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LANGUAGE, CULTURE & TRAVEL

 

DATABASES

  • AtoZ Food America
    Provides 7,000 recipes, 650 ingredient articles, vintage food labels and ads, historical 'what did they eat' articles, how to make food videos, and more.

  • AtoZ Maps Online
    A collection of 60,000 royalty-free maps that can be downloaded and printed. Map types include world, country, state, political, physical, outline, environmental, scientific, and antique maps

  • AtoZ World Food
    A comprehensive food database that contains traditional recipes for 174 countries of the world.

  • AtoZ World Travel
    A comprehensive travel resource with information about food, culture, language, and more.

  • Diversity Studies
    Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community.

  • Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
    The curious traveler will also find a wealth of information, from contents on state parks and information on planning a vacation to full-text travel guides from Fodor's.

  • Pop Culture
    Useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses with resources that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.


 

DIGITAL SERVICES


  • Gale Language Courses
    Courses are led by expert instructors, run for six weeks, and new sessions begin on the 2nd Wednesday of every month.

  • Mango Languages
    Mango is an online language-learning system with over 70 different language courses and 18 ESL courses.

  • Transparent Language
    Transparent Language Online supports learners anytime, anywhere in 110+ languages.

  • Universal Class
    Travel, cultural and cooking courses.  (Register for classes here.)

  • Storyweaver
    Free picture books that are in multiple languages, including Amharic/አማርኛ, Arabic/اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, Dari/دری, and Spanish/español/Ukranian/украї́нська мо́ва.

  • Room to Read
    Free picture books that are in multiple languages, including Arabic/اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, Dari/دری, Pashto/پښتو, and Spanish/español.

 

Last Updated: May 2025