Travel: Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library

"The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world." Search areas include Collections, Reference, Community, Education, and Tools. There are multimedia areas, such as the archive of approximately 1700 photographs taken in Tibet in the 1930s by Frederick Williamson, a British political officer. Also included are thematic collections in such areas as art, architecture, literature and history; interactive maps and models (such as a 3D representation of Meru Nyingba Monastery in Lhasa); electronic journals; translators and dictionaries; digital tools for displaying fonts; and a community section with discussion forums, email lists, blogs, and links relevant individuals and organizations. <http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/frameset.html>