Cavan M. McCarthy, Ph.D., Visiting Professor
School of Library and Information Science
The University of Iowa

DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAMS
DIGITAL LIBRARIES COURSE, SPRING 2001

TEXT-ORIENTED COLLECTIONS

First site:
Project Gutenberg:
http://promo.net/pg/
1971- simple ASCII texts for downloading
(FTP downloads)
now some HTML
search under Carroll, Lewis
Select Alice 1997
for HTML text
(note disclaimer, copyright)
History and philosophy of site:
http://promo.net/pg/history.html

The English server
Formerly Carnegie Mellon University
Now University of Washington
founded 1990; over 30,000 texts; both ASCII & HTML:
Search  Carroll, Lewis    or   Jabberwocky
look for suffix .html or .txt
Dubliners .pdf
word search petersburg
http://eserver.org/

The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center:
1992- ; 50,000 items; HTML-style texts:
Texts integrated into library catalog
Sample English / Online holdings / Salem Witch Trials / Narratives /
Increase Mather (images) / Burr (text)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu

Project Bartleby:
http://www.bartleby.com/
HTML; 1993- ; indexed
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
seach holly and ivy
Note Terms of Use

University of Michigan: Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu/
Text collections / American verse project
Davidson, Lucretia Maria, 1808-1825 /
Poetical remains of the late Lucretia Maria Davidson
Scroll down to contents list
Amir Khan / go to note

Classical studies:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Scroll down to: Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. (English)
Scroll down to Choral 4
Follow cross-reference
Papyrus: click on word to see meaning, frequency
Note list of funding at foot of opening screen

Women Writers Resource Project:
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

University of Iowa: Virtual Hospital projects:
Virtual Hospital:
http://www.vh.org/
Virtual Children's Hospital:
http://www.vh.org/VCH/
Virtual Naval Hospital:
http://www.vnh.org/

PubMed: Medline on the net:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
(with links to full-text when available)
Medline Plus (directory approach)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture:
http://chla.library.cornell.edu/
 

GUIDES TO TEXT COLLECTIONS:

The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center:
links to other full-text web resources,
e.g. English-language full-text web resources:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-oth.html

Online Books page (pointers to online books):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
 
 

IMAGE ORIENTED COLLECTIONS:

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS:
AMERICAN MEMORY:
historical collections, for the National Digital Library:
FAQ:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/helpdesk/amfaq.html
Note: 2.Will the National Digital Library Program take the place of traditional libraries?
5.Will the National Digital Library Program digitize all Library of Congress holdings?
Collections:
http://memory.loc.gov/
Award winners:
LC/Ameritech National Digital Library competition:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/online.html#request

Traveling culture: circuit Chatauqua:
American memory project of the University of Iowa Libraries:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/iauhtml/tccchome.html
Search on Poetry

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

California heritage:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
Select item, Click on "Container listing"

The Jack London Collection:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/

The Emma Goldman Papers:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/

The Tebtunis Papyri Collection
and the Advanced Papyrological Information System:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/APIS/

Digital Scriptorium: images of Renaissance literature:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium
Shelfmark = "Plimpton MS 281"
View all images
scroll down to Elephant

Digital Gutenberg Bible:
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/

The Gutenberg Bible : Digitised Images
(Britsh Library)
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp

New York Public Library Digital Library Collection:
http://digital.nypl.org/

California Digital Library:
http://www.cdlib.org/

Louisiana State University Digital Library:
http://www.lsu.edu/diglib/

ibiblio: Center for the Public Domain and  U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
http://www.ibiblio.org/

Images of Kansas City:
http://images.kclibrary.org/

Cleveland Digital Library:
http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/cdl/

Library of Virginia:
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm
Photographs / search by Virginia
Click on number
Click on icon below photograph
to see enlarged image

Colorado Virtual Library:
http://www.aclin.org/

Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis (Smithsonian Institution)
http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Curtis/

Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html

Gallica: digital library from France's National Library:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
 
 

ORAL, MULTIMEDIA COLLECTIONS

National Gallery of the Spoken Word
(Michigan State University with NorthWestern)
http://ngsw.org/

History and Politics Out Loud: a searchable archive of politically
significant audio materials; National Endowment for the Humanities
and Michigan State University
http://www.hpol.org/

Florida Center for Instructional Technology:
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust:
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/

Quicktime video of Cleveland Union Terminal
electric engines underway:
http://www.csuohio.edu/CUT/video.htm
 
