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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)
Alerting Services, see Current Awareness & Alerting Services
All UConn Databases (or try this alternative or this alternative)
Alumni (Information for)
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)
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
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
Cookson, Frank see Frank B. Cookson Reading Room
Copiers, see Photocopies
Copy Cards, see Husky One 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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Education, see Databases -- Music Education
eJournal Locator (alternative URL)
Electronic Journals, see eJournal Locator
Electronic Course Reserves (submitted through Babbidge Library). 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
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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I
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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J

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 MyHOMER button.
Library instruction (Music/Drama)
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 (your personal account in HOMER; renew and recall materials here)

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N
Naxos Music Library (online CDs played over the Internet, plus instructor guide)
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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Q

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)

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
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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V

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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