Subject Guide for The 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
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.
FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES
Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library
The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Art Web sites.
Alvernia Library Research Page
The Research Guides page links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.
FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS
Education and counseling ebooks.
Over 15,000 ebooks covering a broad range of subject areas.
WorldCat 179 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 Subject Guide for Theater
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