Dance 284:  Bibliography and Research
Fall Quarter 2006 - Prof. Nancy Ruyter
Library Instruction Workshop
October 5 - Orientation to Library Research,
Including Special Collections (Steve MacLeod, Special Collections Librarian, smacleod@uci.edu)
 
 Instructor:  Christina J. Woo
(Acting) Performing Arts Librarian
146 Langson Library
University of California-Irvine
(949) 824-4974
cjwoo@uci.edu

Library Instruction Class, October 5, 2006, 12-1:20pm
Langson Library Room 570

Goals and outline of this session:

Dance Subject Guide - Beginning research guide for dance, covering all these categories in more depth.  Use as a "shortcut" to resources. (From the Libraries' home page, http://www.lib.uci.edu ), click on Subject Guides, and then on D, then on Dance

In order to access these resources from off-campus, you will need to activate your UCINetID and then take only a few min. to set up your computer for remote access -- follow easy and quick instructions for the VPN server in  Connecting from Home.  You'll also want to fill out loan card application and PIN (form in your packet) to activate your UCI photo ID as your library card.  You will need to do this in person at the Langson Library Loan Desk.

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 in the Langson Library 
 
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 topic and identified the most important sources.

Also try looking at bibliographies in major encyclopedias, such as :
International Encyclopedia of Dance. 6 vols. (Langson Reference GV 1585 I586)
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 29 vols. (Langson Reference ML 100 N48 2001).

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, the UCI Libraries' online catalog

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--use this for Subject Heading searching (more focused than keyword searching):

These are only a sampling of the many subject headings searched by Dance researchers.  Whenever you find something in ANTPAC that looks useful/relevant for your research, take advantage of the links to the subject headings (look for the terms listed at "Subj-lcsh").  When you're in the ANTPAC brief record, click on "Full Record & Availability."  Examine the subject headings in this record, and click on a subject heading to see other materials at UCI with the same subject heading.

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MELVYL

MELVYL - What is Melvyl?  It's the combined online catalog for all UC libraries in the UC libraries; it includes ANTPAC.  Materials not available at UCI (not owned or currently checked out) are available through InterLibrary Loan (ILL).  We will demo the catalog and highlight the ILL Request function, personal profile and more.

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Journal/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 the UCI Libraries' Dance 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.

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.  UC-eLinks are embedded in the records of this database, so use them to see if the full-text is available in the UCI Libraries (online, on paper, or both)

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


Multi-disciplinary Indexes:

Digital Dissertations  [also linked from Databases to get you started under E-Resources Locator link on the Libraries' home page-- http://www.lib.uci.edu]:  Index to dissertations on all subjects, back to 1861.  For those not available at UCI, borrow these via Interlibrary Loan at no cost.  All UCI dissertations since 1997 are 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 news magazines such as Time and Newsweek.

Anthropology Plus- 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.

LexisNexis 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 InterLibrary loan.  Shows you which libraries worldwide own particular materials--searchable by title, author, subject heading, etc..  RLG Catalog is a similar resource.

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Materials shown in class:

 

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Biographical Dictionaries
   All titles in this section are in paper in the Langson Library Reference collection (1st fl.), except for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which is online in full-text as well

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) - 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
   All titles in this section are in paper in the Langson Library Reference collection (1st fl.)

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 (new and on new topics, available in Langson Library, 4th floor).  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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Tips for finding dance videos (UCI videos/DVDs are housed in the Langson Library's Multimedia Resource Center; ask them about other special services for dance and borrowing policies) :

1. All the UCI videotapes/DVDs 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 Film 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. In 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 the 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 (put "joint purchase" in the Special Instructions field when you request).  You can also use other search functionalities and limit to format videorecording to look for all videos in the sytem. 

[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 (authoritative and of interest):

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
UCI students may take advantage of a campus-wide site license to Refworks (see http://www.refworks.com) to use bibliographic management software to create and manage personal libraries/folders of records.  At this site, click on Login and sign up for a free individual account.  For a brief introduction to this topic and a comparison of RefWorks and EndNote (a similar product), see
Bibliographic Management Software (http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/bms.html )


Where to go for help

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