Digital Libraries for Your Classroom

Craig A. Cunningham, Ph.D.

Some examples of Digital Libraries:

Formal

• American Memory, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html

• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html

• California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html

• The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/runyhome.html

• High Fidelity Digitization On-line, http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/hi-fido/

• Blake's Choice Selections from the Alexander Architecture Archive, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/blakeschoice/index.html

• Portrait of Black Chicago, http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/portrait_of_black_chicago/introduction.html

• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection, http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html

• Freshwater and Marine Image Bank, http://content.lib.washington.edu/fish/index.html

• Oyez: US Supreme Course Multimedia, http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage

• Graphics Library, http://www.jsmagic.net/free/

• eCUIP Digital Library Project, http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ecuip/

  to search for formal digital libraries, see http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll

Informal

• Biology Resource Page: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/%7Ecginsberg/wit2002/Resourcepage.htm

• American History Links: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/~jevans/wevbo/

• Sequential Art: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/~tonli/wit2002/CurriPage.htm

• World Studies links: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/%7Ejstaros/wit2002/links/importantlinks.htm

• Latin American History Makers: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/%7Etheborg/biographies/latinahm.html

• Government resources: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/%7Elglover/resources.html

• World War I Resources: http://webinstituteforteachers.org/%7Ehvandervoort/myprojectsite/wwiimportantwebsites.html

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