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materials (including plays) owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries,
including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho.
Gale Literary Index - Search to find the Reference Books from Gale that have entries on your subject.
Credo Reference - Search a collection of up to 100 online dictionaries and subject encyclopedias. Or click on "Find a Book," and search within only one title, such as Cambridge Guide to Theatre or Bloomsbury Guide to Art.
Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online
reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused
encyclopedias and dictionaries
A companion to contemporary art since 1945 / edited by Amelia Jones.
Drama for students: presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas.
(Volumes 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 are available in print in the Library's Reference Collection)
Encyclopedia of rap and hip-hop culture / Yvonne Bynoe.
The Greenwood encyclopedia of rock history :
Volume 1: The Early Years, 1951-1959.
Volume 2: Folk, Pop, Mods, and Rockers, 1960-1966.
Volume 3: The Rise of Album Rock, 1967-1973.
Volume 4: From Arenas to the Underground, 1974-1980.
The Greenwood encyclopedia of world popular culture :
Volume 4: North Africa and the Middle East
Volume 6: Asia and Pacific Oceania
The Hutchinson dictionary of symbols in art / Sarah Carr-Gomm.
Articles from Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers:
ProQuest Central - Includes articles from over 11,000 magazines and journals. Many, but not all, provide the full-text of articles. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, and social sciences.
Research Library - A smaller collection of periodicals than ProQuest Central. Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
ProQuest National Newspapers Premier - A good source of arts reviews and interviews with artists. Includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. papers.
Communication & Mass Media Complete - our best online coverage of communication journals.
ERIC - An online resource for educators. Contains citations and abstracts from almost 1000 education-related journals. Citations to the contents of ERIC Documents, including conference papers and curriculum suggestions. The LCSC Library has the ERIC Documents, full-text, on microfiche (after #247370).
MLA International Bibliography - Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Provides citations to journal articles, single-author monographs, book chapters from multi-author works, dissertation abstracts, and book series. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America.
Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD) - Authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators. Developed with the support of Cornell University and the Institute of Museum and LIbrary Services.
Performing Arts in America 1875-1923 -- An authentic look at this past, from the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes, all brought to you in original documents. Captured in the then new techniques of photography, recorded sound, and film, the performing arts of the early twentieth century come alive as never before. A web site of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,
Performing Arts Encyclopedia - "
Art
Art Museum Image Gallery -- The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia
gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works. This database is purchased for LCSC student use from H.W. Wilson.ART MUSEUMS:
Guggenheim Museum Online : Modern art
Metropolitan Museum of Art : Traditional and modern art
National Gallery of Art : Traditional and modern art
Smithsonian American Art Museum : Focus on American art
Dance
Voice of dance - Offers news, interviews, calendar listings, a message board, merchandise, information on dance education, video clips, and a world-wide directory of dance-related services and organizations.
Music
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project -- With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings . On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound. Provided by the Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California Santa Barbara.
The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive -- Clip art, librettos, plot summaries, pictures, song scores, audio links, and more. Provided by Boise State University.
Hear Here -- Explores the many different facets of listening to music. The concert experience, how the ear works, what a musician listens to and the words we choose to explain what we hear - all these aspects will be examined, together with the differences between recorded and live music, and the effects of the environment, memory, emotions, vision, hearing impairment and silence. Provided by the Royal Philharmonic Society and Classic FM (United Kingdom), and supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Jazz Greats Digital Exhibits -- Introductions to the lives and music of some jazz pioneers, including Count Basie and Benny Carter. Provided by the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Libraries.
Theater
The Costumer’s Manifesto: Contains information about costume and its history, and links to other sites about costume.
Internet Broadway database: IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Search for films by plots, keywords, characters, etc.
Speech Accent Archive - "With the assistance of his students and many outside contributors, linguistics professor Weinberger (George Mason U.) has compiled an extensive collection of audio clips demonstrating speech accents from around the world" [S.L. Johnson, CHOICE review, December 2007].
Government
USA.gov - A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Another good source of statistics.
Data.gov - Information and access to data generated and help by the Federal Government.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Information on careers from the Department of Labor.
Federal Digital System - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government, including Congressional bills and hearings. Provided by the Government Printing Office.
Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.
I-Docs - An online collection of paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government Documents.
Standardized Tests
Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.
Citations
APA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
MLA Citation Style - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.
Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography. A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.
Son of Citation Machine -- An "interactive Web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties" (from the Website).
Research Paper Help
Online Writing Lab - A service of the Humanities Division at LCSC, this center provides one-on-one advice from other students on improving your papers before turning them in.
Online Resources for Writers - Links to useful information from colleges and universities, covering all phases of writing academic essays. Provided by the Amherst Writing Center.
Idea Generator - organized by general subject areas. A service of the Library at Old Dominion University. You can use these simple keywords to help you generate ideas of your own for focused research paper topics.
Assignment Calculator - Based on the start date and due date for your assignment, this calculator will map out benchmarks for completing tasks leading up to the final paper. It also provides links to other pages with tips on understanding your assignment, focusing your topic, etc. It was developed by the library at the University of Minnesota, so a few of its linked resources are not available to you. But we have many similar resources available to you on this campus.
Thesaurus.com - Find synonyms for your search terms. An Ask.com service.
Wikipedia : Researching with Wikipedia - A page on the Wikipedia site that describes the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of information. It includes this statement: "In all academic institutions, Wikipedia, along with most encyclopedias, is unacceptable as a major source for a research paper."
Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: November 17, 2009