Library Strengths in Official [British] Documents: selected sources for Africa
From Green Library Reference Department, Stanford University. A truly wonderful piece of work describing an hideously complicated documents system. The Penn Library owns much of the material described...   [more]
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American Heritage Project
'The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Duke University, and the University of Virginia is funded in part ...   [more]
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Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) seeks to advance the heritage and public understanding of the chemical and molecular sciences by operating a historical research library; discovering and dissemi...   [more]
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Zentrale Datenbank Nachlasse
Index to 25,000 (as of Feb. 2005) Nachldsse in Germany and elsewhere, based on Wolfgang Momssen's two-volume printed index (1971-81)....   [more]

National Archives, Mid-Atlantic Region     [find related records >>>]
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Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center
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AGRICOLA - free     [find related records >>>]
A bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspe...   [more]
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Johnson Space Center History Archive
The Johnson Space Center History Archive, maintained at the Woodson Research Center of Fondren Library at Rice University from 1981 to 1999, was returned to the Johnson Space Center in April 2000....   [more]
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Catalogue collectif de France
A rapidly growing database, intended to eventually include a bibliographic record for nearly every book ever published in France. ...   [more]
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Bibliographie nationale française
This publication describes books (50,000 new titles annually) and serials (5,000 a year) published or distributed in France and received by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France through legal...   [more]
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Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog     [find related records >>>]
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Combined searching of selected German, Austrian and Swiss library catalogs....   [more]
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Kodikologie
Guide to manuscript resources in libraries and archives....   [more]

Deutsche Dichterhandschriften des Poetischen Realismus
Guide to 19th-century German literary manuscripts....   [more]

Archives in Germany
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Schweizerisches Literaturarchiv - Repertorium
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ArchiveGrid
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Provide centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids that have been encoded using SGML and the emerging standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The finding aids are...   [more]
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National Bioethics Advisory Commission Digital Archive
Digital archives of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission under President Clinton. Includes reports on cloning humans and stem cell research....   [more]
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University of Pennsylvania Library
Other campus Archives and Libraries:...   [more]
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia
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American Philosophical Society
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Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Collection at HSP
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Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSL)
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Camden County Library System
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Delaware County Library System
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David Library of the American Revolution
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Free Library of Philadelphia     [find related records >>>]
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German Society of Philadelphia
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Hagley Museum and Library
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Lafayette College Libraries
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Health Sciences Libraries Consortium
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Lehigh University Library & Technology Services
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Library Company of Philadelphia
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Lutheran Theological Seminary, Krauth Memorial Library
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Montgomery County Library & Information Network Consortium
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Library
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Philadelphia University, Gutman Library
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Princeton University Library
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Rider University Libraries
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Rosemont College, Gertrude Kistler Memorial Library
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Rosenbach Museum & Library
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Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Ryan Memorial Lib.
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Saint Joseph's University, Francis A. Drexel Library
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Germantown Historical Society
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Temple University Libraries     [find related records >>>]
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University of the Arts, Libraries
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Thomas Jefferson University, Scott Memorial Library
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Villanova University, Falvey Memorial Library
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Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia (JGSGP)
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Winterthur Library
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Presbyterian Historical Society
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Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History
Site includes the departments of Botany, Entomology and Zoology at the Natural History Museum....   [more]
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BorrowDirect+     [find related records >>>]
Also Known as: Borrow Direct EZBorrow
Search BorrowDirect, a combined catalog of the holdings of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Penn, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Yale, and the Center for Resear...   [more]
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Classic Franklin, the Penn Libraries Catalog
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Latin American Microform Project (LAMP)
Also Known as: LAMP
