The British Columbia Digital Library: North American Collections: United States

The British Columbia Digital Library

North American Collections: United States

The focus of this set of links is on collections of electronic texts (not individual titles) preserved through libraries, archives, museums and corporate or private initiatives. Listings here are therefore primarily for the written word as expressed in manuscripts, books and periodicals, including newspapers. A few non-book digital library collections are included. Readers wishing further leads to non-book digital content should consult one of the directories or guides.

Unless indicated, access to these Web sites is free and open to the general public.

National Collections

The national digital library collections of Canada and the United States contain material relevant to both countries.

See also Digital Collections by Subject, for example, American Texts.

American Memory (Library of Congress). Multimedia collection based on Library of Congress and other research collections in the US. All the collections are searchable a variety of ways.
Making of America (MOA) (Hosted by University of Michigan). Full-text searchable/browsable selection of books and journals dating between 1800-1925 relating to the development of the United States. The initial collection was a joint project with Cornell University which also hosts a Making of America site. Selections from both are also part of The Nineteenth Century in Print: the Making of America in Books and Periodicals (American Memory, Library of Congress).
National Academy Press. Washington, DC: The National Academies. "... created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, ...." As of February 2002, over 2,500 free titles are full-text searchable or browsable by publication topic. Hardcopy versions can also be ordered online. Date accessed: 2002-02-11. Date added: 2002-02-11.
National Transportation Library. Washington, DC: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation. Established in 1998, the National Transportation Library includes a Digital Collection of transportation-related publications and Web sites. Date accessed: 2004-06-04. Date added: 2004-06-04.
NYPL Digital Gallery. New York, NY: New York Public Library, 2005-. Opened on March 3, 2005 to Internet access, contains over 275,000 digital images, chiefly pictorial in nature, but including book-like materials such as illuminated manuscripts. The site can be searched or browsed through a variety of options, including Library of Congress subject headings and by names associated with a specific image. Date accessed: 2005-03-07. Date added: 2005-03-07.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collections. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Digital facsimiles of rare and out-of-print publications issued or created by the libraries on trade literature, anthropology, science and technology, natural history rare books, and selected issues of the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins. Date accessed: 2002-02-11. Date added: 2002-02-11.

Regional Collections

AmericanSouth.org. "An Emory University Digital Library Research Initiative." Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a "free, comprehensive repository of materials and peer-reviewed resources related to the American South." Includes searchable and browsable digitized research collections, essays, and Web links. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
Boston Library Consortium, BLC Clearinghouse of Digital Projects & Staff. The consortium is "an association of academic & research libraries" in New England. This site describes various digital/digitization projects undertaken by consortium members. Date accessed: 2004-10-16. Date added: 2004-10-16.
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archives. "A project of Washington State University Vancouver, the Idaho State Historical Society, Oregon Historical Society, Washington State Historical Society, and Washington State University Pullman." Multimedia archives documenting some of the experiences of various ethnic groups in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington State. The digital collections are managed with CONTENTdm . Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
Digital Library of Appalachia. "A project of the Appalachian College Association, Appalachian Library Information Cooperative Exchange (ALICE)." "Scope and Content: The Digital Library of Appalachia seeks to provide online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The thirty-three member libraries, archives, and museums associated with the Appalachian College Association, known collectively as ALICE (Appalachian Library Information Cooperative Endeavors),seek to generate interest and encourage continued scholarship for the entire region. Information in the database exists as reproductions of color or black and white photographs, reformatted typed pages, published books, unpublished manuscripts, personal diaries and correspondence, journal and newspaper articles, musical recordings, oral history recordings and transcripts, and other related reproductions. As of December 2001, there are 1,000 items in this database." The collection can be browsed by subject matter or by contributing institution. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
New England Collections Online. Southborough, MA: NELINET, Inc. Summary: "A collaborative effort of libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other organizations to coordinate and manage the creation, storage, access, and maintenance of a web-based digital library of historical, social, cultural, economic and scientific resources related to New England." As of January 2004, institutions in the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont are represented in the directory of digital collections. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date accessed: 2004-01-12.
Western Trails: A Collaboration of Cultural Heritage Institutions from Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.

The States, District of Columbia and Territories

Statewide Guides

Statewide Digitization Projects: A Guide to Information Sources. Ken Middleton. Murfreesboro, TN: Middle Tennessee State University. Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.

Alabama

Office of the Governor and Alabama State Legislature, Alabama Virtual Library. This site provides access through an authentication server to a wide variety of commercial databases. Date accessed: 2002-09-16. Date added: 2002-09-16.
University of Alabama, Clinical Digital Libraries Project. Established in 1997 as a joint investigatory project of the university and the University of North Texas, links are found on this page to all of the participating libraries in Alabama and Texas. Some of the resources in the individual digital libraries are restricted and others are links to publicly available resources. Date accessed: 2002-09-16. Date added: 2002-09-16.
University of Alabama, University Libraries Digital Collections Production Center. Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date accessed: 2004-03-24.

