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Finding Books |
Major Reference Works |
Major Databases |
Web Resources
Finding Books
- Use
CLIO
to find books, journals, links to online journals, and other
materials, in the Columbia or Barnard libraries.
- Barnard Library has a large
collection of books and videos serving courses offered by the
Barnard Dance Department; these are included in CLIO.
Location: Lehman Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027; Phone: 212-854-3846.
- The New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts has an extensive collection of materials on all aspects of the
performing arts. The catalog is CATNYP.
Location: 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10023; Phone: 212-870-1630.
- Teachers College Library
(affiliated to Columbia, but with a separate catalog named
EDUCAT)
has materials on dance education, children and dance, etc.
Location: 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027; Phone: 212-678-3494.
Useful call numbers:
Dance: GV1580 to GV1799
Performing
Arts: PN1560 to PN3307
Useful subject headings in CLIO:
Art and Dance
Ballet
Choreography
Dance
Improvisation in Dance
Jazz dance
Modern dance
Music and Dance
Major
Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area
| Title |
Call
Number |
| Biographical
Dictionary of Dance |
GV1785.A1 C58
1982 |
| The Dance
Handbook |
GV1601 .R63
1990 |
| Dance on
Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos |
GV1595 .D342
1998 |
| Dictionary of
the Performing Arts |
PN1579 .M66
1999 |
| International
Dictionary of Modern Dance |
GV1585 .B46
1998 |
| International
Encyclopedia of Dance |
GV1585 .I586
2004 |
| The Oxford
Dictionary of Dance |
GV1585 .C835x
2000 |
Major Databases
available with Columbia ID
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts
and humanities.
Humanities Full Text
Citations and abstracts for articles in the humanities,
1984-present.
Use " " to search for a phrase; * for truncation.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
Full text journals in the fields of theatre and dance.
Use " " to search for a phrase; * for truncation.
International Index to the Performing Arts
Citations and
abstracts for articles on the performing arts, 1864-present
Phrase is assumed; use "and" between the words if they are not a
phrase, use * for truncation.
JSTOR
Full-text articles from many scholarly journals, from the first issue of each journal (including some
started in the nineteenth century) up to 3 to 5 years ago; no current articles.
Only the science and social science articles have abstracts, so searching in the title is the most direct
search for articles in humanities journals; searching for a term in the full text of an article will often
find too many irrelevant articles.
Lexis-Nexis
Full-text reviews of
the performing arts are available in the Guided News Search under
"Arts & Sports News" - select "Book, Movie and Play Reviews"
Phrase is assumed; use "and" between the words if they are not a
phrase, use ! for truncation.
Project Muse
Full-text articles
from scholarly journals published by university presses in the arts,
humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Use " " to search for a phrase; * for truncation.
ProQuest
Online journal
articles and citations, as well as the full text of the New York Times
from 1851 to the present.
For historical materials or primary documents, click on "Databases
selected" then select "Historical Databases."
Two words together are assumed to be a phrase; use " " for
phrases of more than two words. Use * for truncation.
Web
Resources
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