Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York

Archives & Manuscripts

Peter Hirtle - YouTube video in which Senior Policy Advisor, Cornell University Libraries, talks with Debra Schiff about the types of skills and knowledge needed by today's archivist. July 31, 2011.

The Case of the Disappearing Documents - By Ellen Gamerman, Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2011, D1. "Paul Brachfeld, inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration, says that of the 10,000 pieces removed from Mr. Landau's New York home, at least 2,500 of them - potentially worth millions of dollars - were stolen from historical societies, university libraries and other institutions along the East Coast."

Abbey Newsletter - Nonprofit corporation set up to encourage preservation of library and archival materials. Archived newsletter articles from February 1981 to October 2003. Searchable through Conservation OnLine: Resources for Conservation Professionals.

Aberdeen Bestiary - On-line database of text, digitized images, commentary and translation from the Aberdeen Bestiary, a medieval manuscript containing descriptions of real and mythical animals, accompanied by moralizing explanations. Collaborative effort between Aberdeen University Library, the Department of History of Art and the Centre for Computer Based Learning in Land Use and Environmental Sciences.

Abstracts of International Conservation Literature (AATA Online) - "Comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage." (Getty Conservation Institute)

African-American Women - On-line Archival Collections - Scanned images of manuscript pages and full text of the writings of African-American women from the Special Collections Library at Duke University.

AIM25 - "Project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over fifty higher education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area."

American Heritage Virtual Archive Project - Described as a "prototype 'virtual archive' of encoded finding aids," the project is a a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Duke University, and the University of Virginia With links to finding aids.

American Historical Association Archives Wiki

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - Library of Congress site has a Collection Finder organized by topic, format, time and place.

ARCHEION - Ontario's Archival Information Network.

ARCHIM - Centre historique des Archives nationales (CHAN). There are a few digitized collections .

ARCHON: Archives Online - "Principal information gateway for UK archivists and users of manuscript sources for British history."

Archives and Manuscript Collections Outside Columbia

Archives de France

Archives Hub - "Provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges."

Archives in New England - New England Archivists

Archives in Russia - ArcheoBiblioBase Information System, maintained in Moscow by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted in collaboration with Rosarkhiv, Federal Archival Service of Russia.

Archives Nationales

Archives of ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU - Discussion list for archives & archivists.

Archives of American Art - Smithsonian

Archives of Maryland Online - "The first 72 volumes of this series were published between 1883 and 1972 by the Maryland Historical Society. They contain many of the official records of Maryland from 1634 to 1820. We have also added 30 additional volumes to this series in the past year. The web site contains images of the originals as well as fully searchable text. This is a continuing project with the end goal of providing access to the legal history of Maryland up to the present day." The archives contains some interesting early records. Volume 6 of the series is a transcription of the Correspondence of Governor Horatio Sharpe, Volume 1,1753-1757 which includes extensive material about Indian Affairs. Starting on page 436 of this volume is a lengthy account from Fort George in New York on 4th June 1756, in which the author writes about Sir William Johnson, the Mohawks, and the Onondago (sic).

Archives of Ontario | Archives Publiques de L'Ontario

Archives of Ontario

Archivists Round Table - Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (ART). There is a NYART Repository Guide.

Archivist's Daybook - Calendar of archival events provided by the Society of Southwest Archivists

ARCHON - "Principal information gateway for UK archivists and users of manuscript sources for British history. It is hosted and maintained by the Historical Manuscripts Commission."

Arnold Schoenberg Center - Although primarily in German, this is a rich resource for Schoenberg material. The Library and Archive has scores, manuscripts, designs, paintings & drawings (including landscapes, portraits and self-portraits), letters, teaching materials and photographs.

