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Contemporary Fashion: Gale Virtual Reference e-Book. Covers over 450 designers, milliners, footwear designers, and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Discovering Collection: Comprehensive coverage of core curriculum in Literature, History, Biography, Science and Social Studies, geared to the younger student. Includes Discovering Authors.
Electronic Resource of the Month, May 2009
Junior Edition (Gale): Periodical database designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, government, sports and more.
Oxford Art Online: Access gateway to art reference content that includes Grove Dictionary of Art, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms on all aspects of the visual arts.
Oxford Music Online: Access gateway to music reference content that includes Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Dictionary of Jazz, Dictionary of Opera, Oxford Companion to Music and Dictionary of Music on musicians, composers, musicologists, instruments, places, genres, terms, acoustics, and more.
World Book Encyclopedia: Offers information on a range of topics.

Arti FAQS 2100: This project is designed to predict how art will influence our lives in the next hundred years. Through probing past inspirations and methods students can use available data to make reasonable predictions for the future.
Artist’s Tool Kit: From the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts site, the Artist’s Tool Kit provides basic concepts about the arts and the process of creating art.
The Costume Page: A library of costume and costume related links for costumers , students and researchers.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Information on free art classes for teens in the L.A. County.
Timeline of Art History: Displays objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections in geographical and chronological context.

Boston Museum of Science: Exhibits, ideas, learning resources in/for various scientific disciplines.
The Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception.: Online exhibits and science for the layperson. Has links to the physics of sports, aerodynamics of paper airplanes, astronomy, and ideas for science projects.
J. P. Getty Museum: The Museum collected a modest group of European paintings, a distinguished holding of Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities; European drawings, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts, dating to 1900; and American and European Photographs, from the 19th century to the present.
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Links to exhibits and artists in the museum . Has some bios and critical analysis.
Museum of the City of San Francisco: Online access to early San Francisco and Northern California documents and news clippings.
National Gallery of Art: Online tours of collections with some audio clips and biographical information.
Smithsonian Institution: Links to the research centers and museums of the Smithsonian. Also has links to resources, bibliographies, and photographs in the various collections of the museum. Can be searched.

AMG All Music Guide: Music Reviews.
Billboard Online: Daily music news, charts, reviews, artist of the day and more.
Lyrics World: Alphabetical lists of many songs which link to appropriate lyrics.
MTV Home Page: Access MTV's Music Page which includes reviews, notes about new artists and the Top 20 Music Videos.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: A virtual tour of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.