Finding Resources-For Free!

Kaohsiung American School Library

Presenter: Natalie Teske Rector,

Director of the Media Center

library@kas.kh.edu.tw

Follett Destiny (KAS Library Catalog)

• 42% of responders hadn’t ever used our library catalog

• https://kas.follettdestiny.com/

• Your “Library Barcode” is your Student ID#

• Renew & hold books from anywhere• Access library databases• Get & send book recommendations• Write book reviews

Google Newspaper Archive

61% have never heard of it

Access Newspapers from all over the world

View primary source documents http://news.google.com/newspapers

Project Gutenberg

42,000 free ebooks

Mostly classics

Can be read on Kindle, online, and epub

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Hathi TrustOver 11 million books, articles and journals

Academic Institutions open their digital collections for search or for full-view

www.hathitrust.org

Open Access Journal Search Engline (OAJSE)

93% of respondents had never heard of it

Search all Open Access Journals

Browse a particular journal

http://www.oajse.com/

Google ScholarSearch Open Access and Proprietary resources

Read abstracts

Save articles to “My Library”

Cite directly from the page

http://www.scholar.google.com/

World Digital Library

Thousands of items viewable by topic, year, region or type of item

Books, films, newspapers, prints are available

http://www.wdl.org/

Digital Public Library of America

5.7 million digital items

Photographs, primary source documents, maps, letters and more!

Explore by place, by time period or view an online exhibition

http://dp.la/

American Journeys

Eyewitness accounts of American exploration

Over 18,000 pages

Read Lewis & Clark’s original journals

http://www.americanjourneys.org/

American Memory Project

Managed by the Library of Congress

Part of the National Digital library, it organizes some of the 5 million digital items into thematic units

Holds video, audio, images and text

http://memory.loc.gov/

Digital Archive of American Architecture

Organized by Boston College

Holds images of architecture from 17th-20th century America

Browse by building type, architect or style

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/

Boston library, 1818

Ryhiner Digital Map Collection

Browse 16,000+ historical maps from around the globe

In German, but still easy to browse

http://www.stub.unibe.ch/stub/ryhiner/ry-arch1.html

Map of Asia, 1573

VADS (Visual Arts Database Service)

120,000 art images free to use in education

Browse or search by artist, location, material, technique and more!

Holds fine art, political cartoons, advertisements and more

http://www.vads.ac.uk/

Oxford Text Archive

Holds academic primary source documents, especially those pertient to the humanities, including linguistics, poetry, plays, philosophy and classics.

http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/catalogue/index.html

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