Featured Online Resource: The King Center Digital Archive

With the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday just around the corner (Monday, January 18), you might be interested in browsing documents related to Dr King which have been digitally archived and made available to the public by the King Center.

Sabudama. Martin Luther King Jr. Center. (CC BY 2.0)

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change was established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King.  The center is concerned with education and efforts promoting nonviolence and social change.

The center offers a digital archive with documents related to the life of Dr. King. Items in the archive range from programs, texts of speeches, telegrams, note cards, articles, and much more.  Some highlights include:

• Text of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
• A spiral notebook belonging to MLK 
• Handwritten outline of a sermon

This is an excellent place to find primary resources related to Dr. King and the civil rights era.  The site also provides information for those who may have the opportunity to visit the Center in Atlanta, GA.

serves as the premier resource dedicated to educating a global network of allied individuals and organizations working collectively using the philosophy and methods of nonviolence to create the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned. - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about/mission#sthash.sXiZGCnd.dpuf

serves as the premier resource dedicated to educating a global network of allied individuals and organizations working collectively using the philosophy and methods of nonviolence to create the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned. - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about/mission#sthash.sXiZGCnd.dpuf

serves as the premier resource dedicated to educating a global network of allied individuals and organizations working collectively using the philosophy and methods of nonviolence to create the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned. - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about/mission#sthash.sXiZGCnd.dpuf

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about-king-center#sthash.jmKLBYke.dpuf

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about-king-center#sthash.jmKLBYke.dpuf

Featured Online Resource: Grateful Dead Archive Online

This week’s Featured Online Resource is the Grateful Dead Archive Online (http://gdao.org/). The collection is drawn from more than 45,000 items that were digitized and stored at University of California Santa Cruz Library’s Special Collections and Archives Department. Additionally, content to the archive has also been submitted by the global network of Grateful Dead fans. Digitized content includes: recordings, posters, fanzines, photographs, tickets, t-shirts, and other web resources available about the Grateful Dead. The archive documents the band’s influence on music from 1965 to 1995.

There are several online exhibits, including one on different Grateful Dead posters. It can be accessed directly through the following link: http://gdao.org/exhibits/show/posters

The archive allows users to search the collection by keyword using a simple search box on the main screen. Additionally, the archive offers an advanced search option to help narrow down your search by item format and date.

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.

Featured Online Resource - Smithsonian's Collections SearchCenter

This week’s Featured Online Resource is the Collections SearchCenter from the Smithsonian Institution (http://collections.si.edu/search/).  The SearchCenter provides users with the opportunity to search the over 8 million digital records that the Smithsonian has developed.  Additionally, even though there are over 860,000 digital files that contain images, videos, and journals, this is still a small portion of the actual physical collections that the Smithsonian holds.  

Users can search by keyword, through images, or by browsing by a category.  

 

Every week, the Ort Library brings you a new and outstanding resource from the Web or from one of the library's databases. To get an archive of all FOR entries, click here. Also, you can suggest a website that provides well-organized access to useful info.