| African American Experience |
| The African American Experience is an electronic research tool for African American history and culture with the two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. (more info) |
| African American Studies Center |
| The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. (more info) |
| African-American History Online |
| African-American History Online covers topics such as affirmative action, Africa, black nationalism, civil rights, emancipation, free blacks, the Harlem Renaissance, migrations, racial violence and hate crimes, religion, slave living conditions, slave liberation strategies, social work and philanthropy, sports, and visual arts. (more info) |
| Alabama Biography (WPA Index) |
| The "WPA Index to Alabama Biography" was a Works Progress Administration project begun in the 1930’s then abandoned when funding for the WPA was curtailed. Although the index was never completed, over 97 titles such as Who's Who in America, other biographical dictionaries, and local histories were indexed by the workers. It is an invaluable tool for researching Alabama biographical sources. (more info) |
| Alabama Coal Mine Fatalities, 1898 - 1938 |
| The Alabama Coal Mine Fatalities Database consists of 2188 records compiled by the staff of the Government Documents department using available annual reports of Alabama mine inspectors from 1898 through 1938. (more info) |
| Alabama Inventors Database |
| This database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library has compiled
these records and will add to and update them as information becomes available. (more info) |
| Alabama Mosaic |
| AlabamaMosaic (Alabama's Digitization Project) is a work in progress. A number of collections are available for browsing and searching. More collections will be added in the near future. The purpose of AlabamaMosaic is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents as well as scholars throughout the world (more info) |
| Annals of American History Online |
| History, society, and everyday life come into focus through a variety of articles and media. You now have access to search the 5.2 million words, graphics, and multimedia from the Annals of American History Online, including: 2,100 entries from 1493 to the present, and original source documents such as speeches, essays, biographies, and editorials. (more info) |
| Biography Reference Bank |
| Biography Reference Bank contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images. It contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson, including all the articles from all volumes of Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and numerous biographical books on musicians and composers throughout history. Also included are thousands of biographies from other respected publishers, including Macmillan UK, Greenwood, Houghton Mifflin, and Harvard University Press (more info) |
| Biography Resource Center +The Complete Marquis Who's Who |
| Biographical information on more than a million notable historical and contemporary individuals. Facts, summaries, articles, and pictures. (more info) |
| BPL Digital Collections |
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| Britannica Online Reference Center Public Library Edition |
| Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains 4 full encyclopedias, the Encyclopædia Britannica, Compton’s by Britannica, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia each covering the research needs of a different age group. Along with this encyclopedia content, Public Library Edition contains full-text magazine articles, Web sites that have been reviewed and verified by Britannica editors, a homework help section for students, a world atlas, Merriam-Webster dictionaries and thesauri for children and adults, a Spanish-English dictionary, video and audio content, daily content updates, and more. (more info) |
| Digital Collections (BPL) |
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| Enciclopedia Juvenil |
| Enciclopedia Juvenil from Encyclopedia Britannica is a comprehensive reference resource for ages 6-12. The Elementary Encyclopedia, with more than 1,500 articles and 1,000 images, is age-appropriate and based on school curriculum needs. Audience: elementary school, middle school (more info) |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español is the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. It is a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, containing over 47,000 articles plus 8,300 photos and images. Audience: high school, college, general public (more info) |
| Encyclopedia Online Public Library Edition |
| Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains 4 full encyclopedias, the Encyclopædia Britannica, Compton’s by Britannica, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia each covering the research needs of a different age group. Along with this encyclopedia content, Public Library Edition contains full-text magazine articles, Web sites that have been reviewed and verified by Britannica editors, a homework help section for students, a world atlas, Merriam-Webster dictionaries and thesauri for children and adults, a Spanish-English dictionary, video and audio content, daily content updates, and more. (more info) |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia |
| For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually. (more info) |
| Grove Art Online |
| 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) |
| Grove Music Online |
| 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) |
| HeritageQuest Online |
| Census data, family records and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials. An ongoing project (new content is added weekly), HeritageQuest Online will grow to encompass obituaries, Freedman’s Bank Records, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Index and additional materials. (more info) |
| Literary Reference Center |
| Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database that provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else (more info) |
| Literature Resource Center |
| Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of more than 120,000 literary figures from all time periods in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, etc. Full-text, excerpted, and commissioned essays. Explanations and overviews of prominent literary works. Links to about 5,000 Web sites on major authors and their works. Timeline placing literature within historical context. 2,300 author portraits. Search by author, title, genre, literary movement or theme. (more info) |
| MAS Ultra - School Edition |
| Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. (more info) |
| New World Encyclopedia |
| For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually. (more info) |
| Obituary Index : Birmingham Area Newspapers |
| The Obituary Index : Birmingham Area Newspapers database is an ongoing project of the Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library. Obituaries from three Birmingham area newspapers are included: the Birmingham News, the Birmingham World, and the Methodist Christian Advocate. (more info) |
| Oxford African American Studies Center |
| The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. (more info) |
| Oxford Art Online |
| 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) |
| Oxford Music Online |
| 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) |
| Red Mountain Cemetery, Records of Interments, 1888-1906 |
| Red Mountain Cemetery, sometimes called Southside Cemetery, was used by the City of Birmingham from 1888 to 1906 as a place to bury the indigent dead. The cemetery contains 4,711 burials and was located south of the city on the site that is now Lane Park and the Birmingham Zoo. The graves were not removed, but decades after the cemetery ceased to be used, the park and zoo were built over the graves. (more info) |
| Spanish Reference Center |
| Enciclopedia Universal en Español is the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. It is a comprehensive encyclopedia in the Spanish language, containing over 47,000 articles plus 8,300 photos and images. Audience: high school, college, general public (more info) |
| WPA Index to Alabama Biography |
| The "WPA Index to Alabama Biography" was a Works Progress Administration project begun in the 1930’s then abandoned when funding for the WPA was curtailed. Although the index was never completed, over 97 titles such as Who's Who in America, other biographical dictionaries, and local histories were indexed by the workers. It is an invaluable tool for researching Alabama biographical sources. (more info) |
