The History Center museum's $2.8 million permanent exhibit, A Kentucky Journey, uses a remarkable mixture of more than 3,000 historic artifacts, sights, and sounds to bring the state's glorious past to present generations.

Archives and Preservation links from the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) serves Kentucky's need to know by supporting Kentucky public libraries, state agencies, and the blind and physically handicapped with collections and services to fulfill information needs.

The Kentucky Historical Society was founded in 1836 to collect and preserve the artifacts, papers and other documentation of Kentucky’s history.

The Kentucky Historical Society operates three unique museum sites in downtown Frankfort that tell the story of our state’s history.

The newsletter offers children fun and creative learning experiences through historic crafts, games, recipes, and stories.  History Zone Out is free to individuals, families, and Family Resource Centers.

Get research advice from Kentucky Virtual Library.

Our mission is to provide the community with a current collection of legal reference materials based upon the belief that access to knowledge and information is essential to the promotion of justice and respect for the law.

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This service provides a listing of professional library, archival and records management positions within the state of Kentucky and is provided without charge to the employer or the job seeker.

Is Bluegrass really blue?  What is a Commonwealth?  Find answers to these questions and more on this site.

Searchable catalogs and databases.

Search for books, CDs, microfilm, government publications and more from the Department for Libraries and Archives.

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.

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Museums To Go traveling panel exhibits explore the humanities through historic images and lively text.

NARA enables people to inspect for themselves the record of what government has done. It enables officials and agencies to review their actions and helps citizens hold them accountable.

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NUCMC, or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress.

The Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Shawnee were the three major tribes that influenced Kentucky.

Access a number of resources from the Department for Libraries and Archives including family research and job hunting skills.

Oral History Commission provides for the collection of interviews with Kentuckians throughout the state.

This form will allow you to request birth records.

Request form for death records.

The Thomas D. Clark Research Library of the Kentucky Historical Society houses over 90,000 published works, dealing primarily with history and genealogy

Explore and learn with online resources from the Smithsonian Institution.

In order to serve the ever growing needs of state government training programs, the State Library has prepared listings of resources to correspond with these agency training courses.

Browse the catalog of the Department for Libraries and Archives.

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KDLA's mission for this is to provide library service to individuals who have a visual or physical disability that prevents them from using standard print materials.

Our library provides books and magazines on specially recorded cassettes for people who are blind and/or physically handicapped and live in Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen and Pendleton counties.

Here are suggestions for beginning a search for your ancestors.

Did you know that you can access "all the information in the known universe?" It's true! In libraries and on the internet, you can find answers to almost any question you can think of.