Transcript Music Materials at the Library Wednesday, August 27

Music Materials at the WSU
Library
Rachel Crane
Music/Fine Arts Librarian
[email protected]
Office hours in Jardine: Tuesdays 9-12 a.m. and Thursdays 2-5 p.m.
Phone: 978-3029 (Music Library) 978-5078 (Ablah Library)
Location of Materials:
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Music Library in Jardine has:
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Scores
Sound recordings (music and spoken)
Reference books
Reserve materials
Laser disc videos
Listening/viewing
Computer terminals
Electronic keyboard
Printing
Location of Materials:
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Ablah Library has:
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Circulating books
Music Reference section (1st floor)
Reserve Section (with sound recordings that
accompany books)
Videos
Periodicals
Study rooms (24 hour study room)
More computer access and extended hours of
operation
Library Home Page,
Catalog, and
Interlibrary Loan…
http://libraries.wichita.edu
WSU Library homepage
From the library homepage, following either link to
the library catalog…
The basic search screen is set to search for “Keyword
Anywhere”…
This works well for distinctive titles, combining terms or
for beginning a broad exploration of a new topic. Here
is a search for “Russian Music Taruskin”:
The search results in a listing of 6 items. In the first record, note the
designated call number for the item and right below it a location note
indicating in which library this item will be found. Items are not listed in
reverse chronological order of publication date, but may be resorted to
that display by using the “Sort By” menu at the right.
A sample record has more information than the
initial listing. Note the description information and
subject heading. (If you click on the subject
heading link, you will find other items dealing with
this same subject.)
From our initial list we can “Filter” to try and extract only titles published
in 2006 to the present, selecting the appropriate link at the right. This
search produced only books, but if the results contained scores, sound
recordings, or videos, we could limit to those formats by way of the
respective links.
To search for a specific title, change the “within” option to “Title” and
enter the appropriate title information in the “Search” field. The title
does not need to be entered in full. Truncation will occur automatically,
as in the following search:
Entering “Hard Hitting Songs” results in this record with its full title:
“Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People.”
Call Number
To search for a journal title, change the selection in the “within” box
accordingly:
(Note – we have truncated the search by using a “?” which will give us titles
ending in all forms of the word “music,” such as musical, musicological, etc..)
Our results list contains 3 titles. Note the dates given. The “Journal of
the American Musicological Society” began in 1948, but the library has
almost all volumes from 1948 to the present. The library has both print
and electronic subscriptions to this journal:
Print
Electronic
The record for print copies of this journal displays more detailed
location information. “Recent Issues” are unbound journals located in
the New Periodicals Room on the 1st floor, Ablah Library.
“Older Issues” are the bound copies, shelved with books. This record
indicates that the Library owns volumes 1 - 13, and vol16-62. The comma at
the end of a line in the “Older Issues” field indicates a missing issue(s). The
“Location” field indicates that older issues are located in “Compact Shelving”
and can be retrieved by inquiry to the Circulation Desk at Ablah Library.
The volumes listed as “Temporarily shelved at
Ablah Library” are located on the 2nd floor of Ablah
Library, on the shelves with the books.
Search for an author by inverting the name (last
name, first name) and changing the “within” box
accordingly.
There are 34 titles by Charles Rosen, the musician, either as an author
of a book, as a performer on a recording, or as an editor of a score. If
you are unsure of which Charles Rosen is the one you are searching
for, follow the links and check the titles.
We can search for a subject, as in the following
search for titles about Berlioz:
The library has 30 titles about Berlioz in general:
(Note an item about Berlioz’s “Damnation de Faust” and a “See” reference
which confirms the use of the French “de” over the English “of” in the catalog.)
The 30 items about Berlioz in general, do not appear chronologically by
publication date. You may sort the list by another order than the default
by selecting a “Sort By” option.
Is it a ‘3’ or an ‘8’?
Can’t read the handwriting or don’t see the item on the shelf as
expected? Want to browse the shelves from a distance? Quickly
confirm the call number and/or status of the item by entering a
distinctive portion of the number:
Here, find a listing of those items beginning with the call number
“ML300.T38”:
If you wish to search for something but are unsure
about how it might be listed in the catalog, if you
want to combine terms, or want to limit the search
by format, switch to an “Advanced“ search:
Anything entered in a given field will automatically be searched as a
phrase and will search the contents notes of catalog records. All fields
need not be completed. Truncate a term with a question mark, (as in
“concert?”), which should yield a search with all possible endings of the
word (concerto, concerti, concertino, etc.).
Limit a search to a specific format, in this case “Music Score.” (Note:
Limit to videorecordings under the “Format” menu.) This search for a
score of Mozart’s Piano Concerto, in d minor, K.466…:
finds 11 scores.
(Note: record #5 is a collection of concertos. Click on the title link of the
record to see which concertos are included within.)
The “Advanced” search is especially good for
looking up individual song or aria titles…
There are 14 sound recordings and scores
containing the aria “O mio babbino caro.” (Note:
this will not include the titles containing the full
opera.)
Record #2…
An Advanced search also works well for titles of a popular nature…
Do NOT use the “Articles” tab
for articles relating to music…
The music options for an “Article” search through
the catalog will ONLY search in: Academic
OneFile, Humanities Full Text, and the Oxford
Music Online databases. This is NOT sufficient.
Items found in the Course Reserve sections of the
libraries…
(found under the 4rd tab – use the pull-down menus)
Professor King has 17 items on reserve here. Note the location. They
are found in the Music Library, in Duerksen. Again, course reserve
materials may be found in both the main library and in the music
branch.
If what you need is not in our
library, you may request it
through interlibrary loan.
This is a free service.
Please allow enough time for
your requests to be processed
and delivered.
To use the Interlibrary Loan service,
following either link to the Interlibrary Loan webpages…
If you are new to the process, sign up for a FREE
interlibrary loan account.
Choose the format you wish to request from the
options at the left. If you are requesting a video or
sound recording, choose “Other (Free Text)”
The interlibrary loan form to request an article from
a periodical…
Fill in as much information as possible.
You may check the status of your requests
by logging in and viewing a listing of
“Outstanding Requests.”
See also, online guides for the RILM,
Music Index, and Oxford Music
Online databases, for information on
locating journal articles and
additional materials relating to music.
For questions or comments:
[email protected]
Revised June 2011