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Archival Finding Aids

American Heritage Project. University of California, Berkeley, et al.http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/amher/ Collaborative project to develop uniform practices for EAD markup of existing finding aids. Provides access to EAD finding aids at Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, and Virginia among others.

Archival Resources. Research Libraries Group. http://www.rlg.org/arr/ A small, but growing, union catalog of EAD finding aids. Subscription required.

Columbia University Finding Aids. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/ About seventy, searchable finding aids in both HTML and EAD.

Cornell University Finding Aids.http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ Provides access to HTML and EAD finding aids for Cornell's manuscript collections.

Duke University EAD Finding Aids.http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/findaid/e ad/

EAD Sites Annotated. University of Virginia.http://jefferson.villa ge.virginia.edu/ead/sitesann.html Information on current EAD implementers and cooperative projects, including their delivery method, encoding procedure, and contact information.

Encoded Archival Description Official Web Site. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/ead/ Includes a list of implementers and cooperative projects.

Harvard/Radcliffe Finding Aids. http://findingaids.harvard.edu/dfap/ Approximately 65 searchable finding aids.

Library of Congress EAD Finding Aids. http://www.loc.gov/rr/ead/ Searchable collection of forty of LC's manuscript inventories.

Online Archive of California Project. University of California, et al. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu /FindingAids/uc-ead/ A two-year pilot project to develop a statewide union database of 30,000 pages of archival finding aid data encoded in EAD. Currently contains guides from 29 repositories.

Panorama SGML Viewer, Interleaf. http://www.ileaf.com/products/sgml.htm< /a> Viewer required to access EAD finding aids. Works with standard Web browsers as a plug-in.

Repositories of Primary Sources. Terry Abraham. University of Idaho. http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html List of over 2,100 repositories indexed by country, region, and state. Many of these repositories provide online finding aids that are not EAD, and there is no central union catalog to simultaneously search these.

University of Southern Mississippi Historical Manuscript Finding Aids. 1999. http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives /subjects.htm

University of Virginia Guides and Finding Aids. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/e ad/ About 1,200 guides representing ten percent of the institution's holdings.

Yale University Libraries Finding Aid Project. http://webtext.library.yale.edu/ EAD and HTML findings aids for four of Yale's repositories.

Catalogs

Archives USA. Chadwyck Healey. http://archives.chadwyck.com Records for 117,000 collections and holdings information for 5,400 repositories. Proprietary.

National Union Catalog for Manuscript Collections Gateway to RLIN AMC http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html Approximately 500,000 records for repositories throughout North America.

World Cat. OCLC. http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html Books and other materials (including manuscript collections) from libraries worldwide. Proprietary.

Digital Collections

American History Online. Longman. http://longman.awl.com/history/home.htm American History Web site designed to supplement Longman's print textbooks.

American Memory. Library of Congress, http://memory.loc.gov/ Currently includes 74 digital collections from the Library of Congress and other repositories. This is the largest collection of primary sources available online.

Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935. http://www.boondocksnet.com/ail98-35.html Jim Zwick provides approximately 800 primary documents including essays, speeches, pamphlets, political platforms, editorial cartoons, petitions, and literature, such as Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings and Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden.

Archives of Maryland Online. http://www.archivesofmaryland.net The legal history of Maryland from 1634 to the present. Their goal is to put a million pages online for a million dollars over a ten-year period.

California Heritage Collection. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHerita ge/ A "rich and varied database of digital imagery of primary source materials that document and illustrate the heritage of California." Contains 28,000 images accessed through a combination of MARC cataloging and electronic finding aids.

Civil Rights Interviews and Freedom Songs. Southern Oral History Program. University of North Carolina. http://www.unc.edu/depts/sohp/SOHPweb/civilrightsproject.htm Includes sound clips.

Colorado Digitization Project. http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/cdp.html A collaborative initiative involving Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Statewide metadata standards and regional scanning centers support this statewide effort to provide electronic access to Colorado's cultural resources.

CSS Alabama Digital Collection University of Alabama http://www.lib.ua.edu/hoole/cssala/main.htm Text and images associated with the Confederate raider Alabama, including a" virtual journey" map.

Documenting the American South. University of North Carolina. http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/ A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century that includes approximately 500 books and manuscripts.

Duke University Digital Scriptorium http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/#collections Duke has digitized ten of its collections including the Ad Access Project and Historic American Sheet Music.

Making of America. University of Michigan, Cornell University. http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction containing approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

New Deal Network. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. http://newdeal.feri.org/ Searchable database of approximately 3,000 items, including photographs, speeches, periodical articles, letters, and political cartoons.

Rare Map Collection. University of Georgia. http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html Includes maps on the Civil War, Georgia, and the South.

Text Encoding Initiative. U.C. Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:2020/dynaweb/ Electronic text projects including oral histories, Free Speech Movement Archives, and UC History Project.

University of Virginia Special Collections Digital Center. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/scdc.html Virginia digitized six collections including African-American Educational Photographs and the ongoing Early American Fiction project.

Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia Edward Ayers, University of Virginia http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/ Thousands of items in a variety of formats relating to life in two Civil War towns, one northern and one southern.