Subject Guides

Subject guides include: reference material; subject headings for finding books; periodical indexes; and selected Web sites.

The subject and reference guides below have been created by the reference librarians at the University of the Arts Libraries in order to assist students in the initial stages of research. We are always in the process of evaluating, updating, and uploading the following guides. If the link to your topic is not active, please see the reference librarians for a paper copy.

Also see the commentaries on Music Reference Sources.

First Year Writing Resources

Citation Style Guides
How to Locate a Book by its Call Number
Practical Advice Concerning Plagairism

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
African American Theater
Animation
Art Education
Artists Biography Ready Reference
Artists Biography Research
Art Terms and Materials
Book Arts
"Can Drawings Think?", a lecture by James Elkins: Works Cited
Careers in the Arts
Character Research for Theater
Commercial Art Annuals in Greenfield Library
Communication
Copyright and Art Law
Costume
Crafts
Dada and Surrealism
Dance
Decade Research: the 1980s
Decade Research: the Twentieth Century
Education
Financial Aid and Scholarships
Grants and Funding
Graphic Design
Industrial Design
Iraq 2003
LAAH 970: Major Artists: The WPA
LACR 210 02 Texts & Contexts/Baker
LAPI 935: Spain After Franco
MFA Lecture Series
Museum Studies
Music and Art
Music and Poetry
Music Career Management
Music Recording and Reproducing
Mythology
Philadelphia
Philosophy and Aesthetics
Photography
Popular Music Studies
Printmaking
Resumes, Portfolios, and Auditions
Script Analysis THEA152
September 11, 2001
Shakespeare
Signs and Symbols
Theater Research
Typography