sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper
library, we provide free access to researchers, historians,
scholars, and the general public.
University at Buffalo interdisciplinary multi-media digital collections. UBdigit collections support the research and instructional needs of the UB community. UBdigit provides centralized access to UB’s diverse inventory of legacy and teaching collections for purposes of instruction, scholarship, and archival preservation.
UBdigit includes primarily collections of still images, but anticipates future inclusion of a variety of digital media formats, including audio, video, kinetic images, animation, virtual reality, interactive sequences and multi-media constructs.
UBdigit is a joint project of the UB Libraries, Educational Technology Center, faculty and academic departments.
With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the
UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of nearly 7,000 cylinder
recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort
to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded
or streamed online.
On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the
cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections
from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known
era of recorded sound. If you know what you are looking for click the search button
to begin, or you can browse by genre or sample some of our favorite selections in the featured cylinder
section or by listening to online streaming radio.
The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe in 20 languages. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.).
Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries
across Europe. The amount of referenced digital collections is
constantly increasing. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 47
collaborating national libraries of Europe. The European Library is a
non-commercial organisation.