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COURSE SYLLABI AND OUTLINES FOR LIBRARY USER EDUCATION

Information Literacy: Developing a Course in Music Bibliography for Undergraduates / Gregg S. Geary. University of Hawaii, Manoa. 2/98.

Notes from a presentation given at the Music Library Association Annual Conference in February 1997. Topic includes tips for preparing a course in music bibliography for undergraduates stressing information literacy and critical thinking skills. Includes course syllabus, examples of weekly assignments, an exam, and bibliography.

Available at: http://www.sinclair.hawaii.edu/muse/music261.html   Paper copies from Gregg Geary (geary@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu), Music Librarian, University of Hawaii, Sinclair Library, 2426 Campus Road, Honolulu, HI 96822.

Introduction to Graduate Study in Music / Brian Cockburn. James Madison University. 9/96. 1980 B.

A well-organized set of networked course materials, including syllabus, assignments, and lists of sources.

Available at http://library.jm u.edu/music/mus600/Mus600-Syllabus.html

Worksheets in Basic Music Library Research Skills / Gordon Callon. Acadia University. 2/96.

A set of eleven fairly comprehensive worksheets developed for a class of second-year undergraduate music majors. The worksheets, which feature explanatory text and assignments, are divided as follows:
1. LC Classification and online catalogs
2. Using Email lists and the WWW
3. Primary sources - autograph scores
4. Primary sources - collected sets
5. Primary sources - letters & iconography
6. Primary sources - memoirs
7. Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
8. Reference books
9. Music Index
10. RISM
11. Collected Editions & Historical Sets

Available at ftp://ace.acadiau.ca/music/2273/

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