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Research Quick Start Guides

Audio Sources for Students in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric

General

• BBC Audio Interviews
• Living Voices (National Museum of the American Indian)
• Online Audio and Video Recordings (UC Berleley)
• National Gallery of the Spoken Word, including Vincent Voice Library (Michigan State University Libraries)
• Alta Vista - select MP3/Audio or Video
• Image and Sound Databases From UC Berkeley Library Website: a list of 59 databases of images and sound

History

• American Memory "is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." Includes audio, video, photo and print images, maps and documents
• Online Archive of California: "access to content, including oral histories, documents, images and finding aids" including the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives
• Regional Oral History Office - "ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States."
• September 11 Digital Archive
• HistoricalVoices.org "The primary goals of Historical Voices are to develop both a rich set of exhibits and educational curricula that fully incorporate sound files."
• Civil Rights Oral History Interviews (Washington State University)
• American Rhetoric
• History and Politics Outloud a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials
• WNAR's old time radio shows

News

• Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) "The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989." Though there is a fee for copies, some clips are available free.
• NPR (National Public Radio)
• News and Information Via Streaming Audio & Video
• Radio Free Europe

Film, Television & Multimedia Links

• UD 99: Moving Image Archive
• Internet Archive: Movie Archive
• Singingfish: Multimedia Search Engine
• Television Archive news and analysis of Sept. 11, 2001
• British Pathe

Music

• I Hear America Singing (Library of Congress)
• Naxos Music Library streamed music
• KDFC.com - classical music streamed
• Live Music Archive
• American RadioWorks streaming audio of radio documentaries

Subject Directories with Selected, Evaluated Sites

• Librarians' Index to the Internet search for headings such as "sound recordings," "oral history," and "interviews."
• InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections (built by librarians)
• Resource Discovery Network: "a collaboration of over sixty educational and research organisations, including the Natural History Museum and the British Library… [which] will connect you to Web sites relevant to learning, teaching and research."

With information from Malgorzata Schaefer

Last modified: February 22, 2008