Alaska

Alaska State Library, Alaska Gold Lode. Developed within the Alaska's Gold educational Web site as part of the Alaska Gold Rush centennial in 1999 by the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, this full-text searchable or browsable database contains digital facsimiles of primary sources on Alaska history. Date accessed: 2002-09-16. Date added: 2002-09-16.
Alaska Virtual Library and Digital Archives Blog. Documents activities by the Alaska State Library, Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage, to create an Alaska Virtual Library and Digital Archives. The blog is maintained by Caroline Sturm and was created on January 2, 2003. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, Alaska Digital Archives. A searchable/browsable digital collection of historic moving images and photographs. The site also includes some virtual exhibits. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database: First Contact and First Observations in the Literature Pertaining to Eskimos. The database contains close to 200 searchable digital renditions of first-contact accounts. Date accessed: 2002-09-16. Date added: 2002-09-16.

Arizona

Northern Arizona University, Cline Library, Colorado Plateau Digital Archives. Date accessed: 2004-06-25. Date added: 2004-06-25.
University of Arizona, Library, Digital Library Initiatives Group. Among the full-text resources provided for free via the Projects link are Books of the Southwest (produced by the Southwest Text Electronic Center) and various periodical titles. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
University of Arizona, Library, Southwest Text Electronic Center. Production facility whose main product is Books of the Southwest. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.

Arkansas

Arkansas Digital Library. Fayetteville, AS: University of Arkansas Libraries and others. Project site under development since 1998 for a digital library to serve the needs of Arkansas higher education institutions. Some digitized material from the Special Collections unit of the university library is available. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, American Native Press Archives, Digital Library. Summary: "The Native Writers Digital Text Project brings the works of Native poets and writers of fiction and other prose to readers world wide. Featuring out-of-print literary efforts of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people of Canada, the project seeks to broaden the definition of “Native Writing” not only by focusing on writers who are not ordinarily anthologized, but also by publishing works which originally appeared in “ephemeral” sources, the periodical press, especially in those publications edited and produced by Natives. Each selection is prepared by a student editor working with one of the American Native Press directors. Students learn the principles of editing and preparing a work for publication. They also research and write the accompanying biographical and background essays." Date acccessed: 2004-02-24. Date added: 2004-02-24.

California

California State University, Northridge, San Fernando Valley History Digital Library. Multimedia collection with basic keyword search or controlled vocabulary subject index (pick list). The advanced search engine includes the ability to browse by multimedia or search by multiple fields. Content is in digital facsimile format. Date added: 2002-01-29.
California State University, Sacramento, Library, California Underground Railroad: A Digital Archive. Powered by CONTENTdm, a multimedia collection on slavery in California. Date accessed: 2004-08-04. Date added: 2004-08-04.
Claremont Colleges, Libraries, The Digital Library. Includes both open and restricted content. Date accessed: 2005-05-23. Date added: 2005-05-23.
San Diego Library Consortium, The Circuit. Union database with capability for a genre search for "Online resources" which produces, as of February 2001, over 27,000 catalog entries held by consortium members or linked to catalog entries. Many of these online resources are restricted access.
Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources, SUL/AIR Digital Library Program. Digital library services at Stanford University are available through the Humanities Digital Information Service, the Social Sciences Data Service, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2002-04-12. Date added: 2002-04-12.
University of California, International and Area Studies Digital Collection. Summary: "UCIAS is a partnership of the University of California Press, the California Digital Library (CDL), and internationally oriented research units on eight UC campuses. The Digital Collection publishes articles, monographs, and edited volumes that are peer-reviewed according to standards set by an interdisciplinary UCIAS Editorial Board and approved by the University of California Press. UCIAS makes digital versions of these works available free of charge to a global network of scholars and encourages international intellectual exchange and research collaboration. Selected volumes may also be published in hard copy by the University of California Press." Date accessed: 2003-12-20. Date added: 2003-12-20.
University of California Libraries, California Digital Library (CDL) contains public access and university-only digital content. A special site, CaliforniaDigitalLibrary.org, contains all publicly accessible digital collections, products and services from CDL, including the eScholarship Repository. Date updated: 2003-12-20.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE contains links to collections, software tools and support information for building digital libraries.
University of California, Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office, Oral Histories Online! Collection. SGML-encoded transcripts based on audio recordings with supporting research material. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Digital Library. Date accessed: 2003-12-20. Date added: 2003-12-20.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Alexandria Digital Library Project is in development as a server for geographical resources such as maps, aerial photographs and remote sensing (satellite) data.
University of California Press, E-Books. As of January 2001, over 50 titles available online. Subject areas are: International Studies, Classics, Literature, History, Anthropology, Politics, and Religious Studies.
University of Southern California, Archival Research Center, Digital Archive. Multimedia archives of photographs, maps, manuscripts, dissertations, records, texts (publications), and sound recordings owned by USC and partnering institutions with particular emphasis on materials related to Southern California. Date added: 2002-01-05.
University of Southern California, Learning with ISLA. The USC started development of the Information System for Southern Los Angeles, an integrated or multimedia digital archive, in 1996. This site is for educators and provides backdoor access to ISLA. The ISLA Web site itself does not yet (as January 2002) appear to be functional and it appears ISLA has been or is in the process of being superseded by the Archival Research Center's Digital Archive. Date added: 2002-01-06.
University of Southern California, Libraries, Electronic Resources. This page provides access via drop-down list, alphabetic list, subject list or keyword search to all electronic resources selected by librarians. Electronic resources include both publicly accessible and materials restricted to students, staff or faculty of the university. Date added: 2002-01-05. Date updated: 2002-01-06.

