The World Digital Library makes available, for free, nearly 1200 primary documents and images from collections around the world.

Sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the mission of the World Digital Library is to promote the study and understanding of cultures.

The World Digital Library can be searched by

• date,
• era,
• country,
• continent,
• topic, and
• type of resource.

The World Digital Library aims to be accessible to as many people as possible by providing search tools and content descriptions in seven languages. The World Digital Library can also be searched by clicking the map on the homepage.

The wealth of image based resources along with the document based resources makes the World Digital Library a great resource especially for practitioners & learners of history or cultural studies.

Go to http://www.wdl.org/en/ to find out more.