Arts & Entertainment

Founded in 1934 in New York City, the Academy of American Poets is the nation's leading champion of American poets and poetry, with members in all fifty states. Its mission is to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.  The Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April 1996.

This collection includes:

• Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collections
• Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
• Music Online: The Quest TV Collection
• Dance Online: Dance in Video
• The Broadway On Demand Collection
• National Theatre Collections
• The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
• Theatre in Video
• Classical Music in Video
• Opera in Video

Browse all collections here, or check out each individual collection by finding it in eLibrary A-Z List under the title.

The Architectural Digest Archive is an extensive collection of the famed international design magazine from 1922 through 2011, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. Published monthly by Condé Nast, the magazine has enjoyed a longstanding reputation as the definitive source for architects and interior designers as well as for everyday design enthusiasts. Each issue features beautiful photography and information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and extraordinary products.

Art Magazine Collection Archives contains indexing and full text (including covers and advertisements) for Magazine Antiques (1922-2016), ARTnews (1902-2006), and Art in America (1913-2015). This archive provides a history of collecting over the course of the 20th century, as well as a comprehensive record of fine arts, art history, interior design, decorative arts, and architecture in the 20th and early 21st centuries. 

• American Art News
  Full Text: 11/05/1904 To 02/10/1923
• Art In America Archive
  Full Text: 01/01/1913 To 12/01/2015
• Art News Archive
  Full Text: 02/17/1923 To 02/01/1941
• ARTNews Archive
  Full Text: 02/15/1941 To 12/01/2006

ArtistWorks provides world-class instruction for the most popular string and band instruments through self-paced video lessons from professional musicians.

• Instruction in piano, guitar, voice, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, ukulele, and much more! 
• Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Rock, Classical and More
• Hundreds of hours of high-quality video instruction
• Studio quality play-along tracks
• Downloadable written materials, tablature, and sheet music
• Supported languages: English

Get a 7-day pass through this link or in the Libby app under "Extras." Check out our Quick Start Guide for information and help getting started.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries by leading actors from around the world, all from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company and recorded specifically for online listening. From Alexander Street.

This collection comprises a treasure trove of BBC productions of famous literary works, many that were buried in the BBC archive for the past few decades. A great breadth of works is included from Dickens to Shakespeare, from Chekhov to Arthur Miller, from Jane Austen to Mary Shelley. Talent like Mark Rylance, John Gielgud, Ian McKellen, Colin Firth, and more make this product a must-have for theatre, drama, performing arts, and literature courses. In addition to actual performances, the product includes titles like Face to Face where actors and directors discuss their craft. From Alexander Street.

The Broadway On Demand Collection takes viewers from behind the stage to the bright lights of Broadway through masterful plays, musicals, and dance performances, but it also provides a diverse range of unique behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, instructional videos, and more. From Alexander Street.

Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of digitized primary sources. Easy to use! Calisphere contains more than 150,000 photographs, documents, and works of art.

Stingray Classica is the world’s premium classical music destination dedicated to classical music, opera, and ballet.

Features:

• More than 1000 concerts all commercial free!
• New content is added weekly
• Concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, Festivals, and more!
• Supported languages: English, French, Dutch

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Classical Music in Video provides an extensive collection of influential performances and documentaries demonstrating the continuous development of classical music, spanning eras from canonical masters to modern composers. From Alexander Street.

Craftsy is an online resource for all creative makers from basic instruction to advanced techniques for fabric and yarn crafts, baking, drawing, and much more.

Get a 7-day pass through this link or in the Libby app under "Extras."  Check out our Quick Start Guide for information and help getting started.

¡Accede a clases divertidas y creativas a través de Craftsy en Español donde puedes expresarte cocinando, dibujando, tejiendo, acolchando y más! Encuéntralo gratis en nuestra biblioteca en “Extras” en @LibbyApp. This is a seven-day checkout.

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Dance Online: Dance in Video presents an extensive collection of performances, instructional materials, documentaries, and interviews, showcasing high-caliber performances from the greatest dance companies and performers worldwide, spanning from traditional ballet to hip hop, street dance, and modern dance, offering a unique opportunity for to study and analyze the fusion between styles. From Alexander Street.

Discover & Go provides instant online access to free and low-cost tickets to museums, science centers, zoos, theatres, and other fun local cultural venues. Please refer to our explanation, opens a new window of zip code requirements for Discover & Go.  Check out our Quick Start Guide.

Ebony is one of the key African-American magazines of the 20th century, covering 20th and 21st-Century current events, art, design, politics and culture, literature, advertising, and more. Their editorial philosophy is to “showcase the best and brightest as well as highlighting the disparities in Black life in the United States and worldwide”. The Ebony Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in November 1945 to June 2014.

The Esquire Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in October 1933 through March 2014 of the American popular men's magazine Esquire, published by Hearst Communications.

The Folger Shakespeare brings you the complete works of one of the world’s greatest playwrights and poets. Whether you’re a Shakespeare lover, student, teacher, or scholar, the Folger Shakespeare is a trusted resource for Shakespeare’s plays and poems and for information about his life and world.