Composed of 42 institutional members, including Penn, LAMP acquires, films and makes available to its subscribers collections of "unique, scarce, rare and/or bulky and voluminous research materials pe...   [more]
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LANE, the Latin America North East Libraries Consortium
LANE is a group of academic and research libraries in the northeastern United States committed to building and maintaining Latin American studies collections. Its website includes a union list of news...   [more]
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American Museum of Natural History
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Edit 16: Censimento delle edizioni italiane del XVI secolo
The Census of Italian 16th Century Editions EDIT 16 aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century and at reviewing the countrywide heritage. It includes editions printed in Italy b...   [more]
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Archives in Italy
Links to Italian archives (annotations in German)....   [more]
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British Museum
The British Museum is one of the greatest museums of the world. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1753 and is now governed under the British Museum Act 1963....   [more]
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Dumbarton Oaks
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History --UCLA
The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, past and present. The Fowler seeks to enhance understanding and app...   [more]
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Hudson's Bay Company Digital Collection
Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature. A digital collection of aboriginal, European and Canadian artifacts ...   [more]
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Kelsey Museum of Archaeology -- University of Michigan
The Kelsey Museum houses a collection of nearly 100,000 objects from the civilizations of the Mediterranean. A selection of these artifacts are featured in two permanent galleries: Egypt and the Ancie...   [more]
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Oriental Institute -- University of Chicago
The Oriental Institute Museum is a showcase of the history, art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. An integral part of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, which has supported resear...   [more]
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Peabody Museum of Natural History - Yale University
The more than eleven million specimens in the Museums collections are cared for under the supervision of curators in ten divisions: Anthropology, Botany, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology, Invertebrat...   [more]
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology--Harvard University
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphe...   [more]
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Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) was created by the signing of the ROM Act in the Ontario Legislature on April 16, 1912. The Museum actually opened its doors to the public at 3 pm on March 19, 1914, whe...   [more]
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University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
The Museum of Anthropology is one of the major archaeological research and teaching facilities in the United States. The Museum does not maintain exhibit space and its collections are usually not avai...   [more]
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, through its research, collections, exhibitions, and educational programming, advances understanding of the world's cultural herit...   [more]
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Archaeological Data Archive -- Center for the Study of Architecture
The Archaeological Data Archive includes materials of two kinds - Web documents with archaeological data that may be viewed online and files that may be downloaded from the CSA server for inspection o...   [more]
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Oriental Institute Research Archives
Archives of the Oritental Institute, University of Chicago online catalog ...   [more]
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ArchNet : WWW Virtual Library of Archaeology
Archaeological Research Institute at Arizona State University. ArchNet serves as the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology...   [more]
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Demography Library - Population Studies Center     [find related records >>>]
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APLIC-I
Also Known as: Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers-International
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National Agricultural Library
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ADS Historical Literature Project
A joint project between the ADS and the Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to digitize microfilms from selected historical publications in astronomy, including observatory repo...   [more]
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Linus Pauling's Papers
Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded. A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling's career, the Pauling Papers hol...   [more]
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Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs
The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs is a collection of over 575 monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. The books were scanned from the orig...   [more]
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University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection
A growing library of books selected from the University of Michigan mathematics collection that have been digitized to improve access and to preserve the content of these books. All of the books in th...   [more]
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Neils Bohr Archive
The Niels Bohr Archive (NBA) is a repository of primary material for the history of modern physics, pertaining in particular to the early development of quantum mechanics and the life and career of Ni...   [more]
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University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology
This site provides broad coverage of Palontology. Includeds links to online exhibits, museum catalogs, and links to other paleontology resources. ...   [more]
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Manuscripta mediaevalia
A database of medieval manuscripts in Germany, with a selection of manuscript catalogs from important non-German libraries....   [more]
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Schlesinger Library
The library holds letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women, families, and organizations, primaril...   [more]
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Archives & Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Homeopathy - Drexel University College of Medicine
The Archives is the repository for the records and heritage of Drexel University College of Medicine and its predecessor institutions, including the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1867, ...   [more]
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PhILS
Also Known as: Philadelphia City Archives
