Costume Design

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Key resources:

History of Costume 3100 B.C.-1992 DVD (Trexler Library AV Alcove 391 H673o)

This DVD can be checked out of the library. The first use on any PC will require a key code, written on the DVD case and on the DVD itself.

The companion notebooks, kept with the slide collection from which the DVD was made commercially, can be useful for purposes of clarification. Ask for the "History of Costume slide collection notebooks" at the Trexler Library circulation desk.

Trexler Library Online Catalog (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library)

The catalog points to items in Trexler Library's reference collection, main book collection, and journal collection relevant to the study of costume design.  Or bypass the catalog and simply browse these call number areas on both level A and level B of the library:

391
391.09
391.009
792.025
792.026
792.09

The online catalog also points to manufacturer catalogs and pattern books, and magazines such as Harper's Weekly.

WorldCat (ACCESS: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library > Books, videos, music )

Union catalog of libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. Choose the ILL (interlibrary loan) link from within an individual title's record to request that book from another library.

Historical Abstracts (ACCESS: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library > Articles A to Z)

Additional resources:

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (Trexler Library Reference Collection 809.2 M147)
Good for retrieving dates of play authorship, as well as background information.

Chronology of the Expanding World 1492 to 1762 (Trexler Library Ref. Collection 909.08 W725c)
and
Chronology of the Modern World 1763 to 1992 (Trexler Library Reference Collection 909.08 W725ch)
Useful for locating literary figures and other persons and events contemporaneous with a given play.

Citing sources in a bibliography

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/). Here is a user guide.