 

OTHER MATERIALS

The Visual Front: posters of the Spanish Civil War
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/posters/table.html

Aerial Photography Online Flights:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/AerialPhotos/

Early American paintings in the Worcester Art Museum
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/
 

STUDENT PROJECT SITES

Catholic University of America:
Karl Shapiro:
http://slis.cua.edu/dkb/874/shapiro/
Mother Jones
http://slis.cua.edu/dkb/874/jones/

Mary Noble Postcard Collection: Iowa Women's Archives
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/Mary_Noble/
 
 

COMMERCIAL SITES

netLibrary:
Pioneer; collections of digitized books
for use by members of specific communities
Academic, corporate, public, school libraries
One person at a time can read book(!!)
One page at a time: rapid page turning:
considered printing out, not allowed
http://www.netlibrary.com/

Via consortia: BCR:
http://www.bcr.org/~shoffhin/2000/junnetlib.html

New start-ups:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/circuits/articles/15book.html

http://www.questia.com/

Interview with Questia CEO
http://www.infotoday.com/it/feb01/hane.htm

http://www.ebrary.com/
 
 

POINTER SITES:
basically indicate information available on Web,
often have question-answering service;
little locally-mounted content:

US POINTER SITES:

Classic site, created in a Library School course:
Internet Public Library:
http://www.ipl.org/
Question-answering service:
http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE
(note the comprehensive question form)

Kentucky Virtual Library:
http://www.kyvl.org/
 

BRITISH GATEWAY SITES:

Earlweb: ready reference to key information sources;
maintained by British librarians:
http://www.earl.org.uk/earlweb
Note its question-answering service: Ask a librarian (UK):
http://www.earl.org.uk/ask/index.html

Note the unusual, technology-oriented:
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library:
http://www.eevl.ac.uk

ADAM: Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway:
http://www.adam.ac.uk

Organizing Medical Networked Information (OMNI):
http://omni.ac.uk

Social Science Information Gateway:
http://sosig.ac.uk
 
 

GUIDES TO DIGITAL LIBRARIES:

Other digital sites (Sunsite, Berkeley):
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/otherimage.html

Research and development in DL field:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D/

List of Digital Library Federation partners:
http://www.clir.org/diglib/about.htm

Digital Library Net:
http://www.digitallibrary.net/

SOLINET: Links to Other Digital Library Resources:
http://www.solinet.net/monticello/links.htm

Center for the Study of Digital Libraries:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/

Search in a major directory, e.g.:
http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/Digital_Libraries

http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Books/Booksellers/Electronic_Books/

Search "digital library" in a major search engine, e.g.:
http://www.northernlight.com/
 
 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS FOR THE AREA:

D-lib magazine and forum:
http://www.dlib.org/

British electronic journal on electronic libraries:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
 
 

MANUALS ETC.

Building Digital Collections:
Technical Information and Background Papers:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

Digital Library Information and Resources:
http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/~bgross/dl/

NYPL: Planning digital projects for historical collections: brochure
http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/index.html

The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center:
important electronic collection of digital library standards:
SGML, XML, TEI, EAD, ISO etc.:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standard.html

Digital Libraries: Virginia Tech Courseware:
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~dlib/

Arizona State Library Digital Projects Guidelines:
http://www.lib.az.us/digital/index.html
 
 

PROJECT, ADMINISTRATION
AND CONSORTIUM DOCUMENTATION

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE

Phase I, 1994-1998
Six projects funded by NSF, NASA, and DARPA
Digital library research at:
University of California, Berkeley / University of Michigan / University of Illinois /  University of California, Santa Barbara / Stanford / Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/
Available research:
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/dlione/

Phase 2, 1998- Selectively build on and extend research and testbed activities in
promising digital libraries areas; Accelerate development, management and
accessibility of digital content and collections; Create new capabilities and
opportunities for digital libraries to serve existing and new user communities,
including all levels of education; and, Encourage the study of interactions between
humans and digital libraries in various social and organizational contexts.
Sponsors and announcement:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm
Projects funded:
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html
 

Columbia University:
Description of digital texts program; supporting documents
(texts password protected)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/texts/about.html

eLib: Electronic Libraries Programme projects:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/

University of Michigan: Digital Library Initiatives:
http://henry.ugl.lib.umich.edu/libhome/DLI/

Digital Library Federation
http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm

SOLINET: Digital Library Services:
http://www.solinet.net/dls/digital.htm
 
 

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