This site is a conspectus of digital collections concerning Southern cultures and histories, created as part of the MetaScholar Initiative at Emory University and the DLF Aquifer project.
AmericanSouth.Org is an on-going project undertaken at Emory University in collaboration with a large number of Southern research libraries that seeks to improve access to digital resources. Put simply, AmericanSouth harvests metadata, or information about information, from an amalgam of library and museum archives, pulling this metadata into a central location for aggregation, indexing, search, and discovery. The resulting digital library collection enables a researcher to conduct a combined search of the materials held by many different institutions.