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Research Guide for Arts
FINDING ARTICLES
Humanities Index
This is an index of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals. (April 1974 to September 2000). Located on the first floor with the reference books.
DATABASES
EBSCO's Literature searches Literary Reference Center™ and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Literary Reference Center™ contains the full text for 27,500 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, 140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals, 535,000 book reviews, 54,000 classic and contemporary poems, 14,500 classic and contemporary short stories, 4,000 author interviews, 8,400 classic texts and much more.
Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews
This is a great source to find reviews that appear in newspapers and magzines. It does not contain scholarly journal reviews.
JSTOR is a non-profit organization that archives scanned images of journal issues and pages. Alvernia University has access to the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV Collections. These collections include many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES
Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library
The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Art Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.
Alvernia Library Research Page
The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.
The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.
FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS
A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia University computer network.
WorldCat 100 million records
This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)
Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.
Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.
The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library collection. Most works on the arts are located in the 700's section.
Examples of books with background information on theater are listed below:
Reference Collection
Atlas of World Art R702.23 A881 2004
Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art & Artists R703 C744 2003
The Dictionary of Art R703 D554 1996
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art R709 M996
Contemporary Women Artists R709.22 C761 1999
The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons R741.503 W927
Larousse Dictionary of Painters R759 L32i
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-century Art R770.9 E56 2006
Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians R780.3 G883
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians R780.3 H339 1999
The Oxford Companion to Music R780.3 098 2002
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music R780.9 G233
Encyclopedia of Popular Music R781.64 G964 1992
Country Music: The Encyclopedia R781.64 S783 1997
The Rock: Who's Who R781.66 H474
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music R781.77303 N532
The Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre R782.14 G211 1994
Broadway Musicals: Show by Show R782.14 G798 1996
American Ballads and Folk Songs R784 L839
Encyclopedia of Pop Rock Soul R784.092 S783
Blues Who's Who R784.0922 H316
The Oscar Movies R791.43 P594 1993
The Film Encyclopedia R791.43 K19 2001
The Academy Awards Index 791.43 S528 1993
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers R791.4302 T552 2002
Hallwell's Film and Video Guide R791.4303 H191 2006
Maguills Survey of Cinema: English Language Films R791.4375 M194
For books on the Theater Arts see the Research Guide for Theater
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Updated: September 4, 2008