Research Guides: BMC Leisure Reading/Watching/Listening: Home

Watch

Kanopy
Kanopy offers access to a wide variety of documentaries and film festival winners.
Feature Films for Education
Hundreds of full-length feature films that you can watch immediately.
Swank Digital Campus
Streaming video platform which contains classic and popular feature films.
Met Opera on Demand
More than 450 Metropolitan Opera performances streamed online. Dozens of Live in HD productions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, '80s, '90s, and '00s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1936
Digital Theatre Plus
A database with access to 900+ resources including backstage insights, practitioner interviews, written analysis and 400+ captured theatre productions.

Listen

Naxos Music Library
Jazz, classical, world, opera and more. 2.5 million tracks.

DRAM - Database of Recorded American Music
A collection of sound recordings documenting American music not generally covered by commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.

Read Books

Quita's Corner (located at the end of the first floor of Canaday Library) has popular bestsellers, literary fiction, science fiction, mysteries, graphic novels and more! Browse the books here.

Quita's Corner is named for Quita Woodward, BMC '32. See Quita's portrait by the American painter Violet Oakley in the Quita Woodward Room in Old Library, where there are more popular books.

Don't see what you want? Search Tripod, the library catalog, or suggest a book to purchase by emailing library@brynmawr.edu

New Books
This list of books on the new bookshelves is updated daily.
BMC Reading Lists
Themed reading lists of print and e-books in our collections.
Class of 2028 Book Picks
A collection of favorite titles submitted by the Class of 2028.

Read News & Magazines

PressReader
PressReader provides online access to over 5,000 local, regional and international newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries in 60 languages, displayed in their original format and accessible by country, language, or title.

News Sources
All our online subscriptions to major newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal) and magazines like the New Yorker and the Atlantic are linked here.

Learn

Ancestry.com
Genealogical and local history research with centuries of digitized material to explore.

Mango Languages
Conversational foreign language instruction in dozens of languages from beginning to intermediate levels.
LinkedIn Learning
Thousands of online courses in IT, creative, and business skills topics.