Library of Congress, Internet Archives & California Digital Library team up with students to do some serious digital curation.

booksbooksbooks:

libraryland:

edt:

The Library of Congress Manuscripts Division has two containers of Vladimir Nabokov’s papers under seal. Tomorrow, June 23, 2009, the restrictions set by his son are scheduled to expire, meaning that this set of papers will be completely available to the public. To see the papers, you must go to the Library’s Manuscript Reading Room. (via Books Are People, Too)

This twentieth-century avant-garde journal Zenit was published in the former Yugoslavia.  Though held in the National Library of Serbia, it is available online from the much-publicized, cross-cultural World Digital Library.

The WDL was initiated (and is hosted) by the Library of Congress, developed by many global partners, and sponsored by UNESCO.  Among it’s nicest features: images of book spines, covers, and blank pages for fuller bibliographic information; closed captioning on videos and downloadable TIFFs.

softculture:

thedirtythirties:

WPA: Don’t kill our wildlife [between 1936 and 1940].

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, [Reproduction number,LC-USZC2-5254 DLC]

—via bringinghistoryhome.org

I love these posters, especially today.

Another Flickr success - after looking through the American Memory Project and other digital libraries, I found a better image for my research via Google image search. It’s from the Heights Library / Cleveland Heights Historical Center at Superior School House.