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THEA 232: Costume Design

This LibGuide covers how to locate books, ebooks, articles, and images that can be used as source reference for historic and/or contemporary costume design.

Finding Books & eBooks

Use Search.Libraries to find books, journal articles, scores, audio, video, and more—all from a single integrated starting point. 

To find books and ebooks in Search.Libraries, you can:

  • Apply the Books & ebooks pre-filter before searching
  • Filter your results by Resource Type > Books

To find physical books only, filter your results for Availability > Physical Items @Oberlin.

Using Subject Headings in a Library Catalog Record

To search by subject heading in Search.Libraries:

  • Apply the subject pre-filter before you search
  • Refine your results using the Subject filter
  • Select from the subject(s) listed under Details > Subject in the full record view

To browse by subject in Search.Libraries, use the Browse Search function.

You may browse for subject headings from the following controlled vocabularies:

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
  • Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
  • Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
  • Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT)

Double-dash separation

Searches in Browse Search should not include double-dash separation [--].

Since many subject headings display with double-dash separation [--], you may need to remove dashes when copying subject headings into the Browse Search function.

For example, to browse for the subject Jazz -- 1921-1930, you should enter Jazz 1921-1930.