2. Finding Materials in the HOLLIS Catalog
HOLLIS searching: Try "Keywords anywhere" searching on terms in Basic Search or in Expanded Search (offers more powerful options to combine terms and limit by date, format, language). You can limit format to Books, Scores, Audio Music, Digital, Visual, for example.
Example strings:
"Youssou N’Dour" and "Senegal or Africa"
"Bhangra" and "Brit*"
Subject words sometimes work better than keyword searches; go to Expanded Search and choose Subject Words or in Basic, scroll to "Subject beginning with...". You may also start with keword searching, and click on hyperlinked subject terms in the Hollis records. Author words search can yield recordings by primary artist (ex: Chao, Manu or Susana Baca).
Selected subject term examples:
World Music -- History and Criticism
World Music -- Analysis, Appreciation
World music -- Mali
World music -- Influence -- Bibliography
World beat (Music)
Popular Music -- History and Criticism
Popular music -- 1991-2000
Popular music -- Latin America -- 2001-2010
N’Dour, Youssou
Musicians -- Senegal
Musical groups -- Senegal
Jay-Z, 1970-
Rap (Music) -- India
Music -- India -- Punjab
Music -- Pakistan
Radio Bemba Sound system (Musical group)
Folk music -- Peru
Mestizos -- Peru -- Music
Music -- Pacific Area
Advanced search tips:
Although you will find many materials in English and other languages in the HOLLIS catalog, it is also useful to search other large catalogs such as Worldcat (for North American libraries) and the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) (for European libraries). Books and materials that are not owned by the Harvard Libraries can be requested through HCL Interlibrary Loan.
