Kentucky's history online at the Kentuckiana Digital Library

[SusanM.Brown at mail.state.ky.us]

--please excuse any cross posting--

Civil War diaries, tales from people living in late 19th century Kentucky,
photographs of Appalachia from Doris Ulmann, recordings of old-time
fiddlers, photos of packhorse librarians, and much more -- it's all here in
the Kentuckiana Digital Library!

A project of the Kentucky Virtual Library (http://www.kyvl.org/), the
Kentuckiana Digital Library digitizes finding aids, photos, sound
recordings, diaries, scrapbooks, books of Kentucky history and other
materials held by the special libraries and archives of Kentucky.  Currently
the collection includes more than 3700 finding aids, 10,000 photographs, 80
oral history transcripts, 120 electronic texts (diaries, scrapbooks, etc)
and more than 50 audio files. 

Come explore at
http://www.kyvl.org/kentuckiana/digilibcoll/digilibcoll.shtml 

Full press release -
http://www.kyvl.org/html/about/pr/press0204kentuckiana.shtml

Contact us with questions or comments --
1-877-588-5288

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Susan Brown		
Assoc. Director, Kentucky Virtual Library
www.kyvl.org		SusanM.Brown at mail.state.ky.us
phone: 502-573-1555	fax: 502-573-1031
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