JAVS Fall 2003

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The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University is home to the Primrose International Viola Archive. Their library catalog sys tem can be accessed via the Internet by violists throughout the world. The following instructions explain how to search for viola materials in the catalog and describe procedures for requesting specific tides through the interli brary loan process. PN A is the official archive of the International and the American Viola societies. We wish to be user friendly and to aid you in your needs regarding the viola reper toire. The holdings of PN A now consist of approximately 5,000 scores that feature the viola. Some of the older editions and manu script scores can be photocopied for a modest fee. Although many scores are protected by copyright and may not be photocopied, PIVA is able to loan these materials through inter-library loan. The catalog will display all of the published scores and sound record ings 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 avail able for loan, but in most cases may be photocopied for a modest fee. Using the Catalog

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 connection. To use the online catalog it is necessary to have either Internet Explorer ver sion 4.x or Netscape version 3.x (or a higher version of either) run ning on your computer. The cata log may not function properly with earlier versions. Once you have made the connec tion 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 PNA. To use BASIC SEARCH (the default mode) follow these steps: 1. Leave LIBRARY pop-up menu set at ALL. 2. Leave the SELECT SEARCH TYPE option set to KEY WORD. 3. Enter keywords from the com poser's name and tide of the BASIC SEARCH 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. 4. Then click on the SEARCH EVERYTHING button. Ifyour choice of keywords is limited to the composer's name or tide only, then click on the corresponding AUTHOR or TITLE button. SUBJECT SEARCH Subject searching can be more com plicated. Subject information in the catalog is based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings and the Zeyringer classification scheme for viola music. Ifyou are familiar with either of these systems enter key words (e.g., "viola AND duets") and then click on the SUBJECT button. Ifyou are not certain of terminology used in the subject headings, then enter common descriptive terms for musical genres and click on SEARCH EVERYTHING. The truncation symbol of the dollar sign (e.g., "sonat$") retrieves sonata, sonaten, sonates, etc. The results of the search are first displayed in a list showing only call number and tide page information. To view the full citation for the item, click on the VIEW button on the left side. In the full cita tion display tides, author names, and subject terms are highlighted and underlined in blue. Clicking on any of these highlighted phras es will initiate a new search on the corresponding author, tide, or subject.

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