Use the search box below to search almost everything the library has to offer, or visit the library homepage. The library has CD, Audiocassette, and Vinyl collections available, as well as streaming audio collections.
Consider starting with these preset search parameters for audio:
Finding Audio: Popular Music (newest first) | Avant-garde Music (newest first) | Audio books (newest first)
You can locate audio in the Flaxman catalog, but there are other library Databases you may consider searching. Most of databases listed below are useful for find magazine articles about music and sound.
Sound archive freely available to download over 16,000 sound effects for “personal, educational or research purposes” from animal sounds to rattling window frames. Audio CDs of BBC sound effects are also available in the Flaxman Library.
Brings together 4 renowned ornithological reference works published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Covering the life histories of all breeding birds. Includes images, video, sound files, full-text articles.
This union catalog of archival collections is a combination of nearly a million descriptive records for individual collections and the full text of over 48,000 finding aids (detailed collection guides or inventories) from international libraries and archives. Includes materials from the Medieval and Renaissance eras to the current day.
3 full text collections--ReVIEW, arts & architecture journals; Arts + Architecture ProFILES, biographical data on artists, architects, & designers; Research Source on The Poster--plus Design Abstracts Retrospective, indexing applied arts and design journals from 1900-1986.
NYARC and the Internet Archive's collaborative project aimed at capturing and preserving at-risk web-based art materials, primarily collections of archived web-based content related to art history and contemporary art practice.
The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) gathers information about archival collections held by member organizations that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago. The searchable database includes records about collections that were processed or surveyed through the BMRC's Survey Initiative and Color Curtain Processing Project programs, as well as finding aids contributed from our members about relevant materials in their repositories.
Searchable archives of digitized newspapers including the Village Voice.
A crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history, including everything from finished projects to process, photos, correspondence, oral histories, anecdotes, articles, essays, and other materials.
Online institutional repository created and managed by the John M. Flaxman Library. Presents curated selections of historic publications, archival materials, student theses, and artists’ works drawn from our library shelves or from other campus special collections. They are offered here for educational and research purposes. Not all content available to be read online.
SAOA is a rich and growing collection of historical and contemporary sources in the arts, humanities and social sciences from and about South Asia available through JSTOR.