Detroit & Michigan

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Local and State

• Census and Statistical Data for Michigan
• Comnet - Non-profit/public sector organizations
• Detroit News > Rearview Mirror - Detroit History
• Great Lakes Information Network
• Libraries
• Michigan County Profiles
• Michigan eLibrary > Local Governments - Link to county, township, and village web sites
• Oakland County
• City of Detroit
• Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
• State of Michigan

Museums, Theaters, Events, Sports

• Arab American National Museum
• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Detroit Opera House
• New Detroit Science Center
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
• Fisher Theatre, Masonic Temple Theatre
• Fox Theatre, Second City, Joe Louis Arena
• The Holocaust Memorial Center
• The Henry Ford - Includes the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, and the Ford Rouge Factory Tour
• Metro Detroit's Sports Teams - Links to professional, high school, college teams
• Metro Times - Detroit area events and entertainment
• Palace, DTE Energy Music Theatre
• University Musical Society - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Metro Detroit Media

• Today's Newspapers
  • Crain's Detroit Business | Back issues to July, 1996: Go to "Articles," select "Regional Business News," and specify Crain's Detroit Business.
  • Detroit Free Press | Back issues: Go to "Articles"
  • Detroit News | Back issues: Go to "Articles"
  • Metro Times - Detroit area events and restaurants
  • Oakland Press
  • Observer & Eccentric Newspapers - Observer/Eccentric; Daily Press and Argus; Mirror Newspapers
  • Royal Oak Tribune
     
• Television Stations
  • Channel 2  - WJBK (Fox)
  • Channel 4 - WDIV (NBC)
  • Channel 7 - WXYZ (ABC)
  • Channel 20 - WMYD (Granite)
  • Channel 50 - WKBD (United Paramount)
  • Channel 56 - WTVS (PBS)
  • Channel 62 - WWJ-TV (CBS)
     
• Radio
  • WDET FM Radio (NPR)
  • WJR AM Radio
  • WWJ AM Radio

Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• Detroit Free Press
  • Today's issue
  • Back issues to 1982 (Newsbank)
    • On-Campus
    • Off-Campus
• Detroit News
  • Today's issue
  • Back Issues - last 12 months (Newsbank)
    • On-Campus
    • Off-Campus

Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
  • Detroit (Mich)
  • Detroit Region (Mich)
  • Michigan, Southeastern

  And subjects with subheadings of Detroit or Michigan, such as:

  • art--Michigan
  • prohibition--Michigan--Detroit

• Selected Reference Books
  • Detroit Institute of Arts.  The Detroit Institute of Arts: a Visitor's Guide.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. 
         AH, RO  Reference  N 560 .A529 1995
  • Ferry, W. Hawkins.  The Buildings of Detroit: a History. Rev. ed.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980. 
         AH, HL, OR, RO  Reference  NA 735 .D4 F4 1980
  • Gavrilovich, Peter and Bill McGraw, eds. Detroit Almanac: 300 Years of Life in the Motor City.  Detroit: Detroit Free Press, 2000.
         AH, HL, RO  Reference  F 574 .D4 D4 2000
  • Global Journeys in Metro Detroit: a Multicultural Guide to the Motor City.  Detroit: New Detroit, Inc., 1999.
         HL, RO  Reference  F 574 .D43 G56 1999
  • Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.  2030 Regional Development Forecast for Southeast Michigan.  Detroit: SEMCOG, 2001.
         AH  Reference  HE 107 .M52 S65 2002
     
• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
  • F 550 - 575   Michigan Local History

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