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Library services

Digital (online) libraries and other resources

Digital libraries

• California Digital Library
  Mission: Harnessing technology and innovation, and leveraging the intellectual and cultural resources of the UC, the CDL supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve.
• Chicano Art Digital Image Collection
  This collection is a representative sampling of the vast archived, cataloged images in Chicano visual arts in the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA). It was assembled from the individual slide collections of various cultural arts centers and collectives, with their permission.
• Cornell University Library Windows on the Past
  A grouping of selected historical materials which have been digitally scanned and are available for on-line browsing and searching.
• The Digital Library on American Slavery
  The Digital Library on American Slavery, a cooperative effort of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for genealogists and historians, the site provides access to data collected from legal petitions filed from 1777 to 1867 in all fifteen slaveholding states in the U.S. This information documents where, when, and by whom slaves were owned, and provides insight into where, when, and how free people of color lived.
• Ibiblio: the Public’s Library and Digital Archive
  Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• International Children’s Digital Library
  The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.  Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.
• Internet Public Library
  The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment. It provides library services to Internet users. Activities include: finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating information resources; and direct assistance to individuals.
• Library of Congress American Memory Project
  Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.
• National Science Digital Library
  Created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
  Gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique international holdings in digitized form, including:  Historic maps; Rare prints and photographs; Illuminated manuscripts; Unusual printed ephemera; Sound files and moving images; Original art; and more.
• Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
  This collection comprises books and periodicals published in the United States during the nineteenth century, primarily during the second half of the century.
• Online Books Page (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
  A web site that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
• Portal to Texas History
  Offers students and lifelong learners a digital gateway to the rich collections held in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, and private collections. (Hosted by the University of North Texas)
• Project Gutenberg
  The first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.  There are 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Catalog
• September 11 Digital Archive
  Uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them.
• Smithsonian Institution Digital Library
  The Smithsonian Institution Libraries unites 20 libraries into one system supported by an online catalog of the combined collections.  Many books have been digitized and are available through the website.
• StoryPlace: the Children’s [bilingual] Digital Library
  An interactive site from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County. It offers children online experiences with stories that would usually be available at the physical library.
• War Poster Collection
  A selection of World War I and II posters from the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division collections. Included are propaganda on purchasing war bonds, the importance of national security and posters from allied and axis powers.

Other online resources

• Internal Revenue Service
  Includes tax information, forms for filing state and US taxes, online filing, etc.
• Register to Vote in Texas
  Texas election and voter information and registration
• Texas Legislature Online
  Provides information on legislation, committees, house, and senate
• Window on State Government
  Resources and information from the Office of the Controller of the State of Texas