Introduction to The Online Library Catalog

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Introduction to The On-line Library Catalog

• What is included in a catalog record?

• Description

• Analysis

Search Choose 11
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Library Catalog (cont.)

• This record shows description and analysis

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Library catalog (cont.)

• How is it displayed?

MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging format)
Search, then choose 97 on p.5
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Online Catalog Record

• Here is one of the resulting books
• One of the few in which the title is exactly what
  was entered

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Library Catalog -3

• How does the online catalog know where to look
  for Rossini?
• How does the search engine know to display ONLY
  titles with rossini and NOT authors or subject
  headings with rossini?

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MARC RECORD
100author
245title
260 publisher
Where does this page come from?
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OCLC
OCLC Online Computer Library Center Originally
OCLC Ohio College Library Center OCLC
WorldCat
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LIBRARY CALL NUMBERS

• WHAT DOES THE CALL NUMBER MEAN?

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CLASSIFICATION

• Library of Congress Call Numbers

• M s are for MUSIC
• M Scores
• ML Books (Music Literature)
• MT Books (Music Theory and Instruction)

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M3s or COMPLETE WORKS

• Why arent they consistent?
• M3 .B1133 (Bach)
• M3 .B3 (Barbireau)
• Why do the catalog records look different?
• Usually it is COMPOSER OUTPUT

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More on Call numbers

• Why are they important?
• The call number isnt random, it represents
  the item
• M200 2 players
• M300 3 players

• M1500 / M1503
• M2000 / M2003
• ML410 / ML416-20

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SEARCHING FOR MUSIC

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Why is searching for music different than
searching for books?

• What is the difference between searching for
  Twains Tom Sawyer and Beethovens Eroica
  Symphony?

• Symphony has a variety of title possibilities
• The Symphony title could be in any language
• In music, same title used by many composers
  (generic titles like Sonata)

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QUESTION

• How does the online catalog HANDLE all the titles
  that are like these (below) in the online
  catalog? (by various composers, in various
  languages, etc.)

• Symphony in G
• Sonata 2
• String Quartet, op.2
• Etude (etc.)

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ANSWER

• By ADDING another title (called a Uniform Title)
  that is uniform for all examples of the same
  work.

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UNIFORM TITLE???

• WHAT the
• ?
• IS
• THAT?

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HERE IS AN EXAMPLE.

• Dvoraks New World Symphony may have any one of
  these as its title (all in English)
• Symphony op. 95
• Symphony in E minor
• London Symphony
• Symphony, no.9
• New World Symphony

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MORE examples

• These are NOT in English
• Symphonie Nr. 9, e-moll
• Aus der Neuen Welt
• Symphony no. 5 i.e. 9 in E minor op. 95 (From
  the New World)
• Du nouveau monde

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EXAMPLE (cont.)

• The music for of these examples is THE SAME.
• The title on the score or CD is DIFFERENT for each

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EXAMPLE (cont.)

• SOin the online catalog, each piece has an ADDED
  TITLE that is the SAME (Uniform) for each so
  the user knows that all of these
• Symphony 104, by Dvorak
• Symphony in D, by Dvorak
• London Symphony, by Dvorak
• Symphony, no.4, by Dvorak
• New World Symphony by Dvorak
• ARE THE SAME MUSIC.

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Dvoraks New World Symphony

• Uniform title is
• Symphonies, no. 9, op. 9, E minor
• (Why is it plural?)

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YOU MAY ASK

• BUT HOW DOES THE UNIFORM TITLE HELP ME?
• OR
• WHO CARES?

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TRY IT YOURSELF

• Search for music that has a GENRE title (sonata,
  mass, symphony) as opposed to a distinctive title
  (like Aida or Vier ernste Gesange)
• Look at the record and find the uniform title
• Search again using the uniform title information

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USING the Uniform title

• Find ONE EXAMPLE in the online catalog for
  Dvoraks New World Symphony. Note the uniform
  title
• Personal author Dvorak, Antonin, 1841-1904.
  Uniform title Symphonies, no. 9,
  op. 9, E minor
• Title New World Symphony

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Using the U.T. for searching (cont.)

• Now search
• op 9 no 9
• dvorak
• with
• and see...

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Results of kdvorak and op 9 no 9
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Why dont ALL catalog records have uniform titles?

• Search author badings henk
• Look at 6, then 7
• BECAUSE
• 6 has a distinctive title, no need for uniform
  title
• 7 has a generic title, so it has a uniform
  title

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BUT WHO CARES about a U.T.?

• THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO FIND ALL POSSIBLE HITS
  FOR A SEARCH or IF FINDING ONE EXAMPLE OF
  SOMETHING IS DIFFICULTE

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Why use the Uniformt title?

• Usually for printed or recorded music, not print
  items.
• Once you know what elements are included in a
  uniform title, you can find other examples of
  that work more easily
• Find ONE example, look at the U.T., then search
  again.

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HERE IS THE ROUTINE

• FIND ONE EXAMPLE
• LOOK at the UNIFORM TITLE
• USE THAT information to search again

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PRACTICE THE ROUTINE

• by looking at the catalog screen you found
  earlier, FIND that example, LOOK at the Uniform
  title, SEARCH AGAIN using facts from the uniform
  title
• Find one example
• Look at the uniform title
• Search again

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TRY THIS

• Do a Simple Search for Drum Roll Symphony
• Do not add a material designation
• Look at one that answers your search question
• Using the information on this bibliographic
  record, search again.

