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Digital libraries Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE "builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide." The site contains links to SunSITE catalogs and indexes, and digital text and image collections (many featuring California content). Sponsored by Sun Microsystems and the University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Jul 6, 2006 The British Columbia Digital Library A guide to digital library collections around the world and to the Digital Content in BC's Libraries . The briefly annotated links are arranged alphabetically, geographically (under collections by institution), and by subject. Additionally, there is a section on Digital Library Construction Tools . Readings About Digital Libraries includes selected conferences, discussion lists, and publications, both online and in print. http://bcdlib.tc.ca/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Sep 29, 2002 Cornell University Library Windows on the Past This resource provides a single place to search and browse significant, historical, digital collections created by the Cornell University Library. Topics include witchcraft, agriculture, international women's periodicals, math books, monographs, Ezra Cornell, and more. Searches can be very broad, or scoped to specific collections. http://historical.library.cornell.edu/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Nov 19, 2003 The Cornell University Prototype Digital Library Among digitized graphic and text resources available at this site are the Making of America collection , Math book collection , Ezra Cornell papers , National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) agriculture collection , Core historical literature of agriculture , full text articles in Africana digital periodicals , Icelandic sagas , Division of rare and manuscripts digital collections , and exhibits from the Johnson museum of art permanent collection . http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Dec 24, 2001 D-Lib Forum and D-Lib Magazine A forum for researchers and developers of advanced digital libraries. Includes a monthly electronic magazine and links to projects and collections concerning digital library research. http://www.dlib.org/ Topics: Librarianship, Libraries & Archives by Type, Magazines, Social Science Last updated Dec 22, 2003 Digital Library Building Blocks: Glossary This glossary of terms for digital librarianship can help you distinguish OAI from an IOU, and familiarize you with acronyms, terms, and phrases such as METS, "XML Gateway," and "behaviors metadata." Searchable; browsable by major topic. From the California Digital Library. http://www.cdlib.org/inside/diglib/glossary/ Topics: Librarianship, Libraries & Archives by Type, Social Science Last updated Oct 14, 2004 Digital Library Federation (DLF) This site provides guidance for "developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress." Among site resources find Roles & Responsibilities , Standards & Practices , and more. Publications & Resources links to "working papers, reports, and other information resources." Public Access Collections links to content published by member institutions. Sponsored by the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR) . http://www.diglib.org/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Aug 7, 2002 Digital Quaker Collection (DQC) "DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries." Searchable, or browsable by author or title. Also includes links to related sites. From the Earlham School of Religion, Richmond, Indiana. http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/ Topics: Christianity, Libraries & Archives by Type, Literary Movements and Periods Last updated Oct 14, 2004 DIGLIB: A Discussion List for Digital Libraries Researchers and Librarians "The DIGLIB mailing list is for librarians, information scientists, and other information professionals to share information about the many issues and technologies pertaining to the creation of 'digital libraries.'" Archived and searchable. http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/diglib Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated May 1, 2009 DSpace at the University of Washington "DSpace captures, distributes and preserves digital research products [from the University of Washington]. Here you can find articles, working papers, preprints, technical reports, conference papers and data sets in various digital formats." Search, or browse by title, author, date, or communities and collections (such as College of Forest Resources and University Archives). Requires free registration. From the University of Washington Libraries. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated May 31, 2006 Exploratorium Digital Library This collection features "digital media and digitized museum materials related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena, including images, educational activities in PDF and html formats, QuickTime movies, streaming media, and audio files." Covers astronomy, biology, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines. From the Exploratorium, San Francisco. http://www.exploratorium.edu/educate/dl.html Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Science Last updated Apr 4, 2006 Google Book Search A searchable archive of the full texts of books scanned from publishers and libraries. The site includes a discussion of what portions of materials are available for books that may still be under copyright protection: "you'll only see snippets of text directly around your search term. This snippet view is designed to help users ... make a decision about whether to go find a physical copy of the book." Formerly known as Google Print. http://books.google.com/ Topics: Industries, Internet Guides & Search Tools, Libraries & Archives by Type, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Nov 17, 2005 Health Education Assets Library: Heal National Digital Library This collaborative project from three medical schools offers multimedia presentations on a wide range of health education topics at both the professional and lay levels. It includes images, video and audio clips, animations, presentations, and documents. Free registration is required to search and use the files. A useful resource for health educators, teachers, and students preparing reports. http://www.healcentral.org/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Mar 16, 2004 HistoricalVoices.org Historical Voices is creating "a significant...online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century." Galleries lists their eclectic collection of databases and links. Following another goal of the project, there is also research on "sound digitization, system architecture, federated