Honolulu Community College Library

• Art
  • Artchive of over 200 artists and 2,000 scans, as well as galleries, reviews, and art links. By Mark Harden.
  • ArtServe -- Art and architecture of the Mediterranean Basin, tutorials and reference works on art history, from the Australian National University.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, including collections and special exhibitions
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, including the ImageBase, an image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -- the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor
  • Web Museum, Paris
    Other locations are available at the WebMuseum Network.
  • World Wide Arts Resources, "the largest gateway to the arts", from the traditional to cyber-art, as well as crafts and commercial art.

• Dance
  • Hula in Hawaii by Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, reprinted from the International Encyclopedia of Dance with publisher's permission, by Paul Waters
  • The Hula Pages includes hula vocabulary, steps, lyrics, apparel, more.
  • Voice of Dance: Where Dance Lives presents reviews, an image gallery, dance events, classes and studios, and dance links. Created by Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, and Dance Magazine.

• English-as-a-Second-Language
  • ESL Resources for Students and Teachers compiled by Purdue University Writing Lab.
  • English as a Second Language site links to resources for ESL learners who want to learn English through the Web. By Rong-Chang Li.
  • Resources for English as a Second Language compiled by the Writer's Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Graphics
  • SYMBOLS.com encyclopedia of graphic symbols

• Humanities
  • EDSITEment "brings together the best of the humanities on the web" and "links to the top sites in the subject areas of history and social studies, English and language arts, foreign languages and art history." EDSITEment was developed by a public-private partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities, MCI Communications Corporation, and the Council of the Great City Schools.
  • The EServer at the University of Washington offers over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of the humanities, including history, philosophy, cultural theory, art, music, more. (Formerly The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University.)
  • Voice of the Shuttle Web Page for Humanities Research is a treasure trove of links to a range of resources. By Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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• Languages
  • Animated American Sign Language Dictionary includes resources for and about the Deaf community, as well as animated depictions of signs. Created and maintained by Randy Stine.
    Animated ASL Dictionary No frames
  • The Human-Languages Page links over 1,600 language-related Internet resources, such as online dictionaries, language lessons, and literature. By Tyler Chambers.

  • Romance Language Resources collected and maintained by Carolyn Kotlas at the Institute for Academic Technology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill include:
    • Catalan Language Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites
    • French Language Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites
    • Italian Language Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites
    • Portuguese Language Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites
    • Spanish Language Resources on the Internet: Selected Sites

  • yourDictionary.com includes many for languages, as well as links to online translators. Compiled and managed by Robert Beard. (Formerly A Web of Online Dictionaries.)

• Literature
  • Cambridge History of English and American Literature is "considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published on writings in the English language."
  • Cornell University Library Literature Page includes literary criticism and bibliographies for authors of Fiction and Poetry.
  • English Literature Main Page of the Voice of the Shuttle links to Web pages about authors and their works, such as Modern and Contemporary American and British literature, and genres, such as Poetry.
  • The EServer at the University of Washington for poetry, drama, film, and language studies. (Formerly The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University.)
  • A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices by Robert Harris of Southern California College
  • IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection organizes over 1,000 critical and biographical Websites about American, British, and international authors and their works, selected for their usefulness. Browse by author, title, or literary period. Part of the Internet Public Library (IPL).
  • Literary Resources on the Net are comprehensive: Classical and Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian, British, Irish, and American Literature; Theater and Drama; Literary Theory; Women's Literature, Ethnicities and Nationalities; Bibliography; and History of the Book. Maintained by Jack Lynch, Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University.

  • Literature Resource Center (LRC)
    LRC is comprised of Gale Group's core literary reference sources, such as Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), and Contemporary Literary Criticism. LRC includes biographies, critical analyses, bibliographies, and Web sites. Our LRC page explains the coverage of the LRC database.
    Note: Honolulu Community College Library card required.

  • Literatures Other Than English, presented by Voice of the Shuttle
  • SparkNotes are study guides written by over 100 Harvard students and graduates. Topics include Literature and Poetry.
  • Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color focuses on the lives and works of women writers of color in the United States and Canada. It is a collaboration between the Department of English and the Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota.
  • Electronic Books Page compiled by HCC Library points to collections of online books on the Web.

  • Japanese Literature
    • Japanese Literature Links compiled by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Associate Professor at Nagoya University
    • Japanese Text Initiative, is a collaborative effort between the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web.

  • Poetry
    • American Verse Project is an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. A collaboration of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.
    • Poetry Archive
      Hear readings by poets. Includes resources for students and teachers.
    • Poetry Daily for a poem each day, poetry news and events
    • Poetry Links from Voice of the Shuttle
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• Movies
  • Internet Movie Database for a film's cast, crew, plot, and more, plus links to other Web film resources
  • Movie Review Query Engine, gateway to movie reviews available on the World Wide Web

• Music
  • CDNow
    (Formerly Music Boulevard.)
  • Essentials of Music is an introduction to classical music, divided by eras and composers. It includes audio excerpts.Created in cooperation with W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Huapala Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives
  • Ultimate Band List of interactive music links. Artists and bands can be browsed alphabetically, by genre, or by Internet resource. Information may include Web sites, FAQs, lyrics, audio and video, guitar tablatures, tour info, newsgroups, and mailing lists.
  • Welcome to the World of Classical Music can be searched by composer or artist. Presented by getmusic.com.
  • World Wide Music presents over 50,000 albums.

• Mythology and Folklore
  • Encyclopedia Mythica, a collection of mythology, folklore, gods and goddesses, compiled by M.F. Lindemans
  • Tales of Wonder: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World are collected and retold by Richard Darsie.
  • Folklore, Myth and Legend has pointers to both folklore references sources and the stories themselves. Part of the The Children's Literature Web Guide by David K. Brown.
  • Pacific Islander Religions, including legends of Hawaii.
    Part ot the Internet Sacred Text Archive
  • Myths & Legends from many cultures. Collected and presented by Christopher B. Siren.
    Myths & Legends No frames page
    Myths & Legends mirror

• Philosophy
  • SparkNotes on Philosophy are study guides to the works of the great philosophers. SparkNotes are written by Harvard students and graduates .
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Edward N. Zalta

• Religion
  • Comparative Religion: A Directory of Internet Resources for the Academic Study of Religion. Compiled and organized by Mike Madin, hosted by Academic Info, a subject-based directory of Internet resources of particular interest to students and researchers.
  • Internet Sacred Texts Archive contains sacred literature of traditional, Eastern, and Western religions.
  • Religion On-line Books Page
  • The Vatican. In six languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

  • Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Edwin Arnold
  • Bible: King James Version, by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
  • Bible: Revised Standard Version, by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
  • Bible: New Testament (Rheims 1582), by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
  • Book of Mormon, by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
  • The Gospel of Buddha, compiled by Paul Carus
  • The Koran, by the University of Michigan Digital Library Initiative
  • The Tâo Te Ching of Lao Tzu, translated by James Legge
  • The Upanishads, translated by Max Müller
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