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MUSI 431: Music in History and Society III: Ethnomusicology

This guide is designed to assist students enrolled in MUSI 431 with research related to assigned topics.

Course Reserve

To learn about Course reserves please go to this link: https://infoguides.gmu.edu/leganto
 

Borrowing Policies

  • Music recordings (CDs & LPs): 2 weeks
  • Videos (DVDs & VHS): 7 days
  • Music reference books & bound journals: 5 days
  • Music & Media Course Reserves: 4 hours for students; 24 hours for faculty and staff

Late fees for media items are $5 per day, with a maximum fine of $25.

Renew
Patrons may renew Mason items 3 times (except affiliate members who may renew once). Media requested by other patrons will not be renewed. Media reserve materials are not renewable. Ways to Renew:

NEW! Borrow DVD Drives

The Music & Media Collections has DVD drives available for use by GMU students, faculty, and staff. You can check them out for 7 days and use them to watch DVDs or listen to CDs on your own computer.
Stop by the Main Circulation Desk at Fenwick Library to check one out!

Find DVDs and VHS

The Mason libraries hosts a large collection of VHS and DVDs in Fenwick Library 1B.

Simply search for a title, director, genre, or other keyterm in the Library Search and click "submit". After that, use "Refine your Results" in the Left-hand side of the screen. Select the drop down arrow next to "Resource Type" and check videos.

Please click here for a tutorial on finding VHS and DVD through the library website.

Tutorial PDF

Borrow Books Beyond Mason

If we don't have the book you're looking for, expand your search beyond Mason Libraries.

The WRLC (Washington Research Library Consortium)

We have seven regional partner libraries in DC, and Mason patrons may borrow circulating music books (and scores) from any partner-- without physically visiting. To search for books in the WRLC, type in a keyword to the search box on the library website and press "Enter." After you get your results, you will see the option to filter to WRLC by the search box at the top of the page.

Inter-Library Loan (ILL)
Can't find the item through Mason or the WRLC?
Place an Interlibrary Loan request and we'll try to find a library who does. Please consider if you really need the item before placing the request (why).

WorldCat
WorldCat
is a giant catalog of the holdings of thousands of libraries, mostly in the USA. Use this when looking for music books not held by local libraries- it will let you know if some other library in the country owns it. Submit an Inter-Library Loan request through the library. It could 2+ weeks before your book arrives, depending on location of the lender. You'll get an email when it is ready for pickup.