Examples
A demonstration site set up by the developers of Greenstone, the New Zealand Digital Library Project. This site contains many collections, ranging from humanitarian information to computer science technical reports to demonstration collections of Chinese and Arabic documents.
The more than 37,000 documents on Afghanistan in the ACKU collection contain works in Dari, Pashto and various western languages. The collection provides comprehensive coverage on all sectors of development, as well as literature, music and cultural heritage.
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit - AREUThis on-line bibliographic catalogue lists materials held in hardcopy in AREU's research library in Kabul, Afghanistan. AREU's collection includes books, pamphlets, government publications, periodicals, maps, CDs, DVDs, etc. in English, Dari, Pashto and other languages.A case study of customizing the AREU collection
AHKRC Digital Library, Islamabad, PakistanAHKRC Digital Library contains thousands of documents, images and reports. This digital library contains four collections. SSK Archives contain NFRs (Note for the Records), Letters, Emails, Faxes and other office documents from 1980s to date. Digital Images collection is consist of hundreds of historic photographs of Akhter Hameed Khan (A renowned social scientist) and different events of RSPs. Journals and Reports collection have more than 500 e-articles and reports. And much more....
Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital ArchivesThis collection contains a sampling of items from the Allen Park VA Hospital archives including: photographs of events, newspaper articles, and audio memoirs. The hospital also intends to add a few video clips. The Allen Park VA Hospital, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, was deemed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places on Jan. 6, 1981 but was demolished in 2004.
Archives of Indian LabourA collaborative project between the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute and the Association of Indian Labour Historians. The Archives of Indian Labour are dedicated to preserving and making accessible the fast depleting documents on the Indian working class.
Auburn University Libraries Digital LibraryThis site contains several Greenstone collections: A collection of over 300 Alabama Postcards depicting various scenes from early 20th century Alabama, a collection about 20th Century Alabama Authors, The Loveliest Village Photo Collection which contains selected images and captions from Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, and The Piano Bench Collection of sheet music published before 1923.
Biblioteca Digital Científica de les Illes BalearsLa Biblioteca Digital Científica de les Illes Balears és un portal d'accés a la informació científica i erudita produïda en aquestes illes.
Inicialment conté 11 col·leccions amb un total de 2.283 documents entre manuscrits, llibres, articles de publicacions periòdiques, fotografies i plànols, que s'aniran incrementant de forma continuada.
Textos Completos de América Latina y el Caribe
Books from the Past / Llyfrau o'r GorffennolBooks from the Past is an on-line collection of Welsh books of national cultural interest which have long been out of print, and are unlikely to be reprinted by traditional means. The texts are available in two forms - images of the original book pages, together with a fully searchable electronic text which is also suitable for printing.
Catalogo de la Biblioteca Obispo AngelelliExisten 5 manera(s) de encontrar información en el Catálogo de la Biblioteca obispo Angelelli: Buscar determinadas palabras, Acceder a las publicaciones por Tipo de Material, Acceder a las publicaciones por Autor, Acceder a las publicaciones por Autor Institucional, Acceder a las publicaciones por Editorial,
Chopin Early EditionsA collection of digital images of early printed editions of musical compositions by Frédéric Chopin. This collection was created by the University of Chicago Library and, once completed, will include its entire collection of over 400 Chopin early editions. The Greenstone collection configuration file for this collection has also been made available and can be downloaded here.
CLACSO - Latin America and the Caribbean Network of Social Science Virtual LibrariesOpen access to full-text social science books, periodical articles and working documents published (in Spanish and Portuguese) by CLACSO's network of 216 research institutions in 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Advanced search facilities within the complete collection of 10.000 texts, or within each individual institutional collection, or within collections by type of publication.
