Digital Library Projects

This is a selective list of digital libraries, research projects, and other projects I find to be interesting, or which support my teaching activities.

250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
Acua Photograph Collection, Catholic University of America
Alexandria Digital Library Project, University of California at Santa Barbara: Includes the initial project, the Alexandria Digital Library, and new work on the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT).
American Memory, Library of Congress: L of C also offers several Collaborative Digital Libraries.
American Theological Library Association (ATLA), Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
California Digital Library: A one stop shopping portal for catalogues, indexes, and digital collections, including the Online Archive of California and Calisphere.
Collaborative Digitization Program
Cornell University Library Digital Collections: Includes its contributions to the well-known Making of America.
Digital Commonwealth: OAI service provider for Massachusetts digital collections.
Digital Past, North Suburban Library System, Illinois: A collaborative project of 20 participating public libraries, schools, and local museums.
Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina
DSpace Federation: The first large DSpace was the one at MIT. Now they're everywhere
Duke University, Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library: Digital collections are part of Duke's resources.
Early English Books Online: A joint U Michigan, Oxford U, CLIR, and ProQuest project to make the Short Title Catalog into SGML/XML texts.
Emblem Project Utrecht: Dutch love emblems of the seventeenth century.
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Harvard Geospatial Library, Harvard University Library
ibiblio.org: Describing itself as the "public's library", ibiblio.org acts as a host and directory for freely available information across disciplines (subject to collection criteria primarily concerned with quality and worthiness). Brought to you by various departments of the University of North Carolina and the Center for the Public Domain, this is a vast collection - possibly the last home of the way the Web was intended to be.
iLumina, University of North Carolina
Indiana University Digital Library Program: Includes the Hoagy Carmichael Collection, the Victorian Women Writers Project, the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, and much more. Text, images, and music.
International Children's Digital Library, University of Maryland
The Internet Archive
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, Johns Hopkins University
Mountain West Digital Library: Consortium of collections in Utah.
National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue: Fully catalogued images from the NLA's collection.
National Science Digital Library (US): A wide-scale project using metadata harvesting under the OAI model.
New South Voices, University of South Carolina
Notable Women of Simmons College: College Archives page which links to the digital libraries created by the students in the course LIS 462 - Digital Libraries.
NYPL Digital, New York Public Library: Wonderful collection of resources.
Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library: The growing program includes Women Working, 1800-1930 and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930.
The Open Library: This started with a wonderful collection of older books scanned in high resolution, with page turning coolness. It has now explanded to a collaborative open project to be a library of every book in the world. Really. From the mighty brain of Brewster Kahle. Volunteers needed and encouraged.
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University: One of the longest standing.
Their Own Words, Dickinson College
University of California at Davis, Digital Initiatives Program: Includes British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (a collection of TEI-encoded texts).
University of Chicago Library, Digital Activities & Collections: Includes access to projects in a variety of media.
University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library: Includes Historic Pittsburgh, the 19th Century Schoolbooks Demonstration Project, and the Parallax Project.
University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections
Villanova University Digital Library
Washington State University, Digital Collections
William Blake Archive
Worthington Memory, Worthington Libraries: In partnership with the Worthington (Ohio) Historical Society.

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