Library and Information Research: Humanities

This course is no longer taught, not updated since 1999.

Library & Information Research: Humanities
English 292 / University 292 | Spring 1999 | K. Brodsky

Artcyclopedia - is attempting to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on theInternet
Art of Africa and the African Diaspora - a guide to selected internet resources on the art of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Feminist Art History Listserv (FAH) - is for researchers, curators, art historians, faculty, students, and all those interested in discussing research issues and sharing resources of women artists throughout history
Getty Research Institute - works to enhance global access to arts and humanities information. Has links to a wealth of information including research databases such as the Union List of Artists Names, etc.
ICONCLASS - is an iconographic classification system, a collection of ready-made definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas, that can be the subject of a work of art.
National Gallery - many useful resources including a searchable catalogue.
National Museum of Women in the Arts - "brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by educating the public concerning their accomplishments"
NEA - homepage of the National Endowment for the Arts
Regency Fashion Page - A wealth of images, information, and links relating to 18th and early 19th century fashion for men and women.
San Francisco International Art Exhibition - information about this important exhibition.
Smithsonian Institution - many useful resources including a searchable catalogue.
Varo Registry - an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists which is designed for educational use by the fine art and commercial art worlds, and the general public to introduce works by contemporary women artists.
Voice of the Shuttle - excellent web site for humanities research
WWAR - an impressive index to arts resources on the internet; features links to hundreds of museums, publications, institutions, and commercial resources
Web Museum - created by an individual who felt "more artistic stuff was needed on the Internet." Links to artists, artwork, museums, etc.
World Lecture Hall - contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the web to deliver class materials.
SSU Library Art Links

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - site of the Margaret Herrick Library one of the most complete collections of film-related materials ever assembled including books, pamphlets, periodicals, still photographs, scripts, clippings files, personal and business correspondence, etc.
Internet Movie Database - comprehensive database allows searching by actor etc.
NAMAC - National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture a nonprofit association dedicated to encouraging film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts, and to promoting the cultural contributions of individual media artists.
SSU Library Film Links

ARTFL - Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, approximately 2000 French texts in literature, philosophy, and non-fiction, from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
American Memory - A collection of primary sources and archival materials on American culture and history from the Library of Congress - includes images and interviews from a WPA project.
Corner - an electronic online journal dedicated to the avant-garde.
Early Modern Literary Studies - is a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area.
E-Text Center at University of Virginia - hundreds of literary, social, historical, and philosophical materials in several languages. Much of the access is limited to UV researchers because of copyright.
English Server - a cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. Today it offers over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of interests.
Greek Mythology Link - an interesting site concerned with the creative, artistic, literary and inspiring aspects of the Greek Myths deriving from its tales.
H-NET - provides information and resources for all those interested in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Inform Women's Studies: Reading Room - online fulltext of various women's fiction, poetry, papers, articles, etc.
Memphis Civil Rights Research Consortium - images of the civil rights struggle and other resources, drawn from the collections of the consortium members
Museum of Tolerance - Online version of this important museum
The On-Line Books Page - is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes an index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet, pointers to directories and archives of on-line texts, special exhibits.
Stanford Humanities Review - refereed humanities journal from Stanford University
Smithsonian Institution - homepage of this national institution with rich humanities resources.
Sun Site Digital Collections - The Digital Library SunSITE is building a collection of digital texts that can be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study
World Lecture Hall - contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the web to deliver class materials.
Native Web - websites celebrating indigenous peoples
Voice of the Shuttle - excellent web site for humanities research.
He who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe - an exhibition of books which have survived Fire, the Sword and the Censors, created by the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
SSU Library Humanities Links

