Grant Writing: State Theatre of Ithaca
This guide was created for a 2014 course and has not been updated since.
Theaters
Theater architecture
Theaters--Designs and plans
Theaters--Lighting
Stage lighting
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--New York (State)--Tompkins Co
Architecture--Conservation and restoration
Public buildings--Remodeling for other use
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
Sustainable buildings
Sustainable buildings--Design and construction
Barrier-free design
Barrier-free design for older people
Barrier-free design--Law and legislation--United States
Barrier-free design--United States
United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Theater Management
Theater Management United States
Theater--Economic aspects
Theater--United States--Finance
Theater and Society
Theater and society--United States
Community theater--United States
Theater audiences
Theater--Law and legislation--United States
Theater--Law and legislation--United States--Cases
Theater--Law and legislation--United States--Forms
Performing arts--Audiences
Performing arts--Economic aspects
Performing arts--Finance
Performing arts--Law and legislation--United States
Performing arts--Management
Performing arts--Marketing
Performing arts--United States
Arts--Audiences
Arts--Economic aspects--United States
Arts--Finance
Arts fund raising--United States
Arts fund raising--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Government aid to the arts--United States
Government aid to the arts--United States--Case studies
Arts--Management
Arts--Marketing
Arts--United States
Entertainment events--United States--Marketing​
Concerts--Planning
Theater architecture
Theaters--Designs and plans
Theaters--Lighting
Stage lighting
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--New York (State)--Tompkins Co
Architecture--Conservation and restoration
Public buildings--Remodeling for other use
Buildings--Repair and reconstruction
Sustainable buildings
Sustainable buildings--Design and construction
Barrier-free design
Barrier-free design for older people
Barrier-free design--Law and legislation--United States
Barrier-free design--United States
United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Theater Management
Theater Management United States
Theater--Economic aspects
Theater--United States--Finance
Theater and Society
Theater and society--United States
Community theater--United States
Theater audiences
Theater--Law and legislation--United States
Theater--Law and legislation--United States--Cases
Theater--Law and legislation--United States--Forms
Performing arts--Audiences
Performing arts--Economic aspects
Performing arts--Finance
Performing arts--Law and legislation--United States
Performing arts--Management
Performing arts--Marketing
Performing arts--United States
Arts--Audiences
Arts--Economic aspects--United States
Arts--Finance
Arts fund raising--United States
Arts fund raising--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Government aid to the arts--United States
Government aid to the arts--United States--Case studies
Arts--Management
Arts--Marketing
Arts--United States
Entertainment events--United States--Marketing​
Concerts--Planning
Academic Search Premier & International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text : Both of these Ebsco databases provide comprehensive subject coverage with considerable full text. Note that there is a “Subject Terms” link just above the search boxes, allowing you to search the index of Subject Headings--often a good first stop for more efficient Subject searching whereby you are guaranteed that your topic is indeed a main subject of the articles retrieved. Among the Subjects available in both are Theaters--Conservation & restoration, Theaters--Reconstruction, Theaters--Remodeling, and Barrier-free design.
General OneFile : is the most user-friendly of our comprehensive databases, covering almost any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles and offering lots of full text. Use the default Subject search to find the best subject heading for your topic (and when you find a good one be sure to look at the "Related Subjects" to see if there's something even better).
When you settle on a subject heading, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searchs produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect: "Ethical aspects," "Forecasts and Trends," "History," "Political aspects," "Psychological aspects," and "Social aspects," to name only a few. For example, if you search on Theaters, one of the Subdivisions available will be Buildings & facilities.
If the best available subdivision is still too broad, open it and add your own Keywords in the "Search within these results" slot at the upper left.
User Advisory: When first viewing your retrievals in General OneFile, note that you are seeing only the "Magazines" (popular articles) and must click on the tabs for "Academic Journals" (scholarly articles) or "News" (newspaper articles) to see those results
A good initial strategy in this database is to search a likely topic in the Subject Terms and when you find it “explode” the term by double clicking it--this brings up a list of related Subject terms. You can check as many terms as you like before "adding" them to your search by AND-ing or OR-ing them together.
User Advisory: For any retrieved set of articles, there will be a box displayed on the left that will limit the articles to “Scholarly” journals—just check the box and click the “Update Results” button below.
General OneFile : is the most user-friendly of our comprehensive databases, covering almost any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles and offering lots of full text. Use the default Subject search to find the best subject heading for your topic (and when you find a good one be sure to look at the "Related Subjects" to see if there's something even better).
When you settle on a subject heading, open the "Subdivisions" link below it. Most General OneFile subject searchs produce very large retrievals and the "subdivisions" help you narrow your search to a particular aspect: "Ethical aspects," "Forecasts and Trends," "History," "Political aspects," "Psychological aspects," and "Social aspects," to name only a few. For example, if you search on Theaters, one of the Subdivisions available will be Buildings & facilities.
