You can verify that your resource is Best, Medium, or Weak, by comparing it to this Source Evaluation rubric.
-Does/Did your artist have strong political views? Use a search engine like DuckDuckGo to remove your own personal search history from influencing the results you get.
-Learn how to use Google effectively (How to search on Google, Refine web searches, Advanced search techniques)
Destiny: log in with your school Gmail to put items on hold.
Check the Art section (700s) in the nonfiction collection. Biographies and autobiographies are marked with a red dot on the spine label.
Anyone with a Sac Public Library card can access the databases through their Online Resources . The card information (card barcode and PIN) will be needed to access the databases. For students who do not have a Sac library card, complete the online application at https://www.saclibrary.org/About/News/2020/Need-a-Library-card, and you will receive a temporary card number that can be used immediately to access the digital library. You will also receive an email explaining the steps for upgrading to a full library card.
Destiny: go to the Main Campus site, and then search for your keywords. Use the tabs on the right-hand side: "Titles", "Web Sites" and "One Search" to access a wide variety of resources.
The Performing Arts Database by the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/pae-home.html
Databases:
If you are accessing them from off-campus, find the login information here (you will be able to access the doc with your school Gmail).
Britannica
Britannica School - Online encyclopedia for general reference.
Escolar - Online encyclopedia for general research in Spanish.
To save and share content, create an Individual “My Britannica” Account:
1. While already in the product (You see the 3 trees), click ‘Sign In to My Britannica’ at the top right of the screen.
2. Click ‘Create an account’ and enter the requested information.
3. Create a unique username/password (different from your school log-in.)
4. Choose if you’re an Educator or Student, click “Create Account’ and your personal account with be created.
Proquest
eLibrary – General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. Two unique interfaces available.
SIRS Discoverer – Selected content for novice researchers, especially elementary and middle school students and educators.
SIRS Issues Researcher – Curriculum-aligned database of content organized by complex issues, ideally for middle and high school students and educators.
ProQuest Central Student –Millions of articles from more than 10,000 full-text scholarly journals.
TeachingBooks
TeachingBooks - Connect books with author interviews, readings, videos, lessons, and so much more! Take a brief video tour of this resource.
American Masters by PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/
Getty Research Institute: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/ and the Artists' Biographies Research Guide
19th Century Art Worldwide: Founded in 2002, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is a scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.
RIHA Journal: Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal for the history of art and visual culture, featuring outstanding research articles that offer significant contributions to current scholarship.
American Masters by PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/database_music.html
National Jukebox by the LOC: http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
American Masters by PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/database_performing_arts.html and http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/database_filmtv.html
Film studies for free: A pluralist, pro bono, and purely positive web-archive of examples of, links to, and comment on, online, Open Access, film and moving image studies resources of note.
You Must Remember This: the podcast about the secret and/or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century
Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: Dance Collection of dance and performing links.
Sapphire Swan Dance Directory “The goal of the Sapphire Swan Dance Directory is to provide links to the best dance resources available on the Web.”
Voice of the Shuttle: Dance Resources A portal of dance resources.
An American Ballroom Companion (Library of Congress) A collection of over two hundred social dance instruction manuals, ca. 1490-1920. Video clips that illustrate the dances are at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/divideos.html.
Jacob’s Pillow Interactive "Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive is an ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today."
Katherine Dunham Dance Collection (Library of Congress) “This collection consists of moving image materials that document the extraordinary journey of a woman who changed the face of American modern dance.”
New York Public Library: Jerome Robbins Dance Division “The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library is the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance. Chronicling the art of dance in all its manifestations—ballet, ethnic, modern, social, and folk—the division is much more than a library in the usual sense of the word.”
The New York Times—Dance News and reviews on recitals, Broadway shows, choreography, and other aspects of dance in New York as well as around the world.
New Yorker—Dance Archives of articles on dance. Remember we have back issues of the print New Yorker if you would like to see the article in print.
Numeridanse Numeridanse.tv is a free online dance video library, bringing together thousands of hours of videos, the collections of national and international artists, teaching aids and thousands of written resources to promote an understanding of dance and its history. Managed by a community of dance professionals, it is supported and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon.
Ubu Web Dance UbuWeb Dance is presented in partnership with and is largely curated by Contemporary Dance Video Database
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.
The Jacob's Pillow Archive is an incredible resource for Modern Dance: https://www.jacobspillow.org/archives/
Ovrtur (formerly Blue Gobo) is good for Broadway Videos: http://ovrtur.com/video
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre has a tremendous Vimeo account with excerpts from their own pieces: https://vimeo.com/user3212993