Africa Commons. Coherent. 

Through collaborations with African organizations and an editorial board of African librarians and scholars, Coherent Digital’s groundbreaking project gathers, preserves, digitizes, and provides access to rare and endangered African content. The platform sparks discourse and increases the discoverability of fragile, scattered, and at-risk content, ensuring that African magazines, newspapers, documentaries, speeches, images, and testimonies are protected for future study. The resource is offered at no charge to all institutions in Africa and to historically Black colleges and universities in the United States.

Craft & Hobby. Craft & Hobby. 

Painters, gardeners, bakers, woodworkers, sewists, and other craft-loving patrons will delight in this instructional video platform, which provides thousands of hours of commercial-free, high-quality on-demand and live classes for beginning and expert crafters alike. The classes cover a range of creative and lifestyle categories, and the content is appropriate for all ages. Each class includes a content overview, instructor information, a video transcript, and bonus materials, as well as Q&As when available.

DegreeData. DegreeData. 

This national database of academic catalogs—the only independent source of college policies, programs, and courses in the U.S.—serves as a gateway to content from 3,700 institutions (across 49,000 catalogs) that provide, on average, seven years of historical content. The site can be used to compare college course descriptions, ensure students meet graduation requirements, confirm policies, and help students obtain transfer credit. Streamlined and user-friendly, this resource is helpful for students, parents, curriculum-development personnel, employers, faculty, and advisors.

LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Culture. Coherent. 

This remarkable database from Coherent Digital captures blogs, zines, activist reports, digital ephemera, and underground publications from LGBTQIA+ activists, advocates, and organizations from the 1980s to the present. As with other modules in the Social Justice and Culture collection, this resource preserves, indexes, and protects content from countries where LGBTQIA+ organizations are more likely to be silenced and where critical content is in danger of being lost. It is a boundary-pushing, constantly growing collection that is both heartening and essential.

Novelist. EBSCO. 

Thanks to EBSCO’s updated version of Novelist, readers and audiobook listeners need not be without their next great book. New tools such as curated lists and “Books with Buzz” offer reading suggestions centered on themes and timely topics, such as monthly observances and must-reads in various genres. Title pages, for both print books and audiobooks, offer a wealth of information, including cover art, descriptions, linked read-alikes, tags, author information, and reviews.

Projectr. Grasshopper Films. 

Featuring 1,470 indie films from around the world, this curated streaming-video collection offers library subscribers art-house movies, science and culture documentaries, archival restorations, world cinema, and artist-made works. The platform includes the full Grasshopper Film digital catalog, with access to specialty collections, such as the Sudu Connexion Collection, featuring films from Africa and its diaspora. Patrons will also find titles from producers and distributors such as Good Docs, Factory 25, and Women Make Movies.

ProQuest One Sustainability. ProQuest. 

Part of the ProQuest One suite of databases, this expansive resource offers access to multi-format materials related to economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Researchers will find a stimulating and highly searchable array of materials, including full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly journals, case studies, dissertations, reports, trade journals, magazines, ebooks, and articles. Topics range from aquatic science to urban planning, civil engineering, biodiversity, water resources, renewable energy, and more.

RIPM Jazz Periodicals: Music, History, and Culture. EBSCO. 

Illuminating jazz music’s influence on Black history, the civil rights movement, 20th-century politics, and culture, this wide-ranging resource provides unprecedented access to unique primary sources, including articles, reviews, illustrations, and advertisements from 20th- and 21st-century jazz publications. Topics span entertainment industry news, popular music, music education, music and society, and more. The rich, comprehensive collection includes nearly 100,000 photographs, 86,000 reviews of recordings, 165 full-text primary-source journals, and 432,000 citation records.

Throughlines. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 

This free video and multimedia resource helps educators incorporate premodern critical race studies into their classroom discussions of race and race-making. Tools and teaching materials include essays, videos, lectures, interviews, pedagogical approaches, sample syllabi, classroom discussion models, and an annotated bibliography. Materials are curated and presented by a team at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, with assistance from subject experts and scholars who offer nuanced understandings and thoughtful writings across a range of topics.

Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600–1968. AM. 

The lives and experiences of little-known women who lived in the UK and Ireland during the last four centuries come to life through AM’s impressive database. Drawing upon content from the British Library, the National Library of Ireland, and the National Library of Scotland, this resource offers access to books, correspondence, diaries, oral histories, printed memoirs, and visual artifacts. The accounts of daily life and experiences of women from a variety of social classes, economic statuses, and domestic situations are riveting.