Illinois State Library, Illinois
Digital Archives. Summary: " IDA (Illinois Digitial Archives) is really two services under one
roof. The first of these services is a search engine for images, sound files,
and other multi-media events that exist on Internet sites throughout Illinois.
The search engine indexes images, etc., describing the history and experience of
life in Illinois. Among the sites " spidered" or indexed by IDA are sites that
deal with local history of various communities, the Nazi march on Skokie, coal
mining history, the history of women in Illinois, and other wonderful resources
that tell the story of Illinois, both past and present. IDA is also a
tool for libraries to add images and their cataloging records into a database.
..." Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
- Northern Illinois University, Illinois Historical Digitization Projects. A series of Web sites created in partnership with other Illinois academic and research institutions, these digital content projects cover the history of the Old Northwest back to the 17th century when French explorers traveled through the region. Contents: Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country, 1673-1818 Illinois During the Civil War, 1861-1865 Illinois During the Gilded Age, 1866-1896 Lincoln/Net:
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project.
Other related digital content projects include ones on the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the Black Hawk War (1832), Mark Twain's Mississippi River, and United States presidential campaign materials from 1840 to 1860. Date accessed: 2005-06-18. Date added: 2005-06-18.
- Northwestern University Library,
Digital
Library Collections. Descriptions of and links to various
multimedia digital collections. Among the text-based collections here are
League of
Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents a pre-Columbian Mayan text,
the Paris Codex and and English translation of Andreas Vesalius' anatomical atlas, On the Fabric of the Human
Body (1543 rev. ed., 1555). Date updated: 2004-03-25.
- Skokie Public Library and Skokie Historical Society, Digital Past. Based at the North Suburban Library System, the Digital Past is a browsable and searchable
multimedia collection
from various Illinois cultural institutions featuring digitized photographs, with some artifacts and textual materials. Powered by CONTENTdm, the site includes a RSS feed. Date accessed: 2003-07-14. Date added: 2003-07-14. Date updated: 2007-02-20.
- University of Chicago Library,
Digital Library Activities.
Links to digitization productions and electronic resources. See also
Digital Collections by Subject.
- University of Chicago Library,
Electronic Text Services. Two
types of electronic works -- some local, some remote, and some restricted
access -- are provided through the Electronic Full-Text Sources and the
Electronic Open Stacks. The former are searchable full-text resources, while
the latter are digital facsimiles (images).
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Digital Libraries Initiative.
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
- Kansas
Digital Library: Electronic Information Resources Uniquely Kansan or
Unique to Kansas. Searchable/browsable directory of digital and digitized
resources in a protoype site for demonstration purposes. Date accessed:
2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
- University of Kansas,
CARRIE: A Full-Text
Electronic Library. Searchable/browsable (by author-title) collections in a
variety of languages of electronic editions on a variety of subjects.
- See also Western Trails.
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
- Maine Memory Network.
" ...a project of the Maine Historical Society." Portal-based multimedia
digital collection with an e-commerce facility for purchasing content. Date
accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
- See also New
England Collections Online.
Maryland
- Descriptions of Maryland. Westminster, Maryland: History Club, McDaniel College. Selected XHTML transcripts of historical works, both non-fiction and fiction, depicting Maryland, including the annotated bibliography Descriptions of Maryland by Bernard C. Steiner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1904). Links to other historical, published works about Maryland are available through the Finding Texts Elsewhere page. Date accessed:
2005-02-13. Date added: 2005-02-13.
- Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage.
Summary: " The goal of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Project is to facilitate the
digitization and digital exhibition of Maryland-related historical documents,
images, audio and video for Maryland’s Public Libraries." Date accessed:
2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
- State of Maryland, Archives of Maryland Online.
Access to full-text electronic versions of the state's legal and archival
records.
