Digital+Libraries

toc Antique Children's Books Books are cataloged by age/interest reading levels. In addition, there is an alphabetical index. You may also search by: title, author, illustrator, and publication date. You can not search by subject, but the collection is not so large as to really matter.

Aesop's Fables John Long has compiled a collection of over 650 Aesop's fables. Images accompany many of them while others include RealAudio files for students' listening pleasure. Tales are organized alphabetically and the morals are highlighted.

[|Children's Poetry Archive (K-8)] Listen to charming and thoughtful poems read aloud. Poems are searchable by form, theme, and poet. Forms include ballads, couplets, monologs, limericks, prose, and rap. Themes include animals, food, magic, memory, nature, school, and football. Biographies are included for each poet.

[|International Children's Digital Library]presents a collection of outstanding historical and contemporary books including books in English, Spanish, French, and Russian.


 * Google Books **

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Various collections with a current exhibit highlighted.


 * Obooko.com ** is a collection of free children's e-books.

The Online Book Page

Perseus Digital Library a library of primary and secondary sources on **//Ancient Greece and Rome//**. It also features timeline, maps, and archeology information.

[|Poetry Tool links]

Project Gutenberg

Questia 5,000 free ebooks

Reader's Advisory Advises the reader based on the reader's mood

Young Adult collection Young Adults and adults book collection

The Jewish National and University Library of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem includes the Einstein archives, early Hebrew newspapers, archives of medieval illuminated manuscripts, ancient maps of Jerusalem, special topical exhibitions and much more.

Young Adult Book reviews, blogs, and discussions

**Audiobooks** [|Books Should Be Free]

Franklin D. Roosevelt Digital Library is a big selection of audio archives. The archive search is separated by audio/video, photographs and text. Photographs can be searched by date or keyword.

[|LoudLit.org]

[|Open Culture] - free movies, images, audio books

Images and Art sites
Digital Image Collection links on the website are organized by groups photography, fine art, moving pictures, etc... Find the Civil War images under Photography Collections Online. Check the Nomad's Land Photography collection.

Online Gallery - Masterpiece of the Renaissance, Jane Austen's Early Work, First Atlas of Europe, Outstanding 15th century Church book, Classic of Botanical Illustration, Anglo-Saxon Art, Sketches by Leonardo

Photography Collection - NYPL, Recent Acquisitions

Video Collections
The Internet Movie Database It's a great starting spot for any kind of cinema research.  [|Open Culture] - free movies, images, audio books

= Subjects =

Animals
Animal Diversity Web by the University of Michigan's School of Zoology This site has great images, great information, and great usability.

Music
Electronic musical instruments 1870-1990. It is a comprehensive digital library devoted to the electronic musical instruments. Brief histories are provided as well as links to other useful sources on the Internet and a bibliography along with the instruments listings. Each entry contains information about the creator, country of origin, year of creation, pictures and illustrations, and well as the instruments use and historical importance. The site is easy to use and very informative. Its author Simon Crab, the site’s author, is the director of Lateral, a London based new media agency.

** Science and Health **
Center for Disease Control and Prevention is a gold mine of health information, providing an extensive listing of health topics alphabetically and also by age groups and gender.

**The National Science Digital Library** was created ‘to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning’. The main search pages is set up with only simple keyword search, but you can also browse the collection based upon topics like mathematics, engineering, etc. This digital library integrates all different types of media into one library, including sound files, still and moving images, textual documents, etc. So searching on a broad topic, like birds, gets you sound recordings, images, texts. The content is also broken down for different audiences, including K-12 teachers, librarians, and university faculty.

** World History **
David Runsey's Historical Map Collection

** American History **
Cradleboard Native American Teaching Projects

Native American Technology and Art

[|Encyclopedia Britannica. eBooks and Primary Sources]

= Free Courses = [|Open Yale Courses] Coursera = = = Miscellaneous = Geneology search site