About this library

LDB is a reference library covering three subjects that have long overlapped in the study of society and health: public-health resources, social theory, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

The collections

• Public Health Library — a curated directory continuing the tradition of the WWW Virtual Library: Public Health, one of the earliest subject guides on the web. It points to international agencies, peer-reviewed journals, and topic- and region-specific resources, with the dead links of the original directory pruned and current authoritative sources verified.
• Quotations — collections of passages from writers including Anthony Giddens, Theodor W. Adorno, Antonio Gramsci, Herbert Marcuse and others. Each collection groups quotations by theme and attributes them to the work in which they appear.
• Indigenous Peoples — declarations, charters and reference documents on the health, rights and self-determination of indigenous and circumpolar peoples, reproduced from their issuing bodies.

How the material is sourced

Much of the public-health and quotation material was compiled by the health-promotion researcher Eberhard Wenzel, whose scholarly website assembled these resources from the late 1990s onward. Where a page reproduces work he compiled or wrote, his name is given as the source. Primary documents — declarations and charters — are attributed to the organisations that issued them.

The library is maintained as an open educational reference. Texts and documents remain the property of their respective authors and rights-holders.