I tried to find the best of the best online library resources, museums, and documentary websites. ?Its a vacation without leaving your favorite chair or desk. ?This is a gift to all my readers, a little stroll around the web, to dispel the stress of the season, to relax, to enjoy.
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Internet Library for Librarians:
From their website:
Internet Library for Librarians has been one of the most popular information resource sites for librarians since 1994. It is an information portal specifically designed for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession. It has received many awards, including SUNLINK Link of the Week, Digital Librarian Award from Argus Clearinghouse, the Best Library and Reference Site from LibrarySpot, and Five Stars from Anbar Cool Sites, et al. It has been recommended by many professional magazines. Internet Library for Librarians is featured on hundreds of websites and recommended by hundreds of libraries and library related organizations, including the Library of Congress and OCLC.
Internet Library for Librarians provides links to more than 4,000 resources. All the resources are recommended, selected, and reviewed by librarians. Each entry has a full description of the goals and /or scope of the resource, as well as the contact information if provided. Internet Library for Librarians is a handy and useful tool for both novices and experienced library staff.
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Internet Public Library 2 IPL2
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Ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2?s collections. It is through the efforts of these students and volunteers that the ipl2 continues to thrive to this day.
In January 2010, the website ?ipl2: information you can trust? was launched, merging the collections of resources froim the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians? Internet Index (LII) websites. The site is hosted by?Drexel University?s College of Information Science & Technology, and a?consortium of colleges and universities?with programs in information science are involved in developing and maintaining the ipl2.
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Library of? Congress Business Reference Services
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World Bank Online Resources
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The World Bank Institute (WBI) is a global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction. It is part of the World Bank Group. It connects practitioners, networks and institutions to help them find solutions to their development challenges.?
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The Library Spot
From their website
Welcome to?LibrarySpot.com, a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. Thanks for stopping by! We hope that you find LibrarySpot.com to be a useful, engaging and invaluable resource for online research.
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Edsitement
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EDSITEment is a partnership among the?National Endowment for the Humanities,?Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a proud member of the?Thinkfinity Consortium?of premier educational websites.
EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study
Internet Archives
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The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and?located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from?Alexa Internet?and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes?texts,?audio,?moving images, and?software as well as?archived web pages?in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
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Digital Art Gallery
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Their Website
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A great collection ?or online gallery of the best digital art from the web.
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The British Museum Online Tours
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Online Titanic Museum
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Online Vatican Museums
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AMAZING Website
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Comprehensive website of virtual museums and tours
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These Sites present?over 300?Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest and Real-Time journeys which offer online multimedia guided tours on the Web. Most of the following offer text and pictures, others in addition transmit sound and an occasional movie.
The Virtual Tours of Museums and Exhibits never closes. Visit our Online Tours anytime, and stay as long as you like.
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The Museum of FIT: Fashionable Museum of New York
China Online Museum
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| ChinaOnlineMuseum.com was officially launched on March 21, 2009. Its objective is toprovide a general introduction toChina and Chinese culture, with a strong emphasis on?Chinese art. Eventually we aim to build various galleries to display different kinds of artworks throughout Chinese history. |
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Museo Nacional del Prado
- Guarantee the protection, conservation as well as encouraging the enrichment and improvement of the Spanish Heritage related to the Museum.
- Exhibit the Collection in accurate conditions in order to allow its enjoyment and study.
- Foster and guarantee access to the collection. Provide the study of collections to researchers. Boost knowledge and promotion of the Museum?s works of art and heritage supporting educational programs and cultural disclosure activities.
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Powerhouse Museum
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Top Documentary Films
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About;
My name is?Vlatko?and I?m the owner of this site. It all started some time ago when I ?fell in love? with documentaries in quest for more knowledge. I then started searching for documentaries and found a whole bunch and decided to put them all on this site.
The content here is created with a passion for documentary films, the site is in open form and it is allowing readers to add comments about documentary films they like or dislike.
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Documentary Heaven
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Documentary Heaven was set up early July 2009 to provide the public with a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre out there. We intend on continuously updating the site on a daily basis to bring you nothing but the very best.
The Idea Behind This Site:
We understand that the internet can be a very interesting place filled with much to do, but have you ever had one of those days where there seems to be absolutely nothing amongst that vast collection of websites out there that could possibly interest you? Well now there is documentaryheaven.com. So whenever your bored, just relaxing or simply in the mood to watch something interesting, why not? pop onto our site and find a documentary that takes your interest.
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The Documentary Tube
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Documentary Storm
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We believe that documentaries are meant to be shared and debated.
The formula for a great documentary is: half Hollywood blockbuster and half Ivy League Education.? A documentary is the love child of both.
We are dedicated to finding you free, full-length documentaries lovingly chosen from around the web. The main goal of this website is to share knowledge, spread ideas, and have fun.
We invite you to stroll through DocumentaryStorm: click around. Get lost. Pause. Learn. Speak. Listen.
Knowledge is power.
?Google Resources
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Google Art Project
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