Archival record group descriptions for Philadelphia Department of Records's City Archives. Useful for determining the genealogy of current Philadelphia government agencies and for identifying historic...   [more]
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Northwestern University Transportation Library
Transportation Library of Northwestern University is one of the largest transportation information centers in the world, encompassing information on all transportation modalities, including: air, rail...   [more]
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Einstein Archives Online
Also Known as: Albert Einstein Archives
The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Je...   [more]
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Arizona State Museum
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Archives de France
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Bishop Museum
Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in honor of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last descendant of the royal Kamehameha family. The Museum was established to...   [more]
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General Interest Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

RLIN (RLG Union Catalog)     [find related records >>>]
Union catalog of the Research Libraries Group Members....   [more]
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Worldcat - OCLC Firstsearch Union Catalog     [find related records >>>]
Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries. **8 SIMULTANEOUS USER LIMIT*...   [more]

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Access to Archives
"Contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day."...   [more]
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Repertorium Alborum Amicorum
A searchable listing of "autograph albums" held by over 400 libraries and archives in 21 countries. The interface is in German....   [more]
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Mundus Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK
Describes collections holding overseas missionary materials, including archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and...   [more]
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Archives Hub
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. ...   [more]
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MALVINE
"Manuscripts And Letters Via Integrated Networks In Europe. ... An online search service for post-medieval manuscripts hosted by the Berlin State Library and maintained by a European consortium of lib...   [more]
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Latin Manuscript Books before 1600
Also Known as: Kristeller
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National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Maintained by the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, provides access to the databases ETHX and Genetics & Ethics and other resources....   [more]
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WHO LNK
Also Known as: World Health Organization Library and Information Networks for Knowledge, WHOLIS
Library and information services from the World Health Organization Library, Geneva. Includes WHOLIS, the WHO Library Catalog (WHO publications, 1948-present; articles in WHO journals, 1985-present; h...   [more]
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Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center
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Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum
Also Known as: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono ~ydx muziejus
Jewish Museum of Lithuania...   [more]
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Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16)     [find related records >>>]
Includes over 115,000 16th century imprints. Requires downloading of a plug-in (link from the VD 16 site)....   [more]
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African Studies Companion
Also Known as: Hans Zell, African Research Online
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
5th Ed. Contains updated entries including URL changes. ...   [more]

Chopin early editions (University of Chicago)
View digital images of the University's rare Chopin holdings....   [more]
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Archive of Maori and Pacific Music (University of Auckland, NZ)
Home of the world's largest collection of field recordings of music of the Pacific....   [more]
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African Music Archive (Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat)
Repository of mainly sub-Saharan African popular and modern music. Includes recordings, video and print sources. (In German)...   [more]
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Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University)
The largest university-based collection of ethnological sound recordings. Includes commercial and field recordings, oral histories, videos, and print materials....   [more]
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Experience Music Project
Homepage of the interactive music museum in Seattle, WA....   [more]
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Recorded Sound Reference Center (Library of Congress)
One of the largest collections of recorded sound in all media in the world....   [more]
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UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
One of the largest collections of ethnological recordings in the country....   [more]
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Center for Popular Music
Maintains an archive of sheet music, periodicals, playbills and programs, recordings, and photographs....   [more]
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World Music Archive (Wesleyan University)
Contains, among other things, the largest collection of Navajo recordings in the world....   [more]
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Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (San Jose State University)
Search the largest collection of Beethoven materials outside of Europe....   [more]
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Charles Ives Society
An organization devoted to scholarly work on the music of Ives....   [more]
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Kurt Weill Foundation
An organization devoted to the study and performance of Kurt Weill's music....   [more]
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Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University)
The nation's premier archive of jazz materials, including recordings, books, periodicals, and photographs....   [more]
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William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz (Tulane University)
An extensive collection of oral histories, photographs, press clippings, and general jazz reference material....   [more]
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Latin American Music Center (Indiana University)
A society dedicated to the promotion of art music by Latin American composers....   [more]
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Archive of World Music (Harvard University)
A collection of archival field recordings, chiefly of Asian and Middle Eastern musics....   [more]
