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What are library databases?
Databases allow you to research topics such as health and business, and locate full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and encyclopedias. Most databases are available from home with a valid Tompkins County Public Library card.
What do these symbols mean?
 Available in the Library or from home with a TCPL card.
 Funded by NOVEL, an electronic resource access project that enables libraries across New York State to give their communities online access to the full text of hundreds of journals, newspapers and other references.
 Funded by the Finger Lakes Library System.
 Funded with RBDB funds through the South Central Regional Library Council
 In-Library Use Only
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Opera & Theatre in Video
 Opera in Video
Opera in Video offers more than 500 hours of streaming video, available electronically for the first time. Opera in Video contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, and then delivered online through streaming video. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. Classic performances from the top opera companies and documentaries on specific operas, composers, and companies cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the twentieth century.
 Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video. From the most important productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, Theatre in Video offers more than 500 hours of online streaming video available electronically for the first time. With live television broadcasts of New York productions in the 50s, contemporary revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60s and 70s, and other performances, Theatre in Video covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Unlike Hollywood adaptations, these are the actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience.
World Music and Sounds Collection
 African American Song
With jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression represented, African American Song brings 50,000 tracks of music to the ears of library patrons and music scholars. It’s the first online resource to document the history of African American music in the form of an online music listening service.
The entire available catalog of Document Records, the world’s largest collection of rare and vintage blues, jazz, gospel, spiritual, boogie-woogie, and country recordings, is included. From the earliest recordings of Afro-American music made in the late 19th century (including the Fisk Jubilee Singers, recorded at the turn of the century for Victor Records) to performances of the mid-1970s, in most instances the full recorded works of each artist are presented. There are more than 2,300 performers spanning more than a hundred years—Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, Memphis Minnie, and hundreds of others.
 American Song Collection
American Song is a database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet. It will allow people to hear and feel the music from our past. Much more than a repository of well known classics like Yankee Doodle and The Star Spangled Banner, this new resource includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. You’ll find songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. There are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests. There are hymns, funny songs, college songs, sea shanties, shape note songs, and songs about topics as diverse as New York and electricity.
American Song will become the definitive source for American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. It encompasses the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing—combined with powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, and many others.
 Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. The music moves from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. Selections range from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composers—including symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms.
 Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music takes listeners around the globe to experience the vibrancy, history, customs, politics, personalities, struggles, and joys of diverse peoples and cultures. The database contains 50,000 tracks that you can organize and share using personal play lists and course folders, plus liner notes both in facsimile and as rekeyed, searchable text. The breadth of this collection is impressive, incorporating contemporary reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. Traditional music such as Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku is also featured to round out the offerings and allow you to see the progression that music has made through the ages.
 Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries®
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries® is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
The database includes an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. The collection also encompasses animal sounds, beer-drinking at an African homestead; calypso; classical violin instruction; drama; poetry; sounds of the deep ocean, the office, and the ionosphere; a frog being eaten by a snake; and great performances of traditional music from virtually everywhere.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How do I access the Opera and Theatre Video Library Collection?
The video library can be viewed in the Tompkins County Public Library from any Internet PC or remotely from any computer having a high speed Internet connection, such as Roadrunner or DSL. A valid Tompkins County Public Library card is required for remote access.
Is any special software required to view the Video Library Collection?
No, all videos will stream to your computer (PC or Mac) without requiring any special software.
Can I download copies of the Video Collection or the Music Collection?
No, all videos and music stream to your computer as often as you wish, but cannot be saved to your computer or DVD for future viewing or listening.
How do I access the World Music and Sounds Library Collection?
The Music Library can be listened to in the Tompkins County Public Library from any Internet PC or remotely from any computer connected to the Internet. No special Internet connection is required. A Dial or high speed collection can be used.
A valid Tompkins County Public Library card is required for remote access.
Will the music recordings sound better with a high speed Internet connection?
The sound quality is better with a high speed connection, but a dial connection still has an excellent sound. When playing a song you have the option to select a standard (dial up) or a high quality (high speed connection) download speed.
Can I use a PC or a Mac to view video and listen to the music collection?
Yes, either a PC or a Mac will work fine.
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