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BBC Sound Effects
16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format for personal, educational or research purposes.

Extreme Music Library (1998)
Call Number: Burke Reserve Desk M1 .E92 1998
Incidental instrumental music for use in educational productions. Thirteen CDs: (1) Promos; (2) Cheeze; (3) Chill out; (4) Classical hits; (5) Creation; (6) Drones; (7) Drum & bass; (8) Funky soul jamz; (9) Heavy metal; (10) Hip hop; (11) House; (12-13) Sabor latino
Extreme Music Library (2000)
Call Number: Burke Reserve Desk M1 .E922 2000
Incidental instrumental music for use in educational productions. Thirteen CDs: (1) Asian beats; (2) Big beats; (3) Blues rock; (4 ) Electronica; (5) Flamenco; (6) Indie; (7) Jazz; (8) Rhythmworx; (9) Sax trax ; (10) Techno; (11) Weird beats; (12-13) World music

Internet Archive - Audio
Recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to old time radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download
Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress makes more than 2 million items from its collection available online, including images, manuscripts, books, notated music, audio and video recordings, and more.

NAXOS Music Library World This link opens in a new window
A wide range of content, from legendary historical performances to contemporary world music. Music from over 150 countries, more than 1,500 cultural groups represented. Includes the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Naxos Music Library World App is available for both iOS and Android devices.
Limited to 3 simultaneous users. Please Log Out when you are finished.
Faculty: Stable URLs for albums, tracks and playlists can be placed in Blackboard. To create playlists for your students, please contact Lynn Mayo for the faculty username and password.

Period backgrounds sound effects
Call Number: Burke Reserve Desk PN2091.S6 P4 1994
Sixty-nine tracks with sound effects for mixing and looping from the British Library National Sound Archive and the collection of the Oscar-winning film sound mixer Peter Handford.

Youtube Audio Library
Audio Library is the safest YouTube channel dedicated to promote no copyright music, royalty-free music and creative commons music for content creators.