Books and Other Media (audio, video, etc.)               

Contents:   

----------BOOKS
  books and other media in libraries
----------BOOKS ON THE WEB
  e-books
  books online - collections:  
        recent books, children's books, classics, and specialized collections
  books for purchase 
  book swapping
----------IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO ON THE WEB
  images, audio, and video on the Web 
  moving images, audio, text - collections
  videos for purchase
----------HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ON THE WEB
  historical documents online - collections
----------MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ON THE WEB
  museum collections online
 

 

 

find  books and other media in libraries:

• SDLN Library Catalog - library catalogs of DSU's Mundt Library & other South Dakota libraries
• Worldcat - world catalog of library catalogs
• Library of Congress - national library of the United States
• LibWeb - links to libraries around the world

find e-books online:

• Digital Book Index -- tool for finding e-books (free and for pay) on the Web
• Internet Archive -- a public nonprofit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to collections that exist in digital format.
• netLibrary -- for e-books in Mundt Library's eBook collection & in the public domain 
• Searchebooks.com -- for freely accessible e-books on the Web (primarily public domain books)

find images, audio & video on the Web:

[Assume all images, etc. are copyright protected unless the source specifically states otherwise. Copyrighted material may only be used on your website (or published in another medium) with the permission of the owner.] 

• Altavista multimedia search -- search for images indexed by the Altavista search engine
• Google image search -- click "image" tab and begin searching.
• Internet Archive -- a public nonprofit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to collections that exist in digital format.

• Public Domain Images for Use in Multimedia Projects and Web Pages -- provides links to sites with public domain images.

• Yahoo picture gallery -- search or browse for images

Books online - collections:

Recent books online  

• netLibrary -- Mundt Library eBook collection [Access RESTRICTED to Dakota State University students, faculty & staff]
• NAP Online Books - publications of the National Academy Press (NAP) and John Henry Press on a wide range of topics in science, technology, engineering, and health.

Children's Books online

• International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) --  a digital library of international children's books (five-year project beginning in 2002;funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS))

Classics (now in public domain) online

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, Infomotions, Inc.
• Project Gutenberg, promo.net & project gutenberg
• E-Text Links, Electronic Text Center, Cornell University
• IPL Online Texts Collection, Internet Public Library and the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
• Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), Indiana University
• Electronic Text Center Collections, University of Virginia
• Page by Page Books, provides public domain books with one page on each web page; designed for easy bookmarking. 

• Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, digital collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction,1851-1875. 

• The On-Line Books Page, by John Mark Ockerbloom

Specialized collections online

• Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks, University of Pittsburgh
• Europeana (European Digital Library) - Europeana is a prototype digital library developed by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, for the European Digital Library project. Europeana offers approximately 12,000 copyright-free   documents from the BnF, the Széchényi National Library of Hungary, and the National Library of Portugal.

   
   

  Historical documents online - collections:

• American Memory, Library of Congress - examples of the numerous online collections of the Library of Congress include Woody Guthrie and the Archive of the American Folksong, The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920, and History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School -- digital documents relevant to the fields of history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. Conveniently arranged in categories from pre-18th Century documents to the 21st Century, here you can find the text of the "Laws of Kings" 753–510 B.C.E. from ancient Rome, the Magna Carta from 1215 C.E., or the latest executive order about the "attack on America."
• Documenting the American South, U. of N. Carolina
• ILEJ: Internet Library of Early Journals, Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford -- conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aims to digitize substantial runs of 18^th and 19^th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet. Titles include Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. 
• Making of America, primary sources at U. of Michigan; primary sources at Cornell University's Making of America project are available at http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/ 
• Medicine & Madison Avenue, Duke University & others - marketing images from the 1910s through the 1950s from 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines
• Model Editions Partnership, U. of S. Carolina
• Southeastern Native American Documents, U. of Georgia.  Select “Digital Library of Georgia,” then select “Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842.” If asked for a GALILEO password, select “Public Databases” at the bottom of the password screen.

   Museum exhibits online -- Directories & Lists:

• Accredited Museums -- searchable database of accredited museums, by the American Association of Museums
• Art Museums Worldwide -- from Artcyclopedia
• European Museum Guide -- "detailed and very comprehensively illustrated, the European Museum Guide provides information about permanent collections, actual and future exhibitions of European Museums"
• MOOM: The Museum of Online Museums -- "online collections and exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions"
• MuseumLand.com -- "worldwide portal to museums and cultural heritage"
• Museum Network -- "explore museums worldwide" through this portal
• 123World: Museums & Galleries -- list of museums & galleries on the net

  Moving images, audio, text online - collections

• MediaSleuth -- over 150,000 educational video titles, which are listed on the database of the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM).
• Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Films.com) -- more than 10,000 video, CD-ROM, and videodisc programs cover a broad range of subject areas appropriate for schools, colleges, and public libraries.
• Internet Movie Database -- provides information about movies (cast, plot outline, etc.) and includes user comments about them.