Dance 284, Bibliography and Research - Fall Quarter 2003 - Prof. Lisa Naugle
Dance Librarian: Liza Vick, Langson Library 141, (949)824-3509, lvick@uci.edu

Library Instruction Class, October 2, 2003

Goals and outline of this session:

Dance Subject Guide - brief tour; this is a beginning research guide for dance, covering all these categories in more depth.  Use a "shortcut" to resources.

In order to access these resources you will need to have your UCINetID activated and configure your browser - follow easy and quick instructions for the proxy server in  Connecting from Home.  You'll also want to fill out loan card application and PIN (form in your packet) to activate your ID as your library card.

Four possible types of research strategies (getting started):

1. Interviewing experts (your teacher and other experts in the field). This can be a source of primary information for your paper as well as a technique for refining or focusing your topic.  Can you find enough resources to support it and is it an original enough topic for a thesis?  Is it too broad or narrow (analyze)?

2. Browsing.
 
Call number ranges for Dance
GV 1580-1799.3  Dancing
Z 7514 Dance bibliographies and catalogs

3. Footnote/Bibliography Tracking.
Find a good book or article and use the footnotes or bibliography to lead you to additional information. The assumption is that the author has researched this field and identified the most important sources.

Also try looking at bibliographies in major encyclopedias like:
International Encyclopedia of Dance. 6 vols. (Reference GV 1585 I586)
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 20 vols. (Reference ML 100 N48).

4. Structured Approach.
Use online library catalogs with Library of Congress subject headings for finding books, videos, etc.
Use indexes/abstracts to find articles, essays, book chapters, and dissertations.  More on this in next section.

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ANTPAC

Go to the UCI Libraries Homepage (http://www.lib.uci.edu) and select Antpac
What is Antpac?  UCI local online catalog for books, videos, journals, newspapers [demo searches and My Antpac].  Please utilize online Antpac tutorials.

Library of Congress subject headings:

    [and many more....Ask for the "red books" (Library of Congress subject headings) at the Langson Reference Desk]

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MELVYL

MELVYL - What is Melvyl?  Catalog for all libraries in the UC, CSU systems and and other CA libraries, materials available through inter-library loan.  We will demo the catalog and highlight the ILL Request function, personal profile and more.

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Periodical Indexes and Abstracts (and a few more...)

Why do we have them?  What are they for?  Access to journal literature -- periodicals  in library catalogs are only indexed at the title level, so we need to have databases that provide access by topic or citation to all the articles within them (in other words you can't search an article in Antpac, only journal title).  We will demo several and show how to find at UCI (use e-links or Antpac).  See also finding articles tutorial.   Here are some tips on locating the databases: Utilize common database features that we will demo such as:

Dance-specific Indexes (also visit subject guide):

New York Public Library (NYPL) Dance Collection Catalog:
http://catnyp.nypl.org/  (click on Connect to Dance Collection, bottom)
Use this as a catalog of books, archival materials, and an index to journal articles that UCI might own.  Includes all the resources of the world-renowned NYPL Dance Collection (includes videos, pamphlets, news articles) - one of the largest and most famous dance collections in the world [demo].

International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
Index to journal articles for dance, cinema, theatre, and music.  Find obituaries, research material, performance reviews and more.  We will demo searching, and locating materials at UCI (e-links coming).

Many music databases also include dance, so don't forget to consult them also.


Multi-disciplinary Indexes:

Dissertation Abstracts International  [also linked from Selected list of resources under Online Research tab, list of all e-resources]:  Index to dissertations, order these via Interlibrary Loan (usually free).  All UCI dissertations since 1997 available online in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP:is a multidisciplinary database containing full-text to selected dance journals (such as Dance Magazine) and general scholarly sources and magazines such as Time and Newsweek.

Anthropological Literature- Access to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics,  performing arts, psychology, and religious studies.

Chicano Database - Index to Mexican-American and other Latin American topics, including dance.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - Access to news/newspapers (major and smaller); great for finding performance reviews.

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) - Retrospective database of full-text articles from a variety of journals and disciplines.

Reader Guide Retrospective -  wide access to articles from a variety of journals and disciplines.

WorldCat- World-wide library catalog; provides access to library holdings for all sorts of materials (books, journals, video, archival) that can often be obtained via Inter-library loan.  Shows you which libraries hold material.  RLIN is a similar resource.

