Friday, March 21, 2014

A collection of news from the past week that may be of interest to IAML members

Today! News from IAML -- Articles of interest -- Electronic resources -- Events -- Blog recommendations -- Social Media -- Friday Funnies

From IAML

• Anders Cato - the new European representative of the RDA Music Joint Working Group
  
   
• Photos from the Board of Directors meeting last week in Brussles (no Facebook account required to view):
  https://www.facebook.com/iamlaibm/posts/260881180752905
  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.258918087615881.1073741829.190693277771696&type=1

Articles of interest

• Research Library Issues, no. 283 (2013): Special Issue on Mainstreaming Special Collections
  http://www.arl.org/component/content/article/6/2955
   
• #Moocie – an Irish-based Miniature, Open, Online Course in Educational Technology
  http://www.libfocus.com/2014/03/moocie-irish-based-miniature-open.html
   

• Innovative use of digital collections by a dedicated user: Trove, at the National Library of Australia
   http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2014/03/20/a-surprising-use-of-troves-music
  
  the above via @IAMLAustralia

• Music librarianship and research, by Karen McAulay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
  http://librarians23.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/karen-mcaulay/

• Five Pivotal Ukrainian Classical Music Figures
  http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/top-five-ukrainian-classical-music-figures/
   

Electronic Resources

• Onlinedatenbank zu den Werken Ludwig Senfls / Online database of Ludwig Senfl's works
  Auf diesen Seiten soll das Schaffen Ludwig Senfls und seine Präsenz in zeitgenössischen Quellen umfassend dokumentiert werden.
  These pages present Ludwig Senfl’s œuvre and document the presence of his works in contemporary sources.
  http://www.senflonline.com/
   

Events

• RDA for Music: Popular Music, Jazz, and World Music Audio Recordings
  April 17, 2014
  From ALA Editions (American Library Association) in partnership with the Music Library Association.
  http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10909
• Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound, Harvard University
  14-16 January 2015
  The aim of this three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust is to transform our sense of sound in landscape, and to document, investigate, and provoke critical encounters between the social and acoustic agents involved in the formations of landscape.
  www.hearinglandscapecritically.net
  Thanks to Santie de Jongh via the IAML-L

Blogs recommended by IAML's Facebook fans

• Encountering the Other: Images from the Gilmore Music Library's Special Collections at Yale University
  http://encounteringtheother.wordpress.com
• Bibliolore: The RILM blog
  bibliolore.org
• Mediamus Mediathèque de Dole: Blog sur l'actualité de la musique et les innovations apportées par le numérique
   http://mediamus.blogspot.fr/
• info-netz-musik: Rezensionen und Neuigkeiten aus dem Musikleben
  
  
  Rezensionen und Neuigkeiten aus dem Musikleben

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  Rezensionen und Neuigkeiten aus dem Musikleben

  - See more at: http://info-netz-musik.bplaced.net/#sthash.tAS85jzg.dpuf

  info-netz-musik

  Rezensionen und Neuigkeiten aus dem Musikleben

  - See more at: http://info-netz-musik.bplaced.net/#sthash.tAS85jzg.dpuf

  http://info-netz-musik.bplaced.net/

• Testspiel.de: Gebloggt wird quer durch den musikalischen Kosmos der aktuellen Popkultur.
  http://www.testspiel.de/themen/musik/

Social Media

• Swedish librarians were posting live to Twitter at a conference on social media and libraries.
  https://twitter.com/search?q=%23smbib2014&src=hash&f=realtime
• Warum auch für Musikbibliotheken Social Media ein wichtiges Thema ist: Die Büchereien Wien, 20.000 Likes
  The Facebook page of the Vienna Public Library has 20,000 likes! How do they do it?
  http://www.thegap.at/creativestories/artikel/das-bibliothekarische-konzentrat-an-lustigkeit/
  Thanks to Manfred Ullrich

Friday Funnies

• What happens when you try to hide a sneeze--through your trombone?
  http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2014-03-17/trombone-players-tiptree-sneeze-becomes-an-internet-hit/
  via @LeedsMusicLib
• Encore Surprise! - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Diana Damrau, Zubin Mehta
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-nMfZGAJo