General Resources->Digital Repositories
General Resources->Libraries

This website is for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. CSW is an internationally recognized center for research on gender, sexuality, and women's issues and the first organized research unit of its kind in the University of California system. CSW website includes a newsletter, a weekly email digest, databases, and videocasts. CSW Update is our monthly PDF newsletter featuring research articles, faculty profiles, and field reports. It is also available from the CSW site at the eScholarship Repository of the California Digital Library. Videocasts of many CSW events are available on UCLA's YouTube channel. Subscribers to our listserv get weekly emails on upcoming UCLA and community events, job opportunities, calls for papers, exhibits, and conferences. Our fans on Facebook and followers on Twitter also get regular updates.

URL : http://www.csw.ucla.edu/

Keyword(s) : Women

General Resources->Libraries
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums
English Literature->Literary History

The full name of this virtual project is the “South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library,” the Baker Library being the official library used by the students of Harvard Business School. Within the Kress Collection that is kept in this library, there is said to be a large number of pamphlets, books, broadsides, prints, and ephemera related to the South Sea Bubble. The project to digitize this collection to form a new, virtual one was begun in 2005 so that the vivid visual resources could be presented to the public. In the project overview, Karen Bailey, the project manager writes, “the online guide was designed to create a dynamic Web product to inform researchers of the resources available in the South Sea Bubble Collection, to facilitate the use of the collection, to provide access to new digital content, and to build a framework for future additions to the collection.”

The website gives a short historical introduction of the South Sea Bubble, but the main aspect of this website is the collection description that is provided in detail to show what the South Sea Bubble Collection actually consists of. While the majority of these manuscripts and documents cannot yet be accessed directly through the Internet (the digital images are still in the process of being uploaded), by providing the title and contents of such resources enables this website to become a great starting point of research for those who are interested in examining this historical event. Links for related reading, in the form of books and article publications, are given as well for additional perusal.

URL : http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/index.html

Keyword(s) : 18c British History , Catalogs , Harvard Library , South Sea Bubble

General Resources->Libraries
General Resources->Art Galleries/Museums
General Resources->Cultural and Historical Contexts
General Resources->Digital Repositories
English Literature->Biographical Literature
English Literature->Manuscripts
English Literature->Prose & Novel->
English Literature->Theory & Studies->Gender Studies
English Literature->Prose & Novel->Ethnics->African American Literature

This site contains a digital collection of 52 works by 19th-century black women writers. There are also biographies of black women writers. Additionally, a part of this website- the New York digital library functioning as an online exhibition-shows African American migration experiences vividly.

URL : http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

Keyword(s) : African American arts, African American authors, African American women, African Americans in literature, African diaspora, Biography

General Resources->Libraries
General Resources->Digital Repositories

Library of Congress Online Catalog is a sub-site of the Library of Congress, America's oldest federal cultural institution which serves as the research arm of Congress. Visitors can access the collections of more than 120 million items in the Library of Congress and do a basic search (by Title or Author/Creator, Subject, Call number, LCCN, ISSN, or ISBN, and Keywords) or a Guided Search.

Prints and Photographs / Sound Online Inventory search are also available. The site says that ”The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to more than 50% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress.” Due to the rights of collections, some of the images are displayed in thumbnail size, but many of the catalog records are digitalized and, if possible, viewed in different image versions.

Sound Online Inventory provides three different search methods: Simple searches with Headings and Browsing, General Search with keyword, and Special Search Screens by Radio Broadcasts, News Only Radio Broadcasts, Commercial 78s, 45s, and Cassettes, Archival (Unpublished) Collections, Music Only, Spoken Word Only. Conveniently, the search results can be ordered by chronology, collection name, subject/format/genre, title, etc. The full description of each record is available.

• On the first page, visitors can find a link to "Other Libraries’ Catalogs," where visitors can look for an item through a list of catalogs at many other institutions.

URL : http://catalog.loc.gov/

Keyword(s) : Library Catalogs, Librarian, , Books and reading, Literary collections

English Literature->Poetry->By period->17th century
General Resources->Libraries

This website is dedicated to a group of seventeenth century poets including Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Edward Herbert, Thomas Carew, James Shirley, Mildmay Fane, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, Abraham Cowley and Henry Vaughan. They are classified as the cavalier poets because of their Royalist political sympathies. These cavalier poets share the same use of colloquial language and an easygoing attitude towards life. The site consists of quotes, biographies, works in online text and a number of critical essays on aforementioned authors as well as links to other useful sites. Besides, there are introductions of books related to some of the poets. This site, which is very well organized, is very useful to students interested in seventeenth century English literature.

URL : http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/cavalier.htm

Keyword(s) : cavalier, Social life and customs, 17th century, Literature and society, Royalists