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Finding Resources-For Free!
Kaohsiung American School Library
Presenter: Natalie Teske Rector,
Director of the Media Center
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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