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - A collection of interviews with former slaves who discuss their lives before and after freedom.
American Society of Jane Austen Scholars - page created by faculty and graduate students to foster among our associates is a renewed and deep interest in the ideas Austen's texts.
American Verse Project - an electronic archive of American poetry before 1920.
Banned Books On-Line - listing of books that have either been censored or have fallen under the threat of censorship.
Book of Gods, Goddesses, Heros, and Other Characters of Mythology - wonderful site for myths and characters.
British Poetry 1780-1910 - a hypertext archive of scholarly editions at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 - An electronic collection of texts from the UC-Davis Library's Kohler Collection of British Poetry.
Brontë Sisters - Charlotte, (1816 - 1855), Emily, (1818 - 1848), Anne, (1820 - 1849), and their brother, Branwell (1817 - 1848) Bronte are listed separately in an organized index of links that include full texts of the Brontes' literary works,biographical sketches, and critical essays.
Camelot Project - the University of Roehcter's links to Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies and basic information.
Charles Dickens Page - great source of Dickens information including a short bibliography, created by a fan.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare - the Web's fifth edition of Shakespeare's work.
Dickens Project of the University of California - scholarly consortium devoted to promoting the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens.
A Dictionary of Sensibility - This hypertext offers a new approach towards understanding the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. It provides an atmospheric view of the multiple connotations of the terms of that language. Rather than attempting strict definitions, this project offers a tool for recognizing the multivalence of such words as "virtue," "enthusiasm," and "community."
E-Text Center at University of Virginia - hundreds of literary, social, historical, and philosophical materials in several languages. Much of the access is limited to UV researchers because of copyright.
Gulliver's Travels - the text of Gulliver's Travels, edited, formatted in HTML, and in the process of being annotated. The original graphics, along with later illustrations, are included. The site also features source material supporting readers, students and teachers.
Lewis Carroll Society of North America - non-profit organization dedicated to furthering Carroll studies,etc.
Literary Resources on the Net - English and American Literature scholarly links compiled by a PhD. student at UPenn.
Pulitzer Prizes - web site of the esteemed prize for intellectual and artistic excellence.
Sun Site Digital Literature Collections - The Digital Library SunSITE is building a collection of digital texts that can be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study including the Jack London Collection and the Emma Goldman Papers.
Victorian Web created by Brown University as a resource for courses in Victorian literature.
Victoria Research Web - dedicated to the scholarly study of the nineteenth century in Britain, and to aiding
researchers, teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period.
Victorian Women Writers Project - The goal of this project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
Voice of the Shuttle - excellent web site for humanities research.
World Lecture Hall - contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the web to deliver class materials.
Women Writers Project - is a long-term research project at Brown University devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding.
SSU Library Literature Links

Contemporary Literary Theory - Professor Lye's homepage for an upper division theory course.
Cultural Studies Center - a comprehensive guide to cultural studies and popular culture on the Internet.
Postmodern Thought - web links compiled by University of Colorado, Denver Department of Education.
Critical Terms - a glossary of critical and theoretical terms published on the web by UPenn.

All Music Guide and All Movie Guide are ongoing projects to review and rate all music (whether in-print CDs or out-of-print on vinyl) and list (and rate) all feature movies and provide their credits and related information. The goal is to achieve a consensus by expert music/film free-lance writers as to the best music and movies.
Ascap Song Database - database to licensed songs.
BMI - database to licensed songs
The Circular Cosmic Spot - Online magazine for electronic music, with the emphasis on dance music and rave culture. Includes full-text articles, interviews, record reviews, audio samples and a discussion forum. Their links directory lists over 300 sites with such categories as: artists, clubs, culture, graphics, and raves. A fine resource for fans and for newcomers curious about the whole scene.
GUIDE to MUSIC on the WEB - excellent list of music resources available on the World Wide Web created by Dr. Alberto Hernandez.
Pronouncing Dictionary of Opera Terms - definitions of the basic terms with sound files for the French and Italian words so you can hear how the words should be pronounced.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - a compilation of webpages created by the William and Gayle Cook Music Library Indian University School of Music, arranged under broad topics such as Individual Musicians (All Genres) and Popular Groups, Composers and Composition, Genres and Types of Music, Research and Study, Journals and Magazines.

Fashion & Costuming Resources - A list of links, with excellent annotations, to Web sites relating to costuming, fashion (both historical and current), the fashion industry, education, and more.
Regency Fashion Page - A wealth of images, information, and links relating to 18th and early 19th century fashion for men and women.

Catholic Encyclopedia - online version of the early edition of this venerable publication
Judaism and Jewish Resources on the Internet - frequently updated list of links.
Philosophy Resources on the Web - a great starting point for philosophy websites, compiled by Dr. Alberto Hernandez.

* - whenever possible, text was taken from the page being described for the descriptions on this page.

- links are included on this page because they either directly support the curriculum in the Arts and Humanities departments at SSU; a student, faculty member, or staff person is working on a project with similar content ; students in the 292 class have recommended the page; the page is unique in what it provides; or for use in Eng 292 class. All pages are evaluated using the following criteria (click here). Beware! Some of the pages are "bad" examples." Links are added frequently. To suggest a link send an email to: Karen.Brodsky @sonoma.edu

last updated 08/14/02

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