At this point in the semester we have led 51 library research classes, so you are probably aware of amazing databases like Academic Search Complete, PsycINFO, BIOSIS Previews, and America: History & Life.
(And, hey, if you are reading this and are thinking, I have NO CLUE what you are talking about, come talk to us–we’d be happy to teach you how to use these resources!)
But did you know we have other, more unusual databases as well? Here’s a small sampling of what else can be found in that long list of over 800 library databases:
London Lowlife is a database of materials focusing on street life in Victorian London. The collection includes fast literature, posters, advertising, playbills, ballads, broadsides, penny fiction, cartoons, chapbooks, street cries, Swell’s guides to London prostitution, gambling and drinking dens as well as tourist guides, maps and the manuscripts of George Gissing. There is also a complete collection of Tallis’ Street Views of London.
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center gives you access to over 5,000 digitized Tibetan texts published over the last 40 years including reprints of ancient texts in all subjects including art, politics, history, linguistics, religion, medicine, biography, and literature. The TBRC’s mission statement is “to preserve and share the Tibetan literary heritage through the union of technology and scholarship.”
The Music Online: Listening database is a portal to 7 different streamed-audio collections that you can listen to for free online. These are American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Opera in Video, Popular Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound. If you ever need a study break, you could listen to La Bohème or Chuck Berry.