Online blues, bluegrass, jazz, rock, and classical music lessons from master musicians. Offers guided path of lessons containing everything they need to reach their musical goals including: hundreds of hours of high quality video instruction; studio quality play-along tracks; and downloadable written materials, tablature and sheet music.
Arts & Science
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Photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
Experience the joy of making with thousands of award-winning video classes taught by top designers and artists. With Creativebug you'll enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes featuring knitting, crochet, jewelry-making, paper arts, quilting and more. Watch our classes anytime, anywhere. Since our classes never expire, you can start and stop projects at your own pace.
Use Explora to discover reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects including art and music, literature, language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures and languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health and sports.
Research a wide range of health issues. You can look up medications, explore various diseases and conditions, and find information from the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine.
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, images, and primary sources. With ARTSTOR you can explore collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world.
An extensive compilation of literary commentary that represents a wide range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras & genres. Content from: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism.
Find biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists from every age and literary discipline.
More than 1 million tracks from all genres of music available to stream.
Music Online is divided into 5 collections for easier browsing: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.
NOTE: Not available through our OPAC terminals. Check out a Chromebook at any branch to use this resource.
A complete archive of National Geographic magazine from 1888 to the present day, along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
Streaming access to 3 million tracks of classical music. More than 600 new CDs are added to the library every month.
Naxos Jazz Music Library and Naxos World Music Library are also available.
BPL does not have an access code for the NAXOS app.
NOTE: Not available through our OPAC terminals. Check out a Chromebook at any branch to use this resource.
Browse this catalogue of high-quality sheet music editions available for download and print and MIDI. Features a wide range of composers from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Access (in-library only) to all online APS journals, from the most recent articles back to the first issue in 1893, a collection including over 400,000 scientific research papers.