IAML News, Friday Edition (June 6, 2014)

IAML News Today: IAML Antwerp — Articles of interest — New Electronic Initiatives — New Acquisitions — Webinar — Friday Fun

THIS WEEK: IAML Antwerp — Articles of interest — New Electronic Initiatives — New Acquisitions — Webinar —  Friday Fun

 

IAML Conference in Antwerp: 37 days away!

• Updated conference program with abstracts

• Have you seen the social program yet?

• Stop off in Cologne on your way to Antwerp!
  Exclusive tour through the WDR archives

 

Articles of interest

• Music Librarianship: In Tune with Patron Needs
  Interview with MLA’s Joe Clark and Susannah Cleveland
  OhioLINK

• June issue of CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries
  The editor, Rick Anderson, writes: “This month’s recommendations include: Anner Bylsma plays Boccherini, another great CPE Bach box, Marc Ribot at the Village Vanguard, Jimmy Cobb’s Mob reunites, newly-discovered Bob Wills Tiffany transcriptions, new music from Blondie, and much more.”

• Secrets of the Stacks
  How libraries decide which books to keep–and which don’t stand the test of time
  Excerpted from The Shelf: From LEQ to LES by Phyllis Rose

• Using images in scholarly writing
  Musicology Now

• How music recording has changed over time
  Christopher Fox, The Guardian

• So Many Playbills, So Little Time: A Case Study in Fugitive Theatrical Material
  Micah Hoggatt, James Capobianco, Susan Pyzynski
  RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, & Cultural Heritage. Spring 2014 (15:1): 31-39.

• ‘Ask a librarian’—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

 

 

New Electronic Initiatives

• BnF Collection sonore : 45 000 albums à venir dans Gallica

• Free access to music journals in public libraries
  New initiative in the UK

New Acquisitions

• The Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library, Frost School of Music, University of Miami is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major collection of books and other secondary literature relating to opera and opera singers.  The collection was the personal library of Roger Gross, a major New York dealer in musical autographs who had a special love of opera.  The collection, which runs to several thousand volumes, relates to opera and opera singers from the late eighteenth century to the present.
  Read on…

Webinar

• The second in a series of three webinars on using RDA for music materials will be held on:
  Thursday, July 31, 2014, 2:30pm Eastern/1:30 Central/12:30 Mountain/11:30am Pacific
  Registration for the webinar includes access to the recording after the event.
  The topic will be cataloging music scores (mostly) and sheet music (maybe one example).
  More information and registration

 

Friday Fun

• Sting: How I Started Writing Songs Again
  TED talk

• The Art of Google Books

• This is Antwerp: MAS, a new museum with a great view

 

 

Sources:
IAML Australia, MPAL Illinois, MLA-L, IAML-L Loeb Music Library, IAML Antwerp 2014, IAML UK & Ireland

 

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