Digital Library Collections

  • Afghanistan Digital Library Afghanistan Digital Library retrieves, restores and makes available the first sixty years of Afghanistan's published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871-1930 as it is possible to identify and locate. The project also trained staff at the National Archives in Kabul in conservation and digitization and engaged in the cataloging and digitization of materials held in various public and private collections inside Afghanistan. Providing universal availability to this broad historical span of Afghanistan's published history and, in the process, constructing a national bibliography for the…
  • Arabic Collections Online (ACO) Arabic Collections Online (ACO), organized by NYU in partnership with Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, American University of Beirut, and American University in Cairo, is one of the largest digital collections of out-of-copyright Arabic texts, with new texts added every month. ACO is the largest digital reformatting project that Digital Library Technology Services has undertaken to date.
  • MediaCommons In collaboration with the Institute for the Future of the Book, and with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, DLTS has created a set of networking tools that serve MediaCommons, an all-electronic scholarly publishing network in the humanities. This set of tools, which bring together the functions of e-portfolio software, social networking systems, and electronic publishing platforms, enables participants using MediaCommons to find one another, collaborate, and disseminate their work in new ways. Within this social network, scholars are able to make available a wide range of their work, including published texts ranging from the monograph to the…
  • The Ancient World Digital Library The Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) comprises an interrelated a set of initiatives by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World to accelerate and enhance access to the emerging global library of digital publications on the ancient world.
  • Witness to the Early American Experience The New-York Historical Society, the NYU Fales Library and Special Collections and DLTS created a digital library of primary source material from the American Revolutionary War, documenting events in the New York City region. The material includes all of the items in the Richard Maass Collection at Fales, one of the more significant collections of material documenting activities during America's Revolutionary War in New York State, the William Alexander manuscripts from the New-York Historical Society, and the Robert Erskine/Simeon De Witt collection of survey maps from New-York Historical Society. This digital library was developed through funding from the Institute of…