If the best available subdivision is still too broad, open it and add your own Keywords in the "Search within these results" slot at the upper left.
User Advisory: When first viewing your retrievals in General OneFile, note that you are seeing only the "Magazines" (popular articles) and must click on the tabs for "Academic Journals" (scholarly articles) or "News" (newspaper articles) to see those results
ProQuest Research Library is another comprehensive database with substantial full text. Use the "Thesaurus" (above the search slots) to preview what Subject Headings are available. You might try a search on Theaters OR Performing arts centers OR Auditoriums as Subjects and Reconstruction OR Remodeling as Keywords.
Note that to the right of your search results you can limit your retrieval by "Source Type" (including Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Journals), "Document Type," (including Cover Story, Editorial, or Interview), and "Location."
Above each set of articles you retrieve ProQuest will display related Subject searches to help either broaden or narrow your focus.
LexisNexis Academic News: Offering a keyword search of 100% full text from a vast number of national and international newspapers, this is an easy database to use poorly and a bit tricky to use well. In order not to be overwhelmed with articles in which your search terms are mentioned anywhere—first or last paragraph—or any number of times—once or ten times—use commands to target articles in which your topic words are mentioned early or mentioned often.
Use the hlead command (headline and lead paragraphs) to target articles in which your topic words occur in the prime news-story position of headline or first paragraphs. For example: hlead(theat! and remodeling and grant ) will retrieve just the articles in which the words “theat!” and “remodeling” and "grant" are used in the headline or first paragraphs. Note: the exclamation point is the truncation symbol for LexisNexis, meaning it will retrieve any extention of the root it follows. In this case, theat! retrieves both theater and theatre. Also note: the term or terms to which you want this command to apply must be put in parentheses after hlead, with no space between.
Use the altleast command to target articles in which your topic words occur a set number of times. For example: atleast3(“theat! restoration”) will retrieve only the articles where this phrase is used at least 3 times—indicating that it must be a main topic. You can plug in any number after atleast—atleast3 or atleast7. Note: the term or terms to which you want this command to apply must be put in parentheses with no space between the number you choose and the first parenthesis.
Use the date range offered under Advanced Options. Because this is a large database of 100% full text, one of the most effective ways to retrieve fewer than 1000 hits is to set up a time frame. Note: if you use the calendar icons to set beginning and end dates, you need to choose a year, a month, and a day for each. Without the day, the date won’t register.
LexisNexis Academic Law Reviews: Offering a keyword search of 100% full text law reviews (publishers of scholarly articles on legal issues), this is an easy database to use poorly and a bit tricky to use well. In order not to be overwhelmed by articles in which your search terms are mentioned in passing but are not the prime focus, use the atleast command to target articles in which your topic words are required to appear at least a certain number of times. For example, atleast5(theat! and disab! and access) will retrieve only the articles in which those terms are used repeatedly. Note: the term or terms to which you want this command to apply must be put in parentheses with no space between the number you choose and the first parenthesis.
Use the date range offered under Advanced Options. Because this is a large database of 100% full text, one of the most effective ways to retrieve fewer than 1000 hits is to set up a time frame. Note: if you use the calendar icons to set beginning and end dates, you need to choose a year, a month, and a day for each. Without the day, the date won’t register.
Note that to the right of your search results you can limit your retrieval by "Source Type" (including Magazines, Newspapers, Scholarly Journals), "Document Type," (including Cover Story, Editorial, or Interview), and "Location."
Above each set of articles you retrieve ProQuest will display related Subject searches to help either broaden or narrow your focus.
LexisNexis Academic News: Offering a keyword search of 100% full text from a vast number of national and international newspapers, this is an easy database to use poorly and a bit tricky to use well. In order not to be overwhelmed with articles in which your search terms are mentioned anywhere—first or last paragraph—or any number of times—once or ten times—use commands to target articles in which your topic words are mentioned early or mentioned often.
Use the hlead command (headline and lead paragraphs) to target articles in which your topic words occur in the prime news-story position of headline or first paragraphs. For example: hlead(theat! and remodeling and grant ) will retrieve just the articles in which the words “theat!” and “remodeling” and "grant" are used in the headline or first paragraphs. Note: the exclamation point is the truncation symbol for LexisNexis, meaning it will retrieve any extention of the root it follows. In this case, theat! retrieves both theater and theatre. Also note: the term or terms to which you want this command to apply must be put in parentheses after hlead, with no space between.
Use the altleast command to target articles in which your topic words occur a set number of times. For example: atleast3(“theat! restoration”) will retrieve only the articles where this phrase is used at least 3 times—indicating that it must be a main topic. You can plug in any number after atleast—atleast3 or atleast7. Note: the term or terms to which you want this command to apply must be put in parentheses with no space between the number you choose and the first parenthesis.
