IAML Friday News (October 17, 2014)

IAML News

• IAML/IMS New York 2015 – Call for papers, Call for posters. Deadline for submission is November 1.

From IAML’s Partner Organizations

• EBLIDA
  Issue 10 (October, 2014) of EBLIDA News is now available online

• IFLA

  • Programa de Webinars para América Latina y el Caribe 2014
    Versão em Portugués English version

  • The IFLA webinar “Information as a Human Right” from October 14, 2014 is not yet available.

From IAML’s National Branches

A number of regional chapters have met or will meet this month:

• MLA, Midwest Chapter meeting, Oct. 9-11, Twin Cities

• MLA, New England Chapter Meeting, October 17, Boston

• MLA, Atlantic Chapter Meeting, October 17-18, Philadelphia

• CAML, rencontre 2014 de la Section québécoise de l’ACBM, 31 octobre, Quebec

From IAML’s Projects

• RILM: News for RILM subscribers via the ProQuest platform

Articles of Interest

• Modiano : écoutez des chansons écrites par un Prix Nobel !
  Culturebox
  L’écrivain Patrick Modiano, couronné le 9 octobre par le Prix Nobel est aussi parolier. Il a écrit plusieurs chansons dans les années 60 et 70, notamment pour Françoise Hardy.   

• Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers’ prices
  The Guardian
  University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls

• Conference: Library 2.0 The Future of Libraries in the Digital Age: Audio presentations online

• The Adobe scandal and Privacy in Libraries: What can you do?

  • Datenschutz bei Adobe Digital Editions – Was müssen Nutzer der Onleihe beachten?
    Späht Adobe Digital Editions 4 das Leseverhalten seiner Nutzer aus? In der vergangenen Woche hatten mehrere Quellen darauf hingewiesen, dass Adobe in diesem Programm erfasste Nutzerdaten unverschlüsselt an seine Unternehmens-Server sendet. Adobe hat dies mittlerweile eingeräumt. Betrifft das die Nutzer der Onleihe?

  • Privacy and Ebook Access through Adobe Digital Editions
    Ryerson University Library responded within 24 hours

• You’d be amazed to learn how much music is disappearing
  Kelsey McKinney, Vox
  “Without sound archivists, we would not only lose access to early recordings of Elvis and R&B, as albums decayed and technology changed, but we’d also lose radio broadcasts from 50 years ago and oral histories of lost neighborhoods of New York City. Without archivists, we would be losing sound rapidly; instead, we’re gaining it.”

New Books for Librarians

• Konrad Umlauf, Daniella Sarnowski, Susanne Hein: Medienkunde Harrassowitz, 2014.
  In Bibliotheken, Archiven und allgemein in Mediensammlungen sind heute die Bestände multimedial…Ausführlich behandelt werden Nonprint-Medien, Online-Publikationen, Mikroformen, Bildmedien u.a.m.  

CFPs and Conferences

• Call for Papers: Music Encoding Conference, 19-21 May 2015 (Florence, IT)
  You are cordially invited to participate in the Music Encoding Conference by the Music Encoding Initiative community, which will be held 19-21 May 2015 (with pre-conference workshops on 18 May) in Florence, Italy, in cooperation with IAML Italia.

• Call for Papers: Canadian Society for Traditional Music 2015 conference        
  “Exhibiting Music” and “Curating Ethnomusicology” Pre-Conference Workshop

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