Association for Information Management Professionals

Association of Canadian Archivists

Association of Moving Image Archivists

Association of Swiss Archivists

Bavarian State Archives - Die staatlichen Archive in Bayern

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) - Montreal. Has Collection numérique. A search for Gustave Bédard in Pistard will retrieve 85 photographs of a 1941 fishing expedition on the Metabetchouane and Metascouac rivers and Lac Hirondelle. Other outstanding online images include Chemin et église le long de la rivière Malbaie (1942); Barques de pêcheurs à Saint-Georges-de-Malbaie (1940); Paysage à la Malbaie (1941); Terres à La Malbaie (1942); Hôtel Chamard à La Malbaie (1943) and many others. There are also over 1,000 online photographs by Herménégilde Lavoie (1908-1973) who is known for his "création de cours d'hôtellerie ainsi qu'aux campagnes de conservation du patrimoine architectural." Other photographers to search for include Marc Leclerc, David Clerk, D.C. Noiseux, Brouillette, and Fernand Dufour. Several of the databases described in Instruments de recherche en ligne, (Le Fichier des contrats de mariage de la région de Québec, 1761-1946, Inventaire des mariages non-catholiques de la région de Montréal 1766-1835 and Les demandes d'octrois gratuits de terre aux familles de 12 enfants vivants en vertu de la loi de 1890 du premier ministre Honoré Mercier) would be useful resources for genealogical research.

Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine

Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon - View over 12,000 images from the library's magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula from the Fifth Century to the Renaissance. From home page select Collections numérisées, then connexion à la base ENLUMINURES. A title search (Titre du livre) for Livre d'heures, for example, will retrieve over 1400 results. You can also search by manuscript number (Cote du livre). Try Ms 514. There is also a list of Expositions en ligne.

Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon - Over 3,000 images from the library's magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula from the Fifth Century to the Renaissance can be accessed via the catalogue or the site index (see enluminures: base de données).

Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Département des Manuscrits

British Columbia Archives - A keyword search for Haida in Visual Records, (checking the option Only match items with associated objects "AND LINK" e.g. images or finding aids) retrieves 54 images, a search for Indian People retrieves 858 images, a search for Dossetter retrieves 45 images. Among the Visual Records are photogrpahs of and works by the artist Emily Carr (Emily Carr Sewing and Outfit, A family picnic, Carr family on the beach, Haida Totems, Cha-atl, Queen Charlotte Island).

British Library Manuscript Catalog - Offers a single means of access to the mainstream catalogues of the Department of Manuscripts covering accessions from 1753 to the present day. A description search for Florence Nightingale, for example, retrieves 51 results.

Bureau of Canadian Archivists

Burnet Psalter - Full-page images (text and illustration) and details from fifteenth-century manuscript bequeathed to Marischal College, Aberdeen. (Special Collections and Archives, University of Aberdeen)

CBC Archives - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Archives. Great Interviews include:

Woody Allen - 19 November 1967

Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet - Steve Billinton and Cheryl Avery, University of Saskatchewan

Canadian Council of Archives

Cary Graphic Arts Collection - Library on printing history located at the Rochester Institute of Technology offers Digital Image Database

Catalonian Manuscripts - Including Boethius' De consolacio philosophiae and Saint Peter Pascual's Biblia pequeña.

Centre historique des Archives nationales - French historical documents and images have recently been made available. (You may use Alta Vista's Babelfish to navigate the site, which is available only in French.) For example in ARCHIM, la banque d'images numériques, you can browse documents and images by theme (Consultation des dossiers thématiques).

Ciel et Terre - Online exhibition from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France includes images from the Catalan Atlas (1375-1380) and offers a wealth of information on the history of astronomy with biographies, a glossary, a chronology, bibliography, maps and a quantity of images from the library's manuscript collection. Elegant and beautifully designed - worth a visit even if you don't read French.

Clusius Project - Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) "is one of the most important European botanists of the sixteenth century." The Correspondence Database consists of "1,300 letters written to and by Carolus Clusius, most of which are kept in the Leiden University Library."

CMI Archival Acid Free Boxes - MicroClimate archival containers are a clamshell design manufactured to customer supplied measurements. (See ExLibris Archives for May 2001 for various opinions on these boxes.) Ocker & Trapp Library Bindery, founded by founded by bookbinders Ralph Ocker and Herbert Trap, also makes Custom Designed Protective Enclosures and University Products offers "adjustable rare book storage boxes."

Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC) - 85 digitized medieval manuscripts held by the Episcopal and Cathedral Library, Cologne.

Collect Britain: Putting History in Place

Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Congressional Collections at Archival Repositories - University of Delaware

Conservation OnLine - Stanford University Library

Council of State Archivists (CoSA) - Has a Directory of State Archivists, Directory of State Archives and Records Programs, Directory of Allied Associations Directory of State Archives Collections Online and a Directory of Archival Associations in the U.S..

