What Marginalia36 is
Marginalia36 is a web catalogue — a finding aid for the open internet, assembled on the principle that useful sites deserve a permanent, organised entry in a public record. The name reflects an archival practice: marginalia are the annotations written in the margins of a text, small and precise notations that, taken together, form a fuller picture of the whole. This catalogue works the same way.
The archive holds 830 accessions across twenty-two subject sections. Each entry was submitted by a site owner or operator, reviewed by the Marginalia36 archivist, and assigned to the most appropriate section before being committed to the permanent record. No entry is ranked above another within its section; the catalogue orders accessions by receipt date and makes no editorial judgement of merit.
The catalogue is freely browsable. There is no registration, no account, and no barrier between the reader and the index. The archivist holds that a directory loses its purpose the moment access becomes conditional on anything other than a functioning browser.
New submissions are accepted at any time through the submission form. The archivist reviews each one individually, confirms the domain is live and the description accurate, and either assigns it to a section or returns it with a note. Approved entries appear in the catalogue promptly after review. Duplicate domains are declined; each domain may hold one entry in the index.
Marginalia36 does not editorially evaluate the quality or merit of indexed sites beyond confirming that the domain resolves and the submission is not a duplicate. The catalogue is a record, not a recommendation list. Use the section guides to orient your browsing, and apply your own judgement when visiting individual entries. The index is a tool; the archivist supplies the organisation, not the verdict.