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies analyzes and contributes to popular culture by offering useful information for researchers in social science, history, art, and liberal arts courses.

The Great Courses offers engaging and understandable lectures by esteemed professors, professionals, and experts in topics ranging from history, science, and much more.

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hoopla BingePass lets you, well, binge! Entire collections of streaming content are at your fingertips with just one 7-day checkout.

hoopla's BingePass collection includes materials for adults, teens, and kids.  Choose from a growing collection of content.

Check out a Curiosity Stream Bingepass and get a one-week pass to access an ever-growing collection of award-winning original and curated factual films, shows, and series covering science, nature, travel, history, technology, and more.  Checking out a pass will use one of your hoopla monthly checkouts.

After pressing play, you will be redirected to a new browser window to view Curiosity Stream videos.  You will not be required to create an account.
The Curiosity Stream app is not compatible with this offer.

Check out a hoopla eMagazine Bingepass and get a one-week pass to read as many of the 50+ magazines at hoopla as you wish. Checking out a pass will use one of your hoopla monthly checkouts.

The Great Courses Library Collection is the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment, with hundreds of courses spanning thousands of in-depth video lectures on subjects like Science, Health & Wellness, and much more.
This is part of hoopla's Bingepass collection.  7-day check out.

Access the Great Courses through the hoopla app from your favorite app store.  You can also access it using the hoopla site.

Incredibly engaging, interactive, and educational, Hellosaurus puts kids ages 2 to 8 in their favorite shows. Featuring popular titles like The Wiggles and Love, Diana, children develop life skills independently and safely by having fun. One borrow gets them all the Hellosaurus they want for 7 days.

You must download the Hellosaurus iOS or Android app to your mobile device to play this content. No signup is needed. 

Enjoy a huge selection of movies from all around the world.  At hoopla, everything is always available - no holds, no wait!

The loan period for hoopla video is three days.

hoopla Digital offers a massive collection of music albums in dozens of genres.

Enjoy a huge selection of television shows from all around the world.  At hoopla, everything is always available - no holds, no wait!

The loan period for hoopla video is three days.

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iNDIEFLIX is a streaming movie service that offers access to pop culture favorites, box office hits, award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts.

• Thousands of full-length feature films, shorts, documentaries, and series from around the world
• Diverse voices, pop culture favorites, and box office hits
• Award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts
• Thousands of hours of commercial-free programming
• Academy Award-winning animation

Get a 7-day pass through this link or in the Libby app under "Extras."  Check out our Quick Start Guide for information and help getting started.

NOTE: Some content may include mature themes and language. Viewer discretion is advised.  You will be asked to provide an email address the first time you use iNDIEFLIX.

Take advantage of all the Library of Congress offers - from home! Digital Collections features thousands of items in hundreds of subject areas.

The Life Magazine Archive consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1936 of the American variety magazine Life, published by Time Inc.

This ground-breaking project, launched in celebration of Native American Heritage Month, is an interactive online map that features audio recordings of 47 contemporary Native American poets, including Louise Erdrich, Natalie Diaz, and Ray Young Bear, among many others.  The project was conceived by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries provides an extensive virtual encyclopedia of unique American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and protest songs, as well as a broad range of world music through partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. From Alexander Street.

Music Online: The Quest TV Collection, co-created by Quincy Jones & Reza Ackbaraly, offers valuable materials for music history and cultural studies through the preservation of diverse live performances, spanning the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres. From Alexander Street.

National Theatre Collection provides contemporary video productions, modern reinterpretations of classic all featuring acclaimed actors and directors of the highest caliber along with exclusive behind-the-scenes archival content. From Alexander Street.

The Naxos Music Library contains over 75,000 tracks of music, primarily classical and traditional music from around the world. Check out our Quick Start Guide.

Opera in Video offers a curated selection of the world's most significant opera performances, featuring top artists, conductors, and venues, providing a valuable resource for studying opera's rich canon. From Alexander Street.

The Poetry Foundation, the publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. 

Rock’s Backpages is the largest database of music journalism online.  The archive features over 50,000 articles on thousands of artists from ABBA to Zappa, plus over 800 audio interviews with legends from Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush.
Rock's Backpages has been going for over 20 years and works with hundreds of writers to archive their interviews and reviews for students, researchers, and music-lovers.

The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection with high-definition recordings of The Bard's dramatic canon, featuring the world's finest Shakespearean actors and directors, along with supplementary teaching materials, the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection helps bring Shakespeare to life in the modern age. From Alexander Street.

Theatre in Video offers access to hundreds of the world's most important plays, documentaries, and instructional materials, as well as interviews with prominent directors, designers, writers, and actors, providing an authentic behind-the-scenes look at various productions. From Alexander Street.

The Vanity Fair Magazine Archive contains indexing, abstracting and full text for the complete archive (including Covers and Advertisements) beginning in September 1913 to February 1936 and March 1983 to October 2015.