Your Library ID
Your Library ID number is the ENTIRE number on the back of your student ID:
23311+ your 9 digit personal ID number
Librarian
Library Technical Assistant/Circulation Manager
If you would like to schedule a time to chat with PAL Librarians or Staff to discuss your research for a class or you need help finding a play or musical work, please email us at palref@roosevelt.edu. You can also come to the Performing Arts Library at any time to chat with us. If you'd like to book a time in advance you can do so here:
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowAn online collection of many reference books covering a wide variety of subjects, with entries covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology, law and more.
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EBSCOhost Databases This link opens in a new windowThis link provides access to the EBSCO Homepage of the EBSCO databases to which the RU Library subscribes. From this Homepage you can select various databases to search simultaneously.
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IPA Source (International Phonetic Alphabet) This link opens in a new windowOnline since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 4930 texts including 810 aria texts.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR provides students with exposure to peer reviewed scholarly research with a reference resource of over 1,500 academic journals and other content.
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Music & Performing Arts Collection This link opens in a new windowSupporting comprehensive literature reviews, this resource combines cross-searchable, seminal bibliographies in music and performing arts, with full-text from hundreds of journals. Both source bibliographies, International Index to Music periodicals and International Index to Performing Arts, take a global approach to their inclusion criteria. Topics range from musicology to the blues, and from theatre to broadcast arts. With approximately two million records, this resource is continuously updated to reflect news scholarship.
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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowAccess to articles, biographies, bibliographies, 20th century composers and performers, world music, jazz, opera, rock, popular music, instruments and their history.
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PAL Tutorials PageClick here for video explanations of many of our databases!
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Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more.
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Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new windowStreaming video content covering many subject disciplines, such as American History, Environmental Studies, Black Studies, Current Affairs, Counseling & Therapy, Opera, New World Cinema (Independent Features & Shorts), and Theatre. Click the 'Collections" tab to discover videos for which the library provides access.
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Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new windowStreaming Broadway productions, interviews, and study guides.
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Drama Online This link opens in a new windowThis award-winning digital library has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.
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Medici.tv This link opens in a new windowThe world’s leading classical music channel, medici.tv’s on-demand streaming platform boasts the largest online catalog of over 1,800 videos including concerts, ballets, operas, documentaries, master classes, behind-the-scenes footage and artist interviews. Each year, a selection of exclusive events are broadcast live from the world’s most prestigious concert halls, opera houses, festivals, and competitions, then available afterwards on replay.
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Met On Demand This link opens in a new windowThis new experience of the Met Opera on Demand service offers extraordinary access to unforgettable opera performances, captured live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and spanning more than 75 years of the company’s unparalleled broadcast history.
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Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowListen over the web to the complete recordings found in the Naxos catalog. The catalog includes all recordings by Marco Polo, Dacapo, and First Edition. Naxos is the leader in the classical recording industry.
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American Drama This link opens in a new windowContaining more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.
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BabelSCORES This link opens in a new windowBabelScores® looks into and selects the works of the most creative, original and innovative composers of the past few decades offering a wide catalogue and setting up a powerful circulation platform addressed to instrumentalists, ensembles, orchestras, composers, musicologists, conservatories, universities and festivals throughout the world.
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English Drama This link opens in a new windowEnglish Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century - the likely date of the Shrewsbury Fragments - to the early twentieth. It offers exhaustive coverage of the prodigious dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas, including works by major dramatists such as Ben Jonson, Aphra Behn, William Wycherley, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde and J. M. Synge
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Music Online Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Classical Scores Library is a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works. This five-volume collection encompasses all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
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New Play Exchange This link opens in a new windowThe New Play Exchange ® (NPX) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers. The NPX, a National New Play Network program, is flipping the script on the ways in which new work is shared and discovered. National New Play Network (NNPN) is an alliance of professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays.
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Twentieth-Century Drama This link opens in a new windowBringing together an unparalleled collection of the most important works from the last century from the English-speaking world, Twentieth-Century Drama features plays from noted playwrights as well as lesser known dramatists. The collection includes works by over 300 writers including Amiri Baraka, Noël Coward, Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Brian Friel, David Mamet, Eugene O’Neill, John Osborne, Sean O’Casey, Harold Pinter, Bernard Shaw, Neil Simon, Gertrude Stein, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott, August Wilson and Elizabeth Wong.
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CARLI Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowDigital representations of myriad special collections from colleges and universities in the state of Illinois including printed and manuscript materials, images, and sound recordings. Includes collections in education, history, sociology, African American studies, religion, performing arts, and more.
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Archives HubUse the Archives Hub to find unique sources for your research, both physical and digital. Search across descriptions of archives, held at over 390 institutions across the UK.
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Center for Research LibrariesThe Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in 1949, CRL supports original research and inspired teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions.
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The European LibraryThe European Library is designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.
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GallicaGallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched with thousands of new items every week and today offers access to several million documents.
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German Digital LIbraryPaintings, books, pieces of music, films, photographs, files, manuscripts and much more: research, download, share German cultural heritage.
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Hathi TrustThe HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables large-scale analysis of works in the HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) to facilitate non-profit research and educational uses of the collection. HTRC, which is co-located at Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, engages in research and development for text analysis of massive digital libraries.
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IMSLPThe ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge. However, another main goal of IMSLP is to facilitate the exchange of musical ideas outside of compositions: for example, the analysis of a particular piece of music.
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MusiconnThe musiconn search draws on 18 data sources for music and offers comprehensive search options in over 5.5 million individual entries.
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NYPL Digital Theatre CollectionsDigital images covering theatre from photos to ephemera and video
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Performing Arts Library of Congress Digital CollectionsAmong collections are the Aaron Copland Collection, Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, the Ernest Bloch Collection.
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TroveSearch Trove to explore amazing collections from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.
Research Assistance
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Disability ServicesDisability Services (DS) is a branch of the Learning Commons (LC). Our team is committed to providing students with disabilities with the necessary services to support their participation in the rich and varied life of Roosevelt University.
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Print from PapercutUse your NetID credentials to login.
The prices per print job are as follows:
- BW single-side printing: 10 cents per page
- BW duplex printing: 7.5 cents per page
- Color printing, where available: 25 cents per page
Duplex printing (or double-sided) cost is charged per page. Any page in a duplex job that does not have print on both sides will be charged the single-side rate. For example, the cost for a 3-page document would be 25 cents (7.5 cents each for the first two pages, 10 cents for the remaining page). The cost is set like this to remove the need to use pennies at the kiosks.
- Reserve items are only accessible by students enrolled in the course.
- For e-reserves, students can access the materials online at any time at http://libguides.roosevelt.edu/er.php. To ensure that only enrolled students access the materials, library staff have assigned a password to the course e-reserves page. You need to obtain the password from your instructor.
- For physical reserves, students can access the materials during regular library operating hours at the Circulation Desk of the library. Faculty have indicated if they want the item at the Murray-Green Library, the Performing Arts Library, or the Schaumburg Library.
- Reserve materials will bear a copyright notice, either on the physical item or you will be required to acknowledge the notice before accessing e-reserves.
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Library Hours
Here are the current Library Hours for Murray-Green, Performing Arts Library, and Schaumburg's Library.