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Arts & Humanities


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A collection of subscription databases, articles, and eBooks selected, monitored, and organized to meet the interests of our customers. Premium content requires a Sno-Isle Libraries card for access outside of Sno-Isle Libraries.

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Classical Music Library
A distinguished selection from Abel to Zoubek with Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Shostakovich in between.
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Literature Resource Center
Critical analyses of literary work and in-depth author biographies from every age and literary discipline.


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African American Music
From the earliest records through the 1970s including recordings by Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, Muddy Waters, Blind Willie McTell, and others.
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Arts and Humanities eBookShelf
Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library that includes art, music, performing arts, literature, and drama reference ebooks.


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LitFinder
Full text poems and short stories from antiquity to the present. Includes explanations, biographies, and pictures.


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New York Times Book Reviews
A weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The New York Times has published a book section since 1896.


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NoveList Plus
Looking for something good to read? Find new books based on titles you have read or on topics of interest. Categories for adults, teens, and children are included. tipUser Guide and Tips for this Content


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Novels for Students eBookShelf
Literary and historical background for novels including criticism, historical significance, synopses, themes and short author biography in ebook format.


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Overdrive Digital Media Library
Now you can download digital video and music, along with audio books, 24/7 and listen and view immediately. Videos, music and audio books from OverDrive can be downloaded to your PC, PDA, and, in some cases, burned to CD's.


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Poetry for Students eBookShelf
Literary and historical background for poems including criticism, historical significance, synopses, themes and short author biography in ebook format.


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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Listen to performances by American folk icons such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, dramatic performances, poetry, political speeches, war and protest songs, and great performances of traditional music from virtually everywhere in the world.
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Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains many of the world's most important plays as staged before live audiences available online in streaming video. Included here are notable productions of Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller (1973), The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene ONeill (1960); Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen (1960); Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare (1973 and many others.
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Discovery
Meets both the general needs and requirements of users seeking detailed information on popular topics including the arts, business, education, literature, politics, and psychology, as well as hundreds of popular and children's titles.

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Internet Web Sites, Search Tools, Directories


  • Art History Resources on the Web
    Find articles and images arranged by place, time period or medium.
  • Artcyclopedia
    An online encyclopedia of fine art with searchable links to images of great works
  • ArtLex Art Dictionary
    Terms from the visual arts and thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross-references
  • Arts and Humanities
    Directory of web sites about art, music, dance, fashion and the humanities
  • ArtSource
    A directory of art, architecture, museums and art events on the web
  • Internet Archive
    A digital library of internet resources. Includes scanned images of entire books as well as audio, moving images, software and archived web pages.
  • Major Modern and Contemporary Visual Artists
    Includes a portrait and brief biography of each artist, links to articles, essays, interviews and images
  • Mother of All Art and Art History Links
    Sponsored by the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan
  • Nobel Prize for Literature
    has recognized the whole spectrum of literary works including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches.
  • PoetryFoundation.org
    Find poems by category, author, first line, occasion and popularity. Biographical information and links to more resources.
  • Poets.org
    A site full of poems and poetry including information on April, National Poetry Month. Created by the Academy of American Poets.
  • Timeline of Art History
    Explore the world of art by time period, geographic region or theme with this interactive timeline from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Voice of the Shuttle
    Database of links to humanities resources, including archaeology, architecture, art, art history, and photography
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    Search for books, video, audio and e-resources in the Sno-Isle Libraries holdings that you can reserve and pick up at your library.

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  • Librarians Index to the Internet
    Handpicked directory of sites by librarians on a variety of topics. Web Sites you can trust.

  • Internet Public Library
    The Internet Public Library (IPL) features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative Web Sites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines.

  • Wikipedia
    See what others have to say about your subject at this community written encyclopedia that anyone can edit. While we can't recommend it as 100% reliable information, it can be useful as a starting point.

  • WorldCat
    Look into other libraries catalogs for your search at WorldCat -- the world's largest network of library content and services.

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