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Here's an interesting announcement that was circulated internally... The New York Public Library Launches Digital Library Collections The New York Public Library introduces its Digital Library Collections web site, featuring a wide range of primary source materials from The Library's four research libraries, at <http://digital.nypl.org>. The first collection, the Digital Schomburg, comprises 56 texts and more than 500 images representing African American history and culture. The Digital Schomburg includes two components, "Images of African Americans in the 19th Century" and "19th-Century African American Women Writers." The images in Digital Schomburg document the social, political, and cultural worlds of African American people from slavery to various stages of freedom. The texts in the collection include essays, works of fiction and poetry, and autobiography and biography--among them, Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South; Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral; and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The materials are drawn primarily from The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the world's leading research facilities devoted to the preservation of materials on the global African and African diasporan experiences. Other online collections currently in development include Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1910; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Millennium Project; Urban Landscape Photography in the Romana Javitz Collection; and Berenice Abbott's Changing New York. The Library participates in several cooperative projects, including Marriage and the Law in the U.S. and the U.K.; the Global Migration Project; Travels Along the Hudson, and Making of America II. For more information about NYPL's Digital Library Collections, contact Pamela Ellis at [log in to unmask] or join the DLC mailing list at <http://digital.nypl.org/email.cfm>. Susan Veccia, Educational Resources Specialist National Digital Library Library of Congress email: [log in to unmask] voice: 202/707-6151 fax: 202/252-3173