The new online exhibition: An Odyssey of Knowledge: Medieval Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the National Library of Medicine is our featured Cool Site for July 2010. Medicine in the Old World arose from many components: the classical Greek ...
Spanning the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, the Harry Ransom Center’s (at the University of Texas at Austin) European popular imagery collection is now fully accessible online via two sources: the Center’s finding aidand ARTstor’s nonprofit digital library. The Ransom ...
The Digital Scriptorium, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University announce the return of the Digital Scriptorium to its original home at Berkeley. The Digital Scriptorium is an image and cataloguing database that unites the medieval and Renaissance manuscript ...
Access the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) In 1997, Penn Libraries Overseer and rare book enthusiast, Lawrence (Larry) J. Schoenberg, C’53, WG’56, set out to build a database that would enable researchers to track and identify the world’s manuscript books ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives collects and preserves the corporate records and official correspondence of the Museum. By doing so, they increase the knowledge and understanding of the history of the Museum. Archives holdings include Board of Trustees records, ...
The John Martin Rare Book Room holds classic works on medicine and the health sciences dating from as early as the 15th century. These unique sets of several hundred images from the 5,000 volume John Martin Rare Book Room have ...
From the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin webpage: The collection of 3,421 items was donated in 1969 by New York rare book dealer Hans P. Kraus. It consists primarily of texts of Italian opera, but also includes ...
The Smithsonian’s Collections Search Center provides easy “one-stop searching” of more than 2 million of the Smithsonian’s museum, archives, library and research holdings and collections. The access to more Smithsonian collections via this Search Center is increasing over time. Collections ...
Columbia College Chicago Library is delighted to offer a new digital resource – the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Sketchbook Project – showcasing the work of the Pulitzer-prize winning political cartoonist and syndicated cartoonist who drew for such publications as the ...
The Edgar Allen Poe Digital Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in October’s spooky Cool Site of The Month! Launched to accompany the 2009 Poe Bicentennial exhibition, “From Out That Shadow: The Life ...