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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
One book of music from Rare Book Room, which contains digitized books of many types. Laborde Chansonnier – ca. 1470 – Unknown, (author) – France – Library of Congress, Music Division Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress: Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music: 19th-century, American, minstrel music, popular music, war songs: 29,000
Wikiversity - sister project that provides information on most academic subjects; Footnote - historic documents through their partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions (partly free) Google Scholar - provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.. The WDL has stated that its mission is 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, and to build capacity in partner ...
Project Gutenberg 46,000 (April 2015) books all at one site and growing daily. Wikisource: a repository of source texts in any language with wiki syntax. Libraries Australia - list of books (and other things) in 800+ Australian library collections; Library of Congress catalog a list of books; Free Online Books Page Directory of free online books
That question is addressed in the book "Caste: The Origins of our Discontent," by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson, which the public can discuss at a "Commonwealth Watch Party and ...
Chronicling America – Digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress; a smorgasbord of American newspapers published between 1836 and 1922; approximately 5,200,000 pages. Old Fulton NY Post Cards – A private digitization project; contains over 21,000,000 old New York State historical newspaper pages.
Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...