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A-1. Keep this class notes page open, but have a few more windows open at these destinations, too:
-BU Libraries home page (http://www.bu.edu/library/index.shtml)
-Music Library home page (http://www.bu.edu/library/music/index.shtml)
-WorldCat
| WorldCat generic, public |
new WorldCat Local BU Libraries have customized display, added request for BLC. From any library home page |
new with BU's "localized" WorldCat, use pull-down to choose scope of your search: Libraries Worldwide or Boston Consortium or BU Libraries. See also A-1 ahead for worldcat local's role in our interlibrary loan. |
| http://worldcat.org | http://bu.worldcat.org |
-and maybe Google (http://www.google.com), your email or word doc, or RefWorks or other account
A-1 Primo quickie exercise: type this in: ligeti piano concerto. We'll examine what's retrieved from where. But this isn't (yet) a "one-stop" shop for detailed research but it can be a strong and quick first step, depending on your needs. The next class will, however, show Primo's features in detail, including a couple really important things you need to know in Primo's Advanced options mode.
A-1 ILL quickie exercise:
From either the main library home page or the music library home
Locate BU Libraries' Interlibrary Loan Request page. Take path: from a Home page-->under How To at top-->Request Interlibrary Loans--> select Interlibrary Loan all format-->note your delivery destination is Mugar, have a look at the pulldown of types of order or format types you might be filling out, such as for an article, view a few through all the fields. Note the level of detail you'll need to provide a complete citation and make your request.
Observe also: new that the BU WorldCat Local offers direct request options from partners in some of the Boston Library Consortium or other national libraries for books, scores, and often a/v material -- but typically not articles. As we were shown in class, be careful examining your search results and be certain you are requesting a publication or edition not already available in the BU Libraries (the "just-this-edition" display and quoting the OCLC number for additional certainty).
A-2. Examples of efforts to meaningfully describe and organize
Piston's Harmony ... is more closely related to Schoenberg's Harmonielehre than to Grout's History
A-2. quickie exercise, drop the 001 for Piston's Harmony into WorldCat generic: 14692175. Navigate in to just this edition, note its significance.
A-3. Catalogs and union catalogs in context, old and new efforts. NUC as a monument and illustration of a UC. Is everything from the NUC, CPM, etc., in WorldCat, and where do the BU Libraries fit in to any of this?
What is in BU's Library Catalog: type of union catalog, but what collections are covered?
A-4. What music cataloging might show us and further impact our searches
Link to the BU catalog view of The Detskaia example.
search first by what you know, then observe headings, uniform titles, descriptors, and probably create a new search taking into account any appropriate links.
when you can (but soon) read Bonds, Evaluating music editions (less than 3 pages)
Telnet
Start menu --> Run --> telnet library.bu.edu . . . and type at the login: library
Why would you use Telnet? The Jump function in particular can help with music-related searches.
A-5. When I see screens like these, where do I go, whom do I ask? [refer also to handouts]
A-6. Does the library have the journal I need? Is it an online holding or available print only? Or were you somewhere and tried to click on a link to full text but got nowhere? Your best bet it to start with the eJournals locator.
Class search in the eJournals locator, with the journal title beginning:
-Latin American Music Review (for MU749)
-Tempo (for MU749)
-Music and Medicine : (for MU775)
Video: eJournal Locator demonstration (listen, there's audio with it. Time: 1' 30")
A-7a. What can a periodical index do for me? Many of these are on the Databases page. Class search terms: interven* child* in RILM; and, interven* and child* and music* in Education Full Text
A-7b. May I choose to search a few databases all at once, like RILM and Dissertation Abstracts citations and full text? Well, there are choices but no one perfect combination.
Be aware of opportunities: from Databases page, see Education Full Text (& scope choices), and see RILM (& database choices)
With the Primo Advanced-->Specialized Search**-->Choose a Collection--> Music [try this keyword: saibara] note the collection set searched is not on the side bar! This "mystery set" is Grove; RILM; Music Index; and Education FT. If you see "error, target not returning data," try a fresh search into the single database.
Also with Primo Advanced-->Specialized Search**-->Find Databases (from these, you can select a few of your choice).
**a feature of the new Primo, select carefully and examine your results carefully. Please note--because no message tells you--that this Find Databases list of databases does not yet include all database choices from the master list Databases which we see from the top main pages.
B-1. new Thematic catalogs. The uniform titles of musical compositions and even the detailed structure of specific subject headings often relate (on purpose) to information presented through trusted sources such as thematic catalogs.
Observe how the Hoboken numbers are used in the catalog with Haydn, and BWV numbers for J.S. Bach; notice, too, how generic titles (Sonata... Suite... Concerto... ) are handled for the sake of organization of many similarly-titled works by one composer.
Haydn's op. 17 string quartets (uniform title case)
Bach's cello suites (uniform title case)
Bach's cello suites (subject heading case)
A great model of a Thematic catalog based on a single composer is McCorkle's for Schumann, X ML134 .S5 A 28 2003. See especially pages 83-86 for the English-language explanations of the German-language organizational and descriptive headings used in this and similar publications, and also what information you can expect to be included within each heading or section of the volume. The Introduction (which English version begins on p. 55) is also a window right into both a history and today's challenges, covering previous efforts to catalog Schumann's works, some of his communications with publishers, publication and reception history, locations of the manuscripts and unpublished drafts or versions, and how this can variously be accounted for through the catalog.
B-2. So many specialized reference resources in the world, are there ways to know what they are? Perhaps not any more. But great efforts have been made. Have a look at Duckles & Keller (print). Have a look at Balay (print) and have an online search of: Kieft, Guide to Reference (which is an attempt at updating Balay)
