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Theatre Design and Technology: FINDING BOOKS

PRIMO

Search PRIMO for items held by The College of Wooster and OhioLINK. You can request books held in other Ohio libraries directly through the PRIMO system.  They will be placed on hold for you at the Andrews Circulation Desk.

Browsing the Collection

History materials are found in the following areas of the library:

Woo Reference

Woo Main

Woo Oversize

Woo Periodicals

History materials will be in the C (Auxilary Sciences of History), D (World History), E & F (History of the Americas) classification areas. Follow the link to see a detailed outline.

 

SEARCH STRATEGY

NARROW YOUR TOPIC

Key Words

•Use AND between key words to narrow your topics 

Example:  Searching just COSTUME will bring up all entries that contain COSTUME  

Searching COSTUME and THEATRE will bring up only those entries on COSTUME that deal with THEATRE.  

If you search COSTUME and THEATRE and GREEK the results will bring up only those entries that deal with all three variables--COSTUME, THEATRE, and GREEK.

•Also, you can use * to allow for all extensions of a Key Word.

Example: COSTUM* will bring up COSTUME, COSTUMES, COSTUMING

By FORMAT, LANGUAGE, LOCATION, DATE OF PUBLICATION

•In CONSORT you can go to the top tool bar to MODIFY SEARCH

•if you are only want INTERNET RESOURCES, click on that option in the COMPUTER FILE box 

•look at other option boxes, to further refine your results by language or year of publication.

LC Subject Headings

Books in the CONSORT and OhioLINK catalogs are assigned Library of Congress (LC)

Subject Headings. Here are some subject headings to consider for this course:

CLOTHING AND DRESS

COSTUME

COSTUME--HISTORY

COSTUME DESIGN

DRESS ACCESSORIES

FASHION HISTORY

MASKS

SCENE PAINTING

SET DESIGN

SET DESIGNERS

STAGE MACHINERY

STAGE PROPS

THEATRE--HISTORY