LSC 555 Information Systems Webliography: Digital Libraries
by
Joseph Nga

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• The Perseus digital Library
  Produced by the department of the classics, Tuft University.
  This is an evolving digital library whose goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to a large audience. Weakness: Vast majority of students and researchers may not yet have access to digital content.

• California digital Library
  Produced by the regent of University of california.
  One of the largest digital libraries in the world providing scholarly materials and services to help use them. Weakness: The site presents no apparent weakness.

• American Memory from the Library of Congress
  By the Library of congress.
  A site that provides free and open access through the internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings and images that document the American past. Weakness: The site may have too much information, including non researchable collections such as the "Federal Theater Project.

• The NSDL- the national Science Digital Library
  By The national science Foundation.
  The Nation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, maths education, and research. Provides specialized portals of selected resources, e.g. the Middle School portal for maths, science and technology presented by Eisenhower National clearing House. Weakness: The site may only be very useful to schools with digital technology capabilities.

• NYPL, Digital Library
  By the New York Public Library.
  A searchable database presenting digital images from the Library's collections including manuscripts, historical maps, photographs, etc. Weakness: The site covers more of the NYPL system than it does the digital collections.

• The ACM Digital Library
  By the Association for Computing Machinery.
  This an online subsription based resource providing bibliographic collections from major publishers, Journals, and Magazines. Weakness: Access limited to subscribers.

• Digital Library Federation. Home Page
  By the council on Lirary and Information Resources.
  This is a memebership digital library initiative foster new research and develop standards. Weakness: Site offers little technical content.

• Network Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
  By UNESCO and Adobe Systems Inc.
  An international site dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservatio of electronic analogues to the traditional print theses and dissertations. Weakness: Site is audience specific and narrow in focus.

• Making of America
  By DLXS.
  This a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through the reconstruction. Weakness: Site offers few navigational features and hyperlinks.

• CDLI
  By UCLA and Max Planck Institute for the history of science. The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the web, the form and content of the cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the prechristian era. Weakness: Site has well defined objectives and does not go beyond.

• Internet Library of Early Journals
  By the University of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford. provides digital versions of 18th and 19th century journals on the internet. Weakness: Simple Site with limited links.

• DB2 Digital library
  By IBM.
  provides an overview of multimedia management systems and content management software for digital media. Weakness: The Site is dense and contains IMB evaluation pops that come up before you get a chance to visit.

• NCSA Astronomy Digital Image library
  By the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois.
  Collects astronomical research quality images and makes them available to the astronomical community and general public. Weakness: No apparent weakness, user friendly.

• Center for the study of Digital libraries home Page
  By Texas A&M University, College Station.
  Provides a focal point for digital library research and technology for the State of Texas. The website fosters pioneering research on the theory and application of digital libraries. Weakness: Over 90% of the main page is taken up by an unlabled image instead of useful hyperlinks.