World Digital Library

I like to share new websites I've come across to help conduct research. The World Digital Library at http://www.wdl.org/en is huge yet, only 1339 items, but it includes a variety of manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, recordings, prints and photos. The library itself is new, launched in 2009 by the U.S. Library of Congress (which is a wonderful research site at http://www.loc.gov/index.html) and UNESCO. There are documents from every continent, so if your research involves a document from another country, for instance what European or Asian countries have documented on World War II, you may find some interesting data at the World Digital Library.