- University of Maryland Libraries, Digital Collections. Summary: " The Office of Digital Collections and Research began digitizing and building a digital repository based on the Fedora platform in January 2005. The University of Maryland Libraries, like many academic libraries, include not only the familiar books and journals of the general collections, but many rare and unique materials. The digital collections available here are a part of the University
of Maryland Libraries' efforts to make many of our holdings more ubiquitously available in digital form." (Quoted from About Digital Collections page). As of 2007-11-29, this digital repository does not include content in the University of Maryland Libraries DRUM (Digital Repository at the University of Maryland). Powered by the Fedora platform. Date accessed: 2007-11-29. Date added: 2007-11-29.
- University of Maryland Libraries, Digital Collections and Research. See also
Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2006-01-23. Date added: 2006-01-23.
- Universiy of Maryland Libraries, DRUM: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland. Summary: " ...institutional repository for the University of Maryland. It provides
permanent, broad access to faculty-contributed research and
publications, UM theses and dissertations from December 2003 on, and
collections of technical reports." (Quoted from Digital Collections and Research page). As of 2007-11-29, this digital repository does not include content in the University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections. DRUM is powered by DSpace. Date accessed: 2006-01-23. Date added: 2006-01-23.
Massachusetts
- Boston College, John J. Burns Library,
Digitized
Collections. As of February 2001, collections consist only of digitized
photograph and artifact collections.
- Boston College Libraries,
Digital Library
Projects. Some projects are restricted access.
- Harvard University Library, Library Digital Initiative. Launched " in
July 1998 as a five-year program to develop the University's capacity to manage
digital information."
- Harvard University Library, Open Collections Program. Established in November 2002 " to increase the availability and use of textual and visual
historical resources for teaching, learning, and research by selecting
resources from the Harvard Libraries in broad topic areas,
putting them in digital format, and providing access to them through
the web and the Harvard library catalogs." See also: Digital
Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2005-02-12. Date added: 2005-02-12.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
MIT
Press Digital Projects. See also: Digital
Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2002-12-14. Date acdded:
2002-12-14.
- Tufts University, Digital Collections and Archives. Administrative site for the university's digital collections programs. Searches of the Digital Collections and Archives are handled through the Tufts Digital Library. Date accessed: 2004-10-16. Date added: 2004-10-16.
- Tufts University, Digital Library. Summary: " ... a collaborative effort between the Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) and
Academic Technology (AT). The TDL is one part of a larger digital repository
system being developed at Tufts and managed by the DCA. The TDL supports the teaching and research mission of the university by
creating access to a growing collection of digital content produced and
developed at Tufts." Date accessed: 2004-10-16. Date added: 2004-10-16.
- See also New
England Collections Online.
Michigan
- Library of Michigan,
The Making of Modern Michigan: Digitizing Michigan's Hidden Past. Hosted
by Michigan
State University Libraries, Digital & Multimedia Center, this project aims
to facilitate the creation of digital collections pertaining to Michigan's
history. Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
- Michigan State University, Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters,
and Social Sciences Online. Among its digital resource creation projects are
the African Digital
Library: West African Digital Resources.
- Michigan State University Libraries,
Digital Sources Center. Digital
facsimiles of a wide variety of texts and other media from the Special
Collections Division.
- University of Michigan, Deep Blue. A multimedia digital/institutional repository for content created by University of Michigan faculty, staff and students. Date accessed: 2008-02-22. Date added: 2008-02-22.
- University of Michigan, Digital
Library Production Service. Digital production service
whose extensive collection list includes public and restricted resources
on a wide range of subject matter. The Digital Library Collections and Publications produced by the DLPS are organized into four categories: Text Collections, Finding Aid Collections, Image Collections, and Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) Collections. The UMDL Text Collections encompass 41 collections containing nearly 32,000 texts, the largest of which is the Digital General Collection, which contains over 25,000 texts. Date updated: 2004-12-22.
- University of Michigan, Humanities Text Initiative, Text
Collections. Established in 1994, this unit produces and hosts digital
facsimile and SGML-encoded collections and titles ranging from religious works
to poetry.
Minnesota
- Minnesota Digital Library. Initiated in 2001, this consortium began its first digitization project, Minnesota Reflections, in 2004. The site includes resources for educators and training support. Date accessed: 2010-04-10. Date added: 2010-04-10.