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and NOW

• Limit your search so you find only the SCORES for
  this
• Go to the bottom of the search screen
• Set MATERIAL TYPE to Musical Scores

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SUBJECT HEADINGS

• In the online catalog

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SUBJECT HEADINGS

• Subject heading is related to call number, for
  example,
• Symphonies M1001
• Violin music M40- M44
• Copland, Aaron ML410.C756

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Subject headings-2
What does that mean?
I dont know!

• Subject
• headings must be entered in an authorized form

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Authorized subject heading

• Do this search SUBJECT canines

You get 0 hits WHY?
Because the AUTHORIZED subject heading is
DOGS not CANINES
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IF I DONT KNOW THIS, HOW DO I FIND WHAT I NEED?

• Do a TITLE search for CANINE
• Look at the subject heading
• Do a BROWSE- SUBJECT SEARCH USING DOGS
• Nearly 300 hits

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Using SUBJECT HEADINGS

• TO REVIEW
• Find one example
• Look at the subject heading
• Search again using that heading

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Sound familiar?

• It is the ADVICE as was given for searching using
  Uniform Titles
• Search using WHATEVER YOU KNOW
• Look at the Heading (Uniform title OR subject
  heading)
• SEARCH AGAIN using information from the heading
  you saw

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NOW IT IS YOUR TURN

• TRY IT with vocal pedagogy
• What is the proper Subject Heading?

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Three TYPES of subject headings

• Form
• Topical
• Names

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Form subject headings

• Form (not about anything)
• Symphonies
• Dictionaries
• Songs English
• Always plural
• Note SUBDIVISIONS

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Topical subject headings

• Answers the question, What is this item about?
• musical instruments -- China
• musicology
• african americans
• Note subdivisions

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Name Subject Headings

• When an item is about a person
• Used for biographical works
• Added for the author of text set to music
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861Musical
  settings.

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How does one Determine the correct subject
heading?

• Trial and error is one way
• Try this and that until you get what you want
• OFTEN it works!

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(determining subject headings)

• At the very CONTROLLED extreme we have . .

• LCSH (a five-volume set of all the subject
  headings)
• Find a copy and LOOK IT UP! (Middleton Ref Desk

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Subject headings

• 1.Find one example using keyword searching
• 2.Look at the subject heading
• 3. Search again using that heading

• The middle of the road respond is to use the
  3-step method

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KEYWORD SEARCHING

• Doing a Keyword Search
• Use ANY search box
• Click on Keyword in the left box
• REMEMBER The catalog cant correct your spelling
• Wont find hits for saxaphone
• Cant read your mind or truncate
• Cant find dog in dogs with keyword

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BROWSE searching

• On the Advanced Search page, click Browse in
  the box on the right side
• This allows a left-to-right search
• EXAMPLE
• Search in AUTHOR Whites
• This will retrieve the following
• Whites, Whitesboro, Whitesell, etc.

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BOOLEAN SEARCHING

• BOOLEAN TECHNIQUES
• Truncation
• Operators
• Nesting

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TRUNCATION?

• TO TRUNCATE To shorten by or as if by cutting
  off
• When you search using truncation, you CUT OFF
  some of the letters of a word.
• Why would you do that?
• TO GET MORE HITS

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Truncation use ? Or

• Use ? to substitute for any letter
• SEE MUSIC RESOURCES HOMEPAGE for tutorials
• When searching sonat? you get SONAT one
  letter or zero letters
• Sonata, sonat, sonate, etc.)
• (single character or 0 character substitution)

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Truncation (cont)

• Use to substitute for multiple letters
• When searching sonat you would get SONAT
  one or MORE letters
• Sonata, sonatas, sonatina, sonatinas, sonaten,
  sonate
• (multiple character substitution)

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Truncation

• NOTE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEARCHING these two
  terms
• Sonat?
• Sonat

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Keyword Operators

• Which is MORE inclusive, AND or OR?
• Which would get more hits
• boys AND girls
• boys or girls ?

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And the winner is

• boys OR girls

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A Diagram of search results

• kboys and girls
• The result is GREEN (or plaid)
• kboys or girls
• Results are blue, green yellow (stripe and
  plaid)
• kboys not girls
• Results are blue green (vertical stripes
  plaid)

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Nesting

• The Online catalog allows search expressions to
  be grouped or nested using parentheses.
• It searches the expression located in the
  innermost set of parentheses first, and then
  continues the search, moving outward to the terms
  at the edges of the expression.

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Nesting

• AN EXAMPLE SEARCH

(child or children) and ((toy or toys) or
entertainment)
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NESTING

• First Step, the innermost set of parentheses
• (child or children) and ( (toy or toys) or
  entertainment)
• toy or toys (2240 hits)
• entertainment (2778 hits)

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Second step

• Now the Catalog combines the nested search with
  entertainment
• ((toy or toys) or entertainment)

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Nesting third step

• Now the Catalog searched (child or children)
• CHILD or CHILDREN 135677 hits
• Lastly, the Catalog combines these search
  pieces
• (child or children) and ((toy or toys) or
  entertainment) and the result is.

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FINALLY

• (child or children) and ((toy or toys) or
  (entertainment))
• RESULT IS

1476 hits
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HELP SCREENS

• Too much to remember, where is it written down?

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How to access HELP

• Open the online catalog
• Click on help

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HELP SCREENS
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OTHER SOURCES OF HELP

• Music Resources Website
• http//www.lib.lsu.edu/music/

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I THINK SHES FINALLY DONE!