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Jazz-institut Darmstadt
Contains general jazz information as well as information on jazz in Germany. (In German)...   [more]
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The home page of the museum....   [more]
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Morgan Library (NYC)
Home to one of the largest collections of music manuscripts in the U.S....   [more]
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American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
Offers access to a large array of digitized materials, many of which are related to music (African-American Sheet Music 1850-1920; Aaron Copland Collection 1900-1990; etc.)...   [more]
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Filodiffusione (audio; Italy)
Access to the audio archives of the RAI....   [more]
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EMAP
World-wide ethno radio (requires RealPlayer)...   [more]
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NPR: National Public Radio
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BBC Radio 3
Listen live or search the audio archives of BBC Radio 3. ...   [more]
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WNYC: New York Public Radio
Listen live or search the audio archives of one of New York City's public radio station....   [more]
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KEXP (Seattle)
Maintains a two-week archive of a wide variety of programming....   [more]
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Electronic theses and dissertations from approximately 200 international member universities and institutions....   [more]
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Jüdische Museum München
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Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
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Women Working
"This is the prototype of the Open Collections Program Women Working project. This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the colle...   [more]
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Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Research Archives
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
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Kult.Doku
Links to exhibits in the Austrian provinces on a wide range of cultural topics ....   [more]
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National Public Broadcasting Archives
The National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) brings together the archival record of the major entities of non-commercial broadcasting in the United States....   [more]

E-ZBorrow
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Search a combined catalog of the 60+ members of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. and directly request books not currently available at Penn. Books appear on your library account and...   [more]
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Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
The website for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library which includes their online catalogue containing more than 79,000 of the 90,000 inventory records in the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library (HMML) co...   [more]
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British Library - Manuscripts Catalogue
From the "About" page: "This On-line Catalogue is designed to offer a single means of access to the mainstream catalogues of the Department of Manuscripts covering accessions from 1753 to the presen...   [more]
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Judaica in the Collections of the Hoover Institution Archives
As one of the largest repositories of primary sources relating to twentieth and twenty-first century European and Russian history, the Hoover Institution Archives has numerous documents concerning Jew...   [more]
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American Jewish Historical Society - Library and Archives
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American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life o...   [more]
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The Asher Library - Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
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Aviezer Yellin Archives of Jewish Education in Israel and the Diaspora
Aviezer Yellin Archives of Jewish Education in Israel and the Diaspora , Tel Aviv University...   [more]
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Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies - Guide to Jewish Manuscript and Microfilm Collections
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies...   [more]
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Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, University of Amsterdam
The core of the important and extensive collection of Hebraica and Judaica of the University of Amsterdam is the library of Leeser Rosenthal (1794-1868) from Hanover. In 1880 this library, which consi...   [more]
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Bibliotheque Medem
La Bibliothèque Medem est la plus grande médiathèque dédiée à la culture yiddish en Europe. 18, passage Saint-Pierre Amelot 75011 PARIS...   [more]
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Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Bn-Opal plus -- Catalog of the holdings of the Bibliothhque nationale....   [more]
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Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives at the University of Arizona Library
The United States Southwest, encompassing West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California, reflects the heritage of diverse groups of peoples. From native-born inhabitants to those who chose ...   [more]
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Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It is also a copyright deposit library and its collections are used by scholars from around the world. The buildings w...   [more]
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Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Oriental Institute Library.
The General Collection contains works of general reference and general orientalia and is classified by a scheme devised for the library at its inception (also used for the Minor and South Asian collec...   [more]
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Brandeis Libraries Special Collections Department
The rare book collection includes incunabula, books published in the 16th-18th centuries on such subjects as history, Englishand American literature, philosophy, and Judaica; first and limited edition...   [more]
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Cambridge University Library
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Cambridge University Library. Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. Oriental Manuscripts
Near Eastern manuscripts: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac, Turkish; Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah, Judaeo-Arabic; Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic. Southeast Asian manuscripts: Sanskrit, Prakrit, Sin...   [more]
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Canadian Jewish Congress - National Archives and Reference Centre
