Audiovisual Sources
A P Images (1844-) 
What Is It? Current and historical archive from the Associated Press. Includes over 1 million primary source photos, 24,000 maps, logos, and graphics, and more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920's.
Why Use It? To find photographs; maps, sound bites.
ARTstor (Coverage Varies) What Is It? Digital archive of images from museum collections. Focuses on art, architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design. Also includes images in the field of archeology, anthropology and social history.
Why Use It? Find images from art, architecture and archeology. Search for master works of art from America, Asia and Europe. Research representations of visual and material culture across cultures and time periods.
CAMIO. Catalog of Art Museum Images Online (Coverage Varies) What Is It? Digital collection of about 90,000 works of art plus audio, video and mixed media. Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths. Scope ranges from 3000 BC to the present.
Why Use It? To search image of works of art from museums around the world. Includes
photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture.
Difficult-to-find contemporary art is one of its strengths. Scope ranges from 3000 BC to the present.
Civil Rights Digital Library 
What Is It? "The initiative promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement through its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film allowing learners to be nearly eyewitnesses to key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources"
Why Use It? To view footage of primary source news clips of Civil Rights era television coverage, plus other web-based secondary sources.
Dance in Video (1950s to present) What Is It? Streaming video of dance performances ranging from the ballets of Stravinsky to contemporary American and European troupes. Also includes documentaries by and about leading choreographers and videos on dance training. The collection is growing and projected to include over 250 performances and documentaries.
Why Use It? Provides the visual element essential to the study and research of dance. Features include browse, search, creation of playlists, and the ability to bookmark performances and create custom clips.
Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008 (1952 - present) What Is It? Presents more than 300 television commercials from every election year since 1952, when the first campaign TV ads aired. Includes a searchable database and features commentary, historical background, election results, and navigation organized by year, type of ad, and issue.
Why Use It? To find, view and hear presidential campaign commercials from every Presidential election since 1952.
NaxosMusic Library (Coverage Varies) What Is It? Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of streaming music. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Be sure to log out of the database after your Naxos session.
Why Use It? Listen to streaming music selections from the Naxos Music Library. Find information about a composer or a musical piece.
Opera in Video What Is It? Streaming video of opera performances, interviews and documentaries. This growing collection is slated to include 250 performances of the most commonly studied operas.
Why Use It? Browse, search, and cite videos to exact moments; create playlists and custom clips. Useful in the study of musical interpretation, vocal technique, stage design, conductors, singers, opera houses, and operatic history in general.
Theatre in Video (1930s - present) What Is It? Streaming video of more than 250 productions and approximately 100 video documentaries. Includes BBC Shakespeare and a wide range of twentieth-century American and European theatrical performances from the 1930s to near present day.
Why Use It? Features include browse, search, and citing of the content as well as the ability to develop playlists and bookmark and create clips of specific scenes, monologues, stagings, etc.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive (1968-Present) 
What Is It? The collection holds individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline. Special reports cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and major national and international events.
Why Use It? Search major U.S. network television evening news broadcasts and special news programs.