Dylan Hartwell on 2009-05-13
Start with North America.
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Digital Library offering lots of ancient manuscripts, parchments and documents.
A tremendous collection of primary source documents (scanned documents, pictures & video) from around the world and throughout history. Search by place, time, topic, type of item, and institution.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
primary source materials from around the world
A tremendous collection of primary source documents from around the world and throughout history.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
<<The site, four years in the making, brings together historical manuscripts along with secondary literature describing them-translated into seven different languages. The library includes scanned documents from 27 libraries in 19 countries so far, including a manuscript from ancient Japan that is believed to be the first novel ever. James H. Billington, the U.S. librarian of Congress, who heads the project, says all countries are welcome to contribute. The idea is to use Web technology to put all of mankind's most precious artifacts in a single, shared repository.>>
World Digital Library Home
Rare and ancient works online

Dylan Hartwell on 2009-05-13
Start with North America.
Texts, recordings and videos in different languages
Texts, recordings and videos in different languages
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Biblioteca digital mundial
This is an amazing collection of primary materials from around the world. This is truly like bringing museums from around the world into your classroom. Use the World Digital Library to illustrate lessons using an interactive whiteboard or projector. Students can use World Digital Library for research and to support projects they are working on.
UNESCO and 32 partner institutions have launched the World Digital Library, a Web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world. The site includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. It provides unrestricted public access, free of charge, to the material.
Joint effort by UNESCO and Library of Congress. 1200 primary
works features original books, maps, photographs, and various other
materials provided by 27 institutions world wide.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
- The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.
Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages.
- Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.
learning about the world form a digital point of view.
North America
137 Items
Interview with Fountain Hughes,
Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949
tools and resource for discovering geography and history
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
* Promote international and intercultural understanding;
* Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
* Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
* Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
World Archives of Information of Ancient Stuff
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. - encyclopedia with images
Primary sources in digital library
Great site for primary sources
Public Stiky Notes
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