From the Jerwood Library, Trinity Laban for new postgraduate Teaching Musician students learning to carry out research and find scholarly information

1. THE TEACHING MUSICIAN
LIBRARY INDUCTION
Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts

2. THE JERWOOD LIBRARY TEAM

3. AIM
To enable you to plan and carry out a search for
information, using sources available via Trinity Laban, to
research assignments and develop your teaching practice.

4. STRUCTURE OF SESSION
1. Researching a topic
a) Planning your research
b) Performing searches
c) Saving what you find for later
2. Q&A covering today’s session and the pre-induction
activity
3. Accessing more resources
4. Summary and reflection

5. PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH
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6. TODAY’S TOPIC
Motivation in relation to learning a musical instrument
during the pre-adolescent and adolescent years.
• What are the key concepts (keywords) in this topic?
• Synonyms and broader/narrower concepts will also
help you when you’re searching.
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Motivation Learning Musical
instrument
Pre-adolescent/
adolescent
Initiative Education Piano Children/
teenagers

7. PERFORMING SEARCHES
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8. QUICKSEARCH
• Find online journal articles, e-books, scores, audio and
video recordings and more...

9. ACTIVITY: PRACTICE TOPIC SEARCH
1. Watch the QuickSearch demo video
2. Use QuickSearch to find at least three articles or
sources on today’s topic
3. Add references to your folder (see video)
4. Go to the temporary folder and email yourself the
references. Change the citation format to
‘Chicago/Turabian Humanities’
5. Share at least one reference in the chat on our Teams
meeting.
Think about how you decide which source to share

10. REVIEW AND Q&A
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11. QUICKLY EVALUATING SOURCES
1. How current is the source? Does this matter for this
topic?
2. Does the content appear relevant to your topic? (via
title, abstract, subject keywords on QuickSearch)
3. Who wrote it? Who published it? Are they an authority
on this topic?
4. Articles/chapters: where was it published? Is this a
relevant publication worth exploring further?

12. QUESTIONS?

13. ACCESSING MORE RESOURCES
Can’t visit the library in person?
Whole book: purchase recommendation form – please mention you
need an e-book. If we can’t buy it as an e-book we’ll let you know.
One chapter or journal article: Document Supply or Inter-Library
Loan form. We can scan a print article/chapter from our collection
(free), or get an item (including articles) from another library on your
behalf (£4 approx.).
Can visit the library in person?
As above but we may be able to buy or borrow print books for you as
well as you accessing our print collections yourself.
• Other libraries (covid-dependant…)
– British Library: reference only but should have everything
published in UK.

14. SUMMARY
You should now be able to…
• Plan a search for information
• Find research relevant to your needs using online library
resources.
• Save references found during searches for future use.
• Know about other ways to get access to resources.
• Know where to get help with finding information.

15. GET IN TOUCH
• Email jlpa@trinitylaban.ac.uk
• Web chat via JL Search or Jerwood Library Info on
Moodle
• Phone (during opening hours): +44 (0)20 8305 3951
Further information:
• Library info for Teaching Musician students on Moodle
• General Library info on Moodle

16. FEEDBACK AND REFLECTION
One useful thing I
learned today is...
I now feel ______
about research.
Next I would like
to learn about...