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A
About the M&DA Library
About the Web Pages
Academic OneFile (formerly
InfoTrac) 
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)
Alerting Services, see Current Awareness & Alerting
Services
All UConn Databases (or
try this alternative or
this alternative)
Alumni (Information for)
American
Song (streaming
audio)
Associated
Press Multimedia Archive (AP photographs)
Art & Design Library
Art Abstracts and Art Index
Retrospective (formerly "Wilson") --
images in art history publications
Arts Management Resources
ARTstor
(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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B
Babbidge Library
Ballard Institute and
Museum of Puppetry
Bibliographies
Book Reviews (Music)
Books in Print
Boston Library Consortium (BLC)
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C
Call Number Search
(including How to Read
AV Call Numbers)
Can't find it on the shelf?
Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
Charters, see Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of
Blues and Vernacular Music below
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 Library (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 (streaming
audio)
Cookson, Frank see Frank
B. Cookson Reading Room
Copiers, see Photocopies
Copy Cards, see Husky One Card and Library
Service Card
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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Databases (List of
All) (or try this alternative
or this alternative)
Databases
-- Dramatic Arts (with descriptions)
Databases -- Music
(with descriptions)
Databases -- Music Education
Databases -- Electronic Journals
Databases -- Full Text (journals, newspapers, reference, etc.)
Databases, see also Off-campus access
Department of Art & Art History
Department of Music
Department of Dramatic Arts
Dialects, see Accent & Dialect Resources
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias (Music)
Digital Audio Reserve (DAR). Audio reserves
over the Internet (general explanation)
Digital Audio Reserve (DAR)--Information for
Instructors
Directions and Parking
Disabilities, Services
for (UConn Libraries)
Dissertations in Music (including info
about UConn's dissertations, print
and online)
Dissertation
Abstracts (ProQuest)
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
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 Databases
-- Music Education
Events Calendars (School
of Fine Arts)
Exhibits -- UConn Libraries
Exhibits -- Music & Dramatic Arts Library
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F
Film & TV Opportunities
Finding Music series (HOMER search
guides)
Fine Arts Programs, see UConn Fine Arts Programs
Fines and Fees
Flip4Mac: Macintosh users, use this with Naxos; download at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/flip4mac.mspx
Floorplans (library
map)
Frank B. Cookson Reading Room
Full-Text Resources (summary)
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The Garland Encyclopedia of World
Music
Google (use it to identify Web bibliographies,
free digital collections, reference resources, etc.)
Google Scholar (Web page
with pros and cons of Google Scholar). Also see brief Google
Scholar handout (PDF)
Graduate Assistant (Rosalind "Ros" Mc Grane)
Graduate Carrels
Grove
Art Online
Formerly Grove Dictionary Art Online
Grove
Music Online
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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H
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
Humanities
Index, A&HCI
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
InfoTrac
(journal cites, especially for drama) --
Academic OneFile
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)
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
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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)
This is not our only full-text resource. See other music
databases.
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L
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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M
Maps -- Music & Dramatic Arts Library, see Floorplans
and Stacks Guide
Mc Grane, Rosalind "Ros" (Graduate Assistant)
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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N
Naxos
Music Library (streaming audio)
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
see Grove Music Online
New Library Building
New Music (resources for "keeping up with new
music")
News and Reviews in the Arts
(and some free Internet resources)
Notices regarding overdue items, recalls, etc.
(PDF)
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O
Off-campus
access to subscription databases (proxy accounts)
One Card, see Husky One Card
"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
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P
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)
Pronunciation Guides
ProQuest
Dissertations (same as Dissertation Abstracts)
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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R
Reading Citations
Reading Music: Selected Resources (for Beginners)
RealPlayer:
download it
Recalls (instructions)
Recall an item (direct link to HOMER)
Recordings (Audio)
- Audio Online (Streamed)
- How to Find Audio Recordings in HOMER (quick tips and detailed guides)
- Digital Audio Reserve (music streamed through HuskyCT)
- Ruckus: Free, Legal Downloads for Students [connect now]
- Recordings at Other Libraries
- LP Gift Collection and Out-of-Print Recordings
Reference Books Online
Reference Service (help with research)
RefWorks: About RefWorks and create
or log in to your RefWorks account
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
RILM
(EbscoHost)
(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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S
Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular
Music (Dodd Research Center; see Collections
Descriptions; look under "C" for Charters)
Samuel Charters Collection of African American Music, see above
Schoogle, see Google Scholar
School of Fine Arts (official SFA page)
School of Fine Arts, see also UConn
Fine Arts Programs (events, departments, venues, etc.)
Scores (Printed Music)
Best
HOMER Search Strategies for scores
HOMER
Search Guides (Music Emphasis) (detailed tutorials and strategies)
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
Sheet Music Collections on the Web
Site index, UConn
Libraries
Smithsonian Global Sound (streaming
audio)
Speech & Voice Resources (for actors and singers)
Stacks Guide for Music & Dramatic Arts Library
Staff
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T
Technical difficulties with library web site? Try the "One
Page" (it has more direct links to databases)
Texts & Translations (PDF) for vocalists
Tours, see Virtual Tours (contact staff
for a personal or group tours)
Tutorials on Using Library
(UConn Libraries)
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U
UConn Libraries
UConn Fine Arts Programs
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Videorecordings, Dramatic Arts
Virtual Catalog
(Boston Library Consortium, or BLC)
Virtual tours of Music
& Dramatic Arts Library (includes 360° panoramic views) and Homer
Babbidge Library
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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W
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
Windows
Media Player (download it)
Wireless Network (see also Wireless--PDF
guide)
WorldCat
-- database listing the holdings of thousands of other libraries.
World Music (finding aid)
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