Damaszener Familienbibliothek Refaiya / Damascene Family Library Refaiya - Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig. Contains 458 manuscripts dating from the 10th to the 19th century; digital access is provided to a group of about 55 Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts. You can browse the index by manuscript number and there is a Keyboard for Arabic and transliteration. Here are a few examples from the collection though DL is not absolutely sure they are from the Rafaiya Library because there are two search interfaces: Damaszener Familienbibliothek Refaiya and Islamic Manuscripts the Leipzig University Library.

Ms. or. 322 - “Ottoman Koran containing surah 1 - surah 2:14”. “symmetrically illuminated opening double page in gold, blue, red and green with a horizontal panel above and below the central area, and the whole surrounded by a broad frame with a lobed outline.”

Ms. or. 323 - Binding: “Persian lacquer binding with a flower bouquet as central motif; doublures of red lacquer with gold floral pattern.” With description

Ms. or. 333

Ms. or. 379b - Persian poetry. “calligraphic style; tiny; delicate; densely written.” See illumination

For additional information see:

Islamic Manuscripts Online: A new Database at Leipzig University by Stefanie Brinkmann, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, February 2008. Brinkmann is also the author of From Codicology to Technology: Islamic Manuscripts and Their Place in Scholarship, Verlag Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008, 215 p.

Arabic, Persioan and Turkish Manuscripts in the University Library Leipzig - Beingan abridged translation of H.O. Fleisher by Boris Liebrenz.

Holdings of Leipzig University Library: Manuscripts

Katalog der islamischen, christlich-orientalischen, jüdischen und samaritanischen Handschriften - Karl Vollers, Johannes Leipoldt, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 1906. (Scanned copy owned by Harvard University -

Project for the Cataloguing and Digitising of 55 Islamic Manuscripts:

A key place in the collection will be taken by one of the oldest known Ismaili manuscripts in the world, the Kitāb al-Zīna by the Ismaili author Abū Hātim al-Rāzī (d. 322 H. / 934 AD). The manuscripts contain texts in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman-Turkish and show an amazingly broad spectrum as far as the content is concerned, which comprises almost all traditional Islamic fields of knowledge. With a few exceptions, the manuscripts are mostly complete and well preserved. That many of these manuscripts came from the libraries of private scholars or families is suggested in several manuscripts by the many comments, some of which span over several generations, from the previous owners. The place of origin seems to be the gulf region, Yemen and Iran. A book has been written about the collection: From Codicology to Technology: Islamic Manuscripts and Their Place in Scholarship by See Stefani Brinkmann, Verlag Frank & Timme, Berlin 2008, 215 p. (ISBN-10: 3865961711; ISBN-13: 978-3865961716). See p. 200 - The Outside View: Using the Database.

Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, And Presenting the Past on the Web - By Daniel J. Cohen, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, and Roy Rosenzweig, Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University. They were interviewed by Kojo Nnamdi of WAMU on January 10, 2006 (Collecting History of the Present). There is also a website for Digital History A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web

Digital Scriptorium - Joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize the two universities' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings. Currently comprising a database of over 4,000 images, the project will eventually contain some 10,000 images. Has a new Test Database search option. Sample images can be viewed by using the Display All Images for a Shelfmark. A search for the shelfmark Plimpton MS 034 retrieves images of a processional for female Franciscans. (Shelfmarks numbers for Plimpton MS appear to range from 002 to 305.) To view descriptions of all manuscripts (warning: large file!) use Text Search Terms, leaving all options blank, and select Run.

Digitalisierte Drucke und Handschriften aus dem Bestand der Zipser Bibliotheken - Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld. Incunabula from the collection of bibliophile Theodor de Jony. English Version available.

Diözesanbibliothek Köln Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC) "The entire medieval manuscripts collection of the Diocesan and Cathedral Church of Cologne (comprising about 400 codices with about 130,000 pages) is to be digitised in the form of high-quality 24-bit images. These manuscripts will be embedded in the development system, which on the one hand will make the individually digitised items available immediately they are digitised by drawing on documentation that already exists, and on the other hand will consciously attempt to place this manuscript material into a broader context. The project will therefore provide web access to a digital library of largely illuminated manuscripts to the widest possible public." (This description is from Digital Library Forum .

Directory of Archives in Australia

Directory of History of Medicine Collections - Database contains location and descriptive information about a wide variety of health and biomedical resources. Provided by the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Documentation Project - Digitization project undertaken by four Norwegian Universities in the fields of literature, history, medieval material, archaeology, folklore, numismatics, lexicography and place names.

