Key Resources:
* For Finding Background
Information:
- Consult Reference
Materials: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Manuals, Handbooks, etc.
- Call Number
Category for Theatre Arts: PN1560-1590; PN1865-1999; PN2000-3299;
PN 4001-4355
- Use electronic
general reference materials from the Library's General
Reference Sources page.
*For Finding Books
and Primary Sources:
— Use the ODU
Library Online Catalog to find out what books ODU library owns.
To locate bibliographies in the library online catalog, add the word
bibliographies to your keyword search such as: drama AND bibliographies.
To locate other primary source material in the library online catalog
include the words such as correspondence, diaries, narratives, interviews
or sources to your keyword search such as: dramatists AND
interviews.
— Use Interlibrary
Loan to obtain materials we don't own.
PRIMARY SOURCES IN DIGITAL COLLECTIONS:
- Use the American Memory Collection
from the Library of Congress which includes millions of digited sources
from photographs, pamphlets, recordings, and sheet music. Two specific
collections of interest are:
- The New
Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
includes over 13,000 images of stage and costume designs, photographs,
posters, playscripts, and adminstrative records.
- American
Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 includes playscripts, playbills and program, motion pictures, sound
recordings, photographs, and Harry Houdini memorabilia.
- Use Performing
Arts in America, 1875-1923 from the New York Public Library's
Digital Library Collection. It features a searchable database of 16,000
objects such as newspaper clippings, composite photographs, music
sheet samples, publicity posters and lobby cards, photographs of theatre,
dance, and popular performance with visual and audio images drawn
from their archival collections.
- Use Visual
Information Access from Harvard University Library that represents
a growing online union catalog documenting the arts, material culture
and social history.
- NYPL's
Digital Gallery is a gateway to their rare and unique collections
which includes over 600,000 images from manuscripts, historical maps,
vintage posters, rare prints, photographs, illustrated books, and
printed ephemera.
- Internet
Modern History Sourcebook contains thousands of primary source
material about the modern world including texts, music, and photographs.
- Theatre
Ephemera focuses primarily on theatre of the United States prior
to 1900 and contains photographs, tobacco card photographs, posters,
and other ephemera. The photo used above is taken from this website.
- In
The First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and
Personal Narratives is a free, in-depth index of close to 4,000
collections of personal narratives by more than 18,000 individuals.
It also contains pointers to audio and video files.
- Bluegobo.com
is an online musical theatre video archive of just under 200 video
clips. Most selections are from Tony Award broadcasts.
* FOR FINDING PERIODICAL
ARTICLES:
- Consult Databases
option by subject. For theatre arts, try:
- Project
Muse -- Contains full-text articles from journal titles in the
humanities, arts, and social sciences.
- General
OneFile -- Covers all subjects, with selected full-text.
- JStor -- Provides a scholarly journal archive for full-text journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
- Arts
and Humanities Citation Index -- Indexes the world's leading
arts and humanities journals.
- Also, consult the History
databases such as:
- America:
History and Life: -- Covers the history and culture of the United
States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing
for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is the most
important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars
of U.S. and Canadian history.
- American
Periodical Series Online: -- Includes digitized images of the
pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial
days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin
Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal,
Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies'
Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking
journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
- Newsbank: -- Provides access to America's Historical Newspapers (1690-1922),
American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900), American State Papers
(1789-1838), U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1980) and Global
NewsBank, and also highlights major news events with special reports
collections with news, maps, etc. Allows a maximum of 14 users at
a time.
- Accessible Archives -- Includes the following fulltext databases: Godey's Lady's Book,
The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective,
African American Newspapers, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue:
Chester County and The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County.
- AccuNet
AP Multimedia Archive: -- Contains current photos and a selection
of pictures from the large image, print and negative library of
the Associated Press. Now includes AP graphics files. [Does not
include the audio and text files]. Allows one user at a time.
- Click the icons listed for full-text or a pdf file or "Article
Linker" for full-text availability.
- If not available through the databse, consult Journal,
Magazines, or Newspapers by journal (source) title. It will list
what we own in print or electronically.
- Consult WorldCat to identify journal availability throughout the world.
- Use Interlibrary
Loan to obtain journal articles we don't own.
--> For more good resources theatre arts, click
here for "Resources on Performing Arts--Theatre Arts and Dance"
which also includes many relevant Web sites.
-->To use the interlibrary loan service , click
here.
Search Tips:
To refresh your memory and learn more about search strategy, truncation,
wildcards, Boolean searching, phrase searching, limiters, etc. click
here.
Other Information:
* Citation styles (including MLA, Turabian, APA) are available on the
General Reference Sources page under Style
Manuals & Writing Guides.
* To evaluate a website use The
Internet Detective as a guide.
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