Doing Digital Humanities in Philadelphia PhillyDH is an active organization/interest group with a high proportion of library, archives, and museum members. It conducts most of its business via its Google group, which you can access here. The group archives provide an idea of the range of activities it promotes and supports. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/phillydigitalhumanities
There is also a helpful page of links to organizations and projects for the digitally-minded in Greater Philadelphia on the group’s website. Many of these groups offer access to information and assistance on a range of technology issues. https://phillydh.org/dh-in-philly/
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“Your Old Books”: A Primer on Rare Books and Manuscriptsfrom the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
OAIster: This goes beyond Philly and into the “deep web” of library and archive collections worldwide to find materials that are not searched and indexed by the major search engines. Provides access to many online editions of out-of-copyright books and many primary sources.
Digital Public Library of America:
Pennsylvania Digital Library: Online collections from Pennsylvania libraries, including many in the Philadelphia. Just launched, with new collections being added all the time.
PhillyHistory.org:The City of Philadelphia’s growing, searchable database of historical images.
Philadelphia City Directories: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century directories from PACSCL institutions, digitized and mounted on the Internet Archive (a project of the Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Civil War History Consortium:Inventory of sites, programs, and collecting institutions relating to Philadelphia’s role in the American Civil War
