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Resources
Digital
Libraries:
American
Memory:
"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating
to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more
than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections."
Chicago
Historical Society, Online Project: [No longer available.]
Local history comes alive at the Chicago Historical Society’s Online
Projects, where digitized collections include those of the Haymarket Affair
and the Great Chicago Fire.
Duke
University, Scriptorium:
Digitized collections include images, letters, diaries, and ephemera from
the Civil War; historical images in American advertising, ancient Papyri
from Egypt, historical images and letters from African American women,
images and ephemera from the history of the Women’s Liberation Movement,
and others.
eCUIP:
The Digital Library Project
Internet
Public Library:
This award-winning Web-based library is an excellent example of a virtual
library, acting both as a collection and as an organization of librarians
committed to helping patrons. IPL has a children’s page, as well.
University
of California, Berkeley, Digital Library Project:
This collection includes over 600 images on diverse subjects, from plants
and animals of California to African animals, plants, or landscape searchable
by country. Its strength is its images that are not available elsewhere.
Teaching
with Digital Libraries:
The
Learning Page:
"The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American
Memory Collections to teach history and culture. There are tips and tricks,
activities, and discussion groups, in addition to relevant lesson plans
and curriculum suggestions for using the collections in your classroom."
Articles:
Masullo, M. and Mack, R. (1996). "Roles for Digital Libraries in
K-12 Education," D-Lib
Magazine.
Mardis, Marcia. (2001). Uncovering the Hidden Web, Part I: Finding What
the Search Engines Don’t, Eric
Digest.
Mardis, Marcia (2001). Uncovering the Hidden Web, Part II: Resources
for Your Classroom, Eric
Digest.
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