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Materials shown in class:

Video

Allegra Kent coaching excerpts from Bugaku [videorecording] / The George Balanchine Foundation ; project director, Nancy Reynolds ; editor, Virginia Brooks ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi
Published New York, N.Y. : George Balanchine Foundation, 2002

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Biographical Dictionaries

International Encyclopedia of Dance. 6 vols. (Reference GV 1585 I586 1998)
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 29 vols. (Reference ML 100 N48 2001). Online: http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html(includes dance)
International Dictionary of Ballet. 2 vols. (Reference GV 1585 I57 1993)
International Dictionary of Modern Dance. (Reference GV1585 .B46 1998)
Dance Words. (Reference GV 1585 P74 1995)
Film Choreographers and Dance Directors (Reference GV 1779 B55 1997)

Directories, Guides, and Bibliographies

Performing Arts Libraries and Musuems of the World, 4th ed. (Reference Z 675 T36 B5).
Dance on Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos. (Reference GV 1595 D342 1998)
Research in Dance: A Guide to Resources (Reference Z 7514 D2 B6 1994)
Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Reference Z 7514 D2 A33 1989)

Selected books (not shown, available in 4th floor stacks).  Also please visit the Antpac featured lists of "New Books, Videos and E-resources" regularly to see dance materials recently acquired (select Gs and jump to end):

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Tricks to finding dance videos (UCI videos housed in  Multimedia Resource Center; ask them about other special services for dance and borrowing policies) :

1. All the UCI videotapes are listed in ANTPAC. One strategy is to do a keyword search under danc* and use the "Select Collection" limit (top of menu) to limit to Fim and Video Collections.  This picks up all the videorecordings with the truncated word of dance, dancing, dances, etc.  Use help menus for tips on boolean searching and truncation.   This is not a comprehensive list. Some videos are under Ballet; or under the choreographer's name.  Keyword searching is often effective especially for variable titles and performer names.

2. On ANTPAC, do a keyword search under dance festival. This picks the American Dance Festival videotapes.  Likewise, a keyword search on Balanchine, limited to Film and Video Collections (pull-down) will bring up Balanchine archival videotapes (Balanchine Foundation coaching videos shown in class).

3. In MELVYL Catalog, do a title search under Eye on Dance (for example). There are over 450 videotapes from this "Eye on Dance" series located at UC Riverside. These videos were purchased with shared UC campus funds, so you can borrow them via Interlibrary Loan (you may want to funnel these requests through me as they normally do not circulate).  You can also use other search functionalities and limit to format videorecording to look for all videos in the sytem.  Here are some example titles from Eye on Dance: 

Some Examples:
 1. Abdel Salaam & Lloyd Newson. 1988. VIDEORECORDING
 2. Actors dancing & dancers acting. Getting the most. 1988. 
VIDEORECORDING
 3. African-American artists : spiritual influences. 1989. VIDEORECORDING
 4. Afrika Bambaataa, Henry Chalfont [i.e. Chalfant],... 1984. 
VIDEORECORDING
 5. Agnes de Mille. 1987. VIDEORECORDING
 6. Al Carmines, Carla De Sola & Bill Gordh. 1983. VIDEORECORDING
 7. Al Carmines, Carla De Sola & Bill Gordh. 1983. VIDEORECORDING
 8. Alexander Kolpin, Nikolaj Hubbe, Linda Hindberg &... 1988. 
VIDEORECORDING
 9. Alexandra Danilova & Frederic Franklin. 1985. VIDEORECORDING
10. Alexandre Proia, James Sewell. 1992. VIDEORECORDING
11. Alicia Alonso, Arthur Mitchell & Arnold Spohr. 1987. VIDEORECORDING
12. Alma Law, Phil Lee & Beverly Emmons. 1983. VIDEORECORDING
13. Alvin Ailey. 1989. VIDEORECORDING
14. Alvin McDuffie, Wade Goss, Phil & Robin Black. 1982. VIDEORECORDING
15. Alvin McDuffie, Wade Goss, Phil & Robin Black. 1982. VIDEORECORDING
16. Alwin Nickolais [i.e. Nikolais]. 1984. VIDEORECORDING
[Arts students also have access to materials in the Arts Media Center]
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Internet Research

List of search engines.  As with print resources, evaluation and critical thinking are very important when using or citing internet sites (most manuals have citation formats now -- remember that citing full-text articles online is not the same as citing free web sites).  Evaluation criteria include:


Just a few selected internet sites:

Style Manuals - Citing sources

List of style manuals (formats for citing sources in your bibliography, giving credit to authors of research you draw upon).
You can find most major style guides in print in Antpac.
Some information on plagiarism


Where to go for help

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What next?
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