Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

• Art & Photography
• Digital Collections
• Entertainment & Activities
• Hobbies
• Literature & Poetry
• Museums
• Music

Art & Photography

Art - MERLOT~ A FOCUSED PORTAL
(http://www.merlot.org/artifact/BrowseArtifacts.po?catcode=427&browsecat=425)
Art - MERLOT: This category of Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching provides 80 links to materials in the fine arts.

Art on the Web
(http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb_frames.html)
Art on the Web: Art links on the worldwide web.

Artcyclopedia
(http://www.artcyclopedia.com/)
Artcyclopedia: This database has over 19,000 links with an estimated 75,000 works of more than 6,500 artists. Hundreds of museum sites, image archives and other online resources are represented.

Art History Resources on the Web
(http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html)
Art History Resources on the Web: Categories are broken up into time periods, countries, museums, research...

Auction Art Prices
(http://www.findartinfo.com/)
Auction Art Prices: Find price information on art ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary Art.

Digital Librarian - Art ~ A FOCUSED PORTAL
(http://www.digital-librarian.com/art.html)
Digital Librarian - Art: A librarian's choice of the best of the Web for art,

Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page
(http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/)
Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page: University of Michigan's links to art history departments, research resources, resource for visual collections, image collections and online art, online exhibitions, art museums, resources...

Photography Tips
(http://www.photographytips.com/)
Photography Tips: Intended to help beginners get started in photography and become so good at it that they turn into advanced amateurs. Includes information on equipment, subjects, technique, galleries, glossary...

Stock.xchng
(http://www.sxc.hu/)
Stock.xchng: The leading free stock photo site, containing over 125,000 photos online, with searchable image categories.

Web Gallery of Art
(http://www.wga.hu/index1.html)
Web Gallery of Art: This is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the 12th-18th centuries. Comprehensive site of Renaissance art, extended to show its Byzantine and Gotique roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism.

Digital Collections

American Historical Images On File - The Native American Experience
(http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/)
American Historical Images On File - The Native American Experience: A comprehensive collection of images of Native American people, arranged chronologically from the prehistoric period to 1990. Includes information and images which describe the lifeways of various tribes. Narratives provide the historical and cultural background describing the event, person, or subject presented.

ARL Digital Initiatives Database
(http://db.arl.org/did/review.html)
ARL Digital Initiatives Database: A Web-based registry for descriptions of digital initiatives in or involving libraries, organized by project name and by host institution.

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
(http://sunsite.berkeley.edu)
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE: The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide. Includes catalogs/indexes (tools for finding what you want) and collections (text and images).

BioMed Central's Image of the Month
(http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmccellbiol/imageofthemonth)
BioMed Central's Image of the Month: Every month, BMC Cell Biology features an image from a previously published article. This virtual art gallery has amazing pictures at the cellular level.

Botany Archives Hub
(http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/mar05.shtml)
Botany Archives Hub: Links to many botanical digital collections.

California Digital Library
(http://californiadigitallibrary.org/collections/)
California Digital Library: Websites showcasing compilations of digital materials, exhibits, or individual topics. Extensive subject index as well as individual campus collections.

California Explores the Ocean
(http://ceo.ucsd.edu)
California Explores the Ocean: Provides access to a diverse array of resources about the ocean and ocean exploration, from the unique collections of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives and Library. Includes a selection of ocean-related photogrphs and oral histories from the collections of the San Diego Historical Society.

California Museum of Photography
(http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/)
California Museum of Photography: Digital collections, past exhibitions, photographers...

Experiencing War, Veterans History Project
(http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/stories/)
Experiencing War, Veterans History Project: Collections of stories, audio interviews, and photos organized into categories such as D-Day On the Beach, Life-Altering Moments, Courage, Patriotism, Community, Sweethearts, Buddies...

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
(http://www.nedcc.org/digital/tofc.htm)
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access: Chapters include Introduction, Overview: Rationale for Digitization and Preservation, Considerations for Project Management, Selection of Materials for Scanning...

Historic Pittsburgh
(http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/)
Historic Pittsburgh: This digital collection "provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the Internet." It includes full text collections, maps, census data, finding aids and a chronology/timeline.

