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Arts and Recreation
Animation, Architecture, Cartoons, Crafts & Folk Arts, Fine Arts, Games, Graphic Arts, Music, Photography & Film, Recreation, Recreational & Performing Arts, Regional Planning, Sports & Outdoor Activities

Geography, Biography, and History
Archaeology, Biography, Cartography, Geography & Travel, Geography - Africa, Geography - Asia, Geography - Burma, Geography-Australia, Geography-Europe, Geography-North America, Geography-South America, History - African, History - American, History - Asian, History - European, History - World, Latin America, North Carolina Culture, South America, Southern Culture

Language
Burmese, Catalan, Celtic, Chinese, Dutch, French, Gaelic, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Linguistics, Mongolian, Philology, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Tibetan, Yiddish

Literature
American Literature, Balti, Chinese, French, Humor, Italian Literature, Japanese Literature, Literature, Poetry, Storytelling

Natural Science and Mathematics
Anthropology, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Cytology, Earth Sciences, Ecology, Genetics, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Meteorology, Palaeontology, Physics, Zoology

Philosophy and Psychology
Ethics, Logic and Epistemology, Metaphysics, Oriental Philosophy, Paranormal Phenomena, Philosophy, Psychology

Reference
Bibliography, Dictionaries, General Encyclopedic Works, General Reference, Journalism, Journals, Library Science

Religion and Theology
Atheism, Baha'i, Bible, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Philosophy of Religion, Shintoism, Sikhism, Taoism

Social Sciences
Anthropology, Civil Rights, Communications (television, radio), Criminology, Demography, Economics, Education, Folklore, Human Rights, International Relations, Law, Military, Native American Studies, Political Science, Slavery, Social Issues & Services, Sociology, Statistics, Women's Studies

Technology and Applied Sciences
Agriculture, Aviation, Computers & the Internet, Cooking, Engineering, Horticulture, Medical Sciences, Television & Telecommunication, Veterinary Medicine


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full text books available for reading on line or for download

Journals
online publications

Archives
archives of newsgroups & email lists

Historic
no longer maintained, but useful or interesting


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About ibiblio

Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

It's Not Your Average Library
The evolving Internet has created new opportunities to share knowledge. Imagine being able to walk into your local library and view, on demand, and without charge, not only every imaginable written text, but also music and poetry archives, African American authors, American history, sports statistics, philosophy of religion, Italian literature, large text database projects, software archives, and more.

Then imagine, in addition to being able to view the collection, you have the opportunity to critique it, expand it, or to create and manage a new collection in your own area of interest. While such a feat is physically and fiscally beyond the scope of even the largest and most extraordinary physical library, ibiblio.org achieves just such breadth and depth on the Internet.

Users in China studying American poetry or folk music can access ibiblio.org and find a vast collection of poems or songs. They can listen to the artist perform, read the biography, download sheet music, reference secondary criticism, and submit their own research papers to the collection. A veteran of World War II from anywhere in the world can access and contribute to the enthusiast-managed Pearl Harbor archives, joining the virtual dialogue on the topic.

The average municipal public library receives a few hundred visitors a week. ibiblio.org averages 12 million information requests per day, and the contributor-maintained collections are expanding daily. A free and vibrant exchange of ideas among a large community of contributors who share their knowledge across disciplines, ibiblio.org uses the open source model to encourage users to help shape the way information is managed and accessed in the 21st century.

Who and Why
ibiblio.org was formed as a collaboration between the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill's MetaLab, formerly known as SunSITE, and the Center for the Public Domain in September of 2000. At UNC-Chapel Hill, ibiblio is supported by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Information and Library Science. The collaboration has multiple components including, but not limited to, programs to:

  • Expand and improve the distribution of open source software;
  • Continue UNC's programs to develop an on-line library and archive;
  • Host and foster projects that expand the concepts of transparency and openness into new areas;
  • Create, expand, improve, publish, and distribute research on the open source communities;
  • Expand and improve the creation of and distribution of open source software and documentation;
  • Serve as a model for other open source projects.

Partners with ibiblio.org
Partners of ibiblio.org include VA Linux's SourceForge and IBM who supply the hardware on which ibiblio.org services are running. ibiblio.org runs using open source software where ever applicable and attempts to promote open source ideals within contexts other than software.

FAQ
Many questions about ibiblio.org are answered in our FAQ.

Contributing to ibiblio.org
If you are interested in becoming an ibiblio.org contributor:

  1. Read the Collection Criteria to see if your interest will be served by working with us
  2. Check out the services we offer contributors to see if we have what you need.
  3. Hint: very few, if any, proprietary services will be provided, but many open source solutions are, can or will be offered on request.
  4. Paste a note in the form here telling us:
  • What your project will be
  • What services you might wish to use
  • How to contact you by phone (so we can work out any details and passwords)
  • Anything else you think might be helpful

last revised: August 17, 2006


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