- Digital Media Center - DMC
This OhioLINK Database provides widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information for the community and the world.
Art & Architecture
Has more than 80,000 art images including 3000 Saskia images from commonly used art history textbooks, Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Stokstad's History of Art, Hartt's History of Italian Renaissance Art and nearly 80,000 images for Art Collection including works from more than 25 museums in North America.Local Collections Includes contributions from The University of Cincinnati & The Akron Art Museum.
Social Studies Database
Features more than 500 images of Mayan archaeology, specifically Classic Maya Society (200 B.C. to 1000 A.D.) from Oberlin College.Historic & Archival Collections
Features 400 images from the Wright Brothers Collection including photographs of the Wright family and of the Wrights' flying exhibitions in Europe and the United States from Wright State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives.Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1867-1970
These large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867-1970 show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. These maps are used by a wide range of researchers including local historians to locate and identify buildings and neighborhoods, urban historians to study the growth of towns and cities, and environmentalists concerned about impact of new developments.LANDSAT 7 Satellite Images
These images from Ohio based satellite data are available for download or web viewing. There are several views available including infrared and true color composite and new imagery every 16 days.
These images may be downloaded for use in presentation software, e.g. PowerPoint, or printed for use in a report. The image itself may not be placed in a web page; however, URL's for each file are available to enable the creation of web resources such as on-line study guides and tutorials. - Picture Archives
Located on the First Floor, this collection contains over 400 notebooks with assorted illustrative material arranged by broad subject categories. - Ralph M. Besse Library/Media Center Slide Collection
Located in the Media Center, the slide collection containing over 14,000 glass-mounted slides covers the following areas:
Art, Western Civilization, American History and the History of Costume.
This is primarily a faculty collection for use in the classroom.
Students may view in-house or obtain a faculty permission slip to check-out. - images.MD
An online encyclopedia of medical images which compiles more than 48,000 images from more than 90 collections ranging from allergy to urology. Text contributed by more than 2000 medical experts. - AccuNet/ (Associated Press) Multimedia Archive
This electronic library contains the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library. The Multimedia Archive also includes graphics, text and audio - all from the Associated Press. The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive contains approximately 700,000 photos and is growing with hundreds of new photos entering the database each day from around the world. A similar number of historical images are scanned in each week. There are thousands of graphics, with approximately 20 new graphics added every day. The text database contains over 800,000 pieces of news. The audio database contains 500,000 audio clips. Both text and audio databases are also updated daily. - Grove Dictionary of Art on-line
This most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of art history from prehistory to present day contains:100,000+ images through a partnership with the Bridgeman Art Library
Extensive coverage of World Art; unparalleled depth of information covering the civilizations and cultures of Africa, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Mongolia, China, India, the Islamic World, Japan, Korea, Europe, North America, South America, Pacific and Aboriginal Australia, Pre-Columbian America, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and The Ancient Near East.
30,000+ links to colour images from high-quality museum and other art sites
130,000+ searchable images: search by artist's name, title of work, dates, location, or keyword
45,000+ articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day
21,000+ biographies of artists, architects, patrons, collectors, dealers, theorists, writers, and scholars, by birth/death dates, places, nationality and occupation (in addition to name searches)
1,000+ links to useful web sites covering people, places, art forms, styles and movements, institutuions, museums, and other organizations, exhibitions, and more
500,000+ bibliographical citations which can be searched independently or with the text - Public Web Sources
ATLA-CDRI (Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative) - Digital resources for the study of religion. The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Cities Around the World - This Web site contains a number of photographic images drawn from the world's cities, past and present. Images are from the American Geographic Society Library. By clicking on the "Cities" section, visitors can browse around the cities with the most photographs. They may also wish to perform a detailed search.
Diotima (Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World)
