Research Guide for Theater

• Finding Articles
• Finding Authoritative Web Sites
• Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs

FINDING ARTICLES

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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

Literature

EBSCO's Literature searches Literary Reference Center™ and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. The 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.

LexisNexis

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

JSTOR is a non-profit organization that archives scanned images of journal issues and pages. Alvernia College 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, and a limited number of journals in the sciences.

FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Theater 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.

Brodart DartClix

The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.

FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

NetLibrary eBooks

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 College computer network.

Useful subject terms for finding ebooks include:

• costumes
• drama
• performing arts
• plays
• theater
  

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

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 theater are located in the 792 section.

Examples of books with background information on theater are listed below:

Reference Collection

The Facts on File Companion to American Drama R012.009 F142 2004

Play Index R808.22 P722

Critical Survey of Drama R809.2 C934

The Birth of Theatre R882.09 F889 2003


Main Collection

Broadway the American Musical 782.14 K16 2004

The Perfect Stage Crew: The Complete Technical Guide to High School, College and Community Theater 792.02 K14 2004

The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays 792 L697 2002

The Oxford Companion to the Theatre 792.03 H333o

Facts on File Dictionary of the Theatre 792.03 F142

Google Books

Updated: July 10, 2008

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