Locating Background Information
A visit to the University Library at this point is recommended.
The University of Melbourne Library consists of more than 20 branch libraries including:
Most published material at the University of Melbourne Library of relevance for music research is held in the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Branch Library, the Baillieu Library and/or the Education Resource Centre (ERC). Workstations providing access to electronic resources, catalogues and databases are available in all branch libraries.
The Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library is located on the third floor of the Baillieu Library. It contains books and periodicals about music and music-related topics, reference works, scores, collected editions, sound recordings, listening stations and microforms.
The Baillieu Library is the Arts and Humanities branch library. In addition to the Book and Serials collections it contains Reference, Reserve, Microforms, Special Collections, Rare Books, Prints, and the East Asian Collection.
The Education Resource Centre houses the Research Collection, Media Services Section, and the Map Section (in addition to Book, Serial and Reference Collections etc.).
The Music Branch Library contains a number of dictionaries, encyclopaedias, general text books and research guides that can provide a useful starting point for your research project.
Subject lecturers will usually provide a suggested reading list (available to enrolled students via the LMS ), or bibliography, that will contain general texts relevant to the area of the essay topic, which are also useful at this stage.
Other material can be found by consulting the Library Catalogue.
Maintained by: S.Cole, sbcole@unimelb.edu.au