Art & Literature

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A digital library that aggregates data for millions of books, photographs, films, and more from institutions across the United States.

Online home for visual arts from all around the world, featuring some 150,000 artworks by 2,500 artists, localized on 5 languages.

 Includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

Provides information on over 5 million book titles in a wide range of formats. Includes 800,000 full-text reviews from sources like Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and others.

Provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy-to-understand and engaging format.

Step-by-step video instruction on a variety of creative crafts. Includes more than 140 hours of how-to instructional  content from Craftsy courses in baking, cake decorating, knitting, quilting, and sewing. A 7-day pass gives you full access to content from Craftsy. When your pass expires, you can return to get another.

Provides information on about 450,000 music titles and 200,000 DVD/video titles. Search by artist, title, or genre.

Includes thousands of critical essays and discussion questions plus author biographies and character analyses; full-length poems, full-text reference books, full-length videos of classic plays and films and more.