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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library (UNC) provides collections, expertise, services, and facilities that are essential to achieving the University’s mission of research, teaching, learning, and public service for the campus community, state, nation, and world.

Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC), at the University of British Columbia Library, houses significant collections of rare books, archival materials, historic maps, photographs, broadsides and pamphlets. The principal focus of the collections is British Columbia: history, exploration, settlement, business, politics, ethnicity, and labour. 

The University of Wisconsin Digitized Collections (UWDC) were established in the summer of 2001. The Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) and UW System’s Office of Learning & Information Technology created the UWDC to provide quality digital resources from its academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large. The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) was formed to be the utility that digitizes, provides access to, and maintains digital projects. Since that time, the UWDCC has digitized over two-million objects, developed and implemented technologies to enhance digital collections, and partnered with a variety of content providers to create illustrative and valuable digital resources.

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is Harvard University's flagship library. The library's holdings, which include works in more than one hundred languages, comprise comprehen­sive research collec­tions in the humanities and social sciences.

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The UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is a rare book and manuscript library that is open to all researchers who wish to conduct research with its holdings. The Library specializes in the study of England and Western Europe from the Tudor period through the long eighteenth century and from the mid-Victorian to late Edwardian periods, with a focus on Oscar Wilde and his circle. Other collection strengths include modern book arts; fine printing and the history of the book; and Montana and the West.

The Wordsworth Trust's collection comprises over 65,000 items, and includes internationally significant manuscripts, printed books and fine art from 1750 to the present day. 

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

The Yale Center for British Art is a public art museum and research institute that houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. Presented to the university by Paul Mellon, the collection reflects the development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period onward.