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Academic Onefile Peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic research from the world's leading journals covering the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects.
Entertainment

Archive of American Television Chronicles the television industry from its earliest days to the present with extensive interviews and clips. Created by the nonprofit Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation.

Discover & Go Instant online access to free and low-cost tickets to museums, science centers, zoos, theaters and other fun local cultural venues with your library card.

Downloadable and Streaming Books, Movies, Music, & Magazines A wide range of entertaining media you can access 24/7 with your library card.

EP Guides Episode lists for TV shows.

hoopla hoopla is a digital media service where you can check out movies, television, audiobooks, and music. Items are available for streaming or temporary download on your computer, smart phone or tablet. Thousands of titles are available. Sign up with your email address, then use your library card number and pin to check them out.

IMDB- The Internet Movie Database Comprehensive information on movies and TV shows.

Kanopy Streaming Video Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable. Users can view 8 films per month with their account. Mobile apps and a Roku channel are available.
Literature & Reading

BookBrowse Your guide to exceptional books. Reviews, articles, interviews, book club resources, and much more.

NoveList Assists readers in finding new authors and titles. Find the order of titles written in a series.

NoveList K-8 Children's book resource, providing read alikes for both fiction and nonfiction. Find the order of titles in a series, find book recommendations by grade level, and that meet curricular standards.

OverDrive Service includes a wide variety of magazines that can be checked out and read on your computer or mobile device

Poetry Foundation Poems, information on poets, audio and video recordings.

Project Gutenberg Free ebooks to download or read online.
Music

hoopla hoopla is a digital media service where you can check out movies, television, audiobooks, and music. Items are available for streaming or temporary download on your computer, smart phone or tablet. Thousands of titles are available. Sign up with your email address, then use your library card number and pin to check them out.

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library Public domain music scores, recordings, and information about musical works from the International Music Score Library Project.

SFPL Online Song Indexes and Scanned Sheet Music Collections Sheet music resources from the San Francisco Public Library.

Sheet Music Database More than 25,000 items. Popular and traditional music; classical piano; classical vocal; songbooks. Created and maintained by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries.

SoundSwell Santa Cruz Public Libraries local Music Collection allows library cardholders to download and keep music from the collection of performers with current contracts. All music can be streamed free.
Visual Arts

Getty Research Institute Images, research guides and bibliographies, lexicon of art terminology.

New York Public Library Digital Collections Images from NYPL's collections including streaming video.

Santa Cruz County Birds & Wildlife This inspiring collection of Santa Cruz County Bird and Wildlife Photography is available to the Santa Cruz Public Libraries thanks to a generous donation by Tony Britton Photography. Students may use the photos for educational purposes for free, as long as the photos are attributed to the copyright holder. Use of these photos for commercial or other purposes are decided by the copyright holder. All inquiries for use of photographs should be directed to virtualservices@santacruzpl.org.