- Minnesota Digital Library, Minnesota Reflections. This site is the first digitization project of the Minnesota Digital Library and is powered by CONTENTdm.
Date accessed: 2010-04-10. Date added: 2010-04-10.
- University of Minnesota, Electronic Text Research Center. In
addition to a directory of full-text Internet accessible electronic works, the
ETRC also hosts locally produced, SGML-encoded projects of literary works. See
also Digital Colletions by
Subject.
- University of Minnesota Libraries (Twin Cities),
Digital Collections and Services. In
addition to a list of locally produced digital collections, the Digital Assets
Inventory lists hundreds of other free and restricted access Web sites within
the University of Minnesota domain.
- University of Minnesota Libraries (Twin Cities),
Lumina: Digital Library Gateway. Online
catalogue and guide to the university's holdings in hardcopy and online formats
in all media. The Quick Links dropdown list provides two-click access to free
or restricted Electronic Journals and Electronic Texts.
Mississippi
- Mississippi Digital Library. A collaborative effort initiated following funding in 2003 between the University of Southern Mississippi, Delta State University, the University of Mississippi, Tougaloo College, Jackson State University, and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The holdings are stored and accessed through CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2007-02-10. Date added: 2007-02-10.
- University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, Special Collections
Digital Lab, Digital
Media Archive.
See
also Digital Collections By Subject.
Date updated: 2004-01-12.
- University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, Special Collections,
Virtual Reading Room.
Missouri
- Missouri Digitization Planning Project, Virtually
Missouri. " The purpose of the Missouri Digitization Planning Project (MDPP) is to
coordinate access to digital collections and exhibits created by the cultural
&
scientific heritage institutions of Missouri. The project brings together
representatives from the archives, historical society, library, and museum
communities."
You can list collections by their sponsoring agency or search
for descriptions of collections. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added:
2003-05-24. Date updated: 2004-03-24.
- University
of Missouri Digital Collections. Links to multimedia collections located
in other campus libraries and museums. See also Digital Library Collections By Subject:
Newspapers. Date accessed: 2003-09-02. Date added:
2003-09-02.
- University of Missouri
Digital Library.
See
also Digital Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2003-09-02. Date added: 2003-09-02.
Montana
- Montana Memory Project: Montana's Digital Library and Archives. Summary: " The Montana Memory Project provides access to digital collections and items relating to Montana's cultural heritage and government. In part, these collections and items document the Montana experience. Access is free and open through the Internet. Many of these items are digitized copies of historic material, some items are contemporary. All serve as a resource for education, business,
pleasure, and lifelong learning."
This site is powered by CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2010-04-10. Date added: 2010-04-10.
- Montana State Library, Montana
State Library Digital Library Initiative. Date accessed: 2003-05-24.
Date added: 2003-05-24.
- University of Montana, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Centre, America's
Wars in Asia: Digital Teaching Library. Date accessed: 2004-08-19. Date
added: 2004-08-19.
- University of Montana-Missoula, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library,
Progressive
Men of Montana. Date accessed: 2004-08-19. Date added: 2004-08-19.
- Vigilantes of
Montana: Secret Trials and Midnight Hangings, 1863-1864 (Maintained by
Louis Schmittroth). Full-text electronic editions in HTML of books and articles
relating to vigilantism in Montana during the U.S. Civil War years.
Nebraska
- DigitalCommons@UNL. Lincoln: University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This site is an institutional repository and digital library collection for works created by UNL faculty and students, or content digitized as part of digital library collections or licensed from third-party sources. Some content is therefore restricted from access by the general public. Date accessed: 2008-02-21. Date added: 2008-02-21.
- See also Western Trails.
Nevada
- Nevada State Library and Archives, Nevada Digital Resources. Descriptive list of digital collections in and about Nevada. Part of the Nevada Statewide Digital Initiative. Date accessed: 2009-04-07. Date added: 2009-04-07.
