When doing your research, sometimes books are exactly what you need.

Books provide you with comprehensive information about your topic, providing you with an overview, background, and major theories in depth.

Finding books by different authors will often allow you to have many different points of view about the same subject.

Search for books here at Millikin's library in the online catalog Millinet.

Books on Theatre:

Browse the following areas of the library's stacks (second and third floor) in the following call number ranges:

PN 2012 - PN 3251 Theatre (General)

PN 6111 - PN 6120 (Plays in collections)

PN 2052 (Directing)

PN 2055 (Acting)

PN 2071 (Auditions)

PN 2067 (Costumes )

PN 2085 (Stagecraft)

PN 2221 (Theatre History)

ML 1711 (Musical Theatre)

M 1503 - M 1507 (Scores for musicals- third floor, near the elevator, or on Reserve)

GT 510 - GT 1741 (Costumes and fashion)

GV 1585 - GV 1800 (Dance)

TT 504 - TT 835 (More Costumes and fashion.)

Browse by subject in the online catalog:

Sometimes one of the best ways to find books on your topic is to do some subject browsing in the Online catalog.

There are two ways to do this easily:

Number 1

Do a regular search (either Quick or Advanced) for your topic and find a book that is good for your research.

In the result list from the search, click on the title of the book so that you can the full record of information about it.

After the publication information, there is a section called "Subject LCSH".

This list of the subjects describes the content of the book. If one of these subject headings looks useful for your topic, click on it.

That will bring you to an alphabetical listing of the subject headings for the online catalog. This listing shows you how many books the library owns which fall into each category.

Find the category you want and click on it. This brings up the list off books categorized for that subject.

Number 2

In either the Advanced or Quick search, type in the term for your search.

Set the Search By box to Subject or Subject Words.

Click search, this brings up the alphabetical listing of the subject headings for the online catalog.

This listing shows you how many books the library owns which fall into each category.

Find the category you want and click on it. This brings up the list off books categorized for that subject.

Possible Subject Headings to use as search terms:

Broad Terms with many subcategories:

Acting

Dance

Drama

Clothing and Dress

Fashion

Musicals

Theater

Theaters

Theatrical

More Specific Subjects Headings:

Theater and society

Theater architecture

Theater audiences

Theater-history-20th century

Theater-production and direction

Theater-United States

Theaters-stage setting and scenery

Clothing and dress --History --20th century.

Dance-history