51,753 itemsWelcome to Additional Collections

Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here.

Sub-Collections

	Open Source Books Open source books are books contributed by the community. Click here to contribute your book!	34,898 items
	Arpanet Memoranda, interview notes, periodicals, papers, and other materials make up this collection which documents the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (Arpanet) of the US Department of Defense. The materials were collected by Katie Hafner in preparation for a book written...	195 items
	Dance Manuals Over two hundred social dance manuals from the digital collections of the Library of Congress (spanning the years 1490 to 1929) are available here.	209 items
	Cookbooks and Home Economics The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection includes books from the Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA, The Bancroft Library at The University of California, Berkeley, and the Prelinger Library. These fascinating books take us back to an America in the early decades of...	1,783 items
	US Government Documents This collection contains digital versions of United States Government documents.	9,005 items
	The Beat Within Magazine The Beat Within is a writing and conversation program in juvenile halls - and a weekly magazine that grows out of that program. The Beat was founded in 1996 when a social worker inside San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center realized that there was no vehicle for the anguished voices of the...	127 items
	Ant Texts Antbase.org presents scientific journal articles, papers, and books about ants. Antbase is a collaborative effort between scientists from around the world, aimed at providing the best possible access to the wealth of information on ants, to fulfill the conservation needs of the International Union...	2,555 items
	Genealogy The Archive's ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources includes items from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Robarts Library at the University of Toronto; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library; and the Boston Public Library. Resources...	9,056 items
	Prelinger Library The Prelinger Library is a private research library open to the public, located in downtown San Francisco. Its collections encompass some 50,000 books, periodical volumes and printed ephemera. The Prelinger Library is currently curating this online collection of public domain materials in key...	3,767 items
	Regional Oral History Office The Regional Oral History Office is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. The Regional Oral History Office preserves the history of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and the Western United States. By conducting carefully...	922 items