- University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, Digital
Projects. These sites, chiefly digitized collections of images
identified under the collective title Online Image Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries,
are managed with CONTENTdm.
Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
New Hampshire
New Jersey
- New Jersey Digital Highway. Summary: According to Wikipedia, " ... a collaborative initiative led by Rutgers University Libraries, the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Department of Archives and Records Management, the Botto House/American Labor Museum and the New Jersey Historical Society, with many other institutions around the state providing collections." Date accessed:
2007-11-27. Date added: 2007-11-27.
- Rutgers University, Alexander Library,
Center for Electronic Texts in the
Humanities (CETH).
- Rutgers University, Alexander Library,
Scholarly Communications Center.
- Rutgers University Libraries,
Digital
Library Projects.
New Mexico
- University of New Mexico University Libraries, New Mexico's Digital Collections. Digitized content from the various repositories and collections is managed and accessed through CONTENTdm. Date accessed:
2010-04-10. Date added: 2010-04-10.
New York
- American Museum of Natural History Library, Digital
Library Project. The first online collection to be released is based
on multimedia records, including 160 scientific publications (full-text
searchable or browsable), from the museum's Congo Expedition (1909-1915).
See
also Digital Collections By Subject.
Date added: 2002-03-05.
- Columbia University, Teachers College,
Institute for Learning Technologies
(ILTweb). See the ILT Projects section for links to Digital Text projects,
including Digital Dante, and
links to other electronic library collections. Some of the ILTWeb digital texts
are historical works of educational theorists such as John Locke and John
Dewey.
- Columbia University Libraries, Digital
Library Projects. This site describes and links to digital library projects
at Columbia University. Some electronic texts and journals are restricted.
Alternate URL: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/
Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
- Columbia University Libraries,
Electronic Text
Service. Electronic editions managed or produced by this service can be
search on CLIO, the library's online catalogue. Free and restricted access. See
also Digital Collections By Subject.
- Cornell University Library, Cornell Digital Library Collections. See
also Digital Collections By Subject.
- Cornell University Library,
Electronic Text
Center.
- Cornell University Library,
Networked
Resources. Topical categories to public and restricted access multimedia
digital content. See also Digital Collections By
Subject.
- Hamliton College Library, Digital
Collections of Hamilton College Library. See
also Digital Collections By Subject.
Date accessed: 2004-07-07. Date added: 2004-07-07.
- Metroplitan New York Library Council, MRDI:
METRO Regional Digitization Initiative. Project to encourage the digitization
of collections held by Metro library members. The site includes PowerPoint
slides from a one-day digitization symposium held July 17, 2002. There is
also a page of useful links. Date accessed: 2002-12-13. Date added: 2002-12-13.
- New York Public Library, Digital
Library Collection. See also Digital
Collections By Subject.
- New York Public Library, NYPL Digital Gallery. Date accessed: 2005-03-07. Date added: 2005-03-07.
- New York State Library, New York State Documents. Many publications issued by the state government are available available as digital facsimiles in TIFF or GIF image file formats. See the Scanned Documents section for details on how to locate and view these.
- South Central Regional Library Council, Digitizing
Program. Date accessed: 2002-12-23. Date added: 2002-12-23.
- Syracuse University Library, Department of Special Collections,
Digital
Collections. See also Digital Collections By
Subject.
- United States Military Academy Library (West Point), USMA Digital Collections.
Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date added: 2003-12-19.
- University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of
History, History
and MultiMedia Center. Multidisciplinary research and multimedia production
site with an emphasis on industrial history.
- University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Libraries, UBdigit, Digital Collections at the University at Buffalo. Powered by CONTENTdm and launched in fall 2004, this is a multimedia, interdisciplinary digital collection. Date accessed: 2006-01-18. Date added: 2006-01-18.
North Carolina
- Duke University Libraries, Digital Library Initiatives Task
Group.
- East Carolina Library, Joyner Library, Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2009-02-16. Date added: 2009-02-16.
