Digital Libraries to visit from home

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Biodiversity Heritage Library - The archives are home to curated collections with books from Charles Darwin's personal collection to field diaries from explorations of Antarctica.

CIA's Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room - The online collection including more than 50 years of CIA information on UFOs and a collection dedicated to the oldest classified documents in the US.

Connecticut State Library - A digital collections feature materials from the State Library, the Museum of Connecticut History, and the Connecticut State Archives.

Digital Public Library of America - An online collection of over 36 million free digital materials from libraries, archives and museums. 

Getty Publications Virtual Library - A collection of art books, with more than 300 publications that can be read and downloaded for free.

National Library of Medicine -  A vast collection of digital materials related to health and disease. 

Nautical Archaeology Digital Library - The library, a collaboration of Texas A&M University and ShipLAB, contains searchable shipwreck databases and ancient ship models.

New York Public Library Digital Collection - An online collection that contains nearly 890,000 digitized items.