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Research Assistance >> Getting Started >> Locating Library Materials >> Multimedia / Audio-Visual Resources
Multimedia / Audio-Visual Resources
| Table of Contents |
| Audio-Visual Catalogs | Image Search Engines | General Search Engines | |
Audio-Visual Catalogs
KU Libraries Databases
- KU Online Catalog
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- Set search limits to the appropriate Type or Format
Web Sites
- History and Politics Out Loud
- Internet Archive: Movie Collection movies focused on every life in 20th century North America
- SONIC Sound ONline Inventory and Catalog, records for Library of Congress sound collection, no audio samples
Image Search Engines
| Featured KU Library Resources |
| Image Gateway |
| Art History Image Catalog |
KU Libraries Databases
- Accunet / AP Multimedia Archive
- Grove Art Online has an Image Links section
Web Sites
- Ditto.com large collection of images
- Google Image Search over 250 million images
- NYPL Picture Collection Online from the New York Public Library, 30,000 digitized images (mostly created before 1923)
- picsearch for pictures and images
- Proteus Image Search an excellent gateway to over 30 searchable image collections
- TASI a review of image search engines
- Visoo images searchable by text in the image or by text in the filename for an image.
- Yahoo Image Surfer the image collection is very easy to navigate.
General Search Engines
Use the ADVANCED SEARCH option of a general search engine to find audio-visual materials. Other types of web search tools you may want to consider are subject guides and directories Internet search engines, metasearch engines, and "Invisible Web" search tools.
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