Travel & Geography

Information on history, culture and geography of American states, Canadian provinces, countries and regions of the world. Graphics, charts, videos, printable fact sheets, recipes, interviews, and more are included with each entry. The concise, up-to-date reports can easily be printed, emailed or saved to Google Drive. Each section offers a suggested APA and MLA citation.

Service provider: ProQuest, a Clarivate Company

Stream the best of The Great Courses through Kanopy. Hundreds of topics to choose from spanning the arts, cooking, history, literature, professional skills, science, world languages and more. Each course provides a series of in-depth video lessons taught by an expert professor.

Check out titles with 30 tickets per month:

• Every video course, series or title is labeled with a ticket value (0-5 tickets) and access period (3-21 days).
• Play the video to use your tickets and begin watching, and find active titles in your Continue Watching list.
• Your tickets are reloaded (up to 30) at the beginning of each month. Learn more about how tickets work »

Streaming with Kanopy:

• To get started, create a Kanopy account and add your Library card number and PIN/password, then provide your email address and create a username and password for your Kanopy account.
• To return, login to your Kanopy account when prompted. If you're already using Kanopy through another library, from your existing Kanopy account, go to Memberships to add a membership with your Johnson County Library card.
• Watch online through the Kanopy website, mobile apps and smart TVs. Learn more »

Service provider: Kanopy, an OverDrive Company

Firsthand accounts of exploration and discovery from around the globe. National Geographic Society delivers in-depth coverage of cultures, global events, nature, science, technology and the environment. Browse and search across digitally archived issues of National Geographic Magazine back to the very first volume published in 1888.

Find additional National Geographic eMagazines on Libby.

Service provider: Gale, a division of Cengage Learning

Music from the complete catalogs of Smithsonian Folkways, ARC, Celestial Harmonies and many other independent labels featuring historical and contemporary world music. The collection includes over 18,000 albums and more than 200,000 tracks, music from over 200 countries, and more than 900 cultural groups represented.

Stream from a web browser or login to the NML World mobile app. Sign up for a personal account to save favorites and create your own playlists.

Service provider: Naxos