Internet Links: Arts & Humanities

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Arts	Language & Writing	Literature		Music	Research Databases

Arts
American Ballet Theatre The season, the tour, the dancers, the ballets! Art Festivals and Craft Shows Artists and artisans can search by date, city, state, and region for events where they can display their work Art History Resources on the Web Art Institute of Chicago Art Market Learn everything about art and the market of art. Features galleries, InternetArt Magazine and archives with information about artists and their works, actual sale prices, trends and more. Artcyclopedia A comprehensive index to online exhibits of thousands of artists. Search by artist's name or browse the A to Z listing. Entries include links to museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. ArtSource This site contains links to art and architecture sites including electronic exhibitions, image collections, online art journals, art schools and university art/architecture programs, libraries, museums, and organizations. Creative Directory Services Chicagoland resource for the creative community. Guide to Art & Craft Workshops Illinois Art Fair Directory This directory is helpful to art fair sponsors, artists and the general public. Internet Broadway Database The official database for Broadway theatre. MuseumSpot Provides links to places to search for museums by country, state, city, museum name, and artist. National Gallery of Art Images of more than 3000 works and information on all of the more than 100,000 objects in the gallery's collection. Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography Photographs from the National Archives and Records Administration. Browse the collection by time period or by photographers. Playbill Online Theatre Central Great site for anyone curious about theater news, personalities, or planning to attend a production. This easy-to-use site even offers discounts. Sister Wendy's American Collection Smithsonian

Language & Writing
Citation Styles From the Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: styles include the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA.) Citing Sources, Guide to Library Research Elements of Style William Strunk's Elements of Style. Graduation Speeches This directory lists many memorable commencement addresses delivered over the years. Guide to Grammar and Writing Includes definitions of sentence parts, rules for comma usage and other punctuation marks, plurals, possessives, capitalization and lots more. You can even "Ask Grammar!" Jennifer's Language Page Learn how to say conversational words and phrases in hundreds of different languages. Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides Look here for citing web resources. In some cases complete style manuals for citing all kinds of sources including MLA, APA, Chicago & Turabian. Online! Citation Styles Writer's Digest A supplement to the printed edition of the Writer's Digest, this site contains the most current information on publishing both fiction and non-fiction.

Literature
BookSpot.com Book awards and reading lists by theme, by genre, by grade level, and if you liked... subjects. You will find author information, hot picks, and recommended reads. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Searchable, hypertext version of the printed work. Children's Picture Book Database CliffsNotes: Literature Notes Provides free access to most CliffsNotes literature guides. Illinois Authors A database of authors, illustrators and photographers who are published, live in Illinois, have lived in Illinois, were born in Illinois, have written extensively about Illinois or have works set in Illinois. INTER-PLAY Database Resource for locating plays in anthologies. Literary Index Literary Resources on the Net A link to sites dealing with English and American literature. LitLine Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet A comprehensive guide to Shakespeare sources including criticism. On-Line Books Page Online Literary Criticism Sponsored by the Internet Public Library's Literary Criticism Collection. Find biographical and criticism information for over 100 authors and their works. Overbooked Reader's advisory site. Shakespeare This site contains the complete works of William Shakespeare on-line, Bartlett's familiar Shakespearean Quotations, plus links to other Shakespeare sources. SparkNotes Free online study guides including literature, poetry, and the No Fear Shakespeare series. VoS English Literature Voice of the Shuttle. An excellent source for literary criticism. What's Next? Search adult fiction series.

Music
AMG All Music Guide All About Jazz An excellent resource of articles, reviews of CDs, interviews and biographies. Archive of Misheard Lyrics Baby Boomer HeadQuarters: Lyrics Beatles.com CDnow Search this database by artist, song title, album title, record label or soundtrack. Essentials of Music Classical music site that is organized by eras and composers. Includes a glossary and musical examples in RealAudio. Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources Historical American Sheet Music The Historic American Sheet Music project, from Duke University, provides access to digital images of sheet music published in the U.S. between 1850 and 1920. Index to Songs in Fakebooks This is an index to songs found in the collection of fakebooks owned by the Oak Lawn Public Library. You may search the index, then check the Palatine Public Library Catalog to see if the Palatine Public Library owns the fakebook that you need. KIDiddles Kids song lyrics. Lyrics Connection Musicals.Net Concentrates on 80 popular Broadway shows. Gives in-depth information on each show including song lyrics. Piano World A complete guide to piano care, purchasing, collecting and restoration. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum RockWisdom Song Quotes Browse or search for a good quote or a lyric. Sheet Music Consortium This site provides access to collections of sheet music of popular songs, including full scans of work published before 1923. Songtitle.info Music from TV Commercials. Ultimate Band List Bands and artists can be searched by name, keyword, genre, or resource. Lists and links are also available for radio stations, record labels and stores, music charts, e-zines, and concert information. Ultimate '80s Songs

Research Databases Palatine Public Library subscribes to a number of Web-based services (databases) which are available to users of the Library. Some are available from home and some are for use in the Library only. Resources available from home will require Palatine Public Library cardholders to type in their Library bar code number.
Available from home for Palatine Library Cardholders.			Available to use inside the library.
Literary Index Use this to locate critical or biographical material about authors, books, stories, or poems. Not full text, leads to critical sources. LitFinder Search 85,000 full-text poems, short stories, and essays. Can search by subject, author, and first/last lines. MagillOnLiterature Plus This database includes all the critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors. NoveList Plus Online reader's advisory database for fiction and non-fiction. NoveList K-8 Plus Search K-8 fiction and non-fiction by author, title, series name, and subject.

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