What happens to former governors' websites? Some of them are picked up on Archive.org while others just disappear. The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives has created the Electronic Records Archives to bring together web records from the Office of the Governor. Visitors can look over the Website Snapshots to look over the official sites of former governors, press photographs, and a list...
The ExploreKY History site is a bit of a "twofer" as it contains both a full-fledged interactive site about Kentucky history and an iPhone application. The site notes that it "takes the stories behind our community-driven historical markers, adds related items from the Kentucky Historical Society and combines it into a historical tour of our Commonwealth." The historical markers are crafted by the...
A new offering from the Kentucky Virtual Library, Kentuckiana Digital Library (KDL) is "a digital library of primary sources and access aids selected by Kentucky archivists representing 15 Kentucky colleges, universities, libraries and historical society repositories." For those scholars and researchers interested in Kentucky's past, KDL gives ample materials at which to look: photographs,...