DocumentsOnline - UK site "allows you online access to the National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical sources. Searching the index is free, and it costs £3.50 to download a digital image of a document." Over a millions wills are available, including those of Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake and Jane Austen.

Documents Diplomatiques Suisses (DDS) / Swiss Diplomatic Documents

- Also available in English. Provides "access to thousands of documents and pieces of information about personalities, organizations and geographical designations as well as bibliographical references."

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and Museum - Abilene, Kansas

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - 2,000 high resolution digital images of Celtic and other manuscripts from the collections of a number of University of Oxford Libraries. (To see the images you must click on I accept the conditions.)

EAD of UC Berkeley

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) - Library of Congress site provides Finding Aids, an annotated list of EAD Sites on the World Wide Web and a Search Page which is also browsable by Subject, Name, Title and Date.

Enluminures - French government database (base de données) has 16,810 online images of illuminated manuscripts. You can browse by author, title, subject, and type of decoration. One subject, for example, is Anges musiciens (angel musicians).

Enluminures de la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon - Over 3,000 images from the library's magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula from the Fifth Century to the Renaissance. To access the images, click on Connexion à la base enluminures.

European Archival Network (EAN) - With map of European Archives.

Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums - "Archives, archivists, records managers, secret documents and lost manuscripts have been used as characters, settings and plot devices in many stories, novels, movies and TV shows, as well as jokes and cartoons." Created by David Mattison, a photo/film historian/bibliographer and reference archivist with the British Columbia Archives, Victoria, Canada, and Leon Miller, Manuscripts Librarian, Special Collections Division, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans.

Finding Aids for Archival Collections - Berkeley/DL SunSITE

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum - With 10,000 digitized documents

Francis Crick Profiles in Science Digital Archive - Collaboration between the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine and the United States National Library of Medicine. " The Crick papers can be searched in the Western Manuscripts and Archives Catalogue and browsed at the site of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. One of the letters, dated August 11, 1953, is from James D. Watson to Francis and Odile Crick. It describes Watson's stay in the Italian Alps in a small village north of Sondrio. "Considering my degenerate condition in Cambridge, I feel very healthy and do not find a climb at 1000 m at all strenuous." Watson also describes a meeting he attended [International Phage Colloquium at the Abbey of Royaumont outside Paris]. "There was also a garden party at the Baron de Rothschilds house which allowed us to appreciate Rubens while eating smoked salmon and drinking champagne. As a whole I'm afraid I created the only non-serious note by wearing shorts and my shirt outside on all occasions. Despite my recent haircut most of my friends thought my hair very long and as a practical joke succeeded in putting a large amount of Visconti perfumed (highly) brillantine in my hair, and thus as a Latin I went to the garden party. Linus Pauling and his wife visited the Abbey one afternoon for a short while. From Mrs. Paulings 'small talk' I gather that Peter [Pauling] has not yet calmed down and so we shall not have another quiet youth like Green in our midst...I have heard a little of Freddie's [Sanger?] Caltech visit. Apparently he spent much of his time libelling me by saying that I have no respect for authority and the wisdom of experience - in fact no respect for Freddie's higher qualities. However fortunately no one ever takes Freddie seriously."

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (in Gallica 2)

- 1872 (vol. 1)-1937 (vol. 20).

British and Allied Archives During the War (England, Scotland, Ireland, United States of America, France, Italy). Fourth Series, Volume 2. Communicated December 12, 1918, pp. 20-62. Here are some excerpts: "An interesting and instructive paper on "The Dispersion and Destruction of Historical Records during the War" was read by Professor C. H. Firth, then President of the Society, before the British Academy on December 12, 1917." "The Peniarth MSS, the largest and most importand collections of Welsh manuscripts in existence." p. 35). See Peniarth Manuscripts (National Library of Wales)

British and Allied Archives During the War (Series II) - Fourth Series, Volume 3. Communicated March 11, 1920, pp. 25-51.

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum - College Station, Texas

George J. Mitchell Papers - Bowdoin College site "dedicated to providing information about, and access to, the papers of Senator George J. Mitchell. The collection documents the Senator's professional and political career, including his 1974 gubernatorial campaign, his career as senator from Maine, his six years of service to the nation as Senate majority leader, and his work in Northern Ireland. The materials in the collection consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, press materials, and other printed matter, as well as memorabilia. The site also offers links to related information about American government, politics, and legislation."

