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Looking for a good adventure film? Or maybe you have a penchant for documentaries? Either way, this browsable collection of DVDs available at Birmingham Public Library is for you. (more info)
Looking for a good adventure film? Or maybe you have a penchant for documentaries? Either way, this browsable collection of DVDs available at Birmingham Public Library is for you. (more info)
Through Oxford Art Online, you are now able to cross search and browse a suite of valuable art reference publications simultaneously with Grove Art Online: The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Oxford Art Online also enhances your capacity to search through a behind-the-scenes thesaurus, a sophisticated fielded bibliography search, as well as an improved advanced search function. (more info)
Through Oxford Music Online, you can access all of Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). (more info)
LitFinder provides the opportunity to study great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, and plays. (more info)
Through Oxford Art Online, you are now able to cross search and browse a suite of valuable art reference publications simultaneously with Grove Art Online: The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Oxford Art Online also enhances your capacity to search through a behind-the-scenes thesaurus, a sophisticated fielded bibliography search, as well as an improved advanced search function. (more info)
Through Oxford Music Online, you can access all of Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). (more info)
A super-powered search engine featuring innovative cross-searching capabilities, users can access all the Thomson Gale content in the library's collection by exploring one, several or all available databases simultaneously. (more info)
Price It! is the most comprehensive pricing tool in the world containing data from eBay, antique dealer sites plus over 50 antique auction houses. Over 23 million prices-10 million images. This information is not available on the web. eBay doesn't provide historical records and neither do the online auction sites. Land based data is not available on the web either. (more info)

Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com

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