IAML News: Friday, May 9 Edition

Contents: IAML News, News from IAML's national groups, Articles of interest, Free courses, Electronic resources, New blog, Friday funnies

IAML News

L’AIBM est à la recherche d’un de rédacteur en chef pour Fontes artis musicae
Die IVMB sucht einen neuen Chefredakteur für ihre Zeitschrift Fontes Artis Musicae
IAML is looking for an Editor of Fontes Artis Musicae
Don’t forget to register for the IAML conference in Antwerp by this Sunday to secure the early bird rate!
Registration information

From IAML’s national groups

HMT Leipzig erwirbt 57 Briefe der Komponistin, Frauenrechtlerin und Alumna Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Pressemeldung
Listen to some of Smyth’s music on the IAML website

Articles of interest

Barcelona is looking for a solution that can digitise 320,000 pages from books and documents from different historical and photographic archives and museum libraries during 2015.
More information about this challenge here
5 Past Predictions for the Future of the Ebook
From Paleofuture
Technology Is Taking Over English Departments: The False Promise of the Digital Humanities
By Adam Kirsch, The New Republic
Inside Opera: Live stream hopes to widen access to UK's opera houses
From The Guardian
The May issue of CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries has been posted!
http://cdhotlist.com

Free courses

Want to learn more about music business? Try this free online class (no credit) from Berklee starting 5/27
Introduction to the Music Business
62 Free Live Webinars for Librarians in May
Professional development this spring
WorldCat Discovery Services, the new suite of cloud-based applications and services that brings FirstSearch and WorldCat Local together. WorldCat Discovery is now available to all current FirstSearch subscribers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand as part of existing subscriptions.
A link to the recording is available here.
Free online digital curation course offered by University College London
Introduction to Digital Curation

Electronic Resources

DiRT Directory: Bamboo DiRT is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
They are soliciting applications for an editorial board, especially from people outside of the US and Western Europe.

New blog