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Featured Digital Collections & Services: American Memory American History & Culture - A digital library of historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video from American Memory. Historic Newspapers - Enhanced access to America's historic newspapers through the Chronicling America project. International Collections - International materials and bilingual presentations from overseas libraries from Global Gateway. Legislative Information - THOMAS provides searchable full text of bills, Congressional Record and more. Performing Arts - Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials. Prints and Photographs - Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images. Veterans History - Experience first-person stories of wartime service through personal artifacts. Web Site Archiving - Searchable archives of historic Web pages including national elections, 9/11 and more.

A good website that provides free photos. The collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations. The image collection can be searched by subject category, image size, color, or rating. Morgue File is more than just a source for free images. It also features a "classroom" where visitors can learn photography techniques and get tips about image editing.

Open Culture has a collection of 150 free textbooks from Art History to Physics and Business. Stay tuned for more additions

A very large collection of resources that is well worth examining.

A HUGE collection of online resources sorted first by grade level and then by topic.  This is well worth exploring.

Some interesting thoughts on e-book development

Good source for library quotes. " Library Quotes - a searchable database of quotes about libraries, reading, books, literacy, and more. So many well-known people have articulated their love for the library. This collection of quotes enables libraries and advocates to use those words to help them make the case for libraries in their communities."

"Hundred Zeros is a collection of best selling eBooks that are currently free on Amazon. You can download and read any of these books on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, Kindle or inside your favorite web browser. The list is updated every hour."

What is the difference between blogging and curation if they are both about finding and sharing great content?  According to Deanna Dahlsad at Kitsch-Slapped, is the focus. While bloggers often cover anything that interests them as the are online where as curators are characterized by a strong focus on a specific topic.  

If you are looking for new places where to go and promote your bran new ebook, here is a good collection.

"Content curation is the ongoing finding and sharing of relevant digital and non-digital content about a specific topic for a specific audience. Typically, this content will come from a variety of properly credited sources and will be collated in such a way that the collection will be more useful than its individual elements."

Beautiful collection artwork depicting: reading, books, imagination...

"Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously. Find what you're looking for and use it instantly in your own creation - document, presentation, art work"

Collections include Archives, Digital Libraries, E-Books, Geneology & Local History, Government Documents, Maps

Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) literature collections in online book format. This page contains links to online books in American literature, English literature, church history, history and government documents. For the convenience of foreign language teachers, some non-English sites such as French literature, are included. This page is part of the ISLMC Young Adult Literature; Middle & Secondary English page. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed for teachers, librarians, parents and students to preview selected sites.

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

GIGA Quotes Extensive collection of 100,000+ ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems and the like browsable by 6,000+ authors or 3,500+ cross-referenced topics [20,000+ proverbs] Biographical Index Directory of 13,000+ biographical names of historical figures, world leaders, noted authors, famous celebrities and the like including nationality, occupation, and years of birth and death Reading List Selective list of 3,000+ classical, notable and best-selling books and other significant literature including 2,300+ first line excerpts from those works

The features on this Web site enable educational communities to: * Browse primary sources that teachers have used with students. * Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection. * Design learning experiences using MyPortfolio. * Share discoveries with others through field-testing and publishing. * Use our professional development programs to uncover the breadth and depth of LOC.gov resources. * Learn through primary source-based online activities and samples of student projects. * Create digital documentaries using University of Virginia's Primary Access or make a handout for students.

Teachers First has collected a list of Web 2.0 tools for educators. There is a detailed description of the tool and suggested ways that each can be used in class.