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Article/Image Databases

Use these databases to locate articles on composers, musicians, music theory, musical styles, and more. Many of these databases offer articles from both popular and scholarly, peer-reviewed journal sources. All articles found in JSTOR and Project MUSE databases are scholarly, peer-reviewed.

• ProQuest One Academic Proquest One Academic is a large multidisciplinary collection of journals, magazines, e-books, videos, dissertations, and theses.
• Academic Search Complete
  Academic Search Complete contains indexing and full text for 9100 journals. 7100 of these journals are peer-reviewed scholarly titles. Academic Search Complete is a great resource for general research.

• Artstor
  The Artstor Digital Library provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

• Credo Reference Search over 250 topic entries on all aspects of Music. This collection includes information from 11 reference encyclopedias and handbooks. Articles range from brief topical overviews to extensive treatments of various topics.
• JSTOR
  JSTOR is an archive of digitized peer-reviewed journal articles published between the 1700s to between 1 and 5 years ago. Resluts can be limited to music-related articles by selecting the "Advanced Search" screen from JSTOR's front page, and then selecting "Music" from the "NARROW BY DISCIPLINE AND/OR PUBLICATION TITLE" section.

• Oxford Music Online
  Excellent source for finding biographical information on composers and musicians. This resource also contains extensive articles on musical instruments, musical forms, timelines, index of operas, and subject guides that offer overviews of the major periods of music history, with lists of Grove articles covering important people, genres, terms, and concepts related to the period.
  This resource draws information from the following resources:
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Music
  • Grove Music Online
  • Oxford Companion to Music

  Please note: 5 concurrent users only

• Project MUSE
  Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually. NOTE: To limit your searches to the journals available through the COD Library, check the "Only content I have full access to" box on the left side of your results page.

Music Databases

• American Music
  American Music includes songs by and about Americans for listening and learning online. The range of genres includes country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, shape note singing, doo-wop, Motown, R&B, soul, funk, and others.

• Classical Music Library
  Classical Music Library is a large collection of classical music recordings for listening and learning online. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

• Contemporary World Music
  Contemporary World Music is a growing collection of recordings for listening and learning online. This collection contains genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz. CWM contains other world music genres such as traditional music: Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

• Jazz Music Library
  Jazz Music Online is a large collection of jazz music by individuals and ensembles for online listening and learning. Jazz Music Online is part of the Music Online database.

• Music & Performing Arts
  Music & Performing Arts combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles to provide an unparalleled learning environment for the teaching of music.

• Popular Music Library
  Popular Music Online contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.

• Smithsonian Global Sound
  Smithsonian Global Sound is a large collection of the world's musical and aural traditions for listening and learning online.

Best Bets

African American Music

• Archives of African American Music and Culture
  Provides "access to holdings which include oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, educational broadcast programs, and the personal papers of individuals and organizations concerned with black music."

• African American Sheet Music: 1850-1920
  "The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period."

• Hip Hop Archive

Includes readings, visuals, listening, and short videos.

Blues / Jazz

• All About Jazz

Lists of new releases, CD and book reviews, interviews and more. Not a scholarly resource.

• The Blues

PBS website to accompany the Martin Scorsese series on the blues. Although you cannot view the videos on the site you can read biographies and other background information about the musicians covered in the series. There is also information on the blues in the section Blues Classroom. The Library does own the series, and you can check them out to view the entire film.

• Now What a Time: Blues, Gospel,and the Fort Valley Music Festival, 1938-1943

Nearly 100 audio files of blues and gospel music.

• Sheldon Harris Sheet Music Collection

University of Mississippi collection of early minstrel songs through the 1970's. The University of Mississippi has issued this disclaimer about some of the materials in the collection: " Many of the minstrel songs contained in this digital collection are extremely offensive. However, it is impossible to adequately understand American racial attitudes of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, without examining some blatantly racist ideas. Most of the music featured in this collection is not fringe material, but some of the most popular songs of their times." Not all the material is offensive however.

Choral / Vocal

• American Choral Music, 1870-1923

Collections of the Library of Congress. Provides selected works by eight composers.

Classical

• Baroque Music Homepage
  Essays, information, recommended recordings and links to other web sites.

• Beethoven Haus Digital Archives
  Contains "more than 6,100 documents on 37,600 coloured scans of high quality, 1,600 audio files (music examples, audio letters) and 7,600 text files."

• Classical Net
  "Classical Net features more than 9000 pages and 20,000+ images including more than 7000 CD, SACD, DVD, Blu-ray, Book and Concert reviews and over 5500 links to other classical music web sites."
  Great Conversations in Music
  Four part series by noted classical musician Eugene Istomin contains videos and biographies on some of the major composers, performers, and conductors of classical music, made available through the Library of Congress.

