Alexander Street Press

Discover and access a wealth of information and insights across various academic disciplines. The Kern County Library now offers Alexander Street Press, a division of ProQuest, which provides an array of curated, discipline-focused primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media designed to enhance learning and research. With a strong commitment to making previously inaccessible content available, Alexander Street Press collaborates with scholars, librarians, and archives to ensure the highest academic standards, securing copyrights, digitizing materials, and meticulously indexing them. Their award-winning online platform hosts an extensive range of resources, including a vast library of streaming video, music, and dance performances, as well as unique collections such as full-text, authorized databases of in-copyright film scripts and underground comics.

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Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collections delivers some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries by leading actors from around the world, all from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company and recorded specifically for online listening.
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Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries provides an extensive virtual encyclopedia of unique American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and protest songs, as well as a broad range of world music through partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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