Colorado

Colorado Digital Collections see Colorado Virtual Library.
Colorado Digitization Program. Formerly known as the Heritage Gateway to Colorado's Digitization Project, this alliance of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible Colorado's heritage resources such as Heritage Colorado: Digital Treasures of the West, Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection, and Colorado Main Streets. These resources are also available at a Web session link through the Colorado Virtual Library. Date updated: 2005-10-08.
Colorado Virtual Library. Denver, CO: Access Colorado Library and Information Network. A project of the Colorado State Library and Colorado libraries, this site serves as a content and services gateway for Colorado residents or those interested in the state. There is a Web session link to a search form for Coloradio Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2002-10-24. Date added: 2002-10-24.
See also Western Trails.

Connecticut

Connecticut Digital Library (iCONN). Summary: "iCONN is part of the Connecticut Education Network. It provides all students, faculty and residents with online access to essential library and information resources. It is administered by the Connecticut State Library in conjunction with the Department of Higher Education. Through iCONN, a core level of information resources including secured access to licensed databases is available to every citizen in Connecticut. In addition, specialized research information is available to college students and faculty." Date accessed: 2004-01-13. Date added: 2004-01-13.
Connecticut History Online: Photographs, Drawings and Prints About Connecticut History. "A collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, and Mystic Seaport." Includes a series of photo essays based on the ca. 14,000 digitized images and educational resources geared to intermediate/middle/junior school and high school students. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
See also New England Collections Online.
University of Connecticut Libraries, Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2003-03-20. Date added: 2003-03-20.
Yale University, Yale Divinity School Library, Digital Projects and Research Websites. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Yale University Library, Electronic Text Collection.

Delaware

DelAWARE, the Digital Library of the First State. Gateway service and subject guide to libraries and Internet/Web resources, including other digital content, within and beyond the State of Delaware. Date added: 2002-01-02.

District of Columbia

Catholic University of America, American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Documents Online: Digitized Materials. Member of: Washington Research Libraries Consortium. See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.
Library of Congress, Digital Collections and Programs. While American Memory is quite possibly the library's best known digital collection, a number of other library divisions also utilize digital technology for preservation and access.
Washington Research Libraries Consortium, WRLC Libraries Digital and Special Collections. Includes academic libraries in D.C. and Virginia. See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.

Florida

Florida International University Libraries and others, Everglades Digital Library. Part of the Everglades Information Network, this joint project offers access to multimedia electronic collections documenting the Everglades.
State University System of Florida, PALMM (Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials) is an initiative to create digital content among the archives, libraries and museums of the SUS institutions. A site-search engine and a site list are used to locate content. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
State University System of Florida, Florida Heritage Collection. A subset of PALMM focused on arts, culture, history, sciences, social sciences. Date accessed: 2002-09-16. Date added: 2002-09-16.
University of Central Florida Libraries, Orange County Regional History Center, Orange County Library System, Central Florida Memory. Multimedia digital collection powered by CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2004-08-04. Date added: 2004-08-04.
University of South Florida, USF Libraries Digital Collections. Includes a collection of English language and Latino periodicals, a 16th century book on costume, and local histories of Florida and its communities. Date accessed: 2004-04-17. Date accessed: 2004-04-17.
University of South Florida, USF Libraries Digitization Services. "A digital collection production facility serving the USF Libraries." Date accessed: 2004-04-17. Date accessed: 2004-04-17.

Georgia

Emory University, Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services. Free and restricted access electronic works. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Emory University, Virtual Library Project. Established in 1996, provides access to free and restricted electronic works.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Library and Information Center, Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2005-02-14. Date added: 2005-02-14.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Library and Information Center, Digital Initiatives Department. Date accessed: 2005-02-14. Date added: 2005-02-14.
University of Georgia Libraries, Books and Periodicals in DjVu format. List of titles: http://djvued.libs.uga.edu/dbooks.html. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.
University System of Georgia, Digital Library of Georgia. "A GALILEO initiative." "...a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, audio, video, and other materials." See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date updated: 2003-05-24.

Hawaii

Hawai'i Digital Library. Hilo, HI: Hale Kuamo'o and others, 2004-. Bilingual site interface. This site contains works about Hawaii written in English and is a sister project to Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library, which consists only of works in Hawaiian. The Hawai'i Digital Library uses the Greenstone Digital Library software. Date accessed: 2005-10-08. Date added: 2005-10-08.
Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic Library. Hilo, HI: Hale Kuamo'o and others, 2003-. Bilingual site interface. Summary: "Ulukau includes materials written in Hawaiian and, where they exist, their translations. ... Ulukau was founded by Hale Kuamo'o and is co-sponsored by Hale Kuamo'o, Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani, University of Hawai'i at Hilo and the Native Hawaiian Library, Alu Like, Inc." Ulukau uses the Greenstone Digital Library software. For works in English on Hawaii see the Hawai'i Digital Library. Date accessed: 2005-10-08. Date added: 2005-10-08.
University of Hawaii Libraries, Image Repository. Includes digital facsimiles and Adobe PDF files of Hawaiian language newspapers and research materials.

