A Day At NYPL Performing Arts Library

First off, I must say it was not hard getting around but I am glad I had a partner because it was hard to look for specific things. When we went up to the third floor there were security guards there and a coat check, it was sort of scary. There were a couple of computer stations but the ones on the second floor were the least confusing to use. Brwosing through their catalogs I saw that they had drama, circulating arts, and dance collections. The collections included a wide variety of periodicals, books, tapes, etc. For the drama collection they had certain topics such as theatre, film, plays & screen play, radio & television, magic in performance, sostume & design, performance art, puppetry, circus, vaundeville, and biographies. The dance collection included all sorts of dance, physiology aesthetics of movement, non-verbal communication, dance, design, ceremonies in which they dance, yoga, martial arts,and basically anything that has to do with body language and movement. The circulating arts collection included administration & management, funding. grant seeking, institutional level. The performing arts library helps you find electronic resources and guides you to finding clippings, books, periodicals, etc on specific collections and topics, by using the computer stations located on the second floor, it makes it much easier for you to find pretty much anything. While roaming on the second floor I also found a lot of books that may be help some of you guys, I didn't find anything related to my topic. I saw a lot of books that could help some of you guys doing something in how homosexuality is expressed in the media. I saw many books that spoke about advertisement and freedom of speech in the press. Most books I found dealt with our cluster and they had a whole collection on american film books. Broadcasting, screen writing, film development, etc. were also topics of books I found. They had such a big collection of movies and DVD's it was pretty hard to find specific genres. I saw a couple of movies which I found interesting that also dealt with this class such as "THX-1138" I know its weird and you could tell it definitely dealt with virtual reality. For Joyce's class, I remember her mentioning how there was abig ordeal over the movie "Citizen Kane" and they actually had a documentary on it. "Star Trek: Insurrection" was another one that dealt with our cluster and also seemed pretty interesting. In conclusion, it was nice roaming around the library. Now the question isn't what did I find, its what did'nt I find. That was my first visit there but I think I would be going back for future references. :)