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A few tips regarding the library catalog.

1. Know your limits. Search limits that is--limit by format (score, recording, film, language, date, etc. These are "sticky"--once you set them they persist until you clear them.

2. Boolean and advanced search. These are your friends. Ex. Balanchine and choreography; or

3. Subject headings. Follow the yellow brick road. Or, click and you shall find.

• Choreography

• Dance accompaniment music [recordings and scores for use in dance classes]

• Dance: Can be used with other subject terms to specify needed terms.

• Includes anthropological aspects, biography, social aspects, study and teaching (e.g., Dance--Biography).
• Country or state can also be used to modify the search (e.g., Dance--Africa).
• Types or styles of dance can be found by coupling the dance name with the term "dance" (e.g. Dance--Ballet, Dance--Aerobic Dancing).
• Dance types can also be found as singular terms (e.g., Ballroom Dancing, Ballet--History).
• For information about dance for aging or handicapped, use "dance for the aged" or "dance for the handicapped."

• Dancing: Only to be used in reference to "dancing injuries"; in all other cases, use "dance".

• Dancers: Used to refer to specific traits of dancers (e.g. Dancers--wounds and injuries).

• Baroque Dance

• Performance practice (Music)--17th century
• Performance practice (Music)--18th century
• Dance music--17th century.
• Dance music--18th century.
• Dance--17th century.
• Dance--18th century.