Idaho

Digital Atlas of Idaho. Funded by the Idaho's Board of Education, "The Digital Atlas of Idaho Project (DAI) delivers natural history information to a variety of audiences, including K-12 educators, college students, agency personnel, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and the public at large. It is available online and on compact disc. It contains detailed written descriptions of Idaho's natural history, photographs, maps, sounds, and glossaries." Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.

Illinois

Chicago Public Library, Digital Collections.
Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL). Consortium established in 1999 to license electronic resources for use by any post-secondary academic library in Illinois which is also a member of ILLINET (Illinois Library and Information Network). IDAL is administered by the University of Illinois' Office for Planning and Budgeting. Date accessed: 2004-10-06. Date added: 2004-10-06.
Illinois State Library, Illinois Digital Archives. Summary: "IDA (Illinois Digitial Archives) is really two services under one roof. The first of these services is a search engine for images, sound files, and other multi-media events that exist on Internet sites throughout Illinois. The search engine indexes images, etc., describing the history and experience of life in Illinois. Among the sites "spidered" or indexed by IDA are sites that deal with local history of various communities, the Nazi march on Skokie, coal mining history, the history of women in Illinois, and other wonderful resources that tell the story of Illinois, both past and present. IDA is also a tool for libraries to add images and their cataloging records into a database. ..." Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
Northern Illinois University, Illinois Historical Digitization Projects. A series of Web sites created in partnership with other Illinois academic and research institutions, these digital content projects cover the history of the Old Northwest back to the 17th century when French explorers traveled through the region. Contents: Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country, 1673-1818; Illinois During the Civil War, 1861-1865; Illinois During the Gilded Age, 1866-1896; Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project. Other related digital content projects include ones on the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the Black Hawk War (1832), Mark Twain's Mississippi River, and United States presidential campaign materials from 1840 to 1860. Date accessed: 2005-06-18. Date added: 2005-06-18.
Northwestern University Library, Digital Library Collections. Descriptions of and links to various multimedia digital collections. Among the text-based collections here are League of Nations: Statistical and Disarmament Documents; a pre-Columbian Mayan text, the Paris Codex; and and English translation of Andreas Vesalius' anatomical atlas, On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543; rev. ed., 1555). Date updated: 2004-03-25.
Skokie Public Library and Skokie Historical Society, DigitalPast, a project of the North Suburban Library System. A browsable and searchable multimedia collection featuring digitized photographs, with some artifacts and textual materials. Date accessed: 2003-07-14. Date added: 2003-07-14.
University of Chicago Library, Digital Library Activities. Links to digitization productions and electronic resources. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
University of Chicago Library, Electronic Text Services. Two types of electronic works -- some local, some remote, and some restricted access -- are provided through the Electronic Full-Text Sources and the Electronic Open Stacks. The former are searchable full-text resources, while the latter are digital facsimiles (images).
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Digital Libraries Initiative.

Indiana

Indiana University, Digital Library Program. Institution-wide digital library multimedia and single-medium projects. Some projects are restricted access. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and University Information Technology Services, Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS).

Iowa

University of Iowa Libraries, Scholarly Digital Resources Center.

Kansas

Kansas Digital Library: Electronic Information Resources Uniquely Kansan or Unique to Kansas. Searchable/browsable directory of digital and digitized resources in a protoype site for demonstration purposes. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
University of Kansas, CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library. Searchable/browsable (by author-title) collections in a variety of languages of electronic editions on a variety of subjects.
See also Western Trails.

Kentucky

Kentucky Virtual Library, Kentuckiana Digital Library. Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Virtual Library. Not only does Kentucky have a virtual library, there is also a set of multimedia digitized collections. Date updated: 2002-10-25.
University of Kentucky, Research in Computing for Humanities.
University of Kentucky Library, Electronic Information Access and Management Center. Access the Kentuckiana Digital Library from here, and electronic theses and dissertations specific to the university.

Louisiana

LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network, LOUISiana Digital Library. Digital collections here are hosted by Louisiana State University and managed with CONTENTdm . Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
Louisiana State University, LSU Digital Library.
Louisiana State University Libraries, Special Collections, Digital Resources.

Maine

Maine Memory Network. "...a project of the Maine Historical Society." Portal-based multimedia digital collection with an e-commerce facility for purchasing content. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
See also New England Collections Online.