• Digital Bach Project
  Explore multi-media resources on Bach's music, including graphics, video and texts.

• Hear HERE!: The Royal Philharmonic Society
  Listen to musicians and conductors talk about music. Some musical excerpts included.

• National Gallery of Art - Music Audio and Video Podcasts
  Podcasts include interviews with composers, performers and artists, as well as performances held in conjunction with art installations at the National Gallery.

• Neue Mozart-Ausgabe: Digitized Version
  "The purpose of this web site ... is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use."

Lyrics / Scores

• Digital Scores and Libretti
  "The scores and libretti in this Virtual Collection include first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School. "

• First Book of English Madrigals
  Published by John Wilbye in 1598. For four, five, and six voices.

• International Music Score Library Project
  A "virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge."

• JW Pepper
  A commercial supplier of sheet music that can serve as means to locating musical scores that are currently "in print."

• The Maine Music Box
  This collection contains musical scores, midi files, and musical score cover art. Vocal popular music as well violin and piano scores are included.

• Sheet Music Collection
  Digital Sheet Music Project from the University of South Carolina Music Library. Provides access to over 10,000 pieces of classical, popular, and sacred music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. For items in the public domain the actual document has been scanned.

• Sheet Music Consortium
  Searches across multiple collections of sheet music. Some access is restricted, but much is available. Creating a login lets you save your selections as a virtual collection.

• SheetMusicPlus
  A commercial supplier of sheet music that can serve as means to locating musical scores that are currently "in print."

• Sibley Music Library Music Score Collection
  Contains over 10,00 digitized pieces of music - most works are in the public domain.

Miscellaneous

• American Memory Collections- Performing Arts and Music
  Includes various types of music including classical, African-American, folk and Native American.

• Great Performances
  "Great Performances presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries."

• National Jukebox - Library of Congress
  "Historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives."

• NPR Music
  Concerts, studio sessions, interviews, columns, among other offerings.

• The Orchestra: A User's Manual
  Provides information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments.

• American Musicological Society - Websites of Interest to Musicologists
  Information on musical genres, libraries, societies and organizations, academic job listings, and many other topics.

Musical Instruments

• Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
  Short explanations, pictures, and recordings of musical instruments.

• Virtual Instrument Museum
  Audio, video, pictures, and media.

Opera/Operetta

• Ballad Operas Online
  Ballad operas were performed on the British stage between 1728 to 1760. They combined a comic or sentimental play with musical numbers. Publication and production information may be found here along with some audio samples.

• The Gilbert & Sullivan Archive
  Archive includes a variety of G&S related items, including clip art, librettos, plot summaries, pictures of the original G&S stars, song scores, midi and mpeg audio files, and newsletter articles.

• The Metropolitan Opera
  Offers a history of the Met, brief audio segments of famous performances, and brief summaries of operas.

• OperaGlass
  Synopsis, full or part libretto, performance history and other information is provided.

• World of Opera
  World of Opera with host Lisa Simeone brings listeners compelling performances from top American and international opera companies. World of Opera encompasses the seminal operas of the 17th century; the comic, political and social satires of the 18th century; the "bel canto" masterpieces of Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini; the revolutionary 19th-century works of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner; and, of course, operas in the "true-to-life" verismo style of Puccini and Mascagni. Also of interest is "10 Operas you Need to Know," which offers brief overviews of important "recent" operas. Also see the World of Opera archive.

Orchestra

• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  Learn about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, including interviews of conductors and performers in the Sounds & Stories page. Learn more about CSO performers on the "About"page.

Popular Music

• Billboard
  News site for current music.

• Hip Hop Archive

Includes readings, visuals, listening, and short videos.

World, Ethnic, Folk

• Africa Focus, Sights and Sounds of a Continent
  "This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries, as well as a large number of difficult to find texts that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study."

• Global Music Archive
  "The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas."

• Smithsonian Folkways
  Users can search the entire collection of Smithsonian Folkways recordings and download liner notes. The actual music is available through Music Online. You will need a library card to access the music. In addition to the recordings, Smithsonian Folkways has a selection of podcasts and short videos, as well as radio streams.

• World and Traditional Music
  Several genres of music are represented:old-time music; country and bluegrass; folk revival; rhythm, blues, and boogie; African-American, and an eclectic mix.

The Library subscribes to many databases that provide access to thousands of popular and credible, scholarly journals. Many databases provide access to full-text articles, while some provide information about the article only (citation). Request (for free!) through Interlibrary Loan copies of articles to which the Library doesn't have full-text access.

