Digital and Virtual Libraries

What kinds of digital libraries are available online?

What online libraries can I explore with my students?

How can I integrate virtual library trips into my classroom?

Would you like to travel to exciting libraries like the Library of Congress or the New York Public Library? Now you can! Use the Internet.

Use the following resources to locate online libraries. You can also do a search in Google for topics such as "New York Public Library" or "digital library".

Read The Future of the Digital Library: An Interview with Tom Peters by James Morrison and Tom Peters in Innovate (Vol. 1, Issue 3, Feb/March 2005). You will need to register to access this article.

Digital Library Collections

• California Heritage Collection
• Digital Collections
• United States National Library of Medicine
  • Dream Anatomy - example item
  • Profiles in Science
  • Virtual Hospital
  • Visible Human Project
• Historylink
• International Children's Digital Library
• Internet Movie Database
• Canada's Digital Collections
• Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
  • Paper of Record - Building the World's Largest Searchable Archive of Historical Newspapers - Canadian subscription site
  • Discovering Canada's Geoscience Heritage

Digital Library Links

• Digital Collections and Programs from the Library of Congress
• Digital Libraries from ERIC
• Digital Library Federation - Digital Collections
• Digital Library Research Laboratory from Virginia Tech - tech specs for digital libraries
• D-Lib Ready Reference from D-Lib
• DL Self Study: Contents course from Virginia Tech

Digital Library Articles and Projects

• Digital Library Initiative Phase 2
• Digital Libraries: Issues and Architectures fro the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
• Stanford Digital Libraries Technologies
  

Explore Online Libraries

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