Maryland

Descriptions of Maryland. Westminster, Maryland: History Club, McDaniel College. Selected XHTML transcripts of historical works, both non-fiction and fiction, depicting Maryland, including the annotated bibliography Descriptions of Maryland by Bernard C. Steiner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1904). Links to other historical, published works about Maryland are available through the Finding Texts Elsewhere page. Date accessed: 2005-02-13. Date added: 2005-02-13.
Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage. Summary: "The goal of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Project is to facilitate the digitization and digital exhibition of Maryland-related historical documents, images, audio and video for Maryland’s Public Libraries." Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
State of Maryland, Archives of Maryland Online. Access to full-text electronic versions of the state's legal and archival records.

Massachusetts

Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Digitized Collections. As of February 2001, collections consist only of digitized photograph and artifact collections.
Boston College Libraries, Digital Library Projects. Some projects are restricted access.
Harvard University Library, Library Digital Initiative. Launched "in July 1998 as a five-year program to develop the University's capacity to manage digital information."
Harvard University Library, Open Collections Program. Established in November 2002 "to increase the availability and use of textual and visual historical resources for teaching, learning, and research by selecting resources from the Harvard Libraries in broad topic areas, putting them in digital format, and providing access to them through the web and the Harvard library catalogs." See also: Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2005-02-12. Date added: 2005-02-12.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Press Digital Projects. See also: Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2002-12-14. Date acdded: 2002-12-14.
Tufts University, Digital Collections and Archives. Administrative site for the university's digital collections programs. Date accessed: 2004-10-16. Date added: 2004-10-16.
Tufts University, Digital Library. Summary: "... a collaborative effort between the Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) and Academic Technology (AT). The TDL is one part of a larger digital repository system being developed at Tufts and managed by the DCA. The TDL supports the teaching and research mission of the university by creating access to a growing collection of digital content produced and developed at Tufts." Date accessed: 2004-10-16. Date added: 2004-10-16.
See also New England Collections Online.

Michigan

Library of Michigan, The Making of Modern Michigan: Digitizing Michigan's Hidden Past. Hosted by Michigan State University Libraries, Digital & Multimedia Center, this project aims to facilitate the creation of digital collections pertaining to Michigan's history. Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
Michigan State University, Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online. Among its digital resource creation projects are the African Digital Library: West African Digital Resources.
Michigan State University Libraries, Digital Sources Center. Digital facsimiles of a wide variety of texts and other media from the Special Collections Division.
University of Michigan, Digital Library Production Service. Digital production service whose extensive collection list includes public and restricted resources on a wide range of subject matter. The Digital Library Collections and Publications produced by the DLPS are organized into four categories: Text Collections, Finding Aid Collections, Image Collections, and Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO) Collections. The UMDL Text Collections encompass 41 collections containing nearly 32,000 texts, the largest of which is the Digital General Collection, which contains over 25,000 texts. Date updated: 2004-12-22.
University of Michigan, Humanities Text Initiative, Text Collections. Established in 1994, this unit produces and hosts digital facsimile and SGML-encoded collections and titles ranging from religious works to poetry.

Minnesota

Minnesota Digital Library Coalition, Minnesota Digital Library Project. Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
University of Minnesota, Electronic Text Research Center. In addition to a directory of full-text Internet accessible electronic works, the ETRC also hosts locally produced, SGML-encoded projects of literary works. See also Digital Colletions by Subject.
University of Minnesota Libraries (Twin Cities), Digital Collections and Services. In addition to a list of locally produced digital collections, the Digital Assets Inventory lists hundreds of other free and restricted access Web sites within the University of Minnesota domain.
University of Minnesota Libraries (Twin Cities), Lumina: Digital Library Gateway. Online catalogue and guide to the university's holdings in hardcopy and online formats in all media. The Quick Links dropdown list provides two-click access to free or restricted Electronic Journals and Electronic Texts.

Mississippi

University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, Special Collections Digital Lab, Digital Media Archive. See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date updated: 2004-01-12.
University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, Special Collections, Virtual Reading Room.

Missouri

Missouri Digitization Planning Project, Virtually Missouri. "The purpose of the Missouri Digitization Planning Project (MDPP) is to coordinate access to digital collections and exhibits created by the cultural & scientific heritage institutions of Missouri. The project brings together representatives from the archives, historical society, library, and museum communities." You can list collections by their sponsoring agency or search for descriptions of collections. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24. Date updated: 2004-03-24.
University of Missouri Digital Collections. Links to multimedia collections located in other campus libraries and museums. See also Digital Library Collections By Subject: Newspapers. Date accessed: 2003-09-02. Date added: 2003-09-02.
University of Missouri Digital Library. See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2003-09-02. Date added: 2003-09-02.

Montana

Montana State Library, Montana State Library Digital Library Initiative. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
University of Montana, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Centre, America's Wars in Asia: Digital Teaching Library. Date accessed: 2004-08-19. Date added: 2004-08-19.
University of Montana-Missoula, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, Progressive Men of Montana. Date accessed: 2004-08-19. Date added: 2004-08-19.
Vigilantes of Montana: Secret Trials and Midnight Hangings, 1863-1864 (Maintained by Louis Schmittroth). Full-text electronic editions in HTML of books and articles relating to vigilantism in Montana during the U.S. Civil War years.

Nebraska

See also Western Trails.