Databases - Best Bets

• Academic Search Complete

Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.

• Academic OneFile

Multidisciplinary database covering a wide range of academic areas.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete
  This database includes full text for 301 journals in the areas of communication, mass media and speech.

Evaluating Websites

Who can publish on the Internet? Anyone. Learn how to evaluate websites on the Library's guide to Evaluating Websites.

English language web resources

• Fuji Television Network (English / Japanese Languages)
  Of note, over 50 short videos on a variety of topics. Most in Japanese language with English sub-titles.

• Japanese Language Lessons
  Learn useful Japanese phrases and expressions through an audio drama. This resource includes fifty lessons and a skills test.

• NHK World: Japan's Public Broadcasting Service - English
  Japan's public broadcasting service provides links to the latest news from the perspective of Japanese news sources.

• NHK Radio Programs
  The latest news occurring in Japan and around the world.

• Kidon Media Link
  Provides links to several Japanese and English-language online news sites.

• This Is Japan
  English-language news show that reports on business, technology and society-related issues. Note links to previous shows on right side of screen.

  
  

  Japanese language web resources

  Translate the Page

  Some of the websites listed below are in Japanese language. Chrome web browser does have a language translation function. When Chrome detects that a website is written in a language other than English, Chrome will offer to translate the website. Download Chrome and follow the directions below.
  
  While the translations at times are not perfect, you will get a general context of the translated text.

• FNN News
  News from the Fuji Network News

• Fuji Television Network (English / Japanese Languages)
  Of note, over 50 short videos on a variety of topics. Most in Japanese language with English sub-titles.

• Fuji Television Network (Japanese Language)
• Japanese Language Lessons
  Learn useful Japanese phrases and expressions through an audio drama. This resource includes fifty lessons and a skills test.

• NHK Radio Programs - Japanese Language
  The latest news occurring in Japan and around the world.

• Kidon Media Link
  Provides links to several Japanese and English-language online news sites.

• Tokyo TV (Japanese Language)
• TV Asahi ANN News
  Japanese-language news clips covering a wide variety of topics.

• TV Tokyo
  Japanese-Language news and talk shows.

• Wowow FreeTV
  Free Japanese-language live and recorded programming.

Webinar Recordings

• APA Citing and Formatting" (Joy, 12/10/13)
• MLA Citing and Formatting (Joy, 12/04/13)
• Using Google for Research (Jenn, 11/06/13)
• How to Avoid Plagiarism (Christine, 6/25/13)
• Research Basics: Getting Started (Jenn, 7/09/13)

also:
Introduction to Adobe Connect (Jenn, 9/06/12)

Instruction Calendar and Classroom Scheduling Policy

To log into the Instruction Calendar:

• Go to the Outlook Web App https://mail.cod.edu/
• Login with the Instruction Calendar login and password

Classroom Scheduling Policy

“The library instruction classrooms are heavily used, with priority given to the librarians, but it is possible to arrange for the use of a classroom on a one-time basis. Requests can be accepted no more than three days in advance. Contact your division librarian to reserve a classroom.”

Essential points:

• Library instruction sessions have precedence over classes without librarians. Any non-librarian classes that are scheduled out of the 3-day window should be considered tentative.
• Faculty wanting to reserve Library classrooms without a librarian must be told that such reservations are not guaranteed and could be bumped from the schedule for library instruction use any time up to 3 days before the class.
• Liaison librarians may reserve classrooms "tentatively"-- ie: make the reservation in Outlook but do not confirm the classroom with the instructor until we are within the required 3 days in advance.
• Liaison librarians will indicate within the Outlook reservation that this tentative reservation is "bumpable"-- if the classroom is needed for library instruction, the booking librarian will make other arrangements for the class.

Professional Development Opportunities

Keep an eye on our own blog posts highlighting webinars, conferences and classes: http://codlrc.org/posts/librarians

ALA Online Learning
Access ALA’s wide range of library-related online learning–covering fundamentals, advances, trends, and hot topics at ALA Online Learning. Opportunities may be available as e-forums, webinars, courses, or recorded webcasts.

ACRL e-Learning
ACRL’s e-Learning program provides a unique opportunity to participate in professional development events that are focused on practical, tangible topics and issues. ACRL offers a variety of online learning opportunities to meet the demands of your schedule and budget.">

Online Learning with RUSA
Online courses, webinars and free webinars from the Reference User Services Association.

Library Juice Academy
Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians and other library staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. These workshops earn Continuing Education Units, and are intended as professional development activities. Workshops are taught asynchronously, so you can participate as your own schedule allows.

iLibrarian
Elyssa Kroski generally provides and overview of upcoming library webinars on her blog every month.