Want to know what new music, dance, or theatre materials we have in the Music and Performing Arts Library? Use the “New Titles @ the University Library” tool. You can narrow by library and/or subject and by date received. There is also an RSS feature that will let you subscribe to receive updates when new items are received.
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Protect your laptop
Online laptop registration tool now available
CITES has a new online tool to help protect laptops on campus. The Computer Registration Tool will allow anyone with a NetID to register their computer with CITES Security. Registering will help CITES Security recover the computer if it is ever lost or stolen. Registration is quick and easy.
the end is in cite
Perhaps you haven’t started writing those term papers yet, or perhaps you are knee-deep in your thesis or dissertation. In either case, if you need a quick reminder about how to cite things in your paper, see the online version of the Chicago Manual of Style.
More help is available under the “How do I manage my research” section of the new Research Guides page of the MPAL website.
YouTube and Research
It comes as no surprise that students use YouTube for fun and for research, because it’s easy to use and has a lot of content. Respected music writer Norman Lebrecht writes about how he too has been pulled into YouTube.
While he’s writing about music specifically, there is also a lot of dance content. Looking for a demonstration of how a dance move goes (especially popular dance)? Try searching YouTube. Theatre researchers can also use YouTube to their benefit. Of course, as with any tool, you have to evaluate what you find here critically. But, YouTube can be very useful.
How YouTube shrank the classical world
By Norman Lebrecht / June 25, 2008
the Lebrecht Weekly in LaScena Musicale
New scanner up and running
A new scanner is up and running in the Music and Performing Arts Library. Directions are on the machine cover; if you have any questions, just ask us!
Music Library scanner not working
The scanner in the Music Library is currently out of order. We’ll let you know when it’s working again.
Happy Birthday iTunes
iTunes turns five
from Wired.com
Arts News
Want to keep up with what’s happening in the arts? The site ArtsJournal can help you do just that. With categories for: issues, dance, ideas, media, music, people, publishing, theatre, visual, and classifieds, there is something for everyone. We’ve included the links for the dance, music, and theatre categories in the right-hand column of this blog.
Search Music Index and RILM at the same time (and more!)
Several of our music and other databases are available through the same vendor (Ebsco). This means that you can search in more than one of these databases simultaneously.
1. Go to the Online Research Resources page
2. Do a title search in the “all resources” section for one of the databases you want to search (e.g., Music Index).
3. Once you have found the database, click to enter it.
4. Click on the drop-down menu next to the word “in.” (It will already display the name of the database you started in.)
5. Check as many database names as you’d like to search at once.
You could search Music Index and ERIC at the same time for education-related items or you could search MLA International Bibliography and theInternational Bibliography of Theatre and Dance at the same time for theatre-related items.
Sibelius is here!
A not-very-well kept secret–we’ve got the Sibelius music software on two machines in the Music Library. They are on the end near the card catalogs–look for the notices on them that say “this machine has Sibelius.” You can use the large scale printer to print larger manuscripts.