- East Carolina Library, Joyner Library, Eastern North Carolina Digital Library. Formerly known as the North Carolina History & Fiction Digital Library. Date accessed: 2009-02-16. Date added: 2009-02-16.
- State Library of North Carolina, North Carolina ECHO (Exploring
Cultural Heritage Online). " North Carolina ECHO is part of the Access to Special
Collections Project, co-sponsored by Duke University Libraries and the State Library of North Carolina."
A gateway service, with keyword searching or browsing capability, for
locating digital collections inside and outside North Carolina about the
state's cultural heritage. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
- University of North Carolina Libraries, Carolina Digital Library and Archives. Date accessed: 2010-04-10. Date added: 2010-04-10.
- Wake Forest
University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Special Collections,
Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Digital
Collections. Alternate URL: http://www.wfu.edu/Library/special/digital.html.
See also Digital Collections By Subject.
Date accessed: 2004-08-06. Date added: 2004-08-06.
North Dakota
Ohio
- Case Western Reserve University, University Library, Digital
Library Services. This library division maintains the university' library's
Web site and digitizes media for Web presentation. Date added: 2002-08-18.
- Cleveland Public Library, CLEVNET
Digital Library Connection. Opened on April 8, 2003, this is a searchable
or browsable, online lending library of e-books available in the Adobe Acrobat
eBook and Palm eBook formats. Date accessed: 2003-05-04. Date added: 2003-05-04.
- Cleveland State University Library, Special Collections, Cleveland
Digital Library: Virtual Cleveland History. Summary: " A digital collection of texts, maps, and images,
as well as access tools for digital and non-digital works, all concerning the
history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern
Ohio."
Date added: 2002-08-18.
- Cleveland State University Library, Special Collections, Cleveland
Memory Project. " A showcase for the Special Collections of the Cleveland State University Library." This
site includes several ebooks in HTML format from the 19th and 20th centuries
about Cleveland's history. Date accessed: 2003-03-21. Date added: 2003-03-21.
- Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Memory.
Launched on March 26, 2002 and inspired by the Library of Congress' American
Memory, this searchable/browsable digital collection contains " online historical documents and artifacts from more than 250 libraries, museums,
archives and historical societies across the state" (press release). Users
can create their own scrapbook through the My Scrapbook feature. Date
accessed: 2002-05-18. Date added: 2002-05-18.
- SOLO Regional Library System, Digital
Shoebox Collections. Variant title: The Digital Shoebox Project: Historical
Treasures of Southeastern Ohio. Summary: " The Digital Shoebox will bring these historical treasures together in a
searchable online scrapbook in time for Ohio's Bicentennial in 2003. It will be
a gateway to primary source materials -photos, maps, documents, county histories
-relating to the rich history and culture of southeastern Ohio -the " start of it
all."
Site uses ContentDM.
Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date added: 2003-12-19.
- Worthington Libraries and Worthington Historical Society, Worthington
Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Worthington History. Searchable/browsable
multimedia digital collection of local history materials modeled on and
linked to the Ohio Memory project. Digital facsimiles of handwritten manuscripts
may include a transcription. Date accessed: 2002-05-18. Date added: 2002-05-18.
- Wright State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives,
Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collections.
This collection honors Dayton, Ohio, poet and novelist, Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872-1906), the first African-American poet to attain international literary
recognition.
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Digital Collections. Digitized
works are produced by the Academy's Albert M. Greenfield Digital Imaging Center for Collections. See also Digital
Collections By Subject. Date added: 2002-08-25.
- Dickinson College, DEILA, the
Dickinson Electronic Initiative in the Liberal Arts. See also Digital
Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date
added: 2003-12-19.
- Historic Pittsburgh. Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library. Summary: " Historic Pittsburgh is a comprehensive collection of local resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area. This Web site enables access to historic material held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania at the
Heinz History Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Chatham College Archives." Date accessed: 2007-03-22. Date added: 2007-03-22.
- Lehigh University Library and Technology Services, Digital Projects.
See also Digital
Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date added: 2003-02-19.
