IAML Friday News (September 5, 2014)

IAML News

• Call for papers and posters: IAML 2015

• New presentations from the Antwerp conference

• Conference reports for Fontes are due to Maureen Buja as soon as possible: fontes@iaml.info

• IAML has signed The Lyon Declaration On Access to Information and Development

Articles of Interest

• Authors Guild v. HathiTrust: Implications for Libraries       
  Guest post on IAML.info from the Association of Research Libraries

• Bibliothèques : Lyon conjugue lecture publique et cosmétique

Les bibliothécaires attendent des actions de fond de la part de la municipalité

• CD Hotlist

The September issue of CD HotList has been posted

The author, Rick Anderson, is looking for feedback regarding reviews of download-only releases.

• The Classical Cloud

Alex Ross, The New Yorker

The pleasures and frustrations of listening online.

• Optical Music Recognition

Europeana Sounds: Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is similar to OCR and intends to convert music scores into a machine interpretable form.

• Professor Ichiro Fujinaga and his team of researchers awarded 2.5 million dollar grant from SSHRC to build digital musical recognition tools.

McGill University: What if digitized musical scores could be searched for a sequence of pitches, rhythms, and text?

• Tribute to late music librarian Dena Epstein

University of Maryland’s Special Collections in Performing Arts

New Electronic Publications

• Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy, vol. 2
  Free, open-access, web-based resource

Friday Fun

• AIBM-Deutschland conference 2014 in Nuremberg: What will we call the bread rolls?

Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache

• Rentrée des Classes

A Deezer playlist from the BnF

• Paul McCartney plays Bach

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