Digital Collections
Representing both commercial products and projects from a variety of institutions (including UNC), the following provide digitized content from books, photographs, and much more.
Image Collections and Exhibits
ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 750,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes.
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
This site, hosted by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, includes over 3000 links to online exhibitions from libraries, archives, and museums around the world.
E-Books and Other Digital Resources
For a list of our subscription items as well as selected freely available web sites, see our Article Finder: Selected E-Books and Digital Collections page.
Collaborative Digitization Program
The Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) began in 1998 as the Colorado Digitization Project, but the program has expanded to include partners in ten western states, including Arizona, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Projects include:
- Colorado Historic Newspapers - a selection of early Colorado newspapers from 1859 to 1923
- Heritage West - combines digitized primary source material from a variety of projects, including the Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Photography Collection. Also included are two UNC Libraries' projects: "James A. Michener's Centennial: The Evolution of a Novel", and a Western Trails project, Roads for the Modern Tourist: A History of Fall River Road in Maps, Photographs and Documents.
Local Projects
Middle Ground: Government Reports Documenting U.S. Government Relations with the Navajo Nation