Bates Library - Arts & Humanities

Bartleby.com - Online versions of a variety of reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction books.
Book Lust - Nancy Pearl's "Community for People Who Love Books."
Books @12:10 p.m. - "A free monthly lunchtime book discussion group at Tacoma's downtown Main Library."
DailyLit - "DailyLit lets you read entire books in short, customized installmenets sent to you by email or RSS". Many books are free, some available by purchase only.
Learn Out Loud. - audio books
Metronet E-Book Project - Links to web sites that provide access to full-text books online.
The Online Books Page - The index includes more than 20,000 English works in various formats. All items are free for personal, noncommercial use. You can: Search our Listings by Author and Title; Browse Our New Listings; Browse by Author; Browse by Title; Browse by Subject; Browse serial archives
Project Gutenberg - The "first and largest single collection of free electronic books."

Acronym Finder - Dictionary of acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations. Results can be sorted by discipline.
Dictionary.com - Features a variety of different types of dictionaries.
Language Dictionaries - Links to foreign language dictionaries.
Lexicool.com - Links to more than "3,500 bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet.” Includes many specialized subject dictionaries.
PROMTs Online Translator - Translates text, web pages and email from one language into another (includes English, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Italian). Includes online keyboards for inputting non-English characters.
Rustran.com: Stream Translation Technologies - English to Russian and Russian to English dictionary and online translator.
Romanian/English translation dictionaries:
Specialty Dictionaries - Links to dictionaries on specialized topics.
Travelangs Foreign Languages for Travelers
Vdict.com - Vietnamese dictionaries
YourDictionary - Chinese dictionaries.

Activities for ESL Students - A project of The Internet TESL Journal, which contains over 1,000 activities for ESL students.
BBC - Skillswise.
Diagramming Sentences - The basics of sentence diagramming.
English-Zone.com - "English-Zone.com is a fun site for students who are learning English as a Second Language, or studying English in general."
Guide to Grammar & Writing - Easy to understand explanations about English grammar and writing. Includes an Index. Provided by Professor of English Charles Darling and the Capital Community College.
Interesting Things for ESL Students - Interactive web site with word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs, etc.
Mulitlingual Glossary of Library Terms
The Internet TESL Journal - Monthly web journals for teachers of ESL students.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

Casa de Joanna: Language Accent Alternatives - Gives instructions on how to use your computer to input language accents and foreign language characters into your documents and web pages.
Mulitlingual Glossary of Library Terms
PROMTs Online Translator - Translates text, web pages and email from one language into another (includes English, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Italian). Includes online keyboards for inputting non-English characters.
ProZ - Choose your language pair and your field of interest.
Rustran.com: Stream Translation Technologies - English to Russian and Russian to English dictionary and online translator.
Travelangs Foreign Languages for Travelers

Book Lust - Nancy Pearl's "Community for People Who Love Books."
Books @12:10 p.m. - "A free monthly lunchtime book discussion group at Tacoma's downtown Main Library."
Cambridge History of English and American Literature - Searchable 18-volume encyclopedia that was originally published in 1907-1921.
DailyLit - "DailyLit lets you read entire books in short, customized installmenets sent to you by email or RSS". Many books are free, some available by purchase only.
Early Modern Resources,
Glossary of Library and Research Terms
Multi-lingual Glossary of Library Terms
Oprah's Book Club
The Crucible:
- Arthur Miller's The Crucible: Fact and Fiction
- Crucible - Background information from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
- Dr. Gleason's Crucible Web Site
The Old Man and the Sea:
- The Old Man and the Sea: Modernist Literature - Themes, symbolism, style, historical background.
The Odyssey:
- Classical Epic - Includes history background and study guide for Homer's Odyssey from Temple University.

Digital Librarian: Mythology - Annotated list of mythology web links.
Encyclopedia Mythica - Contains over 5,700 articles about mythology, folklore and legend.

Billboard
Building Strong Communities through the Arts - From the Washington State Arts Commission.
City of Tacoma, Performing Arts
Downbeat.com
Enjoyment of Music Online Tutor - Eras, cultural perspectives, glossary, timeline; many music samples.
Essentials of Music - Eras, composers, and glossary; emphasis on classical music; samples.
Pacific Northwest Ballet
RollingStone.com
Tacoma Arts Community - Includes calendar of arts (mostly visual) events.
The Blue Highway - List of blues radio stations; blues links; essays. Not recently updated.
Voice of Dance
Weekly Volcano - South Sound newspaper with emphasis on entertainment.

Poets.org - Poetry and information about poets, from the Academy of American Poets.
Representative Poetry Online - Poems (searchable by title, poet, first line, etc.), poetry criticism, glossary.
Washington Poets Association - Readings, contests, etc.
The Writer's Almanac

Classic Short Stories
DailyLit - "DailyLit lets you read entire books in short, customized installmenets sent to you by email or RSS". Many books are free, some available by purchase only.
Short Stories - From the Online English Library.
Short Stories at East of the Web - Free full-text short stories. Can be searched in a variety of ways including by author or type of story.