Houston Public Library Research

* These resources require a Houston Public Library Power Card for access from your home or office.

• Architectural Archives Database at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center

  Contains records of architectural drawings owned by the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, primarily for structures in the Houston area.

• Art Museum Image Gallery

  The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. Can be searched with Cinema Image Gallery, Readers' Guide Retro, and Biography Reference Bank or by itself.

• Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet

  Search for works by thousands of artists in online exhibits..

• Cinema Image Gallery

  The Cinema Image Gallery presents the history of movie-making by means of a comprehensive online collection of still images from movies, television and the entertainment industry. Includes over 150,000 superior-quality images, along with a treasure-trove of over 4,000 poster art and lobby cards used to promote the movies. Cinema Image Gallery can be searched with Art Museum Image Gallery, Readers' Guide Retro, and Biography Reference Bank.*

• InfoTrac OneFile

  Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics.*

   

• Internet Movie Database

  Search for informatin about movies by cast, characters, title, year, etc.

• NetLibrary eBooks - (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Read and download e-books and audio books on Education, Science, History, Texas State etc.*

• Oxford Art Online (Provided by the Greenberg Endowment)

  Includes Grove Art Online and containc articles on all aspects of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic and decorative arts, photography - from prehistory to the present. *

• Project Muse

  Scholarly journals on a variety of topics.*

• Something About the Author Online

  Something About the Author Online brings you thousands of illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and illustrators totaling more than 12,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images.

• Theatre in Video

  Online streaming video of plays and film documentaries.*

• Wilson Select Plus

  Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business.*

• World Wide Web Virtual Library Museums Page
  Virtual tour of museums around the world with information on collections, current exhibits and more.

For more information, search in the databases listed under Magazines, Scholarly Journals and Publications.