Libraries and Library Databases

Libraries

• Avalon Project (World War II Documents), Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp

• British Library: http://www.bl.uk/

• Canadian Association of Research Libraries: http://carl-abrc.ca/en.html?lng=1

• Center of Military History, United State Army, Online Bookshelves-Books and Research Materials: http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/ww2list.html

• Digital Library of Dutch Literature: http://www.dbnl.org/overdbnl/index.php

• Dutch Libraries: http://dutchlibraries.web-log.nl/.  See also https://www.archieven.nl/nl/ .

• Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University, California: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives

• Library of Congress (U.S.): http://www.loc.gov/index.html.  Library of Congress Veterans History Project: http://www.loc.gov/vets/.

• National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Nationale Bibliotheek van Nederland):http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html

• Royal Library of Belgium: http://www.kbr.be/catalogues/catalogues_en.html

• University Library Leiden (English language) : http://www.library.leiden.edu/

• University of Amsterdam Digital Academic Repository: http://dare.uva.nl/

• Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History (London): http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/

Library Databases

Gena Philbert Ortega’s article, “Dissertations and Theses as Genealogical Sources,” in Family Chronicle, November/December 2010, made me aware of the following databases:

• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) (Library of Congress): http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/.  (According to the article, “This Library of Congress search engine provides a catalog of all types of manuscripts located at various institutions.”  For information on using this website, go to: http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/about-searching.html.  Since not all institutions participate in NUCMC, you will find a list of those that do at: http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/repositorieslist.html.

• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: http://www.ndltd.org/ (Ms. Ortega notes that this website, “Provides access to digitized theses and dissertations on an international level.”

• WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/ (Their website says it is “the world’s largest network of library content and services.”)