CAROLYN A. SHEEHY is Clare and Lucy Oesterle Director of Library Services at North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. She was formerly an Assistant Professor and Head of the Reference Department at the library of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Administrative Curator of special collections at The Newberry Library, where she helped launch the Chicago Dance Collection. She has published many works on the performing arts, archives and manuscripts, and public services (including Reference and Information Service in Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas: A Management Handbook, edited by Gerard B. McCabe, Greenwood Press, 1992). She is an active member of several local, state, and national library associations.

• Introduction by Carolyn A. SheehyHistorical Overview by Carolyn A. SheehyDance Collections by Nena CouchFilm Studies Collections by Kristine R. Brancolini and Beverly L. TeachMusic Collections by Rosalinda I. Hack and Richard SchwegelTheater Collections by Romaine Ahlstrom, Brigitte J. Kueppers, and Helene G. MochedloverAnnotated Bibliography by Carolyn A. SheehyIndex