George Washington Papers - Another valuable resource from the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, "this first release includes forty-one letterbooks (about 8,000) pages from among 65,000 items to be published online within the next two years. Included in the collection as a whole are correspondence, letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account books, military records, reports, and notes, accumulated by Washington from 1741 through 1799."

Gerald R. Ford Library & Museum

Gesamtkatalog deutschsprachiger Leichenpredigten (GESA) - Union catalog of German surnames

Gold Koran - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries. (In February 2000 John Hopkins University returned a section of a this rare ninth century Koran to Turkey's Nuruosmaniye Library.)

Goodspeed Manuscript Collection - "21,600 high-quality page images from 65 Greek New Testament manuscripts, ranging in date from the 7th to the 17th century, and 114 papyri fragments." In Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Arabic, and Latin. (University of Chicago Library Digital Collections.)

Government of Canada Web Archive - - "At the time of its launch in Fall 2007, approximately 100 million digital objects (over 4 terabytes) of archived Federal Government website data was made accessible."

Guidelines for recovery of water-damaged personal property - Smithsonian Institution Archives

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - University of Texas, Austin. With Finding Aids and the HRC Manuscript Collection Guide which has biographical sketches and extensive information about the scope and contents of the collection. The Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Records, 1873-1996 has an Index of Corespondents.

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum - Independence, Missouri.

Heritage Preservation - Washington, DC. Offers programs and publications with "advice and guidance on the proper care and maintenance of historic documents, books and archives, works of art, photographs, architecture, monuments, anthropological artifacts, historic objects and family heirlooms and natural science specimens." The Heritage Health Index "was published in December 2005 and concludes that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment."

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum - West Branch, Iowa

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library - With Manuscript Images.

Historical archives service of the European Commission - You can search in ARCHISplus, the database of the Historical Archives.

Ibsen Centre - University of Oslo. Their Manuscripts Project put online over 19,600 pages of digital facsimiles of Ibsen's manuscripts, accessible from the Norwegian pages.

Institute of Museum and Library Services - Independent federal grantmaking agency for museums, libraries and archives. The site offers Monthly Highlights, Grants in Your State, Legislative Update, and information on IMLS Funded Projects.

International Council on Archives (ICA) - With Member Directory

International Dunhuang Project - "View details of over 20,000 pre-eleventh century manuscripts and documents from the ancient towns of the Chinese Silk Roads. Full search facilities (by language, form, library number and subject) and high-quality colour images of over 1,000 manuscripts." (British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, which also has a Japanese Section and a Korean Section.)

International Institute of Social History - Located in Amsterdam, the IISH is "one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular." It "holds close to 2,000 archival collections, some 1 million printed volumes and about as many audio-visual items. The available collections are accessible through an online catalogue (via telnet), an online index of archives and inventories." Their World Wide Web Virtual Library: Women's History, part of the WWW Virtual Library, has a site index and is searchable. VIVA: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals is a bibliographic database containing nearly 4700 titles of articles on women's history published between 1975 and 2000.

Internet Archive - "Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public..." There is a Television Archive for September 11th and a Movie Collection.

Islamic Manuscript Association

J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles. They provide over 1,000 images of the objects in their Collections. Among the Manuscripts are Religious Service Books, Scripture, Secular Books and Devotional Books.

JANUS

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

John F. Kennedy Library

Kalliope - "Dem zentralen Sucheinstieg für Nachlässe und Autographen in Deutschland". \

Det Kongelige Bibliotek - Among the digital facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts at the Royal Library, Copenhagen, are 39 richly illustrated leaves from a Book of Hours with the title Heures de Charles de la maison de France, dernier Duc de Bourgogne. For example, for leaf 27, you can view the entire page (recto and verso) or view the illustration only (recto and verso). Living words & luminous pictures: 12 medieval manuscripts in the Royal Library is an online exhibition of 12 digitized medieval manuscripts. Other Digital Facsimiles of Copenhagen Manuscripts at the Royal Library include Middle Ages and Renaissance, 17th and 18th centuries and Modern Manuscripts.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection - Private library focusing on late medieval and early modern manuscripts.

Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections - Philadelphia Museum of Art

Lib-web-cats: a directory of libraries throughout the world

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web - Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, "this site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."

