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The links in this section will be updated and reorganized during spring 2007:
- Career Opportunities
- Book Finding Resources
- Information on Academic Fellowships, Awards, & Prizes
- Theatre Instruction Resources (Syllabi, etc.)
- Academic Pages Resources (Virtual Libraries, Theatre Research Resources, etc.)
INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE THEATRE RESEARCH
by Dr. Patrick Finelli, University of South Florida
Most of us use the Web frequently for e-mail, booking travel reservations, paying bills, or finding loosely organized information through a search engine like Google or Yahoo. A common new verb to locate something on the Web is “Google.” Theatre researchers may discover vast numbers of websites dedicated to historical figures or theatres, but it is much easier to purchase a ticket to a Broadway show than it is to find authoritative information commonly found in books and journal articles.
Most of the material on the Web is relatively new, and the enormous volume of printed works presents a formidable task for those who wish to digitize important texts and make them available on the Internet. Scholars and students can browse all of Shakespeare’s plays, poems and sonnets online, and readily search for words in their contextual occurrence electronically without relying upon the use of a bound edition of a concordance. Other canonical texts, plays and essays are available through your browser search engine, but scholars and researchers must know how to access what is commonly called the “deep Web,” such as electronic databases that index professional journals and provide copies of refereed articles sent to your e-mail account or virtual libraries with query-based search tools. This repository of important information is largely invisible unless you know how to use the tools.
You can’t Google your way to access points for copyrighted texts or academic journals. Many portals require a subscription, or status as a faculty member, staff, student or affiliated independent scholar at a university whose library has paid millions of dollars to subscribe to valuable resources for authentic theatre research like OCLC FirstSearch, Project Muse, or InfoTrack. Even in the age of technology, libraries are leading the way as the first source for locating material. In the coming months, we on the ASTR Electronic Access Committee will describe the basic ways you can find books, abstracts, journal articles and a variety of other publications available to researchers on the open Web and the protected material on the deep Web.
The definition of theatre research has expanded to include endeavors beyond scholarship. These include archival and dramaturgical practices often performed by professional researchers who work outside of academia. There are many resources that dynamically update their databases with listings of newly published articles and books with links to the journals or publisher/distribution channels within the field of theatre research.
We will also provide links to accessible and validated resources that are available on the public Web, such as the Perseus Digtial Library at Tufts University supported by the NEH, NSF, the Getty and Mellon Foundations, and many other institutes.
You will find a section for new researchers on the upcoming ASTR Publishing page, with guidelines for MLA format, deadlines for submission to journals, a list of refereed publications, theme topics as provided by our reading groups.
Academic and Research Libraries
Arizona State University - Position Announcement
INFORMATION
ON ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, & PRIZES RESOURCES
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
Kluge
Fellowship Competition http://www.loc.gov/kluge
- The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library's collections and resources for tenure periods of six months to one year. Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences or in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals.
American Council of Learned Societies(ACLS)
- Fellowhip and Grant Programs
http://www.acls.org/fellows.htm
MLA Publication Prizes
www.mla.org
NEH AWARDS
NEH general web page:
www.neh.gov
- Details regarding distributed awards:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/index.html
Yale University Library: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/
Development of Scenic Spectacle: http://www1.appstate.edu/orgs/spectacle.
Harvard Theatre Collection:
http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/departments/htc/theatre.html
NEH's Online Humanities Resource for Teachers and Students (EDSITEment) may be reached directly through http://edsitement.neh.gov or through the Smithsonian Institute at http://www.si.edu/.
Patrick Finelli's electronic Theatre History course:
http://www.connectedcourseware.com with
links to other sites.
Shakespeare Globe Centre - Research Archive
http://www.sgc.umd.edu
Spanish Play Translations
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~estrplay/webpage.html
Illinois Theatre Ephemera
http://www.neiu.edu/~rghiggin/ephem/Ephemera.html
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
http://www.firt-iftr.org/
Max Reinhardt Archives, State University of New York, Binghampton
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/special/reinhardt.html
The
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html
On-line, hyper-text version of Emile Campardon's LES SPECTACLES
DE LA FOIRE, published in 1877
http://foires.net
Resource Library Magazine:
http://www.tfaoi.com/resourc.htm.
Shakespeare Globe Centre (visit the links page for more Shakespeare links) www.sgc.umd.edu
SIBMAS- IFTR Online Bulletin
http://www.firt-iftr.org/sibmas/site/index.jsp
This E-Bulletin is the result of a joint initiative, aiming
at a vivid and prompt dissemination of information for members of both
founding organizations IFTR and SIBMAS. Announcements of events like seminars,
conferences, exhibitions, registrations of performances and book publications
are welcomed and published by the Bulletin editor Cordula Treml (Germany)
at cordula.treml@gmx.de.
Theatre Library Association
tla.library.unt.edu
WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama:
http://www.vl-theatre.com
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