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The Beat Within 14.01
The Beat Within is a writing and conversation program in juvenile halls - and a weekly magazine that grows out of that program. The Beat was founded in 1996 when a social worker inside San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center realized that there was no vehicle for the anguished voices of the...

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Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here.

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Arpanet
Memoranda, interview notes, periodicals, papers, and other materials make up this collection which documents the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (Arpanet) of the US...
195 items
Dance Manuals
Over two hundred social dance manuals from the digital collections of the Library of Congress (spanning the years 1490 to 1929) are available here.
208 items
Ant Texts
Antbase.org presents scientific journal articles, papers, and books about ants. Antbase is a collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aimed at providing the best possible access...
2,546 items
Aozora Bunko 青空文庫
Aozora Bunko (青空文庫, literally the "Blue Sky Library", also known as the "Open Air Library") is a Japanese digital library. This online collection encompasses several thousands of works of...
4,000 items
Building Technology Heritage Library
The Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) is primarily a collection of American and Canadian, pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books and technical building guides. Trade...
1,472 items
BYU Utah Valley Obits
Obituaries from the Provo Daily Herald
4 items
Charity Hospital Reports
The history of Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana begins on May 10, 1736. On that date, the first Charity Hospital, funded by the estate of shipbuilder Jean Louis, opened in a house on...
115 items
Classic Comics
Donated collection of classic comic books
729 items
Cookbooks and Home Economics
The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection includes books from the Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA, The Bancroft Library at The University of California, Berkeley,...
3,018 items
Des Moines and Polk County, Iowa, City Directories:1866-1922
Containing an alphabetically arranged list of business firms and private citizens, a street and avenue guide, miscellaneous directory, city and county officers, terms of court, churches, colleges,...
43 items
Digital Fanzine Preservation Society
Digital Fanzine Preservation Society (DFPS). A collection of hardcore and punk music fanzines remastered and collected on the DFPS blogspot by Nagus from 2009-2011.
72 items
dwsolo
dwsolo is a composer, guitarist and alto singer (also multitrack one-man choir). This collection contains the compositions and arrangements that he has released to Creative Commons. Other...
62 items
Genealogy
The Archive's ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources includes items from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Robarts Library at the University of...
74,779 items
Grammar Analysis
Most of the topics in this collection are about French or Arabic grammar.
353 items
Microfilm
Take a picture, it will last longer As books become old and begin to fall apart, librarians depend on microform to preserve their content for the future. Tiny photographs on long strips of film...
135,154 items
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
"The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Phil. Trans.) is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society of London. It was established in 1665,[1] making it the first journal in the...
18,553 items
Prelinger Library
The Prelinger Library is a private research library open to the public, located in downtown San Francisco. Its collections encompass some 50,000 books, periodical volumes and printed ephemera. The...
3,795 items
RECAP US Federal Court Documents
The documents in this collection are from the US Federal Courts. A large collection come from the federal government's project for Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER). The PACER Service...
700,203 items
Russian History
This is a collection of PD texts in Russian (mostly old spelling) language. For the most part they are non-fiction books about Russian history.
37 items
SciELO Books
SciELO Books publishes national and thematic collections of academic books online with the objective of maximizing the visibility, accessibility, use and impact of the research results, essays and...
Shimer Alumni (Unauthorised) Archive
A collection of documents relevant to understanding the history of Shimer College, the Great Books college of Chicago, from its founding in 1853 in Mount Carroll, Illinois to the present day. Unless...
121 items
Siyavula Education Collection
"Siyavula” is a Nguni word which means “we are opening”. The Siyavula project is seeded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, which supports and encourages communities of teachers working together,...
166 items
Social Sciences Society, HKUSU - SSS Library
Social Sciences Society, HKUSU is the only student-run organisation which represents all the undergraduate students in the Faculty of Social Sciences in the University of Hong Kong. 44 years since...
143 items
Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library
Located in Lawrence, Kansas the mission of Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library is to organize as a non-hierarchical collective for the purpose of sharing and distributing...
836 items
Tamil Nadu Text Books
Textbooks published by the Department of School Education, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, India. The original versions available at http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/.
260 items
The Beat Within Magazine
The Beat Within is a writing and conversation program in juvenile halls - and a weekly magazine that grows out of that program. The Beat was founded in 1996 when a social worker inside San...
131 items
The Collection Of The International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
The Collection of the International Psychoanalytic University (COTIPUB) aims to comprise the fundaments of psychoanalytic writing (Freud & Disciples) as well as all psychoanalysis-relevant...
802 items
The Crittenden Automotive Library
The Crittenden Automotive Library was started in 2006 as a collection of automotive information including various forms of media (audio, video, and text). It is at CarsAndRacingStuff.com The...
105 items
The Harvard Classics / Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf
The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles...
159 items
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Fiction Collection
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Fiction Collection is comprised of public domain books contributed by The Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA from the Nitka...
317 items
The Swedish National Museums of World Culture
About the organisation The Swedish National Museums of World Culture form a government authority that consists of four museums with shared responsibility for a large part of the international...
27 items
The Zamorano 80
A Selection of Distinguished California Books Made by Members of the Zamorano Club. Go to zamoranoclubla.org for more information.
146 items
US Government Documents
This collection contains digital versions of United States Government documents.
21,866 items
Webcomic Universe
A collection of comics from Ace Comics
2,445 items

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