Images of Early Maps on the Web
(http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html)
Images of Early Maps on the Web: Comprehensive listing with over 1200 links arranged geographically.

Linus Pauling, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, A Documentary History
(http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/bond/index.html)
Linus Pauling, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, A Documentary History: Includes more than 800 digitized letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio-clips and video excerpts documenting Pauling's revolution of the science world's understanding of how atoms join together to form molecules.

National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Digital Photographic Collections
(http://archives.gov/research_room/alic/reference_desk/photography.html)
National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Digital Photographic Collections: Digital photograph collections by century, history of photography, and preservation and care of photographs.

National Information Standards Organization (NISO) "A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections"
(http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html)
National Information Standards Organization (NISO) "A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections": This 25-page article gives information on Collections, Objects, Metadata, and Projects.

National Library of Medicine's Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/onlineexhibitions.html)
National Library of Medicine's Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects: Includes Profiles in Science, Dream Anatomy, Islamic Medical Manuscripts, Historical Anatomies on the Web, Turning the Pages, Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen, Regional Medical Programs, and links to many more exhibitions by subject and date.

NOAA's Photo Library
(http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/index.html)
NOAA's Photo Library: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has created a collection that spans centuries of time and much of the natural world from the center of the earth to the surface of the sun.

NYPL Digital
(http://www.nypl.org/digital/)
NYPL Digital: Your gateway to the New York Public Library's rare and unique collections in digitized form. Hundreds of thousands of prints, photographs, maps, and text pages are available via searchable databases. Selected moving image and sound recordings.

Smithsonian Images
(http://smithsonianimages.com)
Smithsonian Images: Browse or search through selected images from the Collections of the Office of Imaging and Photographic Services.

Smithsonian Institution's Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
(http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions/index.htm)
Smithsonian Institution's Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web: Explore the rich variety of topics, images, and materials featured in online exhibitions from libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums around the world.

Trove - Reflecting the World's Cultures
(http://trove.net/)
Trove - Reflecting the World's Cultures: "Discover treasures from the world's libraries, archives, and museums. Explore or license digital images from constantly growing collections of art, photos, maps, music, posters, manuscripts..."

Entertainment & Activities

Balboa Park
(http://www.balboapark.org/)
Balboa Park, San Diego, CA: Balboa Park is America's largest urban cultural park, with over 85 performing arts and international culture organizations, 15 museums, gardens, hiking and biking trails, and recreational facilities.

Biking - San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau
(http://www.sandiego.org/nature/biking.asp)
Biking - San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau: Bicycle resources for biking in San Diego, including rentals, trails, tips...

Fresno Movies
(http://www.cvip.net/page.php?theater=fresno)
Fresno Movies: Movie listings and times for Fresno theaters.

Gnovies
(http://www.gnovies.com/)
Gnovies: Type in the name of a movie you like and similar ones will appear in a visual map.

Internet Movie Database
(http://www.imdb.com/)
Internet Movie Database (IMDb): Information about new and old movies, many details and links to actor/actress information...

Local Hikes - San Diego
(http://www.localhikes.com/MSA/MSA_7320.asp)
Local Hikes - San Diego: Descriptions of 23 places to hike in San Diego County.

Oakhurst - The MET Cinemas
(http://www.metcinema.com/)
Oakhurst - The MET Cinemas: Lists movies playing here at the corner of Hwys 41 & 49 ($5.50 before 5:30 pm and $7.50 after 5:30 pm)

Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
(http://www.rhfleet.org/index.html)
Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, CA: The Fleet Center has an IMAX Dome Theater, immersing audiences in incredible images. There are many science exhibits, educational programs, and astronomy pages.

San Diego County, A Bicyclist's Paradise
(http://efgh.com/bike/)
San Diego County, A Bicyclist's Paradise: Lists bike paths, routes, clubs, organized rides...

San Diego County Museums and Monuments
(http://www.co.san-diego.ca.us/enterprise_portal/MuseumsMonuments.html)
San Diego County Museums and Monuments: Links to 55 museums and monuments in San Diego County.