Decifrazione del V. e VI. libro de' partimenti di Fenaroli del Cav(alliere) N(iccolò) C(alichiopulo) ManzaroA music manuscript created around 1850 by the famous Greek composer Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros. One version was dedicated to Victoria I, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, possibly in 1856, and belongs to the Manuscript Collection of British Library (London). The collection contains the "partimenti" that can be found in Books V. and VI. in F. Fenaroli's "Partimenti ossia basso numerato". The manuscript is one of the most important samples of Greek music heritage.
Detroit Public Library: E. Azalia Hackley CollectionThis collection of sheet music consists of over 500 pieces of 19th and 20th century sheet music published between 1799 and 1922. Song themes cover early 19th century plantation life in the American South, the Civil War period, including abolitionism, emancipation and Reconstruction, early 20th century popular music, and the stereotypical themes associated with black face minstrels.
Greater Cincinnati Memory ProjectA collection of 6,000 pre-1940 photos, postcards and slides relating to landmarks and events related to the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Collection created by the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium.
Great Lakes Shipping DatabaseFr. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. Marine Historical Collection at University of Detroit Mercy. Documents, publications, photographs, and negatives collected by a Jesuit professor over a seventy year period dealing with all aspects of Great Lakes Shipping from 1850 to the present day.
Human Rights in ArgentinaThis site contains documents, photos and books covering files of children kidnapped during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, leglislation on identity, jurisprudence-related information, and many other items. It was created by the Secretary of Human Rights of Argentina under the Comisión Nacional por el Derecho a la Identidad (CONADI), which is a National Commission that fights for the right that a person has for knowing his or her identity -- particularly when their parents have disappeared.
iArchivesSeveral demo collections of digitized newspapers that have been set up by iArchives for clients, including British Library Newspapers, the Californian, the Dublin Evening Telegraph, and the Tundra Times.
Illinois Wesleyan University Argus Digital CollectionIllinois Wesleyan University's newspaper The Argus has been published under student supervision continuously since 1894. This digital collection is part of an on-going project to preserve and provide access to Argus volumes published from 1894-2000.
Illustrated London NewsA Digital Library of the New Zealand content from the Illustrated London News, 1853 to 1902.
Indian Institute of Management, KozhikodeThe Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (http://www.iimk.ac.in) is a premier management school set up by the Government of India during 1996. The Center for Development of Digital Libraries of IIMK uses GSDL software for its DL collection development. The DL at IIMK is truly a multi-media, multi-publication type and multi-format library with books, monographs, reports, journals, cases and educational videos forming part of its growing collection. The videos collection is a recent addition which used only open source software and open standards for its entire workflow.
Indian Institute of Science Publications DatabaseIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, Karnataka, India is a premier institution of advanced research and teaching, with more than 2000 active researchers working in almost all frontier areas of science and technology. Started in 1909 by J.N.Tata, the Institute publishes about 2,000 publications including journal articles, conference publications, patents, reports, books, book chapters every year, according to this study. An effort is made here to compile these publications from several identified sources, remove duplicate records, standardise the metadata details. The database is web enabled using Greenstone.
Kazakhstan Human Rights CommissionThe digital library of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan allows for free access to a wide collection of human rights related documents. It provides common citizens with the opportunity to find free legal information on those human rights questions they are interested in.
Lehigh University Digital Bridges CollectionA collection containing thirty books about bridges, all of which were published between 1811 and 1899. The collection was created at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania and features a heavily customized user interface.
Library of Kazak Governmental Legal InformationKazak and Russian content with Kazak, Russian and English interface.
Marshall Foundation Digital LibraryThe Marshall Papers project has published five volumes since 1977 from the voluminous manuscript collection of George C. Marshall's papers held at the Marshall Foundation's Archive in Lexington, Virginia. The published volumes span the years 1900 to 1946 and comprise some 3,000 pages; these letters, telegrams, memos, reports, and speeches include exchanges with a virtual Who's Who in war and diplomacy for the period covered.