- Pennsylvania History
Online. Summary: " Pennsylvania History Online is a collaboration among the four Pennsylvania
Statewide Resource Centers: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Free Library of Philadelphia,
Penn State University Libraries, State Library of Pennsylvania." Date
accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
- Pennsylvania State University Libraries,
Digital
Resources Center.
- University of Pennsylvania,
Digital Library Programs &
Projects. Includes the Schoenberg Center for Electronic
Text & Image (SCETI) The Online Books
Page and A Celebration of Women
Writers. See also Digital
Collections By Subject.
- University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library. Includes
public and restricted multimedia digital content. See also Digital
Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2006-01-27. Date added: 2006-01-27.
- Villanova University, Falvey Memorial Library, Community Bibliography. Summary: " ... Community Bibliography is an open repository of the entire published output of the Villanova University community. This extensive database offers a detailed view of our proud scholarly heritage, from our community's historical publications of the 19th Century to the cutting edge research of today. ... Any individual affiliated with Villanova University who
has published an original work of some kind may be included in this collection. Please follow the link below if you are interested in submitting a work or works for inclusion." Date accessed: 2008-03-20. Date added: 2008-03-20.
- Villanova University, Falvey Memorial Library, Digital Library. Summary: " Villanova University's Digital Library initiative assembles, presents, and preserves digital collections that support the teaching and research of the campus and the global community of scholars. We work with faculty, staff and regional partners to select and develop resources that enhance access for a wide range of disciplines and audiences." Date accessed: 2008-03-20.
Date added: 2008-03-20.
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
- PASCAL: Parnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries, Digital Collections Committee.
Established in 2001, PASCAL formed a Digital Collections Committee, which
held its first meeting in December 2002, to formulate a plan of action
for establishing a statewide digital library collection program. Date accessed:
2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Digital Collections. Access various digital facsimiles of selected textual and photographic records via the online record index. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08. Date updated: 2009-06-08.
- South Carolina State Library, DISCUS
(Digital Information for South Carolina USers), South Carolina’s Virtual Library.
Provides " all South Carolinians free online
access to the best subscription library resources." Date accessed: 2004-01-12.
Date added: 2004-01-12.
- University of South Carolina, University Libraries, Digital Collections. See also Digital
Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2005-06-06. Date added: 2005-06-06.
South Dakota
- Digital Library of South Dakota (DLSD). Summary: " DLSD is a collaboration of the libraries of six Board of Regents colleges and universities in the state of South Dakota" . This site is powered by CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2010-04-10. Date added: 2010-04-10.
- South Dakota State Historical Society, South
Dakota Memory. Summary: " South Dakota Memory is a gateway to rich primary
source materials relating to the history and culture of South Dakota. This site
offers digital items from heritage institutions (archives, historical societies,
libraries, and museums) statewide." Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added:
2004-03-24.
Tennessee
- Middle Tennessee State University, James E. Walker Library, MTSU Digital Projects. Date accessed: 2009-02-16. Date added: 2009-02-16.
- TENN-SHARE, Tennessee Electronic Library. TEL
is an electronic resource licensing and sharing initiative among Tennessee's
libraries. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25. Date updated: 2007-08-06.
- TENN-SHARE, Tennessee Electronic Library, VolunteerVoices.org.
Summary: " Volunteer Voices represents an ambitious initiative of the TENN-SHARE's
Tennessee Electronic Library to provide online access to Tennesse's rich culture
and history. The work of Volunteer Voices is coordinated through the Preserve
and Share Tennessee History and Culture Task Force." Date accessed: 2004-03-25.
Date added: 2004-03-25. Date updated: 2007-08-06.
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University Libraries, Digital
Library Center. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
- University of Tennessee at Martin, Andy
Holt Virtual Library. " ... principally a concept library, with a focus on the Humanities and Fine Arts. Though open to the public, it is designed to serve the learning communities within the College of Humanities and Fine Arts..." . Includes
the " DOCU-STACKS: Online Digital Texts Collections" . Date added: 2002-01-02.
