LIBR 600 Bibliography of Music

Syllabus of Record (2020-)

 

Instructor:  Dr. Carl Rahkonen, Cogswell Hall 101C 8:00 am–3:00 pm M-F; Call or e-mail for an appointment 724-357-5644 Rahkonen@iup.edu; http://www.people.iup.edu/rahkonen

Course Web-site:  http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/musiclib/MusBib/

Purpose: To develop information literacy skills for graduate-level music research: knowing the organization of music materials within a library and on the Web, how to find and appraise research sources, how to identify and use standard reference and research tools in music, how to find scholarly materials and cite them properly in a bibliography.

Course requirements:  weekly discussion and assignments in class, midterm and final exams, and final project.

Grades: participation in weekly assignments and quizzes (250 points, 42%); midterm and final exams (200 points, 33%); final project (150 points, 25%).

Suggested text:  ACRL Framework for Information Literacy (FIL); found on the web and on the D2L course site; A style manual of your choice, Turabian 9th ed. (2019), the MLA Handbook 8th ed, (2016), or APA 7th ed. (2020) or one of the many on-line style guides based on these editions.

 

Lesson    Topics

   1.         Introduction to the Course / The Research Process / Materials within a Music Library / Music Library History / Classifying and cataloging / Scholarly writing

   2.         Bibliographical citation.  Study: MLA 8th ed. guides.  Homework: Final Project topics.

   3.         Internet Literacy (Music on the World Wide Web).  Read: FIL: Research as Inquiry. 

   4.         Encyclopedias / Dictionaries.  Read:  FIL: Authority is Constructed and Contextual.  Study:  Slonimsky “Preface…”

   5.         Library catalogs.   Read: FIL: Searching as Strategic Exploration.

   6.         Uniform titles / Music Subject Headings.

                           Midterm Review (MIDTERM EXAM opens on D2L)

   7.         Indexes of Music Literature.  Read:  FIL: Scholarship as a Conversation.

   8.         Bibliographies / RISM / Sound Recording / Discographies.  Read: RISM at IUP; Rahkonen “Audio…”

   9.         Thematic Catalogs / Collected Editions.  FIL: Information Creation as a Process.

  10.        Ethnomusicology / Popular Music, Jazz, Blues / Musical instruments. Read: Rahkonen “World Music” articles.

  11.        Miscellaneous Reference Tools / Iconography.  Reading: FIL: Information has Value.

  12.        Copyright and intellectual property in music.  Study the course copyright page and the IUP Copyright Guidelines. 

               Final Review / FINAL PROJECTS DUE       

               FINAL EXAM open on D2L

 

 

LIBR600                                    A GUIDE TO THE COURSE WORK

 

I.  FLIPPED CLASSROOM

For this course, I am using a “flipped” model of classroom learning.  In other words, each student will be responsible for studying the material on D2L for the weekly topics before class and come prepared for its practical application.   There will be a short quiz available for each lesson, which will be available while you study.  Please take the quiz as soon as you feel ready.  This will provide starting points for discussion during class.

 


II. WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS:

 

We will complete assignments weekly in class, which will be used to provide practical experience for the topics of that day and will also provide an opportunity to collect materials for the final project.   Please come to class prepared with your mobile devices and/or laptops.   As part of these assignments, you will keep a running narrative of your citations and research experiences, which will provide material for your Final Project.

 

 

III. THE FINAL PROJECT

·   Each student will also be required to complete a Music Bibliography Final Project of publishable quality on a music subject of your choice.  The project will be a brief state of research paper (narrative) with an accompanying bibliography (or list of sources cited).  You can think of this as the literature review part of a thesis.  This paper should serve your research and publication needs, such as being a chapter of a thesis, section of a research proposal, or content for a web-site or other on-line resource.

·   The Final Project will be worth 150 points.  You must first give a title to the project, which defines its topic and scope.  You will be allowed to refine your topic as you discover more information.

·   You should determine the important authorities (scholars) who have published on this topic, the societies or other groups involved with research on your topic, and how and why these sources of information were created.   You should be thorough in covering your topic in all formats (books, parts of books, periodical articles, sound recordings, video and other media, and the open digital materials from the World Wide Web) and more importantly to be able to appraise the quality of the sources you discover.  You must write your own appraisals and not use language from other sources without citation.

·   Use your readings and class discussions of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy (FIL) to help you think about the content of your paper.  Each of these frames will give you a way to describe what information you discover about your topic.

·   For the bibliography, use standard forms based on the MLA Handbook 8th edition.  You should write in standard, plain English, with complete sentences.

·   I will monitor your progress on D2L to examine the sources you have found and how your information literacy experience is progressing.  I will be happy meet with you individually and to read and correct preliminary drafts.

 

 

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