Research Guides: COML 398/399: Theories &amp; Methods in Comp Lit (BMC/HC): Visual & Audio Resources

Getting Started

The following online collections are good sources for finding digital copies of audio-visual sources; however, your search will be more comprehensive if you first check Tripod or WorldCat for individual titles.

Video Collections

AVON (Academic Video Online)
Academic Video Online: Premium brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street Press video titles. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage.
Films On Demand
Provides streaming video for over 4,000 titles in the humanities and social sciences from the Films Media Group.

Fine Art & Photography

JSTOR Images (formerly Artstor)
A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.
TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections
Find digital images and manuscripts from the TriCollege Libraries.

Access the digital collections of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, Haverford College Special Collections, Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library and Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Includes primary source material in the areas of advertising, botany, peace studies, Quakerism, theater, women's studies and more.

Looking for materials that are physically available at the libraries? Search Archives & Manuscripts (TriCollege Libraries).
TriArte: The Art & Artifacts Database of the TriColleges
TriArte features art and artifacts from Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges.

Flickr: The Commons
Images from many of the world's public photo archives, described by Flickr users so that some are very richly described.

Audio Recordings

Naxos Music Library
Provides online audio recordings of classical, folk, jazz, and world music from the Naxos, Marco Polo, and Da Capo labels.

Multimedia Collections

Europeana
Use Europeana to search through millions of digitized books, art, newspapers, and other sources from European museums, galleries and national libraries.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that is building an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes more than 300,000 texts, as well as audio, moving images, software and archived web pages. A good source for books printed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including many travel accounts.