• General
• Projects
• Other Resources

• Subject Guides for Web Resources

Asia Pacific

• Digitization Forum Online is supported by the Australian Cultural Network for Australian museums, libraries, art galleries and archives involved in digitisation projects.  It has a list of projects and other resources such as forums, conferences and links to sites and papers.

• The New Zealand Digital Library at the University of Waikato aims to explore the potential of Internet-based digital libraries.  It offers several demonstration collections searchable via the Web interface.

Canada

• Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries seeks to "promote, coordinate and facilitate the development of Canadian digital collections and services..."  This site features documentation about the initiative as well as links to member sites.

European Union

• Telematics for Libraries features news, activities and themes about libraries in Europe.  It also features the Digital Heritage and Cultural Content initiative aimed at "expanding the contribution of libraries, museums and archives to the emerging culture economy..."

United Kingdom

• eLib Electronic Libraries Program aims to "provide a body of tangible, electronic resources and services for UK Higher Education, and to affect a cultural shift towards the acceptance and use of said resources and services in place of more traditional information storage and access methods."  The site features information about ongoing projects, news and other useful resources.

United States

• Electronic Collections and Services provides a bibliography of documents and articles relating to digital libraries with links to the full text. Also has sections on library and information science, internet and networking as well as information policy.  Maintained by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

• The Digital Library Federation is composed of 20 university research libraries in the United States who manage and operate digital libraries.  It features useful information on its strategic plan, organization, publications, initiatives and presentations. 

• Digital Library Resources, maintained by the Library of Congress, provides links to general resources on digital libraries as well as organizations with digital library initiatives.

• NSF Digital Library Initiatives provides "leadership in research fundamental to the development of the next generation of digital libraries, to advance the use and usability of globally distributed, networked information resources, and to encourage existing and new communities to focus on innovative applications areas."

• Sunsite Digital Collections, maintained by the University of California at Berkeley, offers a rich source of digitized documents, photographs, reports and even a virtual tour of the history of the campus.

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Projects

United Kingdom

• The eLib website has a list of electronic library projects including Hybrid Libraries, Large Scale Resource Discovery, and Digital preservation projects.

United States

• Alexandria Digital Library is a research project which focuses on providing access to geographically-referenced information.  Maintained by the University of California at Santa Barbara.

• Informedia Digital Video Library is a research initiative at the Carnegie-Mellon University.  It aims to build a multimedia library containing digital video, audio, images, text and other related materials.

• The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections features searchable collections of digitized images as well as bibliographies and finding aids.

• The Stanford Digital Libraries Project focuses on interoperability and a uniform way to search for a vast array of information. The site provides information on  their projects, reports, testbeds as well as links to related information.

• The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project offers digital collections such as photographs, documents, geographic data as well as zoological and botanical datasets.  It also provides information about the project.

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Library provides information on research testbeds, accomplishments, publications, workshops and related resources.  It also features links to other UIUC projects such as the Astronomy Digital Image Library, the NCSA Project Horizon and The Daily Planet.

• University of Michigan Digital Library Project features information on their digital library projects, which include the Journal Storage Project (JSTOR),  Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Humanities Text Initiative (HTI).

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Other Resources

Web Indexes

• InfoSeek's list of Internet Libraries
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• YAHOO's list of Digital Libraries

Ejournals

• A select list of Ejournals on Digital Initiatives

Listservs

• DigLibns Electronic Discussion : a discussion of practical issues relating to digital libraries and librarianship. The Website has instructions on how to join the listserv with an archive of previous posts.

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