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Music & Dramatic Arts Library Site Index

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About the M&DA Library
About the Web Pages
Academic OneFile (formerly InfoTrac) Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Academic Search Premier Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Accent & Dialect Resources
Access Services Supervisor, Lois Fletcher (handles loans, fines, etc.)
Adobe Acrobat: download it
Aebersold play-along set (118 volumes of jazz books/CDs)
African American Music (streaming audio) Access is restricted. Click for more information.
African American Music (Samual Charters collection and related links)
Alerting Services, see Current Awareness & Alerting Services
All UConn Databases (or try this alternative or this alternative)
Alumni (Information for)
American Song Access is restricted. Click for more information. (streaming audio)
AP Multimedia Archive (Associated Press photos)) Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Art & Design Library
Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective (formerly "Wilson") Access is restricted. Click for more information. -- images in art history publications
Arts Management Resources
ARTstor Access is restricted. Click for more information. (image database); support materials (PDF)
ARTSzine - Online newsletter (School of Fine Arts)
Ask a Librarian (music/drama)
Ask a Librarian (general topics--live online Help)
Assistant Music Librarian (Joe Scott)
Audio Online (Streamed) -- Includes Naxos, Classical, Smithsonian, American Song, African American Music, and Contemporary World Music.
AV Call Numbers, see Call Number Search
AV Collections at Babbidge Library, see Culpeper Library

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Babbidge Library
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Bibliographies
Blues (Samual Charters collection and related links)
Book Reviews (Music)
Books in Print Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Boston Library Consortium (BLC)

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Call Number Search (including How to Read AV Call Numbers)
Can't find it on the shelf?
Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Charters, (Samuel and Ann) Archives of Blues and Vernacular Music
Check Your Library Account, see Library Account
Choral Resources
Circulation (Music & Dramatic Arts Library)
Citation Indexes (used to find "who cited whom")
Citations (what are they, how to read), see Reading Citations
Citing your Sources (includes specialized Drama and Music style guides)
Classes in the library, see Seminar Room (for room use) and Library Instruction
Classical Music LibraryAccess is restricted. Click for more information. (streaming audio)
Classroom Library Visits, see Library instruction
Collections -- Overview
(Music & Drama)
Collections -- Program Plans (Music & Drama)
Collections -- Requests or Suggestions see Purchase requests
Community Members (Information for)
Community School of the Arts
Connecticut Repertory Theatre
Contemporary World Music Access is restricted. Click for more information. (streaming audio)
Cookson, Frank see Frank B. Cookson Reading Room
Copiers, see Photocopies
Copy Cards, see also One Card Office
Copyright (Music & Drama)
Costume Resources
Course Pages (Music/Drama library instruction)
Culpeper Library (audio/visual collections at Babbidge Library)
Current Awareness & Alerting Services (these send automatic emails about new research articles)

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DAR (Digital Audio Reserve)
DAR (Digital Audio Reserve)--Information for Instructors
Databases (List of All) (or try this alternative or this alternative)
Databases -- Dramatic Arts (with descriptions)
Databases -- Music (with descriptions)
Databases -- Music Education
Databases, see also Off-Campus Login
Department of Art & Art History
Department of Music
Department of Dramatic Arts
Dialects, see Accent & Dialect Resources
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (Music)
Digital Audio Reserve (DAR). Streamed audio reserves via HuskyCT
Digital Audio Reserve (DAR)--Information for Instructors
Directions and Parking
Disabilities, Services for (UConn Libraries)
Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest) Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Dissertations in Music (including info about UConn's dissertations, print and online)
Document Delivery / Interlibrary loan (DD/ILL) -- Direct link; see also an interlibrary loan cheatsheet

Dodd Research Center (contains UConn's archives and special collections; has archival audio/video collections)
DRAM 108 (Fundamentals of Stage Design): assignment summary
Drama Databases (descriptions)
Drama (Guide to Research), see Dramatic Arts Research Guide
Drama/Theater Videos (including streamed video and DVD)
Dramatic Arts Department
Dramatic Arts Research Guide
Dramatic Arts Resources, see Dramatic Arts Research Guide and Drama (Subject Web Page)
Dramatic Arts--Subject Web Page
Dramatic Arts Videos, see Videorecordings, Dramatic Arts

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ECR, see Electronic Course Reserve (ECR): Information for Instructors
Education, see Databases -- Music Education
eJournal Locator (alternative URL)
Electronic Journals, see eJournal Locator
Electronic Course Reserve (ECR): Information for Instructors. See also Music/Drama Reserves.
Electronic Resources (Dramatic Arts), see Drama (Subject Web Page)
Electronic Resources (Music) OLD SITE (now defunct). See Databases--Music instead.
Email (check for notices)
Email (forward to another account)
"Emergency" page (for use when library experiences technical difficulties)--see "One Page"
ERIC (education database); see also Databases -- Music Education
Evaluating Your Sources (books, articles, web, etc.)
Events Calendars (School of Fine Arts)
Event Management System (EMS): M&DA Library Seminar Room -- Babbidge Library and Dodd Research Center
Exhibits -- UConn Libraries
Exhibits -- Music & Dramatic Arts Library

