Libraries Online

Virtual Libraries

These are collections of digital texts, but no physical books available for borrowing.

• Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics — Collection at this site.
• Liberty Fund Online Library of Liberty.
• Primary Sources — Extensive collection of links and documents from Rick Gardiner. We have a local copy here.
• Historic Documents of the United States — Collection of key documents at Georgia Institute of Technology.
• The On-Line Books Page — Archive at the U. of Pennsylvania.
• Project Gutenberg — Wonderful archive of the major works of literature. Also see the Gutenberg Master Index of Frederick Roeber.
• Master Works of Western Civilization — Mason West's archive of the great writings that have shaped civilization, including many of the political works that provided the basis for the theory of constitutional republican government.
• Internet Classics Archive, Daniel C. Stevenson — Archive of ancient Greek and Roman works.
• Project Bartleby — Has similar objective to Project Gutenberg, to make classic works available online.
• Great Books — Collection of links to online editions from the authors collected in the Great Books of the Western World.
• The Library of Economics and Liberty — Project of the Liberty Fund.
• Center for Research Libraries — Single-query search of multiple library catalogs, useful for finding books available on Inter-Library Loan (ILL). Service of the University of Chicago.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet — Gateway to online collections.
• Humanities Text Intitiative — Archive of digital renderings of many books at the University of Michigan, but in somewhat rough state.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook — Comprehensive archive collected by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
• Liberalismus.com — German collection.
• American War Library — Includes millions of pages of data, statistics, documentation and files on all of America's military missions, and the largest publicly accessible database of names, addresses and information on American veterans and active-duty personnel going back to The Revolutionary War.

Physical Libraries

These are some university and public libraries who have made their catalogs and some of their collections available online

• Library of Congress
• California Digital Library — Online library catalogs of the University of California system, as well as an array of digital resources such as indexes and databases, electronic journals and texts, archival finding aids, and digitized photographs and images.
• TALLONS — Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas School of Law.
• On-Line Books Page — Archive of on-line books at Carnegie-Mellon.

Links to other link collections

• webCATS — Catalog of WWW catalogs.
• HYTELNET — Catalog of catalogs, mainly telnet and ftp.
• Online library catalogues — Maintained by British Library of Political and Economic Science
• AMICUS Web — Search libraries in Canada, get ILL status of books in their collections
• Law libraries
• College and University libraries
• Public libraries
• Government libraries
• Military libraries
• Other libraries