Re: searching for obscure objects

[Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Helen:
Yes, I just gave that as an example of an author you had listed on your
bibliography. Good luck.
Judy
At 07:43 PM 6/7/00 MDT, you wrote:
>Dear Judy,
>Thanks for your recommendations.  Will see where they lead.  I do know that 
>most of Fred Berk's work focussed on creation of new Israeli dances and most 
>of the published materials tend to focus on the new Israeli dance rather 
>than the dances that came before.  Quite often the Eastern Europeans dances 
>were taken and changed to reflect the spirit of the new country, Israel.
>But, it never hurts to look again.
>Helen
>
>
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>Helen:
>I hope the following will help.
>
>I took the liberty of taking a look at your local University of Calgary
>catalog online. What you have is a catalog of books and holdings
>specifically for that UofCalgary library. The "web cat" is basically your
>card catalog put on a web interface. Your library uses a vendor called
>"Sirsi" which is one of the major vendors who supply library system
>applications.
>
>So, the answer is "No", Web Cat and World Cat are totally different things.
>World Cat is the title of the catalog interface for OCLC, which is a huge,
>central catalog of millions of library records (meaning items) from several
>thousand libraries and located in Ohio. The World Cat is often available
>through a company called FirstSearch. You may wish to search World Cat to
>find more titles worldwide in your subject field.
>
>Your library provides direct access to this OCLC World Cat. Go to your
>University of Calgary's library main home page. Click on "catalogues" which
>will take you to a page called "catalogues of other libraries". Scroll down
>until you see OCLC WorldCat. You will need a university verification number
>to enter this database. You may want to ask for help at your library to
>find out how to get that number.
>
>I did a simple search on your local library catalog at University of
>Calgary and found that there are at least 20 titles in the catalog under
>the keyword search:
>
>dance and (jews or jewish).
>
>There were several books in your library's catalog on Jewish dance you may
>have seen, but aren't listed on your bibliography on you webpage. I don't
>know whether it's because they're just not that good and you felt that they
>weren't worth listing, or if for some reason, you've missed them. For
>example, there's another dance book by Fred Berk not listed on your page.
>So, you may want to take another look at that.
>
>You should also try other searches using variations of keywords and finding
>the subject headings on the books that are appropriate, you can use those
>same headings to find more books. You can also try more journal literature
>searches  in the arts and humanities databases available at your library.
>
>Your bibliography seems quite excellent to me. I can tell you  (from
>personal experience :-)  ) it sometimes takes years to build a good
>bibliography...so keep on going and keep building it. You are providing a
>wonderful service and encouraging people all over the world in Jewish dance.
>
>Best wishes,
>Judy
>
>
>
>At 02:50 PM 6/7/00 MDT, you wrote:
> >Our library (University of Calgary) is on Web Cat--is that the same thing 
>as
> >World Cat?
> >
> >What I have found is that there doesn't seem to be a lot published in the
> >way of actual dance descriptions.  The little book I found from 1942 is by
> >Nathan Vizonsky and describes 10 dances and has music for each dance.
> >However, the descriptions are more for the stage than for recreational
> >settings.  I understand there is quite a bit written in Hebrew.  Slowly 
>I've
> >been coming across bits and pieces of dance information in books and have
> >been posting it on my web page.  But very little of it is comprehensive
> >enough to completely describe the dance so that you can do it or teach it 
>to
> >anyone.
> >
> >The most frequent comment I get from people who visit my page is that they
> >have never heard of these dances before.  They've only come across Israeli
> >dancing.
> >
> >Helen
> >
> >
> >Helen Winkler
> >Helen's Yiddish Dance Page
> >http://www.angelfire.com/ns/helenwinkler
> >winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com
> >
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>Judith S. Pinnolis
>Reference Librarian
>Coordinator for Publications and Training
>Brandeis University Libraries
>Goldfarb Library MS045
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Judith S. Pinnolis
Reference Librarian
Coordinator for Publications and Training
Brandeis University Libraries
Goldfarb Library MS045
P.O Box 549110 
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
phone:781-736-4705
fax: 781-736-4719
email: pinnolis (at) brandeis(dot)edu

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