JAVS Fall 2000

VoL 16 No.3

100

jOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY

The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University (home ofPIVA) recently migrated to a new online catalog. The catalog system is now stable and can be accessed via the Internet by violists throughout the world. This report will explain how to search for viola materials in the catalog and will outline procedures for requesting specific titles through interlibrary loan.

(the default mode) follow these steps: Leave LIBRARY pop-up menu set at ALL. Leave the SELECT SEARCH TYPE option set to KEYWORD. Enter keywords from the composer's name and title of the work. For example, "bloch AND suite" (upper and lower case are not important). Common boolean operators including AND, OR, and NOT can be used to combine keywords. Then click on the SEARCH EVERY THING button. If your choice of keywords is limited to the composer's name or title only, then click on the corresponding AUTHOR or TITLE button. Subject searching can be more complicat ed. Subject information in the catalog is based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the Zeyringer classification scheme for viola music. If you are familiar with either of these systems enter keywords (e.g., "viola AND duets") and then click on the SUBJECT button. If you are not certain of terminology used in the subject headings, then enter com mon descriptive terms for musical genres and click on SEARCH EVERYTHING. The truncation symbol of the dollar sign (e.g., "sonar$") retrieves sonata, sonaten, sonates, etc. The results of the search are first displayed in a list showing only call number and title page information. To view the full citation for the item, click on the VIEW button on the left side. In the full citation display titles, author names, and subject terms are highlighted and underlined in blue. Clicking on any of these highlighted phrases will initiate a new search on the corresponding author, title, or subject. To print the results of a search you must first tag citations by clicking in the checkbox positioned at the upper left. Click on the

PIVA is the official archive of the Inter national and the American Viola societies. We wish to be user-friendly and to aid you in your needs regarding the viola repertoire. Holdings of PIVA now consist of approxi mately 5,000 scores that feature the viola. Some of the older editions and manuscript scores can be photocopied for a modest fee. Although many scores are protected by copy right and may not be photocopied, PIVA is able to loan these materials through inter library loan. USING THE CATALOG The catalog will display all of the pub lished scores and sound recordings in the viola collection. Most of the published scores are available to borrow through interlibrary loan. Commercial sound recordings are not loaned at present. Manuscript scores, rare editions, and materials in fragile condition are also not available for loan, but in most cases may be photocopied for a modest fee. The Internet URL for the BYU library homepage is www.lib.byu.edu/newhome.html. Anyone with access to the Internet should be able to use the catalog. Some users who receive their Internet access from America Online have reported problems making the connec tion. To use the online catalog it is necessary to have either Internet Explorer version 4.x or Netscape version 3.x (or a higher version of either) running on your own computer. The catalog may not function properly with earlier versiOns. Once you have made the connection to the BYU Library home page, select the option LIBRARY CATALOGS-BYU LIBRARY. The catalog can be searched in four different modes. BASIC SEARCH and ADVANCED SEARCH are the two most useful search modes for PIVA. To use BASIC SEARCH