- University of Tennessee Libraries, Digital Collections. These are completed projects of the UTK Digital Library Center. Date accessed: 2007-08-06. Date added: 2007-08-06.
- University of Tennessee Libraries, Newfound Press. Digital imprint of this academic library that publishes journals, monographs, conference proceedings and multimedia, all of it Open Access. Date accessed: 2007-08-06. Date added: 2007-08-06.
Texas
- John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center, John P. McGovern History of Medicine Digital Library.
See also Digital Collections by Subject.
- Rice University, Electronic Text Center.
- Texas A& M University, College Station,
Center for the Study of Digital
Libraries.
- Texas Tides. Variant title: Tides in Early Texas History.
Collaborative digital collection and educational Web site. Digital content
resources can be accessed through a timeline organized by ethnic group
content includes both digitized historical documents and links to modern
Web sites and electronic publications such as The Handbook of Texas Online.
A keyword search engine lets you search through archival collection
finding aids. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
- University of Houston Libraries,
UH e-Library.
- University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Collections. Most of the digital collections revolve around content about Texas, including the Texas Laws & Resolutions Archive and H.P.N. Gammel's The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897. See also Digital
Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2008-03-10. Date added: 2008-03-10.
- University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Projects Unit. Summary: " The Digital Projects Unit supports the UNT Libraries with guidance and digital services including imaging, archival storage of electronic files, metadata development, and other activities as needed. We vigorously pursue research opportunities in digital preservation and access and remain active in state, national, and international professional organizations. Through collaborative
efforts such as the Portal to Texas History and the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections we freely provide digital content to a worldwide audience." Date accessed: 2008-03-10. Date added: 2008-03-10.
- University of North Texas Libraries, Portal to Texas History.
Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24. Date updated: 2008-03-10.
- University of Texas at Austin, UTOPIA.
A massive portal to digitized and electronic multimedia resources designed
for educators, students and families, which aggregates content produced
by or stored at various points within the university. Date accessed: 2004-03-25.
Date added: 2004-03-25.
- University of Texas at Austin General Libraries,
UT System Digital Library.
Utah
- Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library,
Digital Media Library.
Free and restricted access to digitized collections. See also
Digital Collections by Subject.
- Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library,
Scholarly Publications Center. Online archive
for publications issued by the university or the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. See also Digital Collections
by Subject.
- University of Utah,
J. Willard Marriott Library
Digital Technologies. Digital productions are issued under the series title
J.
Willard Marriott Library Digitized Collections. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Date updated: 2003-08-06.
- Utah Academic Library Consortium, Mountain
West Digital Library. Summary: " The Mountain West Digital Library is a consortium of digital
collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and
historical societies in Utah. Four hosting institutions each run CONTENTdm servers and support their own digital
collections, and support client institutions by providing scanning and hosting
services. A multi-site aggregating server automatically harvests metadata from
the hosting institutions on a regular basis and provides the search engine."
Date accessed: 2003-08-06. Date added: 2003-08-06.
Vermont
Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands see also International Collections: Latin America.
Virginia
- George Mason University, Department of History and Art History, Center for History and New Media. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
- George Mason University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives,
Digitized
Collections. Chiefly image collections, including Fedearl Theatre Project
posters produced under the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Member
of: Washington Research Libraries
Consortium. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.
- The Library of Virginia, Digital Library Program. Established
in 1995, provides access to digital archival and library collections.
The library announced in 2004 that " Due to budget cuts, further development of digital collections has ceased. The
projects of the DLP form a a significant portion of What We Have in our collections and will be
available as long as funding permits. Since its inception in 1995, the Program digitized more than 2.2 million
original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80
fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids." Date
updated: 2004-03-25.
- The Library of Virginia, Virginia Historical Inventory Digital
Project. Digital facsimiles of documents and photographs created by the
Virginia Writers' Project under a Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant in
the late 1930s.
- Old Dominion University Libraries, Digital Services &
Projects. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
- University of Virginia,
Institute for Advanced
Technology in the Humanities (IATH). Co-host of the TEI Consortium, the
IATH participates in the production of multimedia research collections in the
humanities. For a selection of these, see also
Digital Collections by
Subject.