Mirabilia VicomercatiMirabilia Vicomercati is an on-going project managed by Vimercate Public Library (Milan, Italy), aimed at the digitization of local history primary sources. Several collections will be provided - photographs, postcards, maps, text, reference, multimedia - in order to make accessible, promote and preserve the historical memory of Vimercate and its territory.
MOST Digital Library (UNESCO)The MOST Digital Library contains results from research carried out during the first ten years of the MOST Programme. The themes covered include Drugs, Globalization and Governance, International Migration, Multicultural Societies, Poverty Eradication, Social transformations, Sustainability, Urban Development and HIV/AIDS. The MOST digital library offers a brief abstract of each document (in English, French and Spanish) that identifies the key issues and arguments in a few lines. The database contains the documents in their original language (English, French or Spanish) and in translation if such a version exists. The user interface is currently in English only, but will shortly also be available in French and Spanish.
Municipal Library of Almaty City160 Documents, each in Kazak and Russian.
Music Information Retrieval ResearchVirtual home of music information retrieval research.
Natural Sciences Digital Library, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (in Vietnamese)This site contains two Greenstone collections. "Library and Information Science" consists of the articles on Information and Library sciences from the Library Club, FESAL, and the Natural Sciences Library Newsletters since 1998. "Library Equipment" has photos of library equipment in some libraries from the USA, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This site is maintained by the Natural Sciences Library, VNU-HCM.
New York Botanical GardenThe rare book digitization project of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden. Built by DL Consulting.
Notable Women of Simmons CollegeThe mission of this project is to animate the lives of early college women through their scrapbooks and other memorabilia, to serve not only as a record of a student's college experience, but also as an entrée into a rich understanding of the social conditions and historical period in which these women lived. Each scrapbook is created by students in a digital libraries class. The students’ work encompasses all aspects of the production process, including content management, descriptive metadata, digitization, preservation, web development, intellectual property, evaluation, and marketing.
Our homes are bleeding / Nos foyers saignent - Union of BC Indian ChiefsThis digital collection draws together several types of primary materials concerned with aboriginal land rights in British Columbia, Canada. The testimonies database contains the hearings of the McKenna McBride Royal Commission (1913-1916). Additional historical records, including maps, documents, newspaper articles, photographs, audio and video clips showing the continual assertion of aboriginal title and rights are available here. The testimonies database will continue to be developed over the coming years to incorporate more audio, video, cartographic and photographic material.
Oxford Digital LibraryA dozen or so collections on an eclectic variety of subjects: ornithology and entomology, prints and maps, educational games from the 18th and 19th century; classic geological literature, medieval science, and many others.
Pacific Archive of Digital Data for Learning and Education - PADDLEPADDLE provides full text access to a comprehensive collection of Pacific education material. This includes publications from the participating Ministries of Education including strategic plans, education legislation, curriculum frameworks and school policies. It also contains national development plans, statistics and budget information for the fifteen Pacific countries. PADDLE also includes material from international and regional organisations including UNESCO, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Commonwealth of Learning, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. In recognition of the low bandwidth in the Pacific PADDLE is also available on CD. Built by DL Consulting.
Papers PastPapers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1840 to 1915 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand. Built by DL Consulting.
Rwanda HIV/SIDAThis collection contain documents related to the state of HIV/AIDS in Rwanda. It includes national and international publications, manuals, guides, presentations and reports. This library was built by TRAC and Payson Center.
Slavonski Brod Public LibraryThe pilot project of digitization of local studies collection in Slavonski Brod Public Library, Croatia.
State Library of Tasmania Sheet Music CollectionThis site makes available about two hundred items from the rich holdings of printed music in the State Library of Tasmania's Heritage Collections. They range from the 1840s to the 1930s and include pieces for piano and other instruments, brass band arrangements and songs of all sorts - popular, sacred, patriotic, and even songs written to encourage tourists to come to Tasmania.
