Please join us for a lunch-time exhibition opening on Friday, April 5, at 12:00 noon of Finding the Spirit of Inanga: A Gallery of African Musical Instruments, a project curated by music graduate student Chance Kinyange. A collaborative effort between Providence, RI-based PVD World Music Institute and Wesleyan’s World Music Archives & Music Library, Finding … Read more
The library now has a subscription to the PressReader platform which provides online access to thousands of popular U.S. and international newspapers and magazines, from 155 countries and in 64 languages, covering art, business, computing, entertainment, fashion, gaming, health & fitness, current news and sports. Individual titles in this collection are searchable in Onesearch, or … Read more
The library now has trial access, through April 4th, to Ancestry Library Edition database, which delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, immigration records, directories, photos, and more.
The library is pleased to announce that we have signed a two-year agreement with Gale for expanded access to many more Gale Primary Source databases, such as Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library, National Geographic Magazine Digital Archive (1888-2020), and the U.S. National Archive collection on International Climatic Changes and Global Warming (1991-2009), … Read more
To coincide with Black History month, the library has set up institutional trial access to kweli.TV, through February 29th. kweliTV celebrates the stories of the African diaspora by curating over 700 critically acclaimed & award-winning Black films spanning every continent— offering a rich learning experience that combines education and entertainment. Access kweliTV here or on … Read more
Trial Jan 25 – Feb 25, 2025 Online reader for current newspapers and magazines covering news, science, technology, sports and travel. 120 publications in 60 languages. Access PressReader here or on the A-Z Database page.
TRIAL through March 3, 2024 Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound, Volume II provides an extensive virtual encyclopedia of unique American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and protest songs, as well as a broad range of world music.
In addition to academic support and documentary films, these two streaming platforms, available to the Wesleyan community, offer current popular domestic and international films, as well as classic Hollywood films, KanopySubscription access to over 9000 films, including The Criterion collection SwankAccess to the 1000 most-requested feature films in Swank’s collection from the largest movie studios. … Read more
TRIAL through Jan. 6, 2024 Sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords. It includes detailed primary source for the history of Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. It covers working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. Access this resource … Read more
Music of Central Asia Kazakh songs and instrumental tunes Concert by students of the Central Asian Music Ensemble tutorial taught by Assistant Professor of Music Saida Daukeyeva and visiting artists from Kazakhstan, Raushan Orazbaeva, Rüstem Nurkenov, and Zhaina Zharmukhametova Friday, December 1, 2023, 12:30-1:30 pmSmith Room, Olin LibraryFREE
