West Virginia University Libraries Create Online Asimov Exhibit

An alumnus of West Virginia University donated his Asimov collection -- which totaled about 600 items including books, games, audio recordings, wall charts, etc. -- to WVU, and the WVU Libraries have put a lot of it into a digital collection you can browse at http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/exhibits/asimov/.

The site is broken up into several sections. There's a biography about Asimov and a description of the donation and the collection. There are scans and descriptions of each part of the collection, the audio/misc (William Shatner reads Foundation?)
Children's books (these are available in the library and contain less online information), scans of rare and first edition Asimov covers (and for some reason Cliff Notes for the Foundation Series.) Finally there's "Visions of Science Fiction Art from the
Library Stacks" an unannotated gallery of art from Asimov paperbacks in the library. Pulpy stuff. The site wraps up with a brief list of links at the bottom of the page.

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