(Service des archives du Congrhs juif canadien) The Canadian Jewish Congress began collecting archival material immediately after its founding in 1919. The general mandate of the Canadian Jewish Cong...   [more]
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Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)
Established formally in 1969, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) were founded in 1938 as the Jewish Historical General Archives. Their aim is the reconstruction of an un...   [more]
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Central Zionist Archives, World Zionist Organization
The Central Zionist Archives is the official historical archives of the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, Keren Hayesod and the World Jewish Congress. It also ho...   [more]
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Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive was founded in the late 1960s by Prof. Moshe Davis and other historians at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The first director was the late Dr. Geoffrey Wig...   [more]
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Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
37, rue de Turenne - 75003 Paris - France...   [more]
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Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
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Chabad - Lubavitch Library
The Library is one of the most distinguished Judaic libraries, containing approximately 250,000 books, the majority of which are aged and rare. Around 200,000 of these are printed in the languages of ...   [more]
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Daniel J. Cohen Bibliothek im Steinheim-Institut
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Daniel Elazar On-Line Library. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Professor Daniel J. Elazar (1934-1999) was a leading political scientist and specialist in the study of federalism, political culture, the Jewish political tradition, Israel and the world Jewish commu...   [more]
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Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections. Florida Atlantic University Special Collections and Archives
The Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections encompasses several principle collections that includes over 80,000 books housed in both the general circulating collection and Special Collections. This coll...   [more]
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I. Edward Kiev Collection. Gelman Library, George Washington University
The I. Edward Kiev Collection is rich in primary sources for research in Bible, rabbinics, Jewish philosophy, liturgy, and Hebrew literature. The collection includes printed books, journals, manuscrip...   [more]
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Germania Judaica: Kölner Bibliothek zur Geschichte des deutschen Judentums. StadtBibliothek Köln
Die GERMANIA JUDAICA wurde 1959 auf Initiative einiger namhafter Kölner Bürger, darunter auch der Schriftsteller Heinrich Böll, als privater Verein gegründet. Mit einem Bes...   [more]
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Ghetto Fighters' House: Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Library and Archives
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Rae and Joseph Gann Library. Hebrew College (Newton Centre, MA)
The Rae and Joseph Gann Library, the library of Hebrew College, is one of the finest Judaica libraries in New England. It is open to the public six days a week. The Gann Library houses some 125,000...   [more]
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Saul Silber Memorial Library. Hebrew Theological College (Skokie, IL)
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Jewish National and University Library (JNUL). Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Jewish National and University Library serves a threefold purpose: it is the National Library of the State of Israel, the National Library of the Jewish People, and the Central Library of the Hebr...   [more]
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Association of Jewish Libraries - AJL
The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) promotes Jewish literacy through enhancement of libraries and library resources and through leadership for the profession and practitioners of Judaica librari...   [more]
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem Libraries
Listing of all libraries: The National Library Jewish National and University Library Science Harman Science Library National Medical Library JRA Jerusalem Research Authority The Archaeo...   [more]
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Ancient Maps of Jerusalem, The Eran Laor Cartographic Collection
This site is a joint project of the Jewish National and University Library and the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The site contains maps of Jerusalem, and basic informati...   [more]
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Ketubbot Project, JNUL Ketubbah Collection
The ketubbot digitization project aims to create a worldwide registry of ketubbot in public and private collections throughout the world. Based on the collection of the Jewish National and University ...   [more]
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National Sound Archives, Jewish National and University Library, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Online Heritage: The David and Fela Shapell Digitization Project. ...   [more]
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Online Heritage - The David and Fela Shapell Digitization Project. The Jewish National and University Library
This project is part of a larger plan to produce a hybrid collection of printed material and electronic resources, which will serve educational and research needs in Israel and the rest of the world. ...   [more]
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Short Title Catalogue Flanders
The Short-Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV) is an online bibliography of books printed in 17th-century Flanders. The initial phase of the project, which is being realised with support from the Max-Wild...   [more]
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Turing Digital Archive
This digital archive contains mainly unpublished personal papers and photographs of Alan Turing from 1923-1972. The originals are in the Turing archive in King's College Cambridge. It contains letter...   [more]
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Early Hebrew Newspapers Project
Jewish National and University Library, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization Project . The aim of this site is to provide open access to images of the major titles of the early Hebrew press (...   [more]
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    Ḥavatselet (1863-1911)
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VCat - Video Catalog     [find related records >>>]
The Penn Library Video Collection Catalog...   [more]
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Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza [IMSS]/ Institute and Museum of the History of Science
