Visual Literacy: Multimedia Collections

Databases (stanton community only)

CQ Researcher (US Social Issues)  requires username and password.  Great for charts and graphs (and some images), statistics and background.

Safari Montage.  Streaming Video available on campus.  Use your DCPS credentials to login.

EasyBib.  Don’t forget this site to start your research.  Requires username and password.

Digital Collections

Library of Congress Digital Collections http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html  access to print, pictorial, audio-visual collections and other visual services.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs  Online Catalog.  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Library of Congress American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

New York Public Library Digital Collections.  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

Political Cartoons

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.  http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/browse.cfm

The Cagle Post Cartoons & Commentary.  http://www.cagle.com/tag/homeless/

Video

Safari Montage (See Librarian for username/password) contains video and some images

PBS Learning Media http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/  Video, audio and images from PBS.