the lizard man & the gray lady went walking
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The Lizard Man and The Gray Lady Went Walking...
South Carolina Online Historical Resources For You and Your Patrons.
Amanda StoneInnovation & Digitization Librarian
StudySC.org
From: South Carolina State Library
Primarily For: K-12 Students, Educators
Description: K-12 educational that provides a structured environment for students to find high quality web content to support South Carolina-based curriculum standards. StudySC features descriptions and links of vetted online resources organized by age level and by topic.
scmemory.org
From: State-wide collaboration; Major partners include the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, and College of Charleston, who each contribute staff to the Digital Library
Primarily For: South Carolina citizens
Description: The South Carolina Digital Library is the largest, most comprehensive online repository for digital images, books,maps, pamphlets, and even audio that is of historical significance to South Carolina. Currently, 28 institutions have contributed to the holdings, which span from the colonial period through modern day.
Teaching American Historyin South Carolina
teachingushistory.org
From: SC Department of Archives & History, Richland SD 2, federal grant money
Primarily For: K-12 students and educators
Description: The Teaching American History in SouthCarolina website features primary sources of historic interest withcorrelating South Carolina social studies standards and lesson plans. The primary sources come from the holdings of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, the University of South Carolina Caroliniana Library, and other cultural institutions around the state. The website also includes virtual tours and information for teachers on culturalinstitutions such as museums and historic sites.
sciway.net
From: SCIWAY.net, LLC, a James Island web information company
Primarily For: SC citizens, tourists, and people throughout the world
Description: SCIWAY, titled South Carolina’s Information Highway, is a privately-managed comprehensive directory of South Carolina information. Content includes both organized external links and written subject matter. Sections of particular interest might be history, cities & towns, counties, elections, facts & firsts, genealogy, government, and statistics.
knowitall.org
From: South Carolina ETV
Primarily For: K-12 students and educators
Description: Knowitall (www.knowitall.org) is a collection of online designed for use in the classroom. Features include interactivewebsites, simulations, image collections, virtual field trips and streaming video that “support and provide quality inquiry based experiences for students on the Internet.” Knowitall contains websites on a broadrange of topics, from the visual and performing arts to careers and thesciences.
docsouth.unc.edu
From: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Primarily For: Citizens, teachers, students, and researchers at every level
Description: A digital publishing initiative that provides access to digitized primary materials such as books, manuscripts, images, and audio files that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. The website currently has 15 themed collections such as “The Church in theSouthern Black Community” and “Oral Histories of the American South.” Many documents and images are originally from South Carolina or feature people from South Carolina and can be easily found with several search methods.
memory.loc.gov
American Memory
From: Library of Congress
Primarily For: All citizens
Description: American Memory is a digital repository by the Library ofCongress that contains digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, video, books, and other resources from the Library's holdings. Currently there are over 100 collections and more than 9 million items in the American Memory historical collections, representing a broad range of American history and culture. Collections range from Native American and women's history to early advertising and September 11th. WhileAmerican Memory is a national resource, South Carolina is well represented in many of the collections.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
From: Library of Congress, federal money to states
Primarily For: All citizens
Description: Chronicling America: Historic AmericanNewspapers is a project by the Library of Congress to provide access to almost 4 million pages of historic newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 from across the country. Thewebsite features 20 newspapers from South Carolina, including the Columbia Phoenix from 1865 and the Anderson Daily Intelligencer from 1914-1915.
Regional/Institutional Digital Collections
& Public Libraries & Colleges & Universities
A List of Digital Collections: statelibrary.sc.gov/digital-collection