- University of Virginia, Virginia Center for Digital History.
An impressive array of multimedia, scholarly digital collections with
supporting research/teaching tools, such as The Valley of the Shadow and
Virtual Jamestown. See also Digital Collections by
Subject.
- University of Virginia Library, Digital Collections. Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Library. As of January 2008, all digital content created by the University of Virginia Library, including material formerly created and housed by the Electronic Text Center, is being migrated to this repository. Date accessed: 2008-01-11. Date added: 2008-01-11.
- University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center. Established in 1992 and dissolved in 2007, its collections are encoded in SGML and XML. The
searchable/browsable online holdings cover thousands of online humanities
publications in 12 languages. Over 1,000 titles are also available for download
for ebook readers (Microsoft and Palm operating systems). Much of the online
content is restricted. Works created by the Electronic Text Center in its 15-year tenure are housed as of January 2008 in the University of Virginia Library Digital Collections. See also Digital Collections by
Subject. Date updated: 2008-01-11.
- University of Virginia Library,
Special
Collections Digital Center. This electronic center is responsible for
digital facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts.
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Digital Library and Archives.
- VIVA, the Virtual Library of
Virginia (Sponsored by State Council of Higher Education , Virginia). A
consortium of academic libraries which provides access to electronic
collections.
- Washington Research Libraries Consortium, WRLC Libraries Digital and Special
Collections. Includes academic libraries in D.C. and Virginia. See also Digital Collections by
Subject. Date accessed: 2004-07-08.
Date added: 2004-07-08.
Washington (State)
- University of Washington Libraries,
Digital Collections.
See also Digital Collections by Subject.
- Washington State Library, Classics in Washington History. Summary: " This digital
collection of full-text books brings together rare, out of print titles for easy
access by students, teachers, genealogists and historians. Visit Washington's early
years through the lives of the men and women who lived and worked in Washington
Territory and State." Access requirement: free DJVU plugin from Lizardtech. Date accessed: 2007-09-15. Date added: 2007-09-15.
- Washington State Library, Washington
State Digital Library Resources. Alternate title: Washington State Digital
Library Portal. Includes best practices, digital imaging
production, and digital collections. Date added: 2002-01-29. Date updated:
2003-05-24.
- Washington State University, Manuscripts, Archives and Special
Collections,
Digital
Collections. As of November 2001, several digitized photograph collections
can be searched and browsed. A collection of over 300 early
Pacific Northwest (including British Columbia) and Washington maps prepared
in collaboration with University of Washington Libraries is also available.
The
Online
Books link reveals two digitized titles as of November
2001, along with a digitized collection of Pacific Northwest newspaper clippings.
Date added: 2001.11.
West Virginia
- West Virginia Digital Library. Still
in the planning stages as of January 2004, and described as " A consortium of West Virginia libraries dedicated to
providing equal access to information for all West Virginians." Date accessed:
2004-01-13. Date added: 2004-01-13.
Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin, Digital
Collections. Summary: " ...created in the summer of 2001. The Council of Wisconsin libraries and UW
System's Office of Learning & Information Technology established the UWDC to
provide quality digital resources from its academic libraries to UW faculty,
staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large. The UWDC Center was formed to be the
utility that digitizes, provides access to, and maintains digital projects." See
the Collections link for descriptions and links. Date accessed: 2004-03-25.
Date added: 2004-03-25.
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Murphy Library, Digitized
Resources Provided by Murphy Library. Multimedia collection of digitized
materials, with an emphasis on historical pictorial and printed texts. Date
accessed: 2003-12-15. Date added: 2003-12-15.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Electronic
Text & Multimedia Collections. Directory of local and global electronic
text resources. Some collections are restricted access. See also Digital Collections by
Subject. Date added: 2001-12-21.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison and State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, Wisconsin
Electronic Reader. Digital facsimiles of works about Wisconsin dating
between 1835 and 1949.
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