The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza [IMSS] was founded in 1927 at the initiative of the University of Florence under the name of Istituto di Storia delle Scienze. According to its Statute, it...   [more]
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General Interest Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

LibDex The Library Index
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
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LIBWEB Library Servers via WWW
Also Known as: lib-web
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
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Jewish Women's Archive
Learn about Jewish women through exhibits and features. Use resources to celebrate 350 years of Jewish life in America. Start an oral history project in your community. Research Jewish women through V...   [more]
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CAJS Archival Collections and Finding Aids
Archival collections at Penn's Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Libraries....   [more]
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Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive
Also Known as: Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive
Located in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania, The Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive currently contains over 1800 recordings, primarily in Yiddish and ...   [more]
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Ira Nowinski - The Photographer As Witness
Curated by Zachary Baker, Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections, Stanford University Libraries. "Nowinski has been a fixture on San Francisco's artistic and cultural scene for...   [more]
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archive.org
Also Known as: Prelinger Archives ; Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, a...   [more]
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Incunabula at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library
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Toronto's First Synagogues
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La Bibliographie de Belgique
Also Known as: Belgische Bibliografie
The Belgian national bibliography....   [more]
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West Semitic Research Project
The West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 20 years WSRP has us...   [more]
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Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Exhibitions
Also Known as: CAJS Web Exhibits
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Yiddish Prints - Frankfurt University Library
Also Known as: Jiddische Drucke - Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
The Collection "Yiddish Prints" contains about 800 very valuable Yiddish books that belong to the Frankfurt University Library. The texts were printed in Hebrew letters in West, Central and East Europ...   [more]
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CAJS Offprints Collection
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Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations
Southampton's links with Jewish Studies go back to the beginning of the last century when Claude Montefiore, an outstanding Jewish scholar of the Bible and early Jewish-Christian relations, became pre...   [more]
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CAJS Academic and Library Links
Websites of interest for Judaic Studies including directories, colleges, universities, institutes, libraries & archives ...   [more]
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Yad Vashem : The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish peoples memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust. Containing the worlds largest...   [more]
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William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and teaching about Jewish history, in particular the Holocaust and the experience of Jews in Georgia. Thr...   [more]

Sudoc: Le portail documentaire
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Eldridge Street Project
The Eldridge Street Synagogue is the oldest eastern European built synangogue in NYC. The project was created to restore and educate. We offer tours and public programs. The Eldridge Street Project i...   [more]
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Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair
Penn Library, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair was donated to the University of Pennsylvania Library in 2003. The collection comprises o...   [more]
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Library of Congress Classification Table for Philosophy
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Explore the British Library
Also Known as: British Library Integrated Catalogue
Through Explore the British Library you can search items from the main catalog comprised of 57 Million items as well as search the Library's Web site. General printed books pre-1975 Humani...   [more]
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Deutsche Nationalbibliografie
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliografie ist online: Unter http://dnb.ddb.de kann jedermann |ber vffentliche Netze kostenfrei in der Datenbank Der Deutschen Bibliothek recherchieren. Sie verzeichnet den Bibl...   [more]
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The European Library
The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It off...   [more]
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Center for Jewish History
Also Known as: CJH
The Center for Jewish History emerged from a vision of a unique central repository for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people. The Center embodies the unique partnership of five major...   [more]
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online (AAT)
Also Known as: Getty Thesaurus of Art & Architecture
links to Geographic Names (TGN) and Union List of Artists Names (ULAN) through Getty...   [more]
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RRC - Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, in Wyncote, PA, is an accredited rabbinical school dedicated to the renewal of the rabbinate in the North American Jewish community....   [more]
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Jewish Orphanages in the United States
On Jewish Orphanages, Societies, Social Services and Orphan Train Destinations in the United States....   [more]
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Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts (IMHM) has undertaken the task of collecting microfilm copies of all Hebrew manuscripts extant in public and private collections. Over 74,000 reels, rep...   [more]
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Union List of Artist Names Online
links to Geographic Names (TGN) and Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) through Getty...   [more]

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections NUCMC
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Library of Congress Authorities
Database presenting formal terminology for personal names, corporate names, meeting names, names of jurisdictions, uniform titles, and topical, geographical, and name-based subject headings used by th...   [more]
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