Our next stop on our tour of subject focused collections of state agency databases is:

Historical Media Databases – Databases that provide online access to photographs, video, or audio.

This collection of resources from nearly two dozen states includes resources like:

Wyoming Memory Portal – Wyoming Memory brings the histories of Wyoming to life through a virtual gateway to the state’s rich collections of manuscripts, books, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. These sources document Wyoming’s past from prehistory through the present.

Volunteer Voices – a state-wide digitization project that will provide access to primary sources that document Tennessee’s rich history and culture. Volunteer Voices combines the collaborative efforts to Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools.

Mel Michigania – Digitized historical resources from various collections around Michigan. The collections include photographs of people, places and objects; diaries of Civil War soldiers; unique local histories and much more.

Alaska’s Digital Archive – Multiagency database managed by the Alaska State Library. Rich collection of media including photographs, video, and audio.

Know of similar resources in other states? Please leave a comment or send an e-mail to Daniel Cornwall at dnlcornwall AT Alaska DOT net.

Continuing our tour of subject-focused collections of state agency databases, we come to:

Biographical Databases – Databases that provide biographical sketches of authors, state officials, famous state residents, etc.

This page is hosted on the wiki for State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States and contains links to databases in Colorado, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Texas and Wyoming.  Please check them out. If you are aware of a similar resource in another state, please let us know in a comment. Or e-mail Daniel Cornwall at dnlcornwall AT Alaska DOT net.

If you’re reading this post, I’m assuming you have some interest in the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project State and Local Documents Task Force.

So far we have been highlighting individual databases from the fifty states and we will return to that in a while. For the next several posts, I’d like to highlight our subject focused collections of state agency databases.

It was one of our hopes when we started State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States that we would facilitate the discovery and compilations of subeject-oriented collections of state agency databases. Happily this has started to happen. While we know that we’re not the only game in town in building annotated subject lists of databases we think we are unique or at least unusual in allowing others to reuse our content under a Creative Commons Attribution license AND in providing the lists without advertising or individualized tracking of what you’re looking it.

With this introduction out of the way, let’s look at the first 50-State subject collection available from our Subject Focused Collections pages:

U.S. State Corporations Databases – Maintained by Ka-Neng Au of Rutgers University Libraries.

This is our one 50-State collection that not only wasn’t built on the ALA GODORT Wiki, but also predates State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States. Ka-Neng Au provided the link when news of our project reached this author of the 50-State Corporations page. While not annotated like our other subject pages, this guide does bring together all states with online corporations searches. The guide is part of a larger guide to researching company information that users will find helpful.

If you are aware of a previously compiled 50-state subject-oriented database guide that doesn’t appear on our list, please leave a comment. Thanks!