I. Navigation

Navigation is the term that is used to refer how you move through a particular Web site or from site to site. Since ease of navigation often determines whether you find the information a site has to offer, it takes on great importance when you evaluate the utility of a particular Web site.

Go to the main UND web page. From there, find the Chester Fritz Library. Once you have found CFL, find ODIN. Once you have found ODIN, search for the books that UND owns that are on the subject of the composer, Edgard Varèse. How many books are there? Write a brief paragraph or two in which you describe your ease of navigation around the UND site. Was it easy to find the CFL? ODIN? the books in question? Why or why not? In general, what sorts of things do you think help you in "getting around" a site? What sorts of things make it difficult? Be prepared to discuss you answer in class.

II. Meta-Search Engines

Go to: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html to find answers to the following questions: In a meta-search engine, you submit keywords in its search box, and it transmits your search simultaneously to several individual search engines and their databases of web pages. You get results from all the search engines queried. This seems as if it would be much superior to using a single search engine. Why is this not true?

III. Invisible Web

Go to: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html to find answers to the following questions:

1. What is the Invisible Web?
2. How can you find it?
3. Go to one of the Directories of Searchable Databases (see the Table of Features). Use it to find information on a subject related to your musical interests. Give the subject, title, and URL of the site you find.

I. Work your way through all of the materials presented in the following:

• Constructing and refining searches in Google: Detailed Searching Instructions

• Constructing and refining searches in Alta Vista Advanced Search

When using Alta Vista Advanced Search, I have found the Alta Vista Advanced Cheat Sheet to be very useful. You may want to print a copy.

II. Sometimes it is more efficient to use a Web Directory than a search engine. Two useful Web Directories are:

• Google Web Directory

• Yahoo

III. Apply what you learned in your reading. Find the answers to the following questions on the Web (and by thoughtful deduction). Think carefully about the information given to you in each question as well as what you might already know about the subject. Use this information to lead you to an efficient search technique. Submit your typed answers by next week's class.

1. What music book did Mr. (Michael) Blake write in 1999? Who is the publisher? Give the URL of the page where you found this information.
2. What is ingenta? Give the URL where you found the information.
3. Using ingenta, find the author, journal citation (i.e., journal title, date of publication, volume, number, pages, and publisher), and cost of a faxed copy of the article, "Music Therapy in Terminal Care."
4. Of what significance was Paolo Conte to the musical life of Grand Forks? Give the URL where you found the information.
5. Who is the director of the Early Music Institute at the Indiana University School of Music? Give the URL where you found the information.
6. Give the title and URL for a Web site where you can find a list of job openings for music teachers?
7. Name in chronological order four women composers whose birth dates fall between 1000 AD and 1400 AD. For each composer, include her life and death dates and the URL(s) where you found the information.
8. Pick an area of interest in music education or music therapy, or studio teaching. Find three web sites devoted to that area and provide:
   • the URL,
   • a brief description of the site.
   • Then, compare and contrast what you find in terms of organization, comprehensiveness, and utility. Which is the best organized? Most effective? Least effective? Why?

Extra Credit:

1. What do the Chester Fritz Library and Dr. Norman's car have in common? Give the URL of the page that helped you deduce the answer.