The following sections are good for browsing for books on musical theatre, which are shelved on the 1st floor. We also have a special play/libretto section shelved in the PZ 3.5 area locted on the 1st floor.
| Call Number Range | Subject |
|---|---|
| ML48-50 | librettos |
| ML410 | biography of composer |
| ML420 | biography of performer |
| M1500-1508 | scores of musicals |
| ML1700-1711 | musical theater (comprehensive range) |
| ML1711.8 | broadway |
| ML1711.B66 | American musical theater |
| ML2054 | musical theatre history |
| MT820-845 | singing |
| MT955-960 | directing/production |
| PN2055-2065 | acting |
When researching musical theatre in a library catalog, subject headings are often the most efficient way of searching. There are several types of headings that you should consider as you conduct your searches: musicals as subjects, biographies, and themes.
To find books about a composer and his or her works, a subject search for the author (last name, first name) is the most efficient way to search.
To find criticism, specifically, search for the author's name plus the words "criticism and interpretation."
See below for more useful subject headings for your research
If there's something you need that we don't have, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan and have it delivered here, usually at no charge.
If you haven't used Interlibrary Loan (ILL) before, you'll need to first create a special account for the ILL system. You can create the account by:
On the New User Registration form, watch out for these three things:
There are four principal ways to submit an Interlibrary Loan Request. The third and fourth on this list may often be the most convenient.
If you already know that we don't have your item and you want to go to the request form directly without searching in our resources, you can find it from the Cornette Library's home page under the "Services" menu, on the pages about services "For Students" and "For Faculty & Staff."
If you've searched using our home page's discovery tool and found something we don't have here, you can click the "Request the article from Interlibrary Loan" link within the "Get It" section. If you are already signed into ILL, the link will open a request with most information of the article or book filled out.
On the other hand, if you've done a search in WorldCat and found an item listed that we don't have, you can access the request form directly from the item record in such a way that the details will already be filled in for you. From your search results, click on the item's title, which will take you to the item record. In the section entitled "Get This Item," there is a bullet point with a link reading "Request via Interlibrary Loan" on the line labeled "External Resources." Using that link will automatically populate the fields of the request form with your item's details.
If you've found an article through one of our periodical databases, click the "Find Full Text" or similar link. This will take you to our Discover service. From here follow the directions above from the "From Our Catalog" section.
Delivery could take as little as a couple of days or as much as three weeks. See here for more information about Interlibrary Loan. Click here for our ILL FAQs. For our Interlibrary Loan policies click our Library policies section then select the InternLbrary Loan.