IAML News, Friday Edition

Today's contents: IAML News -- From IAