New sites saved on our delicious page

As it's a while since the last time, a quick reminder explanation that we have a page on delicious.com which we use to save links to useful free web resources as and when we come across them. Every now and then we'll post a round-up of the most recent links saved on the blog, and you can always take a look at the full list at delicious.com/vhllib.

Old Maps Online

The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.

William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project

The William Elwood Civil Rights Lawyers Project tells the legal history of the civil rights struggle. The online interviews, which filled 273 tapes left to the library, are available through the library's Virgo service. For more information see: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=17423&tr=y&auid=10274558

The John Carter Brown Library: Online resources

Portal to the online digitised resources of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Digital Schomburg | The New York Public Library

Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation and scholarship on the global black experience. Users worldwide can find, in this virtual Schomburg Center, exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

National Archives Print Shop

Online shop for prints from the National Archives collections. Includes many historic images, Civil War photographs, maps etc.

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web

This site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials. The scope is international and multi-lingual. The online exhibitions included in this guide draw their inspiration and content primarily from library and archival materials, including, for example: printed books, book illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, printed ephemera, posters, archival sound and video recordings, artist's books, and the book arts (engraving, marbling, and bookbinding, etc.). Although many of these online exhibitions were originally created to accompany shows held in the exhibition galleries of their institutions, a growing number exist in digital format only. The online exhibitions in this guide are keyword-searchable by title, subject, and the name of the sponsoring institution.

Guides and bibliographies - British Library Americas Collections

Archive | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change

Digitised documents from The King Center's archive.

Social Explorer Maps: Demographic maps and reports of the United States 1790-

Interactive demographic maps of census data from 1790 to present, as well as religious data maps 1980-2000 and time series maps for New York and Los Angeles.

Flickr: Boston Public Library's Photostream

Delaware Heritage Collection

Digital collections from the Delaware Public Libraries, Delaware Public Archives and others.