Muskingum College Library: Find Digital Media (Images, Sounds, and Videos)

Digital Videos
Digital Video Collection contains 1,960+ digital videos on various topics in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The files may be viewed on-line or downloaded. You will need to have the RealPlayer installed to view these digital videos. more information

Encyclopedia of Physics Experiments contains over 600 videos illustrating the principles of physics. You will need to have the RealPlayer installed to view these digital videos

Foreign Language Video Instruction developed by the ViewPoints Project of the Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium contains approximately 225 foreign language digital video clips in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Swahili. The clips are of native speakers discussing their countries culture. You will need to have Apple's QuickTime Player installed to view these digital video clips. more information

Digital Sounds
Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of online classical music, offering over 85,000 tracks. Music is available for listening at a library computer using headphones or from any computer on campus connected to the network. Please remember click on the red Logout button when you are done using this database! more information

Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics is a collection of 20,000 recordings of songbirds and warblers from The Ohio State University. You will need to have the RealPlayer installed to listen to these sound files. more information

Digital Images
AP Images
Photos from The Associated Press, plus graphics, text and audio. more information

American Memory from the Library of Congress contains still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Art and Architecture Collections include images from licensed art collections, plus contributions from Ohio museums, libraries, and universities. more information

Akron Museum of Art
ART Collection provides high-quality, digital images of works of art from museums around the world.
Art and Architecture from the University of Cincinnati includes works by Eisenman, Fellheimer & Wagner, Latrobe, Elizabeth Nourse, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Saskia Art History Images is a collection of digital art images with a special emphasis on the core images required for teaching the history of Western Art.
WPA prints by Cleveland artists contains high resolution scans of works of art by Cleveland artists, commissioned under the Works Progress Administration.

Center for Research Libraries e-collections more information

Brazilian Government Documents
Chinese pamphlets: Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China
Digital South Asia Library
Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress is a collection of 25 newspapers printed from 1900-1910. more information

Historical & Archival Collections contains over 3,200 historical images of Ohio from archives around the state. more information

Greek & Latin Inscriptions is a collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia.
Historic Maps of Akron and Summit County, Ohio
Kent State Shootings Oral History is a collection of recordings related to the May 4, 1970 shootings of Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University.
Lake Erie's Yesterday is a collection of historic photographs of northwestern Ohio, documenting the local history of the Erie Islands and Lake Erie's western basin.
Mayan Archaeology includes Mayan architecture and scenery from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and serves as a resource for the exploration of the various and complex interrelationships within Mayan society.
National Underground Freedom Center is a collection of documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation.
E.W. Scripp's Papers, 1868-1826 is a collection of letters and photos of Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) who was a businessman and journalist associated with the founding of the Scripps Howard chain of newspapers and the United Press International independent news gathering company.
Wright Brothers Collection documents the invention of the airplane, the lives of the Wright Family, and the Wrights' flying exhibitions in Europe and the United States.

images.MD (off-campus access) is a collection of 55,000+ medical images. more information

LANDSAT 7 Images of Ohio contains images of Ohio taken by the LANDSAT 7 satellite for the US Geological Survey starting in 1999. The images can be used to track growth of metropolitan areas, changes of natural resources, and other issues related to land usage in the state. The images are available in monochrome, color, infrared, and NDVI (Normalized Differential Vegetation Index) formats. more information

NYPL Digital Gallery contains 520,000 images from primary sources and printed rarities from the collections of The New York Public Library.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Ohio cities and villages produced created by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company during 1867-1970. These maps can be used to track development and for historical research. more information

Science Collection contains digital media supporting biology, environmental science, and geology. more information

Geology photographs is a collection of photos depicting natural features and the human impact on environments around the world.
Dolphin Embryo Digitized Slides are scanned images of histological sections, captured using a digital camera connected to a microscope.
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Forestry Image Collection contains photos of forestry, dating back to the early 20th century. Images portray trees, cultivation, care, and the effects of human activity.
Reproductive Physiology Animations is a collection of learning modules on human reproduction from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The modules have animation, and some have sound.

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