The following are a variety of links that might be of specific interest to those individuals using special collections materials.
Archival and Manuscript Finding Aids on the WWW
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
(visit site: http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html)
Online Archive of California (OAC)
(visit site: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/)
The University of Virginia: Guides to Manuscript and Archival Collections
(visit site: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/ead/)
Yahoo! Links to Special Collections
(visit site: http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/Special_Collections/)
Yahoo! Links to Archives
(visit site: http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/Archives/)
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
(visit site: http://www.archives.gov/index.html)
Associations
The American Printing History Association
(visit site: http://www.printinghistory.org/)
Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America
(visit site: http://abaa.org/)
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB)
(visit site: http://www.ilab-lila.com/)
Rare Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
(visit site: http://www.rbms.nd.edu/)
The Society of American Archivists
(visit site: http://www.archivists.org/)
The Society of California Archivists
(visit site: http://www.calarchivists.org)
Book Arts
Archive of Papers and Watermarks in Greek Manuscripts
(visit site: http://abacus.bates.edu/Faculty/wmarchive/)
The Book Arts Web
(visit site: http://www.philobiblon.com/)
Handpress: website of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds
(visit site: http://letterspace.com/handpress/)
Scripps College Press
(visit site: http://www.scrippscol.edu/~dept/art/press/index.html)
The University of Iowa Center for the Book
(visit site: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/)
California Collections
California State Library
(visit site: http://www.library.ca.gov/)
California State Archives:
(visit site: http://www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives.htm)
Claremont (CA) Heritage, Inc.
(visit site: http://cochise.uia.net/twootton/heritage/)
The Getty
(view site: http://www.getty.edu/)
The Huntington Library
(visit site: http://huntington.org/)
The Los Angeles Public Library
(visit site: http://www.lapl.org/)
The Norton Simon Museum
(visit site: http://www.nortonsimon.org/)
Online Archive of California (OAC)
(visit site: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/)
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
(visit site: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/)
UC San Diego: Mandeville Special Collections Library
(visit site: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/)
UCLA: Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections
(visit site: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/)
USC Special Collections:
Specialized Libraries and Archival Collections of the Archival Research Center (of USC)
(visit site: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/libraries/)
Archival Research Center (of USC)
(visit site: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/index.html)
Digital Archive of the Archival Research Center (of USC)
(visit site: http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/digarchives/)
Copyright
Copyright & Fair Use from Standford University Library
(visit site: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/)
Copyright and Intellectual Property from the Association of Research Libraries
(visit site: http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html)
WATCH: Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin
(visit site: http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/)
Exhibitions on the Web
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web (a project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries)
(visit site: http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/index.htm)
Yahoo! Links to Libraries Exhibits
Journals
Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
(visit site: http://www.ifla.org/II/etext.htm)
Museums
California African American Museum
(visit site: http://www.caam.ca.gov/)
California Museum of Photography
(visit site: http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/)
The Huntington Library
(visit site: http://huntington.org/)
The Japanese American National Museum
(visit site: http://www.janm.org/main.html)
Museumlink’s Museum of Museums—California
(visit site: http://www.museumlink.com/californ.htm)
The Norton Simon Museum
(visit site: http://www.nortonsimon.org/)
Southwest Museum: Native Cultures of the Americas
(visit site: http://www.southwestmuseum.org/)
Organizations and Historical Societies—California
California Historical Society
(visit site: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/)
California State Library: History and Culture
Preservation and Conservation
CoOL, Conservation Online (Stanford University)
(visit site: http://sul-server-2.stanford.edu/)
Your Old Books
(visit site: http://www.rbms.nd.edu/yob.html)
Tutorials
Yale University Manuscripts and Archives Tutorial
(visit site: http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/tutorial/tutorial.htm)