Nevada

University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, Digital Projects. These sites, chiefly digitized collections of images identified under the collective title Online Image Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries, are managed with CONTENTdm. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.

New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire Library, UNH Digital Library Project. Date accessed: 2004-10-16. Date added: 2004-10-16.
See also New England Collections Online.

New Jersey

Rutgers University, Alexander Library, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH).
Rutgers University, Alexander Library, Scholarly Communications Center.
Rutgers University Libraries, Digital Library Projects.

New York

American Museum of Natural History Library, Digital Library Project. The first online collection to be released is based on multimedia records, including 160 scientific publications (full-text searchable or browsable), from the museum's Congo Expedition (1909-1915). See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date added: 2002-03-05.
Columbia University, Teachers College, Institute for Learning Technologies (ILTweb). See the ILT Projects section for links to Digital Text projects, including Digital Dante, and links to other electronic library collections. Some of the ILTWeb digital texts are historical works of educational theorists such as John Locke and John Dewey.
Columbia University Libraries, Digital Library Projects. This site describes and links to digital library projects at Columbia University. Some electronic texts and journals are restricted. Alternate URL: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/ Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
Columbia University Libraries, Electronic Text Service. Electronic editions managed or produced by this service can be search on CLIO, the library's online catalogue. Free and restricted access. See also Digital Collections By Subject.
Cornell University Library, Cornell Digital Library Collections. See also Digital Collections By Subject.
Cornell University Library, Electronic Text Center.
Cornell University Library, Networked Resources. Topical categories to public and restricted access multimedia digital content. See also Digital Collections By Subject.
Hamliton College Library, Digital Collections of Hamilton College Library. See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2004-07-07. Date added: 2004-07-07.
Metroplitan New York Library Council, MRDI: METRO Regional Digitization Initiative. Project to encourage the digitization of collections held by Metro library members. The site includes PowerPoint slides from a one-day digitization symposium held July 17, 2002. There is also a page of useful links. Date accessed: 2002-12-13. Date added: 2002-12-13.
New York Public Library, Digital Library Collection. See also Digital Collections By Subject.
New York Public Library, NYPL Digital Gallery. Date accessed: 2005-03-07. Date added: 2005-03-07.
New York State Library, New York State Documents. Many publications issued by the state government are available available as digital facsimiles in TIFF or GIF image file formats. See the Scanned Documents section for details on how to locate and view these.
South Central Regional Library Council, Digitizing Program. Date accessed: 2002-12-23. Date added: 2002-12-23.
Syracuse University Library, Department of Special Collections, Digital Collections. See also Digital Collections By Subject.
United States Military Academy Library (West Point), USMA Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date added: 2003-12-19.
University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of History, History and MultiMedia Center. Multidisciplinary research and multimedia production site with an emphasis on industrial history.

North Carolina

Duke University Libraries, Digital Library Initiatives Task Group.
East Carolina Library, Joyner Library, North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library. Date accessed: 2004-07-02. Date added: 2004-07-07.
State Library of North Carolina, North Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online). "North Carolina ECHO is part of the Access to Special Collections Project, co-sponsored by Duke University Libraries and the State Library of North Carolina." A gateway service, with keyword searching or browsing capability, for locating digital collections inside and outside North Carolina about the state's cultural heritage. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
Wake Forest University, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Digital Collections. Alternate URL: http://www.wfu.edu/Library/special/digital.html. See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2004-08-06. Date added: 2004-08-06.

Ohio

Case Western Reserve University, University Library, Digital Library Services. This library division maintains the university' library's Web site and digitizes media for Web presentation. Date added: 2002-08-18.
Cleveland Public Library, CLEVNET Digital Library Connection. Opened on April 8, 2003, this is a searchable or browsable, online lending library of e-books available in the Adobe Acrobat eBook and Palm eBook formats. Date accessed: 2003-05-04. Date added: 2003-05-04.
Cleveland State University Library, Special Collections, Cleveland Digital Library: Virtual Cleveland History. Summary: "A digital collection of texts, maps, and images, as well as access tools for digital and non-digital works, all concerning the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio." Date added: 2002-08-18.
Cleveland State University Library, Special Collections, Cleveland Memory Project. "A showcase for the Special Collections of the Cleveland State University Library." This site includes several ebooks in HTML format from the 19th and 20th centuries about Cleveland's history. Date accessed: 2003-03-21. Date added: 2003-03-21.
Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Memory. Launched on March 26, 2002 and inspired by the Library of Congress' American Memory, this searchable/browsable digital collection contains "online historical documents and artifacts from more than 250 libraries, museums, archives and historical societies across the state" (press release). Users can create their own scrapbook through the My Scrapbook feature. Date accessed: 2002-05-18. Date added: 2002-05-18.
SOLO Regional Library System, Digital Shoebox Collections. Variant title: The Digital Shoebox Project: Historical Treasures of Southeastern Ohio. Summary: "The Digital Shoebox will bring these historical treasures together in a searchable online scrapbook in time for Ohio's Bicentennial in 2003. It will be a gateway to primary source materials -photos, maps, documents, county histories -relating to the rich history and culture of southeastern Ohio -the "start of it all." Site uses ContentDM. Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date added: 2003-12-19.
Worthington Libraries and Worthington Historical Society, Worthington Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Worthington History. Searchable/browsable multimedia digital collection of local history materials modeled on and linked to the Ohio Memory project. Digital facsimiles of handwritten manuscripts may include a transcription. Date accessed: 2002-05-18. Date added: 2002-05-18.
Wright State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives, Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Collections. This collection honors Dayton, Ohio, poet and novelist, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), the first African-American poet to attain international literary recognition.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State University Library Digitization Center. See also Digital Collections By Subject.

