Maryland Resources

• Enoch Pratt Free Library-Maryland Department
  Since 1934 the Maryland Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library has been reponsible for a collection of materials relating to the history, economics, social conditions, and literature and the arts in Maryland. Sources available at the library include vertical files, photographs, maps, Maryland serials and newspapers, as well as a growing collection of circulating titles.
  

• Maryland Genealogical Project
  This website is the state level project website for the USGenWeb project. This project seeks to provide access to Internet websites for genealogical research and includes resources such as state histories, maps, and transcriptions of public domain records.
  

• Maryland Genealogical Society
  The Maryland Genealogical Society was founded to preserve Maryland history and geneaology. The website provides links and resources related to geneaology in Maryland.

• Maryland Historical Society
  The Maryland Historical Society is the state's oldest cultural institutions. The MdHS houses the most extensive collection of objects and artifacts in the state of Maryland, and one of the largest collections of Americana in the world.
  

• Maryland Humanities Council
  The Maryland Humanities Council is a private, educational, non-profit organization which promotes public participation in the humanities and public humanities programming throughout Maryland. Their website provides access to the Bibliography of Maryland History and Culture as well as providing information about grants, a speakers bureau and Maryland History Day.
  

• Maryland Immigration Digital Library
  The Maryland Immigration Digital Library was created by students in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. The website examines the many facets of immigration over the past three hundred years and seeks to shed light on the current and historical issues framing immigration to Maryland. The site provies access to primary documents, maps, charts and related bibliographies.

• Maryland Internet Portal
  The Maryland Internet Portal provides a gateway to public services within and around Maryland.

• Maryland State Archives
  The Maryland State Archives is the repository for the records of state, county, and municipal governments within the state of Maryland. A complete listing of available records can be found on the website.

• Maryland State Law Library
  The Maryland State Law Library provides access to the law related information needs of the judiciary as well as the legal community, government agencies and the public. Collections include a comprehensive library of Anglo-American law, major current and historical holdings of both Federal and Maryland government publications, and a unique mix of special collections.

• Merlin Online
  MERLIN Online is an electronic atlas that allows a user to produce a custom "map" for any location in Maryland. It also allows the user to query the system to obtain information provided about specific locations.
  

• Sailor (Maryland’s Online Public Information Network)
  Sailor is a project of the Maryland Public Libraries, intended to provide free access to information in digital formats in Maryland public libraries and on the Internet to Maryland residents. To fulfill this ambitious vision, Sailor features a statewide intranet connecting public libraries to each other and the Internet, a web site devoted to helping people find information in Maryland and on any topic about Maryland, and subscriptions to web-based educational resources.
  

• State Documents of the A.O. Kuhn Library
  The UMBC Maryland State Documents Index lists more than 10,000 Maryland state documents received at UMBC since 1984.
  

• Washingtoniana Division, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.
  The largest comprehensive collection of material on the District of Columbia. Includes the Washington Star Newspaper Collection of over a million photographs and 13 million clippings.

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