Life of King Edward the Confessor - Digitized images from Cambridge University Library's copy of the illustrated Anglo-Norman verse Life of St Edward the Confessor, written in England probably in the later 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript, executed c.1250-60.

Lilly Library - Indiana University. Includes a searchable index and a Subject Guides to Manuscript Collections

Le livre de chasse de Gaston Phébus - Exposition virtuelle at the Bibliothèque nationale de France provides images from the manuscript, written between 1387 and 1389. (Pages from the manuscript can also be viewed in the BNF's Le roi Charles V et son temps but the quality of the images is slightly inferior. Compare, for example wolves to wolves.) Included are many scenes from the hunt, including:

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library - Austin, Texas.

Manuscript Society

History in Your Hand: Fifty Years of the Manuscript Society - By John M. Taylor

MARAC homepage - Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.

Maryland State Archives

Massachusetts Archives Collection (1629-1799) - Also known as the Felt Collection, it "includes original records of the governor, Council, General Court, secretary, and treasurer, is an important source of records for early Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. The Collection is unique in the quantity of seventeenth-century records it contains, and this richness continues throughout the eighteenth century, with voluminous amounts of Revolutionary era materials. Records pertaining to the ratification of the Massachusetts and federal constitutions, Shays' Rebellion, and the early statehood period are also found in the collection." The Collection Description are helpful. You can browse by geographic location, personal name and subject.:

A document for Cheese Island, Maine, for example, has the following description: "Copy of the conference proceedings between Shadrach Walton and members of the Norridgewock Indians at Georgetown (Me.). Walton orders the Indians to remove their French flags and warns them that the whole tribe will be held accountable for any hostile acts of the young men and they will be punished according to English laws." (October 12, 1720, Massachusetts Archives Collection, 1629 - 1799, Indian Conference Files, Vol. 29, p. 64)

"Complaints of Several Residents from St. George's Concerning Reports that their cattle and horses were being killed by Indians. Included are testimonies of residents identifying several indians as the perpetrators and estimating the worth of the animals that were killed." August 6, 1742, Vol 31, Series 2042, Correspondence, Governor, p. 414

"Copy of Conference Proceedings with the Penobscot Indians at New Harbor (ME) regarding problems with the Supply vessels, construction of a trading post and the exchange of captives." Names in document: Cesboweawashed, Mr. Alden (Allden), Major Conner (Connors), Enockquead, Mancusek, Pemmekes, Squadook, Wecomoghogmett, Wenoggonet. February 23, 1702, Vol. 30, p. 476A, Indian Conference Files, Series 2030.

MATEO - Mannheimer Texte Online - Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim.

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - "11,000 unique illustrations from 400 illuminated manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague, The Netherlands." Searchable by subject and place names, artists, dates, iconographic themes, and types.

Memoriav - Association for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage of Switzerland.

Film Portrait: Memoriav introduces itself - Video (15:54) about Memoriav in English.

Projects - September 2007. In English.

PHOTOGRAPHIE : Projets en cours - September 2007. In French.

Projets

FOTO : laufende Projekte

Memoria Digital Library - Provides addess to digitized Medieval manuscripts and Czech documents from the National Library of the Czech Republic. Contains over 30,000 records, including over 1500 digital documents. Try an advanced search for idNo XVI A 16 (Pražský misál), an 823 page manuscript, fully digitized.

Midwest Archives Conference

More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing

- By Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner, The American Archivist, Vol. 68, Fall/Winter 2005, pp. 208-263.

NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions

Nationaal Archief - Netherlands. Searchable in Dutch only. There is a Atlas of Mutual Heritage, a "data-bank containing a survey of former Dutch settlements in the East (VOC [Dutch East India Company]) and West (WIC [Dutch West India Company]), and illustrative material of these settlements (maps, drawings, prints and photos)."

