This page has links to a few resources we think are particularly useful, as well as a short selected bibliography of readings on archival literacy.
Selected Bibliography on Archival Basics
1. Frisch, Scott A., Douglas B. Harris, and Sean Q. Kelly. Doing Archival Research in Political Science. Cambria Press, 2012.
2. Gaillet, Lynee Lewis. “Archival Survival: Navigating Historical Research.” In Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Ramsey, Alexis E., SIU Press, 2009.
3. Laura Schmidt. “Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research.” Society of American Archivists, 2013.
4. Michelle Light. “Colophons and Annotations: New Directions for the Finding Aid.” American Archivist (Fall/Winter 2002): 216–30.
5. Tirabassi, Katherine. “Journeying into the Archives.” In Working in the Archives: Practical Research Methods for Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Ramsey, Alexis E., SIU Press, 2009
There are several list-servs and portals that list grants.
Society of American Archivists
Here are some examples of archives/ library grants:
Subject-specific
http://www.schoenberg.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=436&Itemid=591&lang=en
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/apt/grants/quinn_guideline.shtml
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/Grants/grantsabout.html
http://www.aaa.org.hk/research_researchgrants.aspx
Institution, short-term
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants/index.html
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/travel.html
Institution, long-term
Jennifer Doty, a member of Emory's Center for Digital Scholarship, specializes in Research Data Management for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.
Digital Collections are available through paid library databases and freely available web resources.
Library Databases:
Archives and Primary Sources A list of the 175 archives and primary source databases at Emory.
Open Access Databases:
Digital Public Library of America "The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world."
Digital Library of Georgia "The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources."
Internet Archive "The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format...Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections"
Library of Congress "The Library of Congress has made digitized versions of collection materials available online since 1994, concentrating on its most rare collections and those unavailable anywhere else."