Oregon

University of Oregon Libraries, Digital Library Initiatives. Although no longer active, according to Carol Hixson, one of the members, the site includes an annotated bibliography, "Digitalography," and the archives of the DIGLIB mailing list. See also Digital Collections By Subject and Digital Library Construction Tools: How-To Manuals. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
University of Oregon Libraries, UO CONTENTdm Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2003-08-04. Date added: 2003-08-04.

Pennsylvania

Academy of Natural Sciences, Digital Collections. Digitized works are produced by the Academy's Albert M. Greenfield Digital Imaging Center for Collections. See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date added: 2002-08-25.
Dickinson College, DEILA, the Dickinson Electronic Initiative in the Liberal Arts. See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date added: 2003-12-19.
Lehigh University Library and Technology Services, Digital Projects. See also Digital Collections By Subject. Date accessed: 2003-12-19. Date added: 2003-2-19.
Pennsylvania History Online. Summary: "Pennsylvania History Online is a collaboration among the four Pennsylvania Statewide Resource Centers: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Free Library of Philadelphia, Penn State University Libraries, State Library of Pennsylvania." Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.
Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Digital Resources Center.
University of Pennsylvania, Digital Library Programs & Projects. Includes the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI); The Online Books Page; and A Celebration of Women Writers. See also Digital Collections By Subject.
University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library. Includes public and restricted multimedia digital content.

Puerto Rico

See also Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives (American Memory, Library of Congress).

Rhode Island

Brown University, Scholarly Technology Group. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Brown University, Library, Center for Digital Initiatives. A production facility for the library established in 2001, this site provides an alternate means of access to the library's digital collections. See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2004-08-22. Date added: 2004-08-22.
Brown University, Library, Digital Projects. Contains a link to its Digital Collections. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.

South Carolina

PASCAL: Parnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries, Digital Collections Committee. Established in 2001, PASCAL formed a Digital Collections Committee, which held its first meeting in December 2002, to formulate a plan of action for establishing a statewide digital library collection program. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Digital Collections. Access various digital facsimiles of selected textual and photographic records via the online record index. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.
South Carolina State Library, DISCUS (Digital Information for South Carolina USers), South Carolina’s Virtual Library. Provides "all South Carolinians free online access to the best subscription library resources." Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
University of South Carolina, University Libraries, Digital Collections. See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2005-06-06. Date added: 2005-06-06.

South Dakota

South Dakota State Historical Society, South Dakota Memory. Summary: "South Dakota Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of South Dakota. This site offers digital items from heritage institutions (archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums) statewide." Date accessed: 2004-03-24. Date added: 2004-03-24.

Tennessee

TENN-SHARE, Tennessee Electronic Library. TEL is an electronic resource licensing and sharing initiative among Tennessee's libraries. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
TENN-SHARE, Tennessee Electronic Library, VolunteerVoices.org. Summary: "Volunteer Voices represents an ambitious initiative of the TENN-SHARE's Tennessee Electronic Library to provide online access to Tennesse's rich culture and history. The work of Volunteer Voices is coordinated through the Preserve and Share Tennessee History and Culture Task Force." Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University Libraries, Digital Library Center. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
University of Tennessee at Martin, Andy Holt Virtual Library. "... principally a concept library, with a focus on the Humanities and Fine Arts. Though open to the public, it is designed to serve the learning communities within the College of Humanities and Fine Arts...". Includes the "DOCU-STACKS: Online Digital Texts Collections". Date added: 2002-01-02.

Texas

John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center, John P. McGovern History of Medicine Digital Library. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Rice University, Electronic Text Center.
Texas A&M University, College Station, Center for the Study of Digital Libraries.
Texas Tides. Variant title: Tides in Early Texas History. Collaborative digital collection and educational Web site. Digital content resources can be accessed through a timeline organized by ethnic group; content includes both digitized historical documents and links to modern Web sites and electronic publications such as The Handbook of Texas Online. A keyword search engine lets you search through archival collection finding aids. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
University of Houston Libraries, UH e-Library.
University of North Texas Libraries, Portal to Texas History Project. Date accessed: 2003-05-24. Date added: 2003-05-24.
University of North Texas Libraries, Government Documents Department, Texas Law & Historic Documents. Collection of digitized and electronic resources pertaining to Texas law and that date back to 1822. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
University of Texas at Austin, UTOPIA. A massive portal to digitized and electronic multimedia resources designed for educators, students and families, which aggregates content produced by or stored at various points within the university. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
University of Texas at Austin General Libraries, UT System Digital Library.