National Agricultural Library

National Air and Space Museum Archives

National Anthropological Archives

National Archives - "Records of the UK government from Domesday to the present." DocumentsOnline "allows you access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. Searching the index is free, and costs £3.50 to download an image." Learning Curve "is a free online teaching and learning resource, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5" and includes such resources as Heroes & Villains, Snapshots ("lesson-sized activities based around a small number of original sources") and OnFilm, a film archive with activities. New Document Releases include the Cabinet Secretaries´ Notebooks from World War Two. These are the minutes taken by Sir Norman Brook, Deputy Cabinet Secretary. The first Notebook - 187 pages - (CAB 195/1) covers 13 April 1942 – 19 November 1942, the second Notebook - 259 pages - (CAB 195/2) covers 26 November 1942 – 14 July 1943, the third Notebook - 244 pages - (CAB 195/3) covers 6 March 1945 – 7 February 1946, the fourth Notebook (CAB 195/4) covers 7 February 1946 – 31 December 1946, and the fifth Notebook (CAB 195/5) covers 2 January 1947 – 18 December 1947. On page 47 of the third notebook (CAB 195/3 - W.M. (45) 26th Meeting - C.M. (46) 13th Meeting) Winston Churchill (P.M.) discusses the admission of women into the Foreign Service. P.M. [Churchill]: I didn't like idea of their [women] entering Parlt. but it turned out better than I feared. Concede the theory & you have no trouble in practice. Do it here, too. You can use women in A.A. batteries: why not in Foreign Service. (19 March 1945). (From Transcripts).

National Archives - There are several resources for locating national archives throughout the world (UNESCO Archives Portal, European Archival Network, Historical Archives of the European Communities, Africa Research Central, H-Net: Latin American Archives). Some of the larger archives include: National Archives (formerly known as the Public Record Office) (Great Britain), National Archives of Austraila, Bundesarchiv (Germany), Österreichische Staatsarchiv (Austria), Archives de France, National Archives of Canada and the National Archives of Ireland.

National Archives and Records Administration - Provides online access to 50 million historical electronic records created by more than 20 federal agencies.

Press Releases

Archival Research Catalog - Online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings.

NAIL Browser 2 - "Joint effort between the University of Maryland and San Diego Supercomputing Center", this is a useful method to browse the collection of digital images known as the EAP collection, consisting of the Presidential Administration Collections and Federal Records listed by record group. For additional information on this project, see Recovery of a Digital Image Collection Through the SDSC/UMD/NARA Prototype Persistent Archive (2003).

Index to Collections in ARC (Archival Research Catalog)

Index to Record Groups in ARC (Archival Research Catalog)

White House Central Files: Alphabetical Name Files - See Press Release, November 9, 2005. "...Consists of 41,000 pages from the National Security Council (NSC) Files and Henry A. Kissinger's Office Files. These newly declassified NSC documents are from two series: the Vietnam Subject Files, and the Vietnam Country Files. The National Archives is also releasing the Agency and Congressional series from the Henry A. Kissinger's Office Files."

National Archives of Canada - Offering online exhibitions among which are Pride and Dignity: Aboriginal Portraits (c.1846 - c.1960), which includes a portrait of Peter Newhouse, Onondaga and Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve at Brantford, Ontario, reading Wampum belts.; and Indian Treaties, with scanned images of 13 treaties ranging from 1795 to 1808. Also available is an Aboriginal Peoples Thematic Guide. ArchiviaNet is "an automated research tool that allows you to access a vast amount of information from various databases and automated systems." You can search for Audio visual records (photographs and art) in ArchiviaNet's database, and limit your search to descriptions with a digitized images only. For example, a search for Indian (or Native$ or Indian$), in the art database, limiting to digitized images only, retrieved nearly 100 images, including Major John Norton, Teyoninhokarawen, the Mohawk Chief(1805), A View of the Rapids and Falls of Niagara from the Heights of Chippewa, with an encampment of Senekas (1804), Indian Wigwam in Lower Canada (1848), Moose hunter Quebec (1840), Shoshonie Woman: Throwing the Lasso (1867), Mary Bernard Whykokamagh (1840-46), and Indian Lodge United States (1867).

National Archives of Ireland

National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) - Has a directory of Member Web Sites.

National Council on Archives - UK

National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) - "Statutory body affiliated with the National Archives and Records Administration, supports a wide range of activities to preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documentary sources relating to the history of the United States." With information on Grant Programs, Training Programs and links to Projects with Web Sites.

National Register of Archives - Indexes to the creators of manuscript sources for British history, the NRA "consists of more than 43,000 unpublished lists and catalogues of major manuscript collections, and approximately 150,000 further lists of miscellaneous and minor collections." The lists, which "describe the holdings of local record offices, national and university libraries, specialist repositories, museums and other bodies," are searchable by corporate name, personal name, family name and place name.