searching, metadata implementations, online delivery, and multimedia education." http://www.historicalvoices.org/ Topics: Government, History, Internet, Libraries & Archives by Type, Music, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Oct 3, 2002 International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) "The mission of the ICDL is to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old." The site provides access to hundreds of digitized children's books from around the world. Books are searchable, or browsable by category, title, author, or location. Also includes links to related resources. A project of the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive. http://www.icdlbooks.org/ Topics: Children's Literature, Librarian Specialties, Libraries & Archives by Type, Literature & Books Last updated Feb 11, 2004 Memory of the World A database of digitized collections and projects worldwide reflecting "the diversity of languages, peoples and cultures." Entries include the country, collection name and web address, a brief description, type of material, and language. A joint project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Programme and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated May 2, 2006 Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial "This online tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. ... The tutorial has been translated into Spanish and French." Includes information about basic terminology, selection, conversion, quality control, metadata, technical infrastructure, presentation, digital preservation, and management. Searchable. From Cornell University Library. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Dec 15, 2004 National Science Digital Library (NSDL) "NSDL provides educational resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education." The site features links to hundreds of digital resources for teaching and learning about science. Material is searchable or browsable by topic. Also includes news and highlights from the collection. Searchable. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). http://nsdl.org/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Science, Science Last updated May 13, 2005 Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) This group "is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs," and more. Features an ETD union catalog. "Development sponsored by UNESCO and Adobe Systems, Inc." http://www.ndltd.org/ Topics: Communications, English Language, Libraries & Archives by Type, Nonfiction by Genre, Writing Last updated Jun 22, 2004 NYPL Digital Gallery This site "provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library [NYPL], including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." Searchable, or browsable by collection, such as art and literature, cities and buildings, industry and technology, and nature and science. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Mar 9, 2005 OAIster Search A search tool for millions of "academically-oriented digital resources" from hundreds of institutions. Includes electronic books, online journals, audio files, video, and reference texts. A project managed by librarian Kat Hagedorn at the University of Michigan. http://www.oclc.org/oaister/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Nov 6, 2009 Parallel Worlds: Online Games and Digital Information Services This December 2005 article looks at the similarities of online gaming and digital library services, and provides background about the development of online games. Explains early online games (such as MUDs or multi-user dungeon games), advancements to MMOGs (massive multiplayer online games), characteristics of online game players and games, the significance of "Web 2.0," and related subjects. From D-Lib Magazine, a publication that focuses on digital library research and development. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/kirriemuir/12kirriemuir.html Topics: Internet, Librarianship, Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Feb 28, 2006 SIOExplorer Digital Library Project "Data, documents and images from 822 expeditions by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) since 1903 are becoming web-accessible under a usage policy through the new SIOExplorer project, and will become part of the overall NSF-funded National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The effort is a collaboration among researchers at Scripps, computer scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and archivists and librarians from the UCSD Library." Includes links to shipboard and geophysical data. http://nsdl.sdsc.edu Topics: Geology, Water Last updated Sep 13, 2006 Smithsonian Institution Digital Library The Smithsonian gateway to digitized images from its museums, archives, and libraries. Currently more than 15,000 images have been digitized and described. The collection is browsable by general topic and searchable throught the main Smithsonian Web site search. Digitization of the collections is an ongoing project as there are more than 240 million objects in the Smithsonian. You must have cookies turned on for this site to work. http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Feb 26, 2003 Strategies for Building Digitized Collections Policies, guidelines, best practices, and other recommendations for building digitized collections, based on the author's synthesis of "the nearly 10 years' experience that libraries have had digitizing items from their rare, special, and general collections, and making them available online." From the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub101/contents.html Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type Last updated Aug 25, 2004 Turning the Pages This site allows visitors to "turn" the pages of famous manuscripts by using interactive animation. Manuscripts include Leonardo's Notebook, the Golden Haggadah, Vesalius' Anatomy, the Diamond Sutra, and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an. Also includes audio commentary. From the British Library. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/index.html Topics: Artists, Libraries & Archives by Type, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Sep 22, 2009 World eBook Library This site provides free access to tens of thousands of online publications in HTML format in the areas of classical and religious literature, poetry, and historical documents. The public access section of this consortium-based collection is searchable but not browsable. Some materials on the site require a fee. http://www.netlibrary.net/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Literature & Books, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Jun 7, 2004

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