Arts and Humanities

The Arts and Humanities Research Guide provides curated resources by expert librarians on the following topics:

• Acting
• Art
• Austin's Live Music Scene
• Creative Writing
• Sound and Audio
• Zines

Austin History Center (AHC) Digital Collections provides thousands of digitized items from the AHC archives, with more added each week.

AHC Digital Collections is a repository for the preservation and public access of digitized and born-digital historical artifacts from the History Center’s collections.

The first collections published include thousands of historic photos documenting people, places, and events that have shaped Austin’s history. Existing digital objects and newly digitized collections are being added weekly and will include archival documents, oral history recordings, videos, maps, and additional photographs.

Users can keyword search across all collections or browse the digital collections by material type or collecting units.

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Gale Academic OneFile with OneFile Collections provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

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Gale General OneFile with OneFile Collections provides over 8,000 general interest magazines, journals, newspapers, reference material and audio content.

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Gale OneFile: Fine Arts provides articles about drama, music, art history and filmmaking.

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy contains articles covering topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.