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Faculty, Information for
Film & TV Opportunities

Finding Music series (HOMER search guides)
Fine Arts Programs, see UConn Fine Arts Programs
Fines and Fees
Flip4Mac (Download): Macintosh users, use this with Naxos Music Library.
Floorplans (library map)
Frank B. Cookson Reading Room
Full-Text Resources (summary)

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Google (use it to identify Web bibliographies, free digital collections, reference resources, etc.)
Google Scholar login (for full text) -- Allows you to access items held in UConn's subscription databases.
Google Scholar (pros and cons of Google Scholar). Also see brief Google Scholar handout (PDF)
Graduate Carrels
Graduate Students, Information for
Grove Art Online Access is restricted. Click for more information. Formerly Grove Dictionary Art Online
Grove Music Online Access is restricted. Click for more information. Formerly New Grove Dictionary of Music Online (or Grove Dictionary of Music Online)

Guides: Services, see Guides to Research/Services
Guides: Finding Music Series (HOMER)
Guides: HOMER (basic info, any topic)
Guides to Research/Services (PDF documents. Page is in development)

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HOMER (library catalog)
HOMER: Quick Search Instructions for Scores and Recordings
HOMER Search Guides (detailed, with many music examples)
Homer Babbidge Library
Hours -- Music & Dramatic Arts Library
Hours -- Storrs Campus Libraries
HuskyCT (e-reserves)
HuskyMail

Husky One Card in the M&DA Library
Husky One Card (UConn's site)

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Image Research (for theater)
     art histories
     art indexes (identify art books with reproductions)
     books containing images (includes HOMER visual terms , pictorial works, and subject headings)
     browse the art books (call number ranges)
     chronologies and histories
     databases containing images
     magazine or journal articles (find images in them)
     "moods," themes, or concepts (e.g., anger, birth)
     research guides
     Web sites with images
Information Literacy (Gen Ed Requirement) for Music & Drama
Information for...
     Faculty
     Graduate Students
     Undergraduates (and Alumni)
     Those with Disabilities
     Visitors
InfoTrac (journal cites, especially for drama) -- Academic OneFileAccess is restricted. Click for more information.
Instruction, Library (M&DA Library), see Library Instruction
Intercampus Express (ICE), see Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (DD/ILL)
InterLibrary Loan (ILL), see Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (DD/ILL)
InterLibrary Loan Cheatsheet
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Internet Search Tools
Inter-Play (InterPlay) -- Indexes plays published in anthologies. See Locate Plays in Anthologies for a complete list of indexes
Irvine’s Writing About Music -- Style guide. Available in full text as an electronic book through NetLibrary Access is restricted. Click for more information.

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Jazz (Samual Charters collection and related links)
Jazz Search Tips (find recordings)
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

Journal Articles (how to find citations and actual articles)
Journal Citation Indexes (find "Cited By" references)
Journals -- Find Older Journal Articles (pre-1960s) (a.k.a retrospective periodical literature)
Journals -- Current Print Subscriptions at UConn
Journals -- eJournal Locator
Journals -- Electronic Journals (Drama)
Journals -- Electronic Journals (Music) In HOMER do a Keyword Boolean search and type skey music and electronic and journals.
JSTOR (full text, esp. music) Access is restricted. Click for more information. This is not our only full-text resource. See other music databases.

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Keyword Search (mix and match terms in HOMER)

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Library Catalogs Elsewhere (general list)
Libraries -- Music, see Music Libraries
Libraries -- UConn
Library account (in HOMER) basic info; also go direct to HOMER and click the Renew Books / View Account button.
Library instruction (Music/Drama)
Library Services Card -- copy card for visitors
Listening & Viewing
Loan Periods (PDF) for M&DA Library materials
Lobby (Music Library Building)
Location of M&DA Library
Lost Materials
LP Gift Collection

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Maps -- Music & Dramatic Arts Library, see Floorplans
MLA (Modern Language Association database)
Monologues & Scenes
Music & Dramatic Arts Library
Music Databases (descriptions)
Music Department
Music Education Research (including ERIC)
Music (Guide to Research)
Music Index (periodical index for music, all topics)
Music Librarian
Music Libraries Elsewhere (New England and nationally)
Music Library Association
Music & Dramatic Arts Library Lobby (Music Library Building), see Lobby
Musical Theater Resources
MyHOMER is now called Renew Books / View Account (still located in HOMER)

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Naxos Music Library (streaming audio) Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Naxos Music Library (basic information, instructors' linking guide)
NetID
Network down? Try the "One Page" (for use when library experiences technical difficulties)
New England Music Library Association
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Access is restricted. Click for more information. see Grove Music Online
New Library Building

New Music (resources for "keeping up with new music")
New York Times Historical Access is restricted. Click for more information.
News and Reviews in the Arts Access is restricted. Click for more information. (and some free Internet resources)
Notices regarding overdue items, recalls, etc. (PDF)

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Off-Campus Login to licensed databases ("Connect from Home," "Off-Campus Access," "Connect from Off Campus")
One Card Office, see also Copy Cards
"One Page" web site (also available from an off-campus server) -- for use if library experiences technical difficulties
Online Reference Book Collection, see Reference Books Online
Online Reference Help (general topics)
Other Library Catalogs
Other Music Libraries, see Music Libraries
Out-of-Print Recordings (LP, CD, etc.)
Oxford Music Dictionary (Oxford Reference Online) Access is restricted. Click for more information.

