The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Textbooks

• Connectext Catalog: A Registry for Online Textbooks. Washington, DC: Digital Text Plus, LLC. Online textbooks are divided into two categories: works for sale and free offerings. Date added: 2001-12.25.
• Les manuels scolaires québécois. Compiled by Paul Aubin. Ville de Québec, Québec: Centre interuniversitaire d'études québécoises, Université Laval. Site contains a catalogue of Quebec textbooks and sample digital facsimile pages from various textbooks (select the Illustrations numérisées link). Date accessed: 2004-10-03. Date added: 2004-10-03.
• 19th Century Schoolbooks. Pittsburgh, PA: Digital Research Library, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. Summary: " Examine digital editions of 140 schoolbooks and two surveys of historic schoolbooks by John Nietz, the founder of the Nietz Old Textbook Collection. The online collection contains page images as well as searchable text." The site also contains " a catalog which lists titles in the Nietz Old Textbook Collection available through Special Collections, University Library System." Date updated: 2004-10-03.
• William Holmes McGuffey at Miami University, 1826-1836. Ohio: Miami University Libraries in cooperation with the McGuffey Museum. Selected items, including the McGuffey's Eclectic First Reader (1836), are available in digital facsimile. Date accessed: 2002-02-09. Date added: 2002-02-09.

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