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase). With links to Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the United States.

New Hampshire State Papers - "An invaluable source of New Hampshire history" these papers were compiled by Frank C. Meyers in February, 2004. There are forty volumes, published between 1867 and 1943 and edited by Nathaniel Bouton, Isaac W. Hammond, Albert Stillman Batchellor, Henry Harrison Metcalf and Otis Grand Hammond. With Index. (New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Management.)

New Jersey Division of Archives & Records Management (NJDARM) - In the New Jersey State Archives are:

Imaged Collections

Index to Supreme Court Cases

Genealogical Holdings

New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) - Andover, Massachusetts. Offers the complete text of the third edition of Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual, edited by Sherelyn Ogden

Oasis (Online Archival Search Information System) - Provides centralized access to archival and manuscript collections at Harvard and Radcliffe (primary source material, manuscripts, photographs, drawings).

OurDocuments.gov - Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Preservation Map of Europe - Directory of preservation projects, policies and organizations for libraries and archives in 25 European countries.

Presidential Libraries - National Archives and Records Administration

Primary Sources Research - Yale University Library provides definitions and formats of primary source materials.

Project Open Book - Yale's program exploring the feasibility of conversion of preserved material from microfilm to digital imagery

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States - New volume added to the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (William J. Clinton, 1995, Vol. 1).

Public Record Office: the National Archives - United Kingdom. Offers access to online catalog of over 8 million document references.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

Ready, 'Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources - Leon Miller's extensive and descriptive list of archival resources

Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham's listing of over "3500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

Safeguarding our Documentary Heritage / Conservation Préventive du Patrimoine Documentaire - Consists of Texts and illustrations on archival preservation based ot the brochure "Safeguarding the documentary heritage - a guide to standards, recommended practices and reference literature related to the preservation of documents of all kinds", A cooperative effort of the Memory of the World Programme of UNESCO, IFLAC and theFrench Ministry of Culture. (In French and English.)

Schøyen Collection: Checklist of 222 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 Years - By Martin Schøyen. Compiled by Elizabeth Gano Sørenssen, Oslo, September 2000.

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)

Society of American Archivists

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology - By Richard Pearce-Moses

American Archivist (ISSN 0361-9081) -

State Archives

Maine State Archives

Archives of Maryland Online

Georgia Archvies

Massachusetts Archives

New Jersey Public Records and Archives

South Carolina State Archives

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Orientabteilung

Street & Smith's Preservation and Access Project - Project to microfilm and catalog nearly 1 million pages of dime novels, serials, radio scripts, and editorial records from Syracuse University Library's Street & Smith Archive. (Street & Smith was one of the largest publishers of pulp fiction in the mid-19th to mid-20th century.)

Swiss Federal Archives / Les Archives fédérales / Das Schweizerische Bundesarchiv - You can search the Federal Gazette from 1848 / Feuille fédérale

Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials - IBM is working with the Vatican Library to digitize over 20,000 documents from its rare manuscripts collection. (IBM's Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 40, No. 2 - Services, Applications, and Solutions. See also A sampler of digital manuscripts and the Vatican Web Site). The Vatican Library catalog is accessible via Telnet. IBM has also worked with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. See Masterpieces: IBM helps the Hermitage open its virtual doors to the world.

UNESCO Archives Portal - An internationial gateway for archivists and archive users. See also the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Preserving Documentary Heritage.

U.S. Army Military History Institute - With alphabetical and chronological lists of documents.

University of Notre Dame Archives - With Finding Aid.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive - Abstracts of evening news broadcasts since 1968, browsable by date or searchable by keywords.

Vivarium - "Digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, audio, video, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota." Among the digitized texts are The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I with Decorations by Eric Gill, Golden Cockerel Press, 1931 with original maize buckram and quarter pigskin binding by Sangorski and Al-Coranus S. Lex Islamitica Muhammedis Felii Abdallae Pseudoprophetae, Ad optimorum Codicum fidem edita ex Museo Abraham Hinckelmanni, D., Hamburg, Schultzio-Schilleriana,1694. The collection is browsable by collection type: manuscript illuminations (4864), original drawings & paintings (48), photographs (402) etc.

Western Historical Manuscript Collection - University of Missouri, Columbia.

William L. Clements Library - Manuscripts Division - University of Michigan. There is an Index to Manuscript Guides

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