Getting Started
- Central Library has a materials budget of 2 million dollars.
- Vanderbilt Library subscribes to over 700 databases.
- These resources make up a majority of the Deep Web
- Google, Bing and other familiar search engines capture less than 1% of information on the Web.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
- Britannica This link opens in a new window
- CanadianaThe Canadiana Discovery Portal combs through more than 60 million pages of information from 30 different library, museum and archive collections across the country.
From old Saskatchewan postcards to sheet music, the search engine brings together access to 14 different institutional collections from coast to coast and in both French and English. - Exploring the Early AmericasFrom the Library of Congress Digital Collection.
- France in AmericaThis resource focuses on "the role played by France in the exploration and settlement of the continent and its participation in several events which indelibly marked the history of the United States: the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Louisiana Purchase." Includes books, maps, prints and other documents.
Library of Congress and BnF project - France, New France. Birth of a French People in North America ExhibitionPointe-à-Callière, Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History
- BnF GallicaBibliothèque nationale de France: One of the major digital libraries available for free via the Internet. It provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, maps and plans.
- Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana PurchaseFrom the Library of Congress Digital Collection
- Musée de l'Amérique francaiseOldest museum in Canada, has its roots in European religious and educational traditions.
- National Library of CanadaLibrary and Archives Canada (LAC) helps Canadians gain a better understanding of who they are. It serves as the continuing memory of the federal government and its institutions and as the guardian of Canada’s distant past and recent history.
- New France New Horizons: On French Soil in AmericaExhibition- Describes the adventure of New France, from the first voyages of discovery.
Library and Archives Canada - The Rochambeau Map CollectionCartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the American Revolution.
From the Library of Congress Digital Collection
