- Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/
Early editions of standard ready reference sources such as the
American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations,
and Strunk's Elements of Style. Also includes selected full-text poetry (Emily Dickinson,
Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and others), fiction (Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, and others), and non-fiction (such as Albert Einstein's
"Relativity: The Special and General Theory" and U.S. President Inaugural Addresses from
George Washington through Bill Clinton's first). Well formatted, with cross-referencing to
other information on the site such as quotations and essays.
- Berkeley Digital Library Sun SITE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/
Archive of online literature, historical texts, and photographs, with
links to additional other digital text collections.
- Book Page
http://www.bookpage.com/
Up to 100 new book reviews monthly, arranged by subject, with archives
of previous reviews and author interviews.
- The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare
http://shakespeare-online.com
Full text of all Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, etc., as well as analysis, plot summaries, biographical information, and a timeline. Also includes a discussion area.
- The On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Over 10,000 digital texts from the University of Pennsylvania.
-
National Book Awards
http://www.publishersweekly.com/nbf/
Information about the National Book Awards, including a list of winners
in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young people's literature back to
1950.
- The Pulitzer Prizes
http://www.pulitzer.org/
Recent winners, archives back to 1995, and a history of the prizes.
- Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers
throughout history.
- All Movie Guide
http://allmovie.com/
Movie database offering production information plot synopsis, and option of
submitting your own rating. Search by title, performer, keyword, or plotline.
- Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
Exhaustive filmography database.
- Zap2it.com
http://www.zap2it.com/
News, reviews, and showtimes for television, movies, and Internet
broadcasts.
- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
"...provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs
and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian
cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists,
historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and
cross-cultural topics. These cultures have occupied, and in some
cases still live in parts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, and Montana."
- Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and finest art museums in
the world. Its collections include more than two million works of art -- several
hundred thousand of which are on view at any given time -- spanning more than
5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present.
- Museum of Modern Art, New
York
http://www.moma.org/
From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, the Museum of Modern Art's
collection has grown to include more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures,
drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design
objects. MoMA also owns some 14,000 films and four million film stills, as well
as 140,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, all part of the Museum's
library.
-
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/
One of the greatest art collections in the world, a gift of Andrew Mellon to the
people of the United States.
-
National Museum of American Art
http://www.nmaa.si.edu:80
Nearly 1000 works of American art, plus research, education, and publications.
- Portland Art Museum
http://www.pam.org/
The Pacific Northwest's oldest art museum; exhibition information, lecture
series, museum-after-hours.
- Virtual Library Museums Page
http://www.icom.org/vlmp/
Links to museums around the world, with an option to browse museums by
country or search for a museum by name.
- Web Museum
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/
Art movements, painting styles, individual artists, and more.
- Andante
http://www.andante.com/
A site for classical music, with a magazine of news and interviews, and
reference material for information about composers, their works,
recordings, and printed music. Andante includes a directory of over
12,000 websites to other classical music sources.
- Oregon Symphony
http://www.orsymphony.org/
Concerts and series, ticket information, orchestra roster, and conductor biographies.
- Portland Opera
http://www.portlandopera.org/
Love, hatred, comedy, death, and fine music.
- Worldwide Internet Music
Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
The Indiana University Music Library provides links to hundreds
of sites covering all facets of music: individual musicians, composition,
research and study, magazines, and musical genres.
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