Libraries, Archives, Manuscripts & Special Collections

Archives


Archives of Australia
Network for Australian Archives. Links to many sites and resources within Australia and overseas.
* url: http://www.archivenet.gov.au/

Directory of Archives in Australia
Australian Society of Archivists.
* url: http://www.archivists.org.au/directory/asa_dir.htm

Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts
National Library of Australia. An oustanding resource which provides location and other information about Australian Archival and Manuscript collections. Search by creator (author), occupation or all indexed terms.
* url: http://www.nla.gov.au/raam/

Directory of Australian Archives on the WWW
Prepared by Tim Sherratt.
* url: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asa/directory/asa_urls.htm

Repositories of Primary Resources
* url: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

National Archives Locations by State
United States archive locator.
* url: http://www.archives.gov/locations/states.html

Public Motion Pictures Research Centers and Film Archives.
Library of Congress Internet Resource Page for Film Archives and Research Centres.
* url: http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/arch.html

Corbis: The Place for Pictures online
Collection of high quality images for professional and personal use.
* url: http://www.corbis.com/

The Picture Collection
Archive of images from Time magazine
* url: http://www.thepicturecollection.com/

Oral History Links on the Web
Collated and maintained by the University of Berkerley Library
*http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ohwg/ohlinks.html

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Digital & Multimedia Collections


Directory of Digital Collections
UNESCO and IFLA directory of Digital Collections throughout the world.
* url: http://thoth.bl.uk/ddc/

PICMAN: An Index to Pictures & Manuscripts.
Pictures and manuscripts from collection held by the State Library of New South Wales.
* url: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/picman/welcome.cfm

Picture Australia
National Library of Australia web site which brings together images from many significant Australian heritage and cultural collections.
* url: http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

Images1: Online images from The National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection.
"IMAGES 1 contains over 15,000 historical and contemporary images relating to Australia and its place in the world, including paintings, drawings, rare prints, objects and photographs. The images currently available in IMAGES 1 have been selected from the more than 40,000 paintings, drawings and prints and more than 550,000 photographs held in the National Library's Pictorial Collection. Topics covered include first impressions of Australia, convict days, gold mining and Australian towns..."
* url: http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/

Australiana Collections at the National Library of Australia.
* url: http://www.nla.gov.au/images1/

CETH: Directory of Electronic Text Centers
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Rutgers University Libraries
* url: http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
* url: http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

The Thinker
Searchable catalogue of collections: paintings, drawings, etchings, porcelain, sculpture, silver, glass, furniture, textiles of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Imagebase contains more than half the museums collection.
* url: http://www.thinker.org/

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web.
A project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries which "...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"
* url: http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/

Inter-play: an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals
"Inter-Play provides easy access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Most of the plays cited are not indexed in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index." For separately published plays consult The Library Catalogue.
* url: http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/

Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services.
Compiled and maintained by Nancy Buchanan and Jennifer Atkinson, University of Houston Libraries and organised by subject. "This site focuses on research-oriented, Internet-based indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and tables of contents services that will help people locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; research papers; preprints; proceedings and transactions; book chapters; and similar materials. This site also provides University of Houston students, faculty, and staff with remote access to some of the Electronic Publications Center databases of the UH Libraries." Extremely useful for locating bibliographies and full-text documents availble mainly from Academic Institutions. University of Sydney staff and students should check the Library Databases page to see if abstracting and indexing services are freely available via this Library.
* url: http://info.lib.uh.edu/research/websubs/indexes.html

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Libraries


Australian Libraries Gateway
"One-stop-shop for Australian Libraries" Website developed and funded by the National Library of Australia and the Arts and Australia's Cultural Network (ACN)
* url: http://www.nla.gov.au/libraries/

GABRIEL: Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
WWW server for Europe's National Libraries represented in the Conference of Europes National Librarians.
* url: http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/

WWW Accessible National Libraries of the World
From the International Federation of Library Associations.
* url: http://www.ifla.org/II/natlibs.htm

International Directory of Art Libraries.
Compiled by the International Federation of Library associations this Directory is provides access to nearly 3,000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world. The directory is searchable by name of a library or librarian, a city, or nation.
* url: http://iberia.vassar.edu/ifla-idal/

CooL: Conservation Online, Resources for Conservation Professionals
"CooL, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials."
* url: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web
* url: http://www.bibliomaven.com/

AULOTS: Australasian Union List of Serials in Theological Collections
Browsable directory published by the Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association
*http://anztla.org/Aulots/Aulots.html

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Manuscripts & Special Collections


Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts
National Library of Australia. An oustanding resource which provides location and other information about Australian Archival and Manuscript collections. Search by creator (author), occupation or all indexed terms.
* url: http://www.nla.gov.au/raam/

National Library of Australia: Manuscripts
Manuscripts on Microfilm, Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts , EAD Project.
* url: http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
Library of Congress resource for manuscript collections in the United States.
* url: http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html

Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Microfilm Holdings Search Pages
* url: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pambu/finals/searchLong.php3

Repositories of Primary Sources
Produced by T. Abraham, University of Idaho this website provides "A listing of over 2300 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Those added within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. Please use this form or e-mail to add entries, provide corrections, or make comments on its utility. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available."
* url: http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

The Literature of the Nonprofit Sector
Part of the Foundation Center, a US based clearinghouse of philanthropic & nonprofit organisation information, this bibliographic database, provides access to material "collected by the Center's five libraries as well as selected literature from other sources." The database is regularly updated and contains over 16,247 ( 9,787 include abstracts) bibliographic entries on philanthropy.
* url: http://lnps.fdncenter.org

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