Very good news.
Two of our full-text play databases, Black Drama and Asian American Drama are now linked to Cameo, the library catalog. If you're looking to see if the text of a particular play is online in the library's collection, you no longer have to search those databases individually. The library catalog provides the url for any full-text plays that we have. Also, once you link to a play, the entire database can be searched as well.
A great debt of thanks goes to Terry Hurlbert, Head of Cataloging and other catalogers who worked on this project. It was not by any means a seamless process.
20th Century American Drama, our other full-text play database will also be linked to Cameo once the bibliographic data is received from Alexander Street Press and processed. Announcement forthcoming.
Software will be software, so please report any problems you may have down the line in linking to the plays so that any corrections can be addressed promptly.
Your input otherwise regarding any of our collections is, of course, always welcome.
Enjoy!
1 comment:
I love this feature of Cameo along with the research aids Doc puts in his syllabus. They really saved my ass on a research paper I had to do for a class and the full text database is really easy to use. It was a huge relief that I could find what I was looking for even though the library didn't have a copy on hand and the best part is you can't forget to return it or be charged a late fee. Cameo and the library resources page is really helpful for anything you might have to do, seriously, I use it all the time.
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