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A very big e-book collection – Charles Kuhn

Lynn students have access to a very big e-book collection from the  Hathi Trust.

By clicking on the elephant icon on our library homepage over 5 million books are available from some of the greatest academic libraries in the U.S., with a huge number of them in the public domain with full-text searching included.

Search Tip: check the full view limit box if you want to see the entire book.

Currently Digitized

5,324,730 volumes – 1,863,655,500 pages
198 terabytes – 63 miles – 4,326 tons – 764,481 volumes (~14% of total) in the public domain.  Click here to see a graph of Hathi content by: LC Classification and Language

As a digital repository for the nation’s great research libraries, Hathi Trust brings together the immense collections of these partner institutions:

California Digital Library
Columbia University
Indiana University
Michigan State University
Northwestern University
The Ohio State University
Penn State University
Purdue University
University of California Berkeley
University of California Davis
University of California Irvine
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Merced University of California Riverside
University of California San Diego
University of California San Francisco
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Santa Cruz
The University of Chicago
University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Iowa
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Virginia

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Film Images Database – Charles Kuhn

The world’s most comprehensive archive of movie, television and entertainment images, is now available through a link on our database page.

Cinema Image Gallery presents the history of movie-making through a wide range of high-quality images of films in production: directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design as well as hair and make-up shots and rare behind-the scenes material.

Cinema Image Gallery also offers an extensive TV stills archive featuring classic and modern TV: comedies, dramas, series, TV movies, game shows and thousands of pictures of the stars of this medium.  All of these images are copyright cleared for educational use.

So..if you’re enrolled in a course on film history and  you need a film related image for a project , or just enjoy looking at historic movie related photos,   check it out.

Click here for a demo.

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