Sudanese Association of Libraries and Information (SALI) Digital LibraryThis library includes the following six collections:
* Sudanese Libraries Directory Part 1: Khartoum Libraries Directory
* SALI first Conference proceedings
* Sudanese Library and Information Sciences literature (Arabic)
* Sudanese Library and Information Sciences literature (English)
* SALI Newsletter (Arabic)
* SALI activities images (Arabic)
The Sudan Open Archive provides free digital access to contemporary and historical knowledge about Sudan. The initial version of the Archive consists primarily of technical reports and unpublished grey literature from the history of aid in Sudan, covering the period from the start of Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) in 1989 to the present day. Built by DL Consulting.
The Arafura Digital ArchiveThe East Timor Collection is a part of the Arafura Digital Archive (AraDA) project based at Charles Darwin University.
The Black Abolitionist ArchiveThe Black Abolitionist Archive is a collection of documents created by antebellum blacks. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, these important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement. The collection was donated to the University of Detroit Mercy by Dr. C. Peter Ripley in 1998. The paper collection is maintained by Dr. Roy E. Finkenbine who teaches in the UDM History Department. The digital archive is being developed and maintained by the UDM Libraries / IDS.
The Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture ProjectThis project presents information about significant buildings, landscapes, campus plans, and heritage sites of American higher education and identifies sources for further research. Supported by grants from the Getty Foundation, the CIC HCAP website documents nearly 2,000 places of historical significance on private college and university campuses and includes more than 4,300 images relating to these sites. To date, nearly 370 institutions have participated. On this site, web users can find institutions or places in a particular state or region; seek information about a specific type of architecture, designer, or time period; or gather data for future research.
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Digital LibraryThe Cushing/Whitney Medical Digital Library is a growing collection of digital resources made available on the Web for scholarship. The Medical Digital Library Committee coordinates the library's digitization activities. Its goals include expanding access to the library's unique collections for scholarly research, and life-cycle management of digital objects. The first collection consists of 83 mid-19th century oil paintings rendered by Western-trained artist Lam Qua of Chinese patients with tumors under the care of Yale-trained medical missionary Peter Parker.
The Social Management Digital LibraryLa Biblioteca Digital Gerencia Social se plantea atender las dificultades del púo usuario para acceder a informacióobre temas propios del áito social, difundiendo la documentacióisponible, pero respetando los derechos de autor correspondientes.
The United Nations Digital Library - IslamabadThe United Nations Digital Library Islamabad, is an Open-Access, online searchable repository containing Full-text of documents, reports, publications and other public information items produced by the country offices of United Nations Organizations, Programmes and Funds in Pakistan. The Digital Library of United Nations in Pakistan strives to stop the loss of digital information of the UN in Pakistan and facilitates the retention and long-term preservation, in a usable form. The collection comprises the general documents, reports, publications, newsletters, press releases and other public information items. This repository is a centralized information resource of the United Nations information on or about Pakistan.
The Writing University ArchiveThe Writing University Archive is a repository for digital humanities collections at the University of Iowa. The archive contains collections from the International Writing Program and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Writing University Archive is a collaboration between the writing programs and the School of Library and Information Science at The University of Iowa. You will be able to search the multimedia recordings that have been digitized and read the detailed catalog entries annotating their content. You will also be able to listen to recordings and view video if you have the appropriate players.
Ulukau, the Hawaiian Electronic LibraryUlukau makes available resources for the use, teaching, and enhancement of the Hawaiian language. It has five collections: "Ka Ho'oilina: Puke Pai 'Olelo Hawai'i" (The Legacy: Journal of Hawaiian Language Resources), Hawaiian Newspapers, Baibala Hemolele (The Hawaiian Bible), Hawaiian Dictionaries, and Hawaiian Books. Built by DL Consulting.
University of NamibiaThis library includes a collection of past examination papers of the University of Namibia, a register of Namibian theses and dissertations, and a collection containing publications of University of Namibia staff members between 1992 and 2002.
Washington Research Library Consortium Special CollectionsDigital material from the special collections of the eight universities of WRLC in Washington, D.C., USA.