Libraries of the World Guide

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) empowers people to grow, learn, and contribute to a better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge. The DPLA amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. They do this by collaborating with partners to incorporate innovative tools and ideas that support libraries to make information more accessible.

Includes a checklist for making libraries accessible, welcoming, and usable.
Libraries play an important role in ensuring that everyone has access to information in printed and electronic formats. In making these resources useful and accessible to everyone, principles of universal design (UD) can be utilized. Checklist is accessible via the following link: https://www.washington.edu/doit/sites/default/files/atoms/files/EA_Libraries_0.pdf.

With an online collection of more than 18+ million digitized items, the HathiTrust Digital Library offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law. It was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries. The mission of HathiTrust is to contribute to scholarship, research, and the common good by collaboratively collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.

The Library & Research Center contains and preserves the Missouri Historical Society's extensive collections while also serving as a local resource for research and genealogy.

The Library and Teacher Resources Center contains a wide variety of materials for use in the classroom. Teachers in the Saint Louis metropolitan area have access to activity books and kits, curriculum guides, and DVDs. All materials are available for loan free of charge.

From Conde Nast Traveler, a list of 26 of the most beautiful libraries in the world.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for historical or legal reasons that they are kept by them forever. Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching a historical topic that interests you.

The Library is vital to the Garden’s mission "to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment, in order to preserve and enrich life." It serves as a valuable and irreplaceable resource that supports the work of Garden scientists, researchers from around the globe and students seeking to better understand, identify, classify, and conserve plants.

Founded in 1898, the State Historical Society of Missouri is the premier research center for the study of Missouri state and local history. The mission of the State Historical Society of Missouri is to collect, preserve, publish, exhibit, and make available material related to all aspects and periods of Missouri history. SHSMO also seeks to generate interest in and appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of the state and its people through education and outreach.

From Travel + Leisure: their list of the world's best libraries.