Suggested Databases & Resources

Specific Databases

• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Early English Books Online-Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP)
• Early European Books (EEB)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• HathiTrust: A Shared Digital Repository
• Library & Information Science Source
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online

UW-Madison Digital Collections

View the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, especially

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Special Collections
• Selections from the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers 1650-1940
• Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
• Greetings from the Fatherland: German Picture Postcards and History
• World War I Collection
• Italian Life Under Fascism Virtual Exhibit

Libraries with Special Collections on Campus

• UW Archives and Records Management for history of UW-Madison and UW System
• Kohler Art Library, especially its Artists’ Book Collection
• Mills Music Library, which contains various special collections as well as the Wisconsin Music Archives
• Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of letterpress printing dedicated to preserving the craft of fine printing (moved in spring-summer 2016 from UW-Madison’s Memorial Library to Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin)
• Wisconsin Historical Society Library & Archives

Journals about Special Collections

Among relevant titles are

• RBM, which succeeded Rare books and manuscript librarianship, both published by the Association of College and Research Libraries (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section)
• The reading room: A journal of special collections, a free electronic journal
• The American archivist, a publication of the Society of American Archivists

Use the following subjects in an Advanced Catalog Search to find additional titles:

• Libraries — Special collections — Periodicals
• Archives — United States — States — Periodicals
• Rare books — Periodicals
• Manuscripts — Periodicals