Recommended Journals
Todd Ristau's Recommended Reading:
Articles in OneSearch and Google Scholar
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New York Times Subscription
The Library offers a free group subscription to The New York Times for current faculty and students. To set up a subscription, use the instructions below while you are on the Hollins campus. Remote students needing access, please email a request to Maryke Barber at mbarber@hollins.edu
Search Tip: Combining Key Words
AND, OR, & NOT (also known as "Boolean operators") help you combine search words, to find what you are looking for. Watch this video to find out how it works:
Adapted from the materials created by The University of Auckland Library, NZ. This video is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license.
Play Indexes
Use these collections to search for pre-2000 plays by subject, or search for hard-to-find items that may have been published in a magazine, collection or anthology:
Play Index
(1949-1997)
Reference Z5781.P53
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
(1900-2000)
Reference PN1655 .O88 2011
Theater Index to Plays in Periodicals
(through 1987)
Reference Z5781.K43
To search for contemporary plays in collections, use Worldcat
Indexes to Historical Articles
LOCATION: the first floor of the library, on the first shelves across from the reference desk.
RECOMMENDED INDEXES:
*for reviews from 1920-1980, use the New York Times Theatre Reviews ( PN1581 .N4 )
NOTE:
· Useful for finding older articles that may not yet be searchable online.
· Search by play name, playwright, theater company or other subject.
· Does the library have that journal? Check the title in OneSearch