If you are only reading our blog through an RSS feed reader like Google reader you might be missing the links from our Twitter feed that appear on the righthand side of our blog page. We don’t always post the same information on the blog and on Twitter, so check both to make sure you’re not missing anything cool!
Tag Archives: tools
Additional full text options in IIMP and IIPA
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!
Classical Music Library recordings now findable through library catalog
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.”
If you click on the title, you get more information about the recording.
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.
Now get access to articles listed in Grove bibliographies
We’ve activated the “Discover” buttons in the Oxford Music Online tool. So, when you look at a bibliography you can click on the blue “Discover” button to see if there is online access to the article. If not, it will provide you with a link to our catalog, which you can then search to see if we have print access.
Here’s what it looks like (from the Steve Reich entry):
and when you click on the Discover button for K.R. Schwarz: ‘Steve Reich: Music as a Gradual Process’, PNM, xix (1980–81), 373–92; xx (1981–2), 225–86 you get:
Twitter is here
OK, while many of you seem shy about commenting on the blog, you have told me that you’d be interested in a Twitter stream from the Music and Performing Arts Library–so here it is: twitter.com/mpalillinois Click on “Follow” under the MPAL Illinois logo so you don’t miss any of our Tweets.
Do You Tweet?
Our little blog is now over 100 posts old. While I think this is a useful tool for you, dear reader, who may not have time to search for arts news on your own and also want to keep up with Library news and tools, I’m wondering whether folks have time to read blogs any more. Is there a more effective way to share information with you?
I’ve been thinking Twitter might be another way to share these stories and news items with you. Do you Twitter? Would you follow a Music and Performing Arts Library Twitter stream? Or would you rather continue with the blog? Drop me a line in the comments and let me know what you think.
Thanks! Kirstin Dougan, User Services Coordinator, MPAL
Jazz on the Screen
A Jazz and Blues Filmography by David Meeker
This searchable filmography documents the work of some 1,000 major jazz and blues figures in over 14,000 cinema, television and video productions.
Folk Song Index online
Oberlin College Libraries and Sing Out! brings us this invaluable resource. “An index to traditional folk songs of the world with an emphasis on English-language songs. Each entry includes the song title, first line of chorus, first line of verse, and full bibliographic information on the source. The index contains over 42,700 entries, and, to date, indexes over 2,225 anthologies.”
Once you find the anthology that has the song you want, search our online library catalog for the song to see if we have it.
Wrangle that citation data
Drowning in Data? RefWorks can Help
These are the last two workshops of the semester! Sign up early, space is limited.
Learn how to use RefWorks, a citation management software program subscribed to by the University of Illinois Library that is free to faculty, staff, and students of the University of Illinois. This workshop will cover the basics: how to access RefWorks, search catalogs, import references from library databases, retrieve and manage citations, create bibliographies according to various citation styles (e.g., MLA or APA), and use Write N Cite to add parenthetical references to your work. For more information about RefWorks see: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/. Both workshops will be held in the Undergraduate Library, Room 291.
Tuesday, November 11th 10-11am
Friday, November 14th 1-2pm
Registration: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/calendar/public/
Improvements in Classical Music Library tool
{From the folks at Alexander Street Press}
The new release of Classical Music Library includes new features and updates in addition to a new interface. Users can now browse all classical works by album and find associated recordings using the new Album Browse feature.
There is also updated playlist functionality, which makes it easier to create rich playlists. Individual items in a playlist can now be annotated, and links to any item, whether available in our collection or elsewhere on the Web, can easily be added. Enhance your playlist of audio tracks with reference passages, scores, external Web links, and text from a variety of sources. And sharing playlists has never been easier. Gone are the days of requesting Course Folder privileges for music professors. Now users can decide whether or not to share a personal playlist with other users at their institution, or with anyone who subscribes to Classical Music Library.
Based on user feedback, we’ve also improved our Advanced Search. It is now possible to limit search results to recordings where the complete work is available. And as always, we are continually working to license more content for Classical Music Library.
All other functionality and content has been migrated from the old interface, including all user accounts, playlists, and course folders. Please note that your course folders will now appear as playlists shared within your institution, and you have the option of sharing them with all Classical Music Library subscribers.