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ODU Projects: Annual Literary Festival -- Oral Histories -- ODU Presidents
Academy of American Poets
an organization site "supporting American poets at all stages of their careers
and fostering the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Site features exhibits,
National Poetry Month, and a listening booth of poems."
AdAccess (Duke
University)
"images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed
in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955"
Alexandria Digital Library (University
of California, Santa Barbara)
"a distributed digital library for geographically-referenced information"
American Memory (Library of Congress)
includes photographs, motion pictures, maps, sound recordings and text for
over 70 topic-based digital "historical collections for the national digital
library"
California Heritage
Collection
provides access to thousands of images and texts relating to California history
Digital Library Collections (New
York Public Library)
"featuring a wide range of primary source materials from The Library's four
research libraries"
Documenting the American South
(UNC, Chapel Hill)
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth
"a full-text database of primary resources on Southern history, literature
and culture," including "A Digitized Library of Southern Literature," "First-Person
Narratives of the American South," and "North American Slave Narratives"
Electronic Text
Center (University of Virginia)
collections include "approximately 45,000 on- and off-line humanities texts
in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images (book illustrations,
covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books,
etc.) "
Historic American
Sheet Music (Duke University)
"includes digital images of over 16,000 pages of sheet music from 3042 pieces
published in the United States between 1850 and 1920"
Hoagy
Carmichael (Indiana University)
multimedia web site with every item in Indiana University’s extensive collections
pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael
(1899-1981)
Making of America
( Cornell University
and University of Michigan)
"primary sources [journals & books] in American social history from antebellum
through reconstruction"
New York Public Library Digital Library
provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from
primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library
Perseus Project (Tufts
University)
"an evolving digital library on Ancient Greece"
Project Bartleby
(Columbia University)
"literary, historical, and reference works on the Internet"
Valley of the
Shadow (University of Virginia)
"hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during,
and after the Civil War for Augusta County, VA, and Franklin County, PA."
Virginia Digital Library
Program
project underway to "digitize and provide access to significant local
collections"
William Gedney: Photographs & Writings (Duke University)
Digital Library at UC Berkeley -- a variety of digital collections and services created and maintained by people at UC Berkeley and elsewhere around the world -- also, Digital Library Project
Image Finder (UC Berkeley) -- to locate images in eight digital libraries, including DL SunSITE, Library of Congress, Library of Virginia, NASA, and the Smithsonian
Clearinghouse of Image Databases -- Online directory of databases with images available worldwide arranged by media format and institution
American Studies Web (Georgetown University)-- links to important resources in the fields of literature, history, arts and material culture, performing arts, religion and philosophy, and social science
EDSITEment-- National Endowment for the Humanities site with links to the top 100 web sites in the fields of literature, art history, foreign language, and history
Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia) and Other Web Resources
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
Repositories of Primary Sources -- "a listing of over 3700 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar"
Yahoo: Reference/Libraries/Digital_Libraries/Projects_and_Collections/
or, search Yahoo or other search engines by topic.
Coalition for Networked Information -- an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity
Colorado Digitization Project - Digitization Resources
Digital Library Federation -- a leadership organization for "creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars, students, and a wider public"
Digital Library Research -- links to "some of the major cooperative projects, funding and coordinating agencies, and associated activities in digital library research"
D-Lib Magazine -- monthly online magazine about digital libraries
Museum Computer Network -- "a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies"
RLG DigiNews -- bimonthly web-based newsletter focusing on digital initiatives
Sun Microsystems Digital Tool Kitl -- 151-page downloadable pdf document
Tools for Building the Digital Library (UC Berkeley) -- includes information about tools for using and creating digital libraries