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R&R - Music & Art

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ArchiveGrid
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Descriptions of nearly a million archival collections owned by libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. Useful for search for historical documents, personal papers and family histories.


Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (CAMIO)
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A collection of high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, audio, video, and curatorial notes. Included in CAMIO are: photographs, costumes, paintings, posters, sculptures, jewelry, prints, utilitarian objects and decorative arts.


Fine Arts and Music Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Over 150 full-text journals covering fine arts, music, literature and popular culture.

Naxos Music Library
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Listen to over 380,000 individual tracks. Classical, jazz and world music are included. Simple and advanced searching. Extensive background information including liner notes. Reference material on genre and musicians. There is a headphone jack at the front of the computer behind the grey wedge. You are welcome to bring your own headphones.


OAIster
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OAIster is a catalog of more than 19 million digital resources organized by the Open Archives Initiative. These resources include Digitized books and articles, "born-digital" texts, Audio files, images, movies, datasets (downloadable statistical files).

Pop Culture Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Access the full-text articles in approximately 100 popular culture journals and ebooks.

Reference Books Online
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Gale Virtual Reference Library - use reference books in the library or from home 24/7. This database contains a wide variety of books including such diverse sources as: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 and Arts and Humanities Through the Eras. Find authoritative information on a large number of topics. It's like having a tall stack of reference books at your fingertips!

SIRS Renaissance
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Us this to find information on the following: Architecture & Design, Film, Radio, Television & Video, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy & Religion


Find General Newspaper & Magazine Articles


Music Sites:

The Billboard Hot 100 - current

The All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs Fifty years ago, in the Aug. 4, 1958, issue, Billboard launched a revolutionary chart called the Hot 100. The Hot 100 was the first list to measure popularity by incorporating both radio play and sales.

See whats new in music:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble