Study Guides for Literature:
UCF's subscription to NetLibrary includes over 200 entries from the publisher Cliffs Notes.
lii.org identifies several free websites for the subject "study guides": NovelGuide, SparkNotes, BookRags and PinkMonkey which provides MonkeyNotes and Barron's Booknotes.
Book Summaries & Study Guides and the Internet Public Library are two other resources with useful links.
Starting Point handouts are available in the display in front of the UCF Library's Reference Desk and several database subscriptions provide additional information about literature.
Scripts of Plays:
For a specific play, first try a keyword search of the WebLUIS
catalog for the playwright's surname and one or two keywords from the title.
DO NOT restrict your search to the author or title fields, since such a
search might miss the play where it is part of a collection.
Use the Starting Point handouts for Theatre and Literary Criticism-Plays available in the display in front of the UCF Library's Reference Desk. Some collections of scenes & monologues are available in the General Collection at PN2080... and there are several useful indexes in the Reference Collection at REF PN2080..., REF PN2054.G784, and REF PN4321.G86. If the plays are not indexed in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections [REF PN1631.O8] or H. W. Wilson's Play Index [REF PN1620.A1.P53], you might try Inter-Play, which also identifies the locations of some printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals.
If you're not looking for a specific play and might be able to use a play which may have been performed once or twice (or not at all), the Dramatic Exchange is a Web resource where playwrights sometimes make full text or scenes from their plays available. The English Server Drama Collection also provides the full text of some plays, particularly classical works.
Screenplays - Browse the General Collection at PN1997 for screenplays or you can search the WebLUIS catalog for the subjects "television scripts" or "motion picture plays" or for the keyword "screenplay". Some versions of film and television scripts may be available via Drew's Script-O-Rama, but You may also find film scripts through the Movie Screenplays Database.
The Orlando Public Library has a fairly strong play collection as well. If the script you're seeking isn't available locally, request it through Interlibrary Loan, with approximately 90% of UCF requests filled within 6-10 working days. If you must have the script sooner and are willing to pay overnight or 2nd day shipping costs, you might be able to purchase a personal copy from a commercial source, such as Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service, or Baker's Plays.
Sheet Music:
The UCF Library has many scores included in the collection; some scores are shelved on the 3rd floor in the General Collection at M through MA, but search the UCF library catalog on WebLUIS for specific pieces. Ask at the Reference Desk for assistance. Consider one of the following resources for more popular music.
Orlando Public Library has a card file index by song title of the popular music books in their collection.
Sheet Music Database Search (Clearwater Public Library) identifies which source contains a particular song title.
Cooperative Song Index (California Library Systems) is a online searchable database of over 145,000 song titles (mostly popular music) that enables the user to search the contents of approximately 1,500 books, magazines, and other collections of sheet music for a particular song title.
Popular Song Index is an index to selected books of popular songs in the collection of the Patchogue-Medford Library. There are approximately 102,786 entries from 1,118 books which have been indexed.
Search the Librarians' Index to the Internet for "sheet music" for other resources.
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