IAML News, Friday Edition

IAML News -- New Publications -- Articles of interest -- Electronic Resources -- Friday Fun

IAML News

• Don’t forget to register for IAML Antwerp! The regular registration rate goes until May 11.
  http://www.libraryconservatoryantwerp.be/iaml2014/registration.php

• New IAML Committee: Advocacy Committee
  Consider joining the Advocacy Committee, IAML’s newest committee, to promote the profession and music around the world.

• Pia Shekhter, Secretary General of IAML, participated in the Annual Study Weekend with IAML (UK & Irl) in Cambridge. Her report and photos from the event are on the IAML website.

New Publications

• Prace doktorskie
  In 2013 Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipińskiego in Wrocław launched the series Prace doktorskie, which will publish doctoral dissertations completed at the Akademia.
  Please see: http://bibliolore.org/2014/04/29/prace-doktorskie/

Articles of interest

• Libraries turn up the volume for NZ Music Month
  http://livenews.co.nz/2014/04/28/libraries-turn-up-the-volume-for-nz-music-month/

• France Culture: Sébastien Roux et Europeana Sounds
  http://www.franceculture.fr/player/reecouter?play=4839224

• E-Books stellen Bibliothekare vor rechtliche Probleme
  http://www.badische-zeitung.de/computer-medien-1/warum-buechereien-keine-e-books-verleihen--83638710.html

• Bibliotheken: uitleen e-books kan makkelijker
  http://www.telegraaf.nl/digitaal/22542345/__Bibliotheken__uitleen_e-books_kan_makkelijker__.html

• Presentations From the 11th Columbia Library Symposium Now Online
  Columbia University: “Leaders Everywhere: Fostering Leadership Across the Academic Library Organization.”
  http://www.infodocket.com/2014/04/29/video-presentations-from-the-11th-columbia-library-symposium-now-online/

• 12 Reasons Why Music Copyright Will Always Be Broken
  http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/04/08/copyrightbroken

• EBSCO Opens Metadata to Third-Party Discovery Services
  http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/05/metadata/ebsco-opens-metadata-third-party-discovery-services/

Electronic Resources

• Musical Instrument Museums Online
  Welcome to the world's largest freely accessible database for information on musical instruments held in public collections. Our database now contains the records of 53023 instruments.
  http://www.mimo-international.com/MIMO/

• Montreux Jazz Digital Project
  The Metamedia Center is developing and managing projects at EPFL to digitize, valorize and sustain over 5,000 hours of audio-visual recordings from the Montreux Jazz Festival archive, now inscribed in the 2013 UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
  http://metamedia.epfl.ch/montreux_jazz_digital_project/about/mjdp

Friday Fun

• Countdown to the IAML conference in Belgium:
  An interactive exploration of the Ghent Altarpiece (please copy & paste the link)
  http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/#home/sub=altarpiece

• Notes on Music (1936), a short video about music engraving
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyEcRZ3ZzgA

• International Jazz Day was April 30. The Global Concert can be viewed online:
  http://live.jazzday.com/

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