21st Century Image Library

Humanline is a 21-st century image library, which licenses high-quality images of civilization’s art, science and history for both academic (free use) and professional use.

The aim of Humanline is to provide users with:

No negotiations. Just name your use and download.
No price inquiries. All price info can be seen online.
No third party clearance. If its available online, rights have already been cleared.

The collections already provided include:

• The Neuwerk-Archiv - a German private collection that specializes in scientific illustrations 
• The Pictus Orbis -  XVII to XIX century wood- and steel engravings, illustrated books, early magazines 
• Mapmuseum -   early maps, townplans and cityviews from XVI to early XX century
• Ukiyo Gallery - Japanese ukiyo-e prints

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World Digital Library is Here!

I am delighted to see that the World Digital Library, mentioned back in December 2007, is up and running.

The World Digital Library makes it possible to:

discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

Items may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.

Check it out now. This is a great educational resource!!

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World Digital Library coming soon......

The World Digital Library will "make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials".

Content should be available on the World Digital Library site from late 2008 (or early 2009) according to a report from the Washington Post. This promises to be a great educational resource. Thanks for the head's up Zaid!

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European Library Resources

The European Library provides a great opportunity to view artifacts that you are unlikely to come across unless you travel to each participating national library. This is particularly true of the 'digital library treasures' section containing highlights from many of the national libraries in Europe.

The example above, from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie, being housed in The National Library of the Netherlands.

As well as containing library catalogues for each participant national library, the European Library includes some very interesting and useful online media including text documents and photographs.

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