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Parking for the M&DA Library
Photocopies & Printing
Photographs of New Library Facility
Piano Music for Beginners
Plays (find in library using HOMER or a play index; buy; find online)
Plays (Research the Background)
     books about your play or playwright
     historical personalities, fictional characters, or literary allusions
     histories/chronologies
     literary biography and criticism
     journal articles
     newspaper reviews (older and modern)
Plays & Playwrights (PDF Research Guide by Laura Racagni)
Policies, Circulation (i.e., loans, fines, notices)
Popular Music Resources
Prolific Author/Composer Search (browse a composer's works HOMER)
Project Muse (full text, esp. drama) Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Pronunciation Guides
ProQuest Dissertations (same as Dissertation Abstracts) Access is restricted. Click for more information. includes full-text to selected dissertations
Proxy Accounts, see Off-campus Access to subscription databases
Proxy FAQ (frequently asked questions about proxy accounts for off-campus access to electronic resources)
Proxy Borrower Privileges (PDF) Allows students to borrow materials for faculty.
Puppet Arts Program
Purchase Requests or Suggestions

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Questions about Circulation or Fines, see Access Services Supervisor
Questions about Research, Finding Materials, or Purchases, see Music Librarian
Quick Search Instructions (for scores and recordings)
Quotations

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Ragtime and Rap (Samual Charters collection and related links)
Reading Citations
Reading Music: Selected Resources (for Beginners)
RealPlayer (Download) (Real Audio)
Recalls
(instructions)
Recall an item (direct link to HOMER)
Recordings (Audio)

Reference Books Online
Reference Service (help with research)
RefWorks: About RefWorks and create or log in to your RefWorks account Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Remote Access, see Off-campus access and Proxy FAQ
Renew materials (detailed instructions and cautionary notes)
Renew materials (go to HOMER and select the Renew Books / View Account button)
ReQuest (combined library catalog for Connecticut)
Request a Purchase, see Purchase Requests
Reserves: find them
Reserves: instructor requests
Resources by Subject (university wide)
Reviews, see Book Reviews and News and Reviews in the Arts
Room Schedules (Babbidge Library and Dodd Research Center)
RILM (EbscoHost) Access is restricted. Click for more information. (database listing scholary music citations)
RILM Information (field codes, titles indexes, etc.)
RILM -- Publication Type Codes
Ruckus: Free, Legal Downloads for Students: connect now or more information
Rudnick, Tracey (Music Librarian)

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Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture (Dodd Research Center)
Schoogle, see Google Scholar
School of Fine Arts (official SFA page)
School of Fine Arts, see also UConn Fine Arts Programs
Scores (Printed Music)
         Best HOMER Search Strategies for scores
         HOMER Search Guides (Music Emphasis) (detailed tutorials)
         Music in Collected Sets & Anthologies
         Scores at Other Libraries
         Scores on the Web
Scott, Joe (Assistant Music Librarian)
Search (request for library search if you can't find something on the shelf)
Search Guides, see Guides to Research/Services
Seminar Room in the Music & Dramatic Arts Library (includes room schedule)
Sheet Music Collections on the Web
Site index, UConn Libraries
Smithsonian Global SoundAccess is restricted. Click for more information. (streaming audio)
Speech & Voice Resources (for actors and singers)

Spirituals (Samual Charters collection and related links)
Stacks Guide for the Babbidge Library
Staff
Streamed Audio and Video

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Technical difficulties with library web site? Try the "One Page" (it has more direct links to databases)
Texts & Translations (PDF) for vocalists
Theatre in Video Access is restricted. Click for more information. — Streamed videos of plays and documentaries.
Tours, see Virtual Tours (contact staff for a personal or group tours)
Tutorials on Using Library (UConn Libraries)

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UConn Libraries
UConn Fine Arts Programs
Undergraduates, Information for

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Videorecordings, Dramatic Arts (including streamed video and DVDs)
Virtual Catalog (Boston Library Consortium, or BLC)
Virtual tours of Music & Dramatic Arts Library (includes 360° panoramic views) and Homer Babbidge Library
Visitors, Information for
Vista is now called HuskyCT (e-reserves)
Vocal Materials (Resources for Vocalists)
Vocal Resources for the Studio Singer (PDF)
Voice, see Speech and Voice Resources (for actors and singers)

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Web Page Design (this Web site)
WebCT is now called HuskyCT (use it for e-reserves)
Web Starting Points (General)
Web Starting Points (Drama)
Web Starting Points (Music)
William Benton Museum of Art
WilsonWeb (journal cites for drama, image research), see Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective Access is restricted. Click for more information.
Windows Media Player (Download)

Wireless Network (see also Wireless--PDF guide)
WorldCat Access is restricted. Click for more information. -- database listing the holdings of thousands of other libraries.
World Music (finding aid)

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