Searching for Plays/Monologues

So this is more of a question on my part than anything else, but how do you handle searching for plays or monlogues when a student comes to the desk?

I had a student today who was looking for a monologue, but then also needed to read the entire play for her class. Finding monologue books is easy, but I was having a hard time locating books of plays (and of course we don't own any of the plays she was looking for by title). We ended up locating a section of books with plays, and just browsing there until we found a couple books that looked passable, but I can't help but feel this isn't the most efficient way to search.

Any suggestions?

How about a Little Euthanasia, Scarecrow?

As many of you have found, there's a really tough assignment out there, roaming the stacks. Students need to find out about euthanasia in three locations. In some cases, three countries; others are looking for data from three states. Usually it involves at least two time periods. This can be awfully challenging. (Amy spent about 90 minutes with a student last night...)


Rumor has it this assignment is due on Friday, so it may be visiting a reference shift near you.... especially Jeff's Thursday evening shift. If you come across fantastic resources, make a note in the comments.