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  • This resource is a source of original consumer information and advice. About.com centers around a Guide System that features 24 content channels and promotes original content from more than 500 topical advisors or "Guides."
  • This database makes the 25 million immigrant arrival records in the Ellis Island Archives available to everyone. It also includes information about the immigration experience and genealogy.
  • the BBB system promotes the use of voluntary self-regulation and consumer education to solve the majority of marketplace problems. Here you can find information about an organization, file a complaint, or locate a local Better Business Bureau. It also provides news and consumer alerts and complaint statistics.
  • Historical Voices is part of the Digital Library Initiative II funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Historical Voices is one of the first fully functional, multi-media, interoperable digital libraries available online. The primary goals of each of these projects will be the development of a rich set of both online exhibits and educational curricula, utilizing audio files as a key …
  • An in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Materials include full-text documents, audio and video files, and bibliographic records.
  • The Internet Archive is working to preserve the Internet ? a new medium with major historical significance ? and other "born-digital" materials for future generations. Collaborating institutions include the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. The Moving Images Archive contains material originally published on the Internet and digitizations of celluloid film.
  • The Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collection contains some 2.5 million audio recordings including multiple copies. Published and unpublished recordings, contained on a variety of physical formats representing the history of sound recording from late nineteenth century cylinders and discs to the latest digital files, include radio broadcasts and spoken word, as well as vocal and instrumental music.