Finding Multimedia Online: A Selection

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Search for webcast, audio archive, streaming, realaudio, archived lectures, listening booth, mp3 etc. For example, a search on Google for webcast scorsese princeton will locate Martin Scorsese Discusses Film-Making, a May 4, 1999 lecture at Princeton. Youtube and Wikimedia are also rich resources.

• Blinkx Video Search Engine

• Brandywine River Museum Audio Tours
• Museum of Modern Art Audio Programs - See also MoMA Wifi

• Academy of American Poets Listening Booth
• Book TV
• Cortland Review
• Favorite Poem Project - "This collection of 50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love."
• Kelly Writers House - University of Pennsylvania. With Webcast Archive and list of Fellows.
• LibriVox - Free audiobooks from the public domain includes such classics as The Iliad and The Odyssey
• Mercury Theatre on the Air - 1930’s "show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown."
• Poem Present Reading and Lecture series - University of Chicago. The Media Archive lists poems by poet.
• Wired for Books - "Poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults."

• eClips - Video clip collection on entrepreneurship, business, and leadership. Cornell University Department of Applied Economics and Management

• Capitol Hearings - C-SPAN
• Conversations with History - "Distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists."
• C-SPAN
• Court TV
• FedNet - "Provider of Washington based, real-time and archival multimedia information."
• Harvard Institute of Politics Multimedia Center - "Nearly 1,300 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum events, exclusive Q&A sessions, and student produced pieces on politics, policy, culture, and academic life." See also the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• History and Politics Out Loud
• Library of Congress Webcasts
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
• United Nations Multimedia - Offers UN Radio News in six languages
• U.S. State Department Daily Briefing - There is also an archive of Daily Press Briefings
• Whitehouse: Weekly Address - See also Whitehouse Live

• Family Health Radio - With archives.
• Healthy Video - NBC Digital Health Network
• Stanford Health Library Video Collection

• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
• Conversations with History
• C-SPAN - Their American Political Archive is a weekly program that features historical audio recordings.
• History and Politics Out Loud
• History Channel
• Holocaust Survivors - Has an audio gallery
• Imperial War Museum Sound Archive - Veterans recount their war experiences.
• Library of Congress American Memory Project - With Collection Finder by format.
• Lost and Found Sounds (NPR)
• Pentagon Papers: Audio Tapes from the Nixon White House
• Talking History - 30 minute weekly radio program produced by the Organization of American Historians There is a Show Archives. See also the United States Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive.
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
• Vincent Voice Library

• Civilisation Française
• Français Interactif: First Year French
• IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive

• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
• AIROS (American Indian Radio on Satellite)
• Ohwejagehka: Ha`degaenage - Iroquois Language and Songs
• Omaha Indian Music

• Digital Library of Appalachia - " Provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region."
• Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - "Archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976."

• Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net
• Human Genome Webcasts
• Live @ Exploratorium - With Archive
• Living on Earth - Weekly environmental news and information program distributed by National Public Radio
• Macaulay Library Online Archive - "World's largest archive of animal sounds and video." Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
• Talk of the Nation Science Friday(NPR)

• American Leaders Speak : Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election - Library of Congress
• American Rhetoric
• Audio Online: UC Berkeley Speech Archives
• Boston College Front Row
• Conversations with History
• C-SPAN Video Library - See C-SPAN Unveils New Archival Website, September 17, 2009. "Entry to the vast history of public affairs events that C-SPAN has covered for the past twenty years. The collection is unrivaled in significant events that are documented in the C-SPAN video record. The indexing and now this site make this video record accessible in ways that here-to-fore were not possible. In reviewing the significant events, do not overlook many programs that may seem less momentous, but are equally important. In covering the routine meetings, news conferences, and briefings that occur every day, C-SPAN has built a record that allows you to now go back and see what people said when few were paying attention. Barack Obama appears on a panel on cities when he was a state legislator. Nancy Pelosi can be be observed in congressional hearings when she was a junior member of Congress. Our future leaders are on the House and Senate floor and on C-SPAN call-ins daily."
• Fora TV - "Discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues."
• Georgetown University: Webcast
• Harvard Institute of Politics Multimedia Center - "Nearly 1,300 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum events, exclusive Q&A sessions, and student produced pieces on politics, policy, culture, and academic life."
• History and Politics Out Loud
• IT Conversations
• MIT Communications Forum
• MIT World - "Free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT."
• National Press Club - Radio Broadcasts from the Club
• Princeton University Lectures
• ResearchChannel - University of Washington
• TED Conference: Talks
• University Channel - Collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world.
• Webcast Berkeley - University of California Berkeley courses & events (live and on-demand)
• WGBH Forum Network - "Audio and video streaming Website dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders. These events are hosted by world-class cultural and educational organizations in Boston and beyond."
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - See Dialogue Radio and Television and its archives.

Last update: Friday, April 16, 2010