Utah

Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Digital Media Library. Free and restricted access to digitized collections. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library, Scholarly Publications Center. Online archive for publications issued by the university or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library Digital Technologies. Digital productions are issued under the series title J. Willard Marriott Library Digitized Collections. See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date updated: 2003-08-06.
Utah Academic Library Consortium, Mountain West Digital Library. Summary: "The Mountain West Digital Library is a consortium of digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah. Four hosting institutions each run CONTENTdm servers and support their own digital collections, and support client institutions by providing scanning and hosting services. A multi-site aggregating server automatically harvests metadata from the hosting institutions on a regular basis and provides the search engine." Date accessed: 2003-08-06. Date added: 2003-08-06.

Vermont

See also New England Collections Online.

Virginia

George Mason University, Department of History and Art History, Center for History and New Media. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
George Mason University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives, Digitized Collections. Chiefly image collections, including Fedearl Theatre Project posters produced under the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. Member of: Washington Research Libraries Consortium. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.
The Library of Virginia, Digital Library Program. Established in 1995, provides access to digital archival and library collections. The library announced in 2004 that "Due to budget cuts, further development of digital collections has ceased. The projects of the DLP form a a significant portion of What We Have in our collections and will be available as long as funding permits. Since its inception in 1995, the Program digitized more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs, and maps, and produced more than 80 fully-searchable databases, indexes, and electronic finding aids." Date updated: 2004-03-25.
The Library of Virginia, Virginia Historical Inventory Digital Project. Digital facsimiles of documents and photographs created by the Virginia Writers' Project under a Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant in the late 1930s.
Old Dominion University Libraries, Digital Services & Projects. Date accessed: 2002-10-25. Date added: 2002-10-25.
University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). Co-host of the TEI Consortium, the IATH participates in the production of multimedia research collections in the humanities. For a selection of these, see also Digital Collections by Subject.
University of Virginia, Virginia Center for Digital History. An impressive array of multimedia, scholarly digital collections with supporting research/teaching tools, such as The Valley of the Shadow and Virtual Jamestown. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
University of Virginia Library, Electronic Text Center. Established in 1992, its collections are encoded in SGML and XML. The searchable/browsable online holdings cover thousands of online humanities publications in 12 languages. Over 1,000 titles are also available for download for ebook readers (Microsoft and Palm operating systems). Much of the online content is restricted. The Electronic Text Center also maintains a page describing a variety of works it digitizes for Special Collections. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections Digital Center. This electronic center is responsible for digital facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Digital Library and Archives.
VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia (Sponsored by State Council of Higher Education , Virginia). A consortium of academic libraries which provides access to electronic collections.
Washington Research Libraries Consortium, WRLC Libraries Digital and Special Collections. Includes academic libraries in D.C. and Virginia. See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date accessed: 2004-07-08. Date added: 2004-07-08.

Washington (State)

University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections. See also Digital Collections by Subject.
Washington State Library, Washington State Digital Library Resources. Alternate title: Washington State Digital Library Portal. Includes best practices, digital imaging production, and digital collections. Date added: 2002-01-29. Date updated: 2003-05-24.
Washington State University, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections. As of November 2001, several digitized photograph collections can be searched and browsed. A collection of over 300 early Pacific Northwest (including British Columbia) and Washington maps prepared in collaboration with University of Washington Libraries is also available. The Online Books link reveals two digitized titles as of November 2001, along with a digitized collection of Pacific Northwest newspaper clippings. Date added: 2001.11.

West Virginia

West Virginia Digital Library. Still in the planning stages as of January 2004, and described as "A consortium of West Virginia libraries dedicated to providing equal access to information for all West Virginians." Date accessed: 2004-01-13. Date added: 2004-01-13.

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin, Digital Collections. Summary: "...created in the summer of 2001. The Council of Wisconsin libraries and UW System's Office of Learning & Information Technology established the UWDC to provide quality digital resources from its academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large. The UWDC Center was formed to be the utility that digitizes, provides access to, and maintains digital projects." See the Collections link for descriptions and links. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Murphy Library, Digitized Resources Provided by Murphy Library. Multimedia collection of digitized materials, with an emphasis on historical pictorial and printed texts. Date accessed: 2003-12-15. Date added: 2003-12-15.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Electronic Text & Multimedia Collections. Directory of local and global electronic text resources. Some collections are restricted access. See also Digital Collections by Subject. Date added: 2001-12-21.
University of Wisconsin-Madison and State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Electronic Reader. Digital facsimiles of works about Wisconsin dating between 1835 and 1949.

Wyoming

University of Wyoming, Digital Initiative. Part of the Western Trails partnership led by the Colorado Digitization Program. Date accessed: 2004-01-12. Date added: 2004-01-12.
Wyoming Western Trails Digital Project. This is the Wyoming part of the Western Trails partnership led by the Colorado Digitization Program, and describes the project background. Date accessed: 2004-03-25. Date added: 2004-03-25.

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