The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Civilization, Modern

See also subject list for other aspects of modern civilizations (for example, architecture, economics, engineering, science and technology).

• America's Wars in Asia: Digital Teaching Library. Missoula, MT: Maureen and Mike Mansfield Centre, University of Montana. Multimedia collection that supports teaching about the United States' involvement in the  Pacific Theater in World War Two, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Date accessed: 2004-08-19. Date added: 2004-08-19.
• Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, Reference Library and Tool Kit for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2nd Edition.Tampa, FL: University of South Florida New Orleans, LA: Tulane University. Includes United States government and military publications, along with the Well Digger's Workstation Special Edition by Jack E. Turner. The entire reference library is available on CD-ROM. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Early Modern Women Database. College Park, MD: University of Maryland Libraries, 2000?-. Date accessed: 2006-01-23. Date added: 2006-01-23.
• ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online). Berlin, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and others. Digital facsimiles that document the achievements and diffusion of Western civilization beginning with Sumerian cuneiform tablets (3000 B.C.) as represented in the CDLI and ranging across time to the 20th cenutry. Date accessed: 2004-03-06. Date added: 2004-03-06.
• Humanity Libraries Project. Antwerp, Belgium: Human Info NGO. Started in 1992 by Dr. Michel Loots, this cooperative project with United Nations agencies aims to electronically publish and distribute to developing countries via the Internet/Web and CD-ROM thousands of UN publications relating to " know-how and ideas they need to tackle poverty and increase the human potential." The library of electronic publications is called the Humanity Information Library. See also: New Zealand Digital Library, Humanitarian and UN Collections, and the Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer, Humanity Libraries Online  (Tulane University, Louisiana, USA). Date added: 2002-09-08.
• International Development Research  Centre  (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Digital Library.  " All full text documents on the IDRC web site can be accessed through the Library catalogue by choosing " Full Text Avail." : Yes. Several lists of full text documents and books are also available for browsing." The IDRC Digital Library also provides access to " thousands of photographic slides, mostly related to IDRC projects" through the IMAGES database. Date copyrighted: 1998-01-01. Date accessed: 2002-12-22. Date added: 2002-12-22.
• New Zealand Digital Library, Humanitarian and UN Collections. This site utilizes the open source Greenstone software developed at the University of Waikato to create and provide access online and via CD-ROMs to thousands of UN agency publications. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Pan American Health Organization, Virtual Disaster Library. Bilingual interface: Spanish and English. See also: Health Library for Disasters (World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization). Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer, Humanity Libraries Online. New Orleans, Louisiana: Tulane University. As of September 2002, the collection of online publications is organized into the following collections: Humanity Development Library 2.0 Medical and Health Library Food and Nutrition Library Collection on Critical Global Issues 2.0: 1999 Edition World Environmental Library 1.0 Africa Collection for Transition (ACT) and the  Bibliothèque pour le Développement Durable 1.0. All of these collections are available online or via CD-ROM. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• Theleme (Techniques pour l'Historien en Ligne : Etudes, Manuels, Exercices). Paris, France: École nationale des chartes, La Sorbonne. Contains an interactive digital facsimile set of sample pages from books and documents that help archivists, historians and students interpret handwriting and printing from various time periods (450 A.D. to 1488 A.D.). Date accessed: 2004-08-28. Date added: 2004-08-28.
• TravelHistory.org: A Website About Travel in History: People, Places, Adventure and Exploration. San Jose, CA: Hidden Knowledge. Contains hybrid digital facsimiles in the form of scanned images and HTML transcripts of historic travel accounts from around the world. Date accessed: 2004-08-06. Date added: 2004-08-06.
• United States Institute of Peace, Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management. Named after a director of the Jeannette Rankin Library Program, this digital library established two digital collections in 1996 and 1998: the Peace Agreements Digital Collection and the Truth Commissions Digital Collection. Date accessed: 2004-09-23. Date added: 2004-09-23.
• University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre, Forced Migration Online. A distributed, full-text searchable  library of publications relating to involuntary human displacement. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• World Civilizations: An Internet Classroom and Anthology. Edited by Richard Hooker. Pullman, WA: Washington State University, 1996-. Alternate title: World Cultures. This site combines online or e-learning with links to and/or transcriptions of texts covering ancient and modern global cultures and civilizations. Date accessed: 2005-05-23. Date added: 2005-05-23.
• World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization, Health Library for Disasters. Trilingual interface: English, French, and Spanish. Date added: 2002-09-08.
• World War I Document Archive. Hosted by the Harold B. Lee  Library, Brigham Young University. " This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). The archive is international in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War." Date created: 1996-02-01. Date accessed: 2002-12-22. Date added: 2002-12-22.

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