"This fine collection from the USC Digital Library presents over 1,100 images of artifacts excavated from two sites in Southern California. The Chinatown section features 1,040 color images of artifacts from the original Los Angeles Chinatown. These items were recovered during the construction of the Metro Rail Red Line by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The online collection includes photos of wine bowls, ink stone boxes, and other fragments of items from daily household life. The second segment includes items excavated in 1992 from an old adobe structure in Santa Barbara that housed a Chinese laundry from the mid 1880s to 1905." (Internet Scout Report, February 3, 2012)

This library of academic and cultural films features collections from the Academic Film Archive and the Media Burn Independent Film Archive, as well as a selection of documentaries created by Dorothy Fadiman. In addition, films from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology are presented including those by Watson Kintner who used film to document his world travels, and the popular television show from the 1950s: “What in the World?”

This site covers argument papers, research papers, exploratory papers, book reports, essays for exams, and annotated bibliographies.

Features arts, crafts and artifacts of the various peoples who have lived in Canada.

Approximately 50 e-books, available to the public for free, on Indonesian politics, history, culture, and society.

The Hmong Cultural Center website includes a wealth of information about the Hmong people. One notable example is the "Hmong History and Culture Presentation for Health Care Providers", which provides an overview of Hmong history and culture with special

"SOUTHEAST ASIA VISIONS is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection. The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English an

All images may be used freely for educational, non-profit purposes.

Smithsonian Libraries, Archives and Museums have worked together and created the Collections Search Center, a one-stop-searching center for the public for SI collections. This fast growing Collections Search Center is hosted by OCIO and currently contains 2.3 million records with 280,000 online media such as images, sound files, videos, and online collections.

The OWL - Online Writing Lab - has excellent resources for the entire writing process, including sample papers, citation examples, resources for ESL writers, and tips for evaluating websites and other resources.