Librarian
Monica Ruane Rogers (California)
Contact:
109 Manderino Library
PennWest California
PennWest California
724-938-4048
Subjects: Art & Performing Arts, Business & Economics
Film and Play Research
- Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window Provides unlimited access to over 900 full-length plays, productions, and educational resources.
- JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor and JSTOR Primary Sources
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window The definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources.
Videos and Images for Projection
- Flickr Creative Commons Use this to search over one million Flickr-hosted Creative Commons images that are available free of charge.
- Historic Pittsburgh Over 30,000 historic and iconic images of Pittsburgh, PA.
- Hubble Telescope Videos Creative Commons licensed videos from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
- Life Magazine Photo Archive Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
- National Archives Historic photographs from the National Archives.
- National Park Service Creative Commons licensed images and videos from the National Park Service.
- Pixabay Stock images, some of which may be Royalty-free and Public Domain.
- Pond5 Thousands of historic media files.
- Prints & Photographs Online Hundreds of collections of prints and photographs from the Library of Congress, many of which are available online through Flickr.
- Shutterstock Free and paid stock images, some of which may be Royalty-free and Public Domain.
- Smithsonian Institution Search over 9.3 million catalog records of museum objects, and library & archives materials. More than 1.3 of these records contain online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.
Theatre Journals
- The Journal of American Drama and Theatre American Theatre and Drama Society's JADT publishes thoughtful and innovative work by leading scholars on theatre, drama, and performance in the Americas—past and present.
- Theatre Design & Technology: TD & T The premier journal of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), which publishes on the forefront of Design and Technology for Theatre.
- Theatre Symposium A scholarly publication featuring select papers presented at the annual Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Theatre Symposium Event.
- Theatre Notebook A Journal of the history and techniques of the British Theatre published by The Society for Theater Research.
Theatre and Dance Dictionaries
- TDF Theatre Dictionary User-friendly theatre dictionary that includes pictures, layman's term definitions, and video guides. It is your video guide to everything theatre!
- Glossary of Technical Theater Terms A helpful glossary of theatre terms. Use this when you need an additional resource, or if you want clarification on terms specifically theatre-oriented.
- American Ballet Theatre's Online Ballet Dictionary Defines ballet terms and forms; many items are accompanied by pictures and videos of ABT dancers demonstrating the various positions and movements.
Visual Research
- Digital Public Library of America DPLA provides free, online access to digitized material from America’s libraries, archives, and museums. It covers a wide range of topics, including the written word, works of art and culture, America’s heritage, and science.
- Library of Congress: Digital Collections Photos, maps, drawings, and recordings of American Life, from the Library of Congress.
- New York Public Library Digital Collections Images of various maps, texts, manuscripts, and important documents, including the Federal Theatre Project and the National Dance Institute Video Archive.
- Bodleian Library Digital Collections at the Bodleian Library, one of the oldest and largest libraries in the world.