IAML News, Friday Edition

Contents: From IAML -- From IAML’s Partner Organizations -- From IAML’s national groups -- From IAML’s projects -- Articles of interest -- New Music Publication -- Archival Collection Now Available -- Crowdsourcing Experiment  -- Spotlight on: John Luther Adams -- Friday Fun

From IAML

• Changes in the IAML Constitution and Rules of Procedure: These changes have been proposed by the Constitution Reform Committee. Please see the documentation in English, German, and French. It consists of a summary and then the revised documents.
   

From IAML’s Partner Organizations

• Issue 4 (April, 2014) of EBLIDA News, now also available at:
  http://www.eblida.org/Newsletter%20folder%20%28uploaded%20files%29/Newsletters-2014/04_Newsletter_April_2014.pdf

From IAML’s national groups

• IAML (UK & Irl) branch: Excellence Awards presented on April 12, with 14 institutional libraries and 4 individuals recognized
  http://iamlukirl.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/iamluk-irl-celebrates-excellence/

From IAML’s projects

• New Version of the RISM Online Catalog-- Neue Version des RISM Online-Katalogs
  RISM would like to announce the release of a new version of the online catalog. The content is the same, but there is a new interface with features that will make it easier to find musical sources.
  RISM präsentiert Ihnen eine neue Version des Online-Katalogs. Der Inhalt ist der gleiche, aber es gibt eine neue Schnittstelle mit Features, die die Suche nach musikalischen Quellen erleichtert. 

Articles of interest

• Singing the Collections, from St Andrews Special Collections
  http://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/52-weeks-of-historical-how-tos-week-24-singing-the-collections/
• Effective Use of Social Media -- Whittaker Live (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Whittaker Library
  http://whittakerlive.blogspot.de/2014/04/effective-use-of-social-media.html
• “What’s a library?” the manager interrupts, “Is that like a big Kindle?”
  It’s hard to be obsolete when you’re not
  http://sentry.mainelymediallc.com/news/2014-04-11/Community/Library_Links.html
• Listening to Downton Abbey, parts 1 and 2 (Spoiler altert! Discussion of recent episodes)
  Musicology Now blog
  http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/

New Music Publication

• The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini is glad to announce that the new critical edition of Boccherini's “Opus 1" is now available:
  Luigi Boccherini, “6 Trios Op. 1 (G 77-82) for 2 Violins and Violoncello"
  critical edition edited by Rudolf Rasch
  Bologna, Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2014 (Edizione Nazionale Italiana dell'Opera Omnia di Luigi Boccherini, vol. XXVII.1, BCE 5).
  xciv+90 pp., ISBN 979-88-8109-485-1
  http://www.luigiboccherini.com/

Archival Collection Now Available

• Donald Pippin Collection, Stanford University
  Since 1952 Donald Pippin has been a part of the musical life of San Francisco. He is best known as the founder of Pocket Opera, which started in 1977 with the purpose of making opera more accessible to the average concertgoer by presenting opera in unique English language translations with a small chamber ensemble.
  http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p3311

Crowdsourcing Experiment

• OLAC Movie & Video Credit Annotation Experiment - call for volunteers
  OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers) is crowdsourcing the annotation of film and video credits in library bibliographic records as part of a project to teach an artificial system to parse the credits. We will use this information to build a system that will make it easier to find film and video in libraries.
  http://olac-annotator.org/

Spotlight on: John Luther Adams

• John Luther Adams won the Pulitzer Prize in Music this week for his piece "Become Ocean." Read more about him and hear some of his music on the IAML website. 

Friday Fun

• Amateur musicians join a pro orchestra for a day
  Side by Side with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSP6ZMxpE6w&feature=share&list=UU9kWhteV7V69hjHvfhWIung&index=1
• Kids React to Sony Walkman
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_vV-JRZ6E
• Which archivist are you?
  http://www.playbuzz.com/rebeckas10/which-archivist-are-you

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