IAML Friday News (October 24, 2014)

IAML News

From IAML's Partner Organizations

  • IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives):
    IASA is now on Facebook! They have an official page (viewable to anyone) and a public group (only for Facebook members).

  • ICA (International Council on Archives):
    The Section on University and Research Institution Archives of the International Council on Archives will hold its 2015 annual conference in the United States at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 13th-16th July 2015. See the conference website for more details.

  • IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
    2014 Webinar Series for Latin America and the Caribbean

A Piano Pair

  • Antique Piano Shop: Online Museum
    “We are proud to share our private collection of vintage piano/organ catalogs, brochures and related ephemera. What you see here is the result of many years in the piano business - searching, collecting and archiving historical information - so that we may now share it with you.”

  • The Player Piano Project
    “The Player Piano Project promotes study and research into all aspects relating to the player piano and organ, especially as they relate to historically informed performance practice of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”

Articles of Interest

New Books

  • Keeping Time: An Introduction to Archival Best Practices for Music Librarians (MLA Basic Manual Series, vol. 9) by Lisa Hooper and Donald C. Force.  (Middleton, WI: Music Library Association/A-R Editions, Inc., 2014).
    ISBN-10: 0895797860.  ISBN-13: 978-0895797865.
    The Music Library Association’s Basic Manual Series presents its latest publication, Keeping Time: An Introduction to Archival Best Practices for Music Librarians by Lisa Hooper and Donald C. Force.  As music librarians aim to provide adequate storage, description and access to a wealth of archival musical material, this resource serves as a ready-reference for basic archival practice and principles.  The volume provides explanations of key concepts in acquisition, appraisal, arrangement, description, preservation, digitization, and funding.  Examples of fundamental archival issues appear throughout the manual.

Electronic Resources

  • PRIMO
    The Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section invites you to submit your online information literacy tutorial, virtual tour, or other online library instruction project for review and possible inclusion in PRIMO.

Friday Fun

Victor Borge on the Muppet Show and other classical music comedies and parodies

From The Guardian

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