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Welcome back students and faculty

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Well, you made it through the first week (and so did we!). If you are new to our library or just need a refresher, take a look at our welcome guide:http://uiuc.libguides.com/mpal

If you want to know what great new stuff we got over the summer, check out the New Titles List: http://www.library.illinois.edu/newtitles/

Need something and we don’t have it? If you can’t get it through iShare or ILL, and/or if you just really think we should have it here, suggest a purchase:http://www.library.illinois.edu/mux/services/recommend.html

If you are feeling overwhelmed and could use a little help, just ask us!

Glad you’re back!

Visual image resource (ARTstor)

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Need visual images to support your research? Use ARTstor (U of I community only, library subscription resource).

ARTstor Resources in Music History http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/inter-music-history.pdf

ARTstor Resources in Theatre and Dance http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/inter-theater-dance.pdf

What is ARTstor you ask?

“ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.”

Have fun!

Additional full text options in IIMP and IIPA

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There are now more full text link options for the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) databases. If the full text of an article is available directly from one of those sources you’ll still see “Full text” or “Full text-PDF” links. If the article is potentially available from another online source you’ll see the blue “Discover UIUC Full Text Linking” button. If you click on it you will be given other options to locate the item online or request it via InterLibrary Loan.

If you have any questions about this, just stop by the MPAL and let us know!

Orchestra Musicians’ CDROM Library and CDSheetMusic content now available online via Library Music Source

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Have you been using our great collection of sheet music on CDROM? Well, now it’s available to the University of Illinois Community via Library Music Source.

CD Sheet Music
Includes masterworks for piano, organ, classical guitar, strings, winds, voice, chorus and study scores. It includes:

* 35,000 pages of piano music
* 30,000 pages of vocal music (arias and art songs)
* 17,000 pages of opera vocal scores
* 21,000 pages of choral vocal scores
* 15,000 pages of violin music

Orchestra Musicians’ CD Rom Library

Including all the parts to over 600 orchestra masterworks, this is a 10-Volume set of original orchestra parts and scores for violin, viola, cello, bass, flute (piccolo), oboe, clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, low brass, timpani/percussion and harp/keyboard/ miscellaneous. Note: Printing all the separate parts enables performance.

New Monetery Jazz Festival Collection web site

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The longest running jazz festival in the world!

Each fall since 1958, the seaside city of Monterey, California, has been the site of performances by the world’s finest jazz and blues performers. The festival’s archive – preserved by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound – contains recordings of live festival performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution

Search nearly 9,000 performances and other segments representing 1,000 hours of audio and video content are described in the database

Theater in Video

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The Library now has a subscription to Alexander Street Press’s Theater in Video

“Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world’s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video – more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 242 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, King Lear, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Bérénice, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, Krapp’s Last Tape and Othello, among many others. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Eli Wallach, Zoe Caldwell, Sam Waterston and more. For the first time, students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging.”

Classical Music Library recordings now findable through library catalog

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You may know that we subscribe to the Classical Music Library streaming audio tool. Now when you search our online catalog, if a recording is available in CML, it will have it’s own entry.

Here’s a Boolean search for Reger and serenades, limited to “music recordings.”

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If you click on the title, you get more information about the recording.

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You can then click on the link that says “Online Access” to go to the CML tool, where you can click on tracks to play them.

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