COLIN HOMISKIResearch LibrarianMusic, Art, Film, Media, Philosophy & Theology

Library Membership Card provides: Access to Your Account (see what books

you have checked out, renew them and place reservations)

Can check out 10 (undergrad) / 15 books (MMus) / 20 books (Mphil/PHD) at a time

Most books 4 week loan periods (some 2 week loan)

Provides access to e-resources off-site Serves as your Everyone Print Card

which includes photocopying, scanning (last 4 digits on back)

Access the Wi-Fi system. Do NOT browse and ‘connect to wi-fi.’ You will need to set up a connection first.

●Google is a tremendous search engine - It is very smart -can interpret "natural language" (i.e. plurals, misspellings, foreign words)

●BUT it can not always get the researcher to the end-user product BECAUSE of authentication and subscription! (Problem with Google Scholar as well!)

●“Deep Web“ (i.e. searching for a plane or train ticket to Paris at 20.00 tonight, or facsimiles of Franz Liszt)

●Not as “smart” as Google (although this is improving with various library software upgrades)●Start with KEYWORD search (Use NOUNS, not verbs, adjectives, pronouns or prepositions!)●Basic principles:

●Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)●Truncation: uses stem of a word such as THEAT* retrieves theater, theatre, theaters, theatres etc.) This is also called using a WILDCARD: sometimes it is ‘?’ or ‘!’ or ‘*’●Controlled vocabulary (index, thesaurus, Library of Congress Subject Headings)

Both classification systems have similar prefixes

LC Music Classification [King’s] M (music scores) + number

ML (music literature) + number

MT (music theory) + number Dewey Classification [Senate House]

M (music scores) +number

ML (music books) +number

LC Music Classification M (music scores)

▪ Collected editions (M2-M3.3)

▪ Quartets (string quartets M452)

ML (music literature)▪ ML410 (composer biographies)

MT (music theory)▪ MT40 (12-tone/tonality

techniques)

Dewey Classification 780 (General)

▪ 780.8 (collected score editions)

▪ 780.92 (biographical/analytical books related to composer)

781 (Theory/Analysis)

782 (Dramatic music)

783 (Vocal sacred)

784 (Vocal secular)

785 (Orch/Instrumental)▪ 785.74 (Quartets)

786 (Keyboard insts)

787 (String insts)

788 (Wind insts)

789 (Perc/Electr insts)

• Books (Goldsmiths’ & Middlesex South Reading Rooms)• Regular ‘octavo’ size books (Goldsmiths’)

• Reference works (Bibliographies, Indices, Catalogues) (Goldsmiths’)• Folio books (Middlesex South)• Rapid Reference (Groves Dictionary and language dictionaries)

(Middlesex South)• Scores (Middlesex South Library Reading Room)

• Regular scores (from 723.23 in gallery)

• Miniature scores (ALL in gallery)

• Extra large• Collected works

• Periodicals • Current Ones --(Periodicals Reading Room)• Older ones –Stack ServiceRecordings—See Colin

●With 3 million items, many materials are held in closed access and will have 'Stack Service' as a location. ●Click 'Request It' and pick up at the Service Desk.

Dictionary Grove’s Dictionary / Encyclopedia of Popular

Music Bibliographical

RILM (1967-present)

RIPM (1850-1950+)

IIMP Full text

JSTOR

Academic Search Complete Citation Index

Web of Science

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WEB 1.0● Everything connected globally●Centrally Managed● Need to know HTML●Slow to change●Unidirectional●Authoritarian●Think of your use of Bookmarks on your computer

● CURRENCY - When was it written? Can you determine the date? Can you identify the last time it was updated?

● RELIABILITY - How accurate and relevant is it to your research? Can citations and references be verified using other means?

● AUTHORITY - Is the author a known expert in his/her field? What is the subject of their expertise? Can you verify them independently? Has the resource been peer-reviewed?

● PURPOSE - Can you tell if there is any bias in the presentation of the data? Is there objectivity? (e.g. think if a tobacco or pharmaceutical company was funding the data study or Rupert Murdoch’s tabs, Guardian, or Independent)

www.flickr.com

www.delicious.com

www.zotero.org

●Intellectual Property ranges from Copyright - Public Domain (All rights reserved to no rights reserved)●Creative Commons created as a Copyright 2.0 (some rights reserved)●For purposes of criticism (in academic research) you can “quote” but must provide a citation or source reference.

http://creativecommons.org/about/

• For academics by academics• Available only in Firefox Mozilla or

Safari (Mac)• Allows you to save copies of webpages,

create citation lists, apply your own tagging metadata

• Allows you to search through the text of your PDFs.

• Allows you to write on your copy of webpages (with sticky post-its)• N.B. If you want to do this on the web, use

Diigo.• Exports the citations back into Word in

any citation style (APA, Harvard, Chicago style)