San Diego Movies
(http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/section/movies/)
San Diego Movies: Movie listings, reviews, theaters, and show times.

San Diego Natural History Museum - Canyoneer Nature Walks
(http://www.sdnhm.org/canyoneers/)
San Diego Natural History Museum - Canyoneer Nature Walks: Canyoneers are SDNHM volunteers trained to teach appreciation of plants and animals in southern California. Walks are free and open to the public, with no reservations required.

San Diego Zoo
(http://www.sandiegozoo.org/)
San Diego Zoo: Learn about animals and events at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park.

Hobbies

American Numismatic Association (ANA)
(http://www.money.org/index.shtml)
American Numismatic Association (ANA): Promotes the study and collection of money, including coins, tokens, medals and paper currency, for research, interpretation and preservation of history and culture from ancient times to the present. Educational material, library, featured coins, virtual museum ...

American Philatelic Society (APS)
(http://www.stamps.org/)
American Philatelic Society (APS): The "largest, nonprofit society in the world for stamp collectors."

American Topical Association (ATA)
(http://www.americantopicalassn.org/)
American Topical Association (ATA): Topical stamp collecting is the fastest growing facet of stamp collecting. Information about this hobby, news, study units, and links to other associations, exchanges, directories, Internet lists, topical pages by non-ATA members.

CoinFacts.com
(http://www.coinfacts.com/)
CoinFacts.com: Provides the answers to most questions about U.S. coins, with a well-organized index.

Linns.com
(http://www.linns.com/)
Linns.com: An introductory website for beginning stamp collectors, with how-to articles and basic collecting information.

List of Hobbies
(http://www.ceca.de/encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_hobbies.html)
List of Hobbies: Wikipedia provides this detailed list of hobbies categorized into sections such as Animals, Arts & Crafts, Collecting, Computer, Cooking, Electronics... with links to detailed descriptions.

Puzzles - The Art of Larry Eifert
(http://www.eifert-art.com/)
Puzzles - The Art of Larry Eifert: Larry Eifert has more work in America's National Parks than any other artist. His beautiful nature scapes are available as jigsaw puzzles, including Two Sides of the Sea, Secrets of the Redwood Forest Floor, Old Growth Forests...

Scott Stamp Monthly Online
(http://www.scottonline.com/info_NEW.asp)
Scott Stamp Monthly Online: Read a sample issue of this monthly stamp collecting magazine, or log on if you subscribe to the online version.

Stamp Magazines
(http://www.filbert.com/stamplistopedia/magazines/default.htm)
Stamp Magazines: List of stamp collecting magazines and links to other stamp resources. Last updated in 2001, so many broken links, but most popular magazines survive.

Topical Stamp Collecting Course
(http://www.askphil.org/ATA/ATAtoc.htm)
Topical Stamp Collecting Course: Explains what is topical collecting, selecting a topic, beginning your collection, types of stamps, classification, mounting, exhibiting...

Literature & Poetry

California Reading List
(http://www.californiareadinglist.com/)
California Reading List: Provides help in selecting books written at a level of difficulty that corresponds with a child's ability to read.

Gnooks
(http://www.gnooks.com/)
Gnooks: Type in the name of a writer and up will pop a visual map of similar authors.

Poem Hunter
(http://www.poemhunter.com/)
Poem Hunter: This database contains 48,167 poems from 6,062 poets, and 39,235 songs from 1,320 artists. Lists of new poems, top 500 poems, top 500 poets, classical poets. Search by poet's name, poem's title or text; and by singer's name, song title or text.

Poetry ~ A FOCUSED PORTAL
(http://www.libraryspot.com/poetry.htm)
Poetry - LibrarySpot: Websites for poetry.

Project Gutenberg
(http://www.gutenberg.org/)
Project Gutenberg: A collection of more than 15,000 electronic books, most of which are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read.

Recommended Literature, K-grade 12
(http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/ll/)
Recommended Literature, K-grade 12: A collection of outstanding literature for children and adolescents produced by the California Department of Education.

Representative Poetry Online
(http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm)
Representative Poetry Online: Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon in the Old English period to the work of living poets today.

Series and Popular Authors
(http://librarianresources.info/series.html)
Series and Popular Authors: Chronological lists of popular series and authors.

Spark Notes
(http://www.sparknotes.com/)
Spark Notes: Free online study guides covering literature and many subject areas. Test prep for college entrance exams.

Museums

Maritime Museum of San Diego
(http://www.sdmaritime.org/)
Maritime Museum of San Diego: The museum is located on San Diego Bay. The historic ships that showcase a collection of maritime history include the 1863 full-rigged Star of India, the H.M.S. Surprise (a replica of an 18th century Royal Navy frigate and the ship used in the film Master and Commander), the 1898 steam ferry Berkeley, and the 1904 steam yacht Medea.

MUSEE
(http://www.musee-online.org/)
MUSEE: Links to 37,000 museums around the world, organized into over 100 different types of museums. MUSEE's mission is to enhance cultural awareness, advance education at all levels, and stimulate public interest in cultural institutions.

Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad, CA
(http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/)
Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad, CA: Tells the remarkable story of the innovations that shaped popular music, from the invention of the player piano to the expressive versatility of modern digital instruments. By combining the sounds and images of popular music with the progression of instrument design and development, visitors can see, hear and interact with a century of musical history.

San Diego Natural History Museum
(http://www.sdnhm.org/)
San Diego Natural History Museum: Founded in 1874, the San Diego Society of Natural History is the oldest scientific institution in southern California, and the second oldest west of the Mississippi. It offers incredible exhibits, educational programs, and research in many scientific disciplines, including those working to define and preserve biodiversity and monitor global change.

Smithsonian Institute
(http://www.si.edu/)
Smithsonian Institute: Links to the Smithsonian's 15 museums, many areas of research, programs of outreach, and publications.

Music

Archive of Popular American Music, UCLA
(http://digital.library.ucla.edu/apam/)
Archive of Popular American Music, UCLA: Digital collection covering the history of popular music in the U.S. from 1790 to the present. Almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra, now in the public domain. Also includes 62,500 recordings on disc, tape, and cylinder.

Digital Librarian - Music ~ A FOCUSED PORTAL
http://www.digital-librarian.com/music.html)
Digital Librarian - Music: A librarian's choice of the best of the Web for music.

Essentials of Music, Composers List
(http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/complist.html)
Essentials of Music, Composers List: Brief biographies of almost 70 major composers, covers the artists and their works.

Gnoosic
(http://www.gnoosic.com/)
Gnoosic: Type in the name of 3 favorite musicians and suggestions for similar ones will appear.

I Write the Music
(http://iwritethemusic.com/)
I Write the Music: This is a music resource site for composers. It supplies creative guides including music news, information about composers, fundamentals of composition and songwriting, hardware and software, downloads, midi, music search, reference, music theory, careers, music blogs...

Museum of Making Music's Sites of Interest page
(http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/explore/sites.html)
Museum of Making Music's Sites of Interest page: Explore sites related to music, music making and the support of the cultural arts. Includes national and international organizations as well as San Diego area organizations.

Music - MERLOT~ A FOCUSED PORTAL
(http://www.merlot.org/artifact/BrowseArtifacts.po?catcode=428&browsecat=425)
Music - MERLOT: This category of Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching provides 160 links to materials in music.

Music Guide
(http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/guides/arts/music.html)
Music Guide: George Washington University's Gelman Library's research guide to music. Includes links to many online music sources of information.

On-Line Piano Lessons
(http://www.gopiano.com/)
On-Line Piano Lessons: Learn to play the piano with online keyboard lesson and free piano instruction online, from basic to advanced.

Pandora Radio
(http://www.pandora.com/)
Pandora Radio: Listen to free Internet radio. This is a personalized service that helps you find new music based on your current and old favorites.

Songfacts
(http://www.songfacts.com/)
Songfacts: This is a searchable database of song information.

SPK Guitar Company
(http://members.cox.net/spkguitars/)
SPK Guitar Company: Information on the craft of custom-built guitars, basses, and mandolins, including comparison of woods. [The author's son owns SPK Guitar Company.]

Arts & Entertainment
Links verified 1/17/05
Content updated 6/16/07

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