Workshop of the Month: Primary Sources

Workshop of the Month: Primary Sources

Welcome!

We hope that, amid the frenzy of the new semester, you have not forgotten that the third round of the iPod Nano contest is about to begin!

Throughout the week of January 25-28, Tarver Library is offering four opportunities to participate in our next Workshop of the Month. This time, it's on Primary Sources: what they are, who can use them, where to get them, and how they can enhance your research.

It is not too late to join the race for the grand prize of an iPod Nano!

Learn more at the Workshops page

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Recently, Tarver Library had to upgrade the electronic certificates which confirm that our server is a "safe" place to which you can connect. Unfortunately, several major browsers do not currently recognize the latest version of this certificate. This means that when you try to connect to any database with "https://" at the beginning of the URL you may receive a serious sounding warning from your Web browser such as "Untrusted Connection" or something related to the certificate issuer not being recognized.

If you experience such a message and you are linking to a subscription database from the library Web site or linking from one part of a subscription database to another part (e.g. inside Ebrary, trying to log into your personal account), you are safe to make an exception and continue past the warning. This is not recommended for links that take you out of a subscription database to the open Web.

As browsers are updated, as they regularly are, these warnings should cease over time. Please don't hesitate to contact the reference librarian (478.301.2055) for assistance.

More new music scores

The following music scores are now available at the Media Center:



Barber: Complete Piano Music, M22 .B36 M8 1993

Berio: Sinfonia, M1528 .B48 S5 1999

Britten: Death In Venice, M1503 .B8606 D4 1975

Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, M1503 .B74 M52 1960

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, M1503 .B862 R3 2004

Britten: The Turn of the Screw, M1503 .B8608 T84 1957

Caccini: L’Euridice, M1500 .C33 E9 2001

Carter: Concerto for Orchestra, M1003 .C27 C6 1972

Carter: String Quartet No. 2, M452 .C245 no.2 1998

Copland: The Tender Land, M1503 .C784 T4 1956

Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore, M1503 .S949 H42 2002

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers, M1503 .G949 G66 1941

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado, M1503 .S949 M5 2000

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance, M1503 .S949 P5 2001

Ligeti: Atmospheres, M1045 .L73 A8 2000z

Ligeti: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, M1016 .L64 1969

Lutoslawski: Livre pour Orchestre, M1045 .L975 L5 1969

Massenet: Werther, M1503 .M428 W4 1998

Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, M3 .M896 Ser. II v.5 pt.12 suppl.

Mozart: Idomeneo, M3 .M896 Ser, II v.5 pt. 11 suppl.

Prokofieff: Symphony No. 2 , M1001 .P96 op. 40 1983

Rochberg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, M1012 .R67 2007

Rochberg: String Quartet No. 3, M452 .R67 no. 3 1976

Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder, M1530 .S365 G8 1986

Varese: Ionisation, M985 .V3 I66 2000



Please share this list with anyone you think would be interested. Also, please continue to share any suggestions with the Media Center Supervisor, Richard Marcum. Most of the funds for scores have been spent for 09-10, but collection development is an ongoing project, and wish lists are continually compiled so that we are prepared when funds are available.



Richard Marcum

Media Center Supervisor

Mercer University Tarver Library

478.301.2967

marcum_rg@mercer.edu

New Music Scores and Recordings

Music Scores
Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances, M1060 .B28 R8 1939
Britten, Simple Symphony, M1101 .B85 S5 1935
Copland: Emblems, M1245 .C67 E43 1965
Crumb: A Haunted Landscape, M1045 .C945 H4 1984
Dahl: Sinfonietta, M1201 .D34 S5 1969
Dello Joio: Scenes from “The Louvre” (full score + parts), M1245 .D45 S3 1966
Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy, M1203 .G73 B75 2008
Hindemith: Symphony in B-flat, M1201 .H66 S9 1979
Holst: Brook Green Suite, M1103 .H65 B7 1980z
Holst: Brook Green Suite (full score + parts), M1103 .H78 B7 1962
Holst: First Suite in E-flat (full score + CD), M1203 .H73 op.28 no. 1 1984
Holst: Second Suite in F, M1203 .H73 op.28 no.2 1984
Holst: St. Paul’s Suite (full score + parts), M1103 .H647 S2 1950
Vincent Persichetti: Symphony for Band, M1201 .P44 op. 69 1958
Schuman: George Washington Bridge, M1245 .S342 G4 1990z
Shostakovich: Festive Overture (full score + parts), M1255 .S56 F47 2000z
Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite, M1203 .V38 F64
Warlock: Capriol Suite for String Orch. (full score + parts), M1103 .W277 1927

Recordings
Compact Disc 5830: Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 1-9, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Norfol Rhapsody no. 1, The Lark Ascending, In The Fen Country, On Wenlock Edge; Bernard Haitink, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarah Chang, Ian Bostridge

Compact Disc 5831: Penderecki: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, De Natura Sonoris Nos. 1 & 2; Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki

Compact Disc 5832: Lutoslawski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, Symphonic Variations, Musique funebre, Concerto for orch., Jeux venitiens, Livre pour orchestra, Mi-parti; Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Witold Lutoslawski

Featured Government Website in January

Science.gov – a search engine just for science

Are you aware that federal agencies across the United States generate a wealth of scientific information ranging from materials geared for the general public to highly technical research reports?

“Science.gov is a gateway to government science information and research results. Currently in its fifth generation, Science.gov provides a search of over 40 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2000 scientific Websites” (see Science.gov fact sheet).

This wonderful science website represents a collaborative effort by a group of government agencies to select and share the best of their online science information. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 18 U.S. government science organizations within 14 Federal Agencies. These agencies form the voluntary Science.gov Alliance which governs Science.gov.

Topics include:

• Agriculture & Food
• Applied Science & Technologies
• Astronomy & Space
• Biology & Nature
• Computers & Communication & Mathematics
• Earth & Ocean Sciences
• Energy & Energy Conservation
• Environment & Environmental Quality
• Health & Medicine
• Physics & Chemistry
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Science Education

If you are interested in learning more about this website, please feel free to contact Liya Deng, Government Documents Librarian at Tarver Library. She is happy to help you with researching government produced science resources.

Hot Document in January

Projections of Education Statistics To 2018

"This publication provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment and earned degrees conferred expenditures of degree-granting institutions. For the Nation, the tables, figures, and text contain data on enrollment, teachers, graduates, and expenditures for the past 14 years and projections to the year 2018. For the 50 States and the District of Columbia, the tables, figures, and text contain data on projections of public elementary and secondary enrollment and public high school graduates to the year 2018. In addition, the report includes a methodology section describing models and assumptions used to develop national and state-level projections."

Tarver Library has the print copy of this document in its government documents collection.