CAS in Digital Libraries: Resources
The term “digital libraries,” in its most general sense, encompasses activities having to do with storing, organizing, and finding of digital content, both within and outside libraries. Below are many examples of digital content that fall under the broadest definition of digital libraries.
Digital Library and Museum Collections
- Library of Congress - Digital Libraries Collections
The Library of Congress provides digital access to many of its collections. The following is a list of collections that are available in digital form:
American Memory
American Memory Background Papers and Technical Information
Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
Electronic Exhibits
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
Digital Collections Project – "Studies in Scarlet"
- Cuneiform Digital Libraries Initiative
The Cuneiform Digital Libraries Initiative (CDLI) makes the form and content of cuneiform tablets available online. These tablets date from the beginning of writing (ca. 3200 B.C.) until the end of the third millennium. This digital library was accomplished through the combined efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators, and historians of science.
- The Digital Collection of the State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum, in collaboration with IBM, offers virtual access to its gallery of artwork images from its collection.
- Worcester Art Museum – Digital Images Collection
This web site provides a comprehensive listing of museums with digital collections with links to each collection. Includes links to American, Ancient, Korean, Islamic, Indian, European, Chinese, and Japanese art collections.
Digital Archives
- Online Archive of California
The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. These resources are available to a diverse audience of scholars, students, and researchers. This digital libraries archive was created through the cooperative efforts of archivists, museum professionals, and librarians.
- Storage Resource Broker (SRB)
This is a very large data repository/archive with distributed nodes across the country. It was developed at UC San Diego's Supercomputing Center and provides a way to access data sets and resources based on their attributes rather than on their names or physical locations.
- Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. This is a nonprofit organization established to preserve websites by taking regular "snapshots.”
Collections of Digital Information
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
This is a digital collection of OECD publications and statistics. Resources for journalists, students, civil society, government officials, and NGOs regarding international public policy and social issues are included.
- Networked Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations
Allows access to theses and dissertations from an international collection of universities.
- Perseus Digital Libraries
A digital library containing classical Greek works, dictionaries, and grammatical assistance.
- A Celebration of Women Writers
This is a comprehensive digital repository of links to the biographies and bibliographies of famous women writers.
- Rochester Time Capsule
Explore the contents of the Rochester time capsule from May 28, 1873, and witness the time capsule being opened on December 1, 1999. This site also reveals the contents of the time capsule that was re-interned on May 14, 2001.
Collections of Digital Images
Current Digital Libraries Projects and Initiatives
- National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative
The site lists and describes the numerous digital libraries projects that the National Science Foundation is currently supporting.
- IFLA Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects
This offers a comprehensive description of many different digital libraries projects underway in the United States and Europe.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services – Digital Support
IMLS showcases their digital libraries/museum projects on this site.
- PERSIVAL: Personalized Retrieval and Summarization of Image, Video and Language Resource
Here is a digital libraries project with the goal of tailoring search, presentation, and summarization of online medical information to the needs of the end-user.
- The Virtual Data Center [Harvard University]
This is a digital library that collects and shares quantitative social science research data.
- Indiana University Digital Music Library Project
This site offers a collection of digital music in a myriad of forms.
- Digital Libraries for Earth Systems Communication
A resource for earth systems science education that includes electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and more. This digital library is organized and run by a grassroots community effort involving educators, students, and scientists.
- Cornell University Library Digital Initiatives
Describes the many fascinating digital initiatives currently underway at Cornell University.
Library Websites
- Libweb: Library WWW Servers
This is a comprehensive international online directory of library web pages. Library web pages can be searched by its name, location, library type, or any key information.
“Virtual” Libraries and Branches
- Internet Public Library [University of Michigan]
The mission of the Internet Public Library is to provide library services to Internet users. The activities of this digital library include finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating information resources as well as direct assistance to individuals. Users can search through subject collections, consult ready reference resources, or enjoy the reading room.
- California Digital Libraries
This is one of the largest digital libraries in the world and provides digital access to scholarly materials and the services necessary to access those materials.
- Denver Public Library, E-Branch
This site offers just one example of the concept of a virtual branch where library collections and services are available online.
- National Electronic Library for Health: Health Management – Virtual Branch Libraries
This is a listing of virtual branches in the National Electronic Library of Health (NeLH) project in the United Kingdom.
Digital Libraries: Online Journals, Books, and Documents
- D-Lib Magazine
D-Lib Magazine is a solely electronic publication with the goal of timely and efficient information exchange for the digital libraries community. The focus of the magazine is digital libraries research and development. The full contents of the magazine, including all back issues, are available free of charge at the D-Lib web site.
- ACM Digital Libraries
This digital library provides full text of every article ever produced by the Association for Computing Machinery. Users can search for a particular article or browse through journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, publications of special interest groups, and more.
- Project Bartleby: The Public Library of the Internet [Columbia University]
The mission of this digital library is to provide users with access to a collection of fiction, non-fiction, verse, and reference works online and free of charge.
- The Online Books Page
This site houses an index of thousands of books available in digital, readable form for free via the Internet.
Digital Preservation