General Folklore Internet Resources

General Folklore Internet Resources

Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies- Folklore Resources in the Library of Congress 
     Governmental site includes an index of links to different departments in the Library 
     of Congress and information about their reference services as well as links to full 
     text and photo archives site; includes such department links as: Children's 
     Literature Center, Geography and Map Division, Humanities and Social Sciences 
     Division, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division and many
     others.

Folklife Programming In Public Agencies and Organizations
     Governmental site from the Library of Congress Folklife Center, indexed by state,
     organizations and institutions having ongoing programmatic commitment to folklife
     study, conservation, and presentation, demonstrated either through their own
     activities or through grant support. Many programs are funded by The National
     Endowment for the Arts and a number of them provide grant assistance for
     educational research, apprenticeships, and presentation programs.

Folklore Directories
     Governmental site, from the Library of Congress Folklife Center, providing state
     by state directory of public agencies and organizations with ongoing programs and
     funding for folklife study.

Folklore Resources in Canada
     Governmental site of resource addresses (not hypertexed) in Canada, including
     governmental, academic, museums, libraries and publications. From the Library of
     Congress Folklife Center.

Folklore Societies
     Governmental site indexed by state of state, local, and regionally oriented
     societies, many of them having serial publications ranging from newsletters to
     journals, from the Library of Congress Folklife Center.

Higher Education Programs in Folklore and Folklore
     Governmental site providing comprehensive list, from the Library of Congress
     Folklife Center, of degree granting institutions as well as a list of university
     programs offering degrees in other fields with formal recognition of concentrations
     or minors in folklore or folklife studies.

Open Folklore
     Created by the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, Open Folklore is a      new scholarly resource that will make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and     unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner.     Here, you may search books, journals, and gray literature that have been digitized, as well as websites.