Use the date range offered under Advanced Options. Because this is a large database of 100% full text, one of the most effective ways to retrieve fewer than 1000 hits is to set up a time frame. Note: if you use the calendar icons to set beginning and end dates, you need to choose a year, a month, and a day for each. Without the day, the date won’t register.
LexisNexis Academic Law Reviews: Offering a keyword search of 100% full text law reviews (publishers of scholarly articles on legal issues), this is an easy database to use poorly and a bit tricky to use well. In order not to be overwhelmed by articles in which your search terms are mentioned in passing but are not the prime focus, use the atleast command to target articles in which your topic words are required to appear at least a certain number of times. For example, atleast5(theat! and disab! and access) will retrieve only the articles in which those terms are used repeatedly. Note: the term or terms to which you want this command to apply must be put in parentheses with no space between the number you choose and the first parenthesis.
Use the date range offered under Advanced Options. Because this is a large database of 100% full text, one of the most effective ways to retrieve fewer than 1000 hits is to set up a time frame. Note: if you use the calendar icons to set beginning and end dates, you need to choose a year, a month, and a day for each. Without the day, the date won’t register.
Few databases offer 100% full text. Most retrieve a mix of full text articles and article "citations"--article title, author(s), publication info, and usually an "abstract" or one-prargraph summary of the content. When a citation makes you want the full text, look below it for this icon:
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
- "GETIT" will usually find the full text in another database and open it in a new window.
- If none of our databases can access the full text but we have a print subsciption to the journal, "GETIT" will retrieve the Library catalog record for the journal so that you can see if the date of the article falls within the date range we have on hand.
- Ebrary
- Citation
- Interlibrary Loan
- Plagiarism Tutorial
- National Endowment for the Arts: The NEA is the United States' largest annual funder of the arts. The "Our Town" category of grants may be relevant here, since it includes "design of cultural sapces--new or adaptive reuse.". And be sure to consult the NEA section on Accessibility and grant funding. Under "Publications" see the "Annual Report" for a financial summary of the fiscal year 2012 and profiles of some of the grants awarded. Also see the State & Regional section, and in particular the "State Arts Agencies & Regional Arts Organizations" for state and local funding.
- Grants.gov: A one-stop approach to all federal grants, with plenty of tutorial assistance for the grant application process. You can search grant opportunities by subject Category, including "Arts."
- Information on Grants Available in New York State: Try the New York State Council on the Arts Grants page.
- Theatre Accessibility Programs (TAP): This program is part of New York's Theatre Development Fund and serves "theatregoers who are hard of hearing or deaf, low vision or blind, who cannot climb stairs or who require aisle seating or wheelchair locations, TDF obtains special seating according to need."
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA): It pays to know potential donors and the rules they play by. Under Research see in particular Funding and Grant Making.
- Regional Arts Organizations: Funding: LInks to a half dozen regional arts organizations.
Supporting Data:
- U.S. Census Bureau: Arts Activities: Selected data, including attendance and ticket sales for commercial theater, touring companies, and non-profit theater.
- Theatre Communications Group: TCG is a national organization that serves--and collects data from--almost 500 non-profit theatres across the country. Under "Grants" both "Grants at a Glance" and "Grants for Organizations" are helpful, and under "Tools & Research" note the database of "Theatre Profiles" and "Theatre Facts." Theatre Facts is an annual publication on not-for-profit theatre in America, for which TCG collects its own extensive data
- Fundsnet Art & Culture Grants: A list of organizations, foundations, agencies, and businesses that provide arts funding--with links to their sites.
- National Arts Marketing Project: Resources: Useful information, articles and best practices under "Featured Articles," "News Items," and "Profiles in Creativity."
- Americans for the Arts:Look particularly at Funding Resources and Grantmaking.
- Performing Arts Alliance: Advocacy group for arts funding. Visit the "Issue Center" for information on current funding needs and what is being urged to address them.
- Arts Funding Watch: An electronic newsletter from the Foundation Center. Full access requires (free) registration with the Foundation Center. There are links to many interesting resources here.
- VSA: The International Organization on Arts and Disability
- VSA and Accessibility
- VSA Accessibility Resources
- United States Access Board: Buildings & Sites
- United States Access Board: Research: See "Completed Research" and "Other Resources" on top right.
- IDEA: Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access: Resources
- United States Access Board: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
- Information and Technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Aging in Place & Universal Design Resources
- MLA citation for books: in print, from databases, on the Web
- MLA citation for articles: in print, from databases, on the Web.
- MLA citation for Web and Multimedia resources, including Web sites, movies, DVDs, CDs, and videos.
- MLA in-text (parenthetical) citation (far less satanic than the first three).
