A collection of over 400 scripts from Dramatists Play Service and Samuel French, Inc., as well as plays in collections. Everything from Abie’s Irish Rose to The Zulu and the Zayda.
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The Gordon Avenue Library has almost 300 compact discs devoted to jazz music, tracing the history of this art form from its inception to the present day. The collection was initially seeded by a gift from the Carter Beauford Family and enhanced by a grant from the Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band.
Community Journals are a way to create community through journaling, as library users read what others have to say about a topic, and then add their own perspective. These journals are dedicated to housing the thoughts, feelings, ideas, and creativity of the entire JMRL community. Join the conversation!
ArtistWorks provides hundreds of free music lessons, taught by professional musicians and lessons range from beginner to advanced. Instruments include: guitar, piano, singing, banjo, ukulele, flute, clarinet, trumpet, mandolin, and many more! The short video lessons can be viewed as many times as you like. Requires signing into your library card via OverDrive.
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Gale in Context: Elementary meets the research needs of students in kindergarten through grade 5, with age-appropriate content from magazines, newspapers, and reference materials, covering current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, and more.
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Provides children—and their parents—a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform they can freely explore and enjoy. Just for Kids has the educational videos children want to watch—Sesame Street, The Electric Company, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, The Berenstain Bears, Franklin, and thousands more—plus songs, games, and other interactives that are sure to entertain, educate, and inspire young patrons.
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Provides access to 4 databases: Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, and Law; LGBTQ+ Rights; Civil Rights and Social Justice; and Gun Regulation and Legislation in America. In-house public PC users must select unfiltered access and have a Library of Virginia card. (get one here)
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Provides access to current, relevant analysis including a variety of international sources, images, statistics, charts, and maps to help students understand and evaluate over 350 complex issues.
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Provides high interest relevant non-fiction newspaper and magazine articles as well as graphs, tables and political cartoons that are easily accessible through both search and browse functions. Includes access to Compton's by Britannica Encyclopedia, a dictionary, and thesaurus.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective™: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.