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PCA 252: Fashioning Identity: A History of Dress (Meaden)

This guide is designed for students of PCA 225-TH 01

Browse the Stacks!

Costuming can be found in several general classification areas. G is the general classification area for Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation.  GT is Manners and Customs and covers fashion and costuming.  NK covers the decorative arts. PN covers literature, and more specifically, PN1600-3307 covers Drama. TS is manufacturing and TT is handicrafts that relate to arts and culture. If you go to the area of the stacks with the call numbers below, you can find many books on textiles, design, and use of costumes in drama, ritual, and fashion.

GT 500-GT 2370 - Costumes, fashion, dress

GT 529 .A7 - Fashion and art

GT 1747 - Masks (general)

GT 2290-GT 2341 - Hair, cosmetics

HD 9940 - Fashion merchandising

NK 7300-7600 - Jewelry, Gemstones

NK 8802-NK 8998 - Textile arts

PN 1995.9 .C56-58 - Fashion in film

PN 2067-2068 - Theatrical costume and make-up design

PN 2071 .M37 - Masks, theatrical

TR 679 -- Fashion photography

TS 545-TT850 - Costumes – Construction

TT 500-650 - Dressmaking and tailoring, fashion designers

TT 502 -- Fashion shows

TT 503.5 -- Fashion writing

TT 507 -- Fashion design

TT 509 -- Fashion drawing

TT 898 - Handicrafts – mask-making

 

A chart with a sample library of congress call number and explanations of how to interpret each part if you are browsing books in the stacks. Call numbers in the Library of Congress system are organized from general classification to more specific identifying information in each part. The sample call number is "PS3527 .E917 G7 1925 V.3." The first part, "PS3527," is the classification number. You read the letters in alphabetical order, so A comes before B, and P comes before PA, comes before PB. PS would come between PR and PT. The number is read in ascending numerical order. One comes before two, which comes before three. In this example, PS3527 would come between PS3526 and PS3528. The second part of the call number is the Cutter number. These have a decimal point at the beginning, followed by an initial letter then a number. Sometimes a call number can have two Cutter numbers, as our example does, ".E917" and "G7." In both cases you would interpret the number as decimal numbers, so ".E917" would come between ".E91" and ".E92" and "G7" would come between "G69" and "G71." The third part of the call number is the publication date. This is the year the book was published. Editions of the same book, published in different years, are arranged in chronological order. In our example, the book was published in 1925. The last part of the call number is the enumeration. If a book has multiple volumes, parts, or copies, those are arranged in numerical order. In our example, this is volume three, "V.3" which would be shelved between volumes 2 and 4.

Want to search the catalog better?

The easiest way to search a subject heading in the catalog is to use su: for subject.  For example, if you wanted to search items that had the subject heading "Masks" as well as the subject heading "Costume design" you would type:

su:Masks AND su:"Costume design"

Here are some helpful subject searches to get you started!

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Subject Headings to combine with those above:

 

Harm Mitigation in the Catalog

Items in the catalog are assigned Subject Headings in the catalog.  Subject Headings are meant to capture the most essential themes and content of the material (books, recordings, eResources, etc.).  The subject headings we use at Butler University are overseen by the Library of Congress, which is often slow to change, making some of the terms out of date.  

In an effort to make the Butler Libraries' catalog more inclusive we are working on a creating local subject headings to replace existing outdated and potentially harmful subject headings.  If you find a troubling subject term(s) in our catalog, please submit it through the below form with a suggestion(s) of an alternative term(s).  

Butler Libraries Subject Heading Request Form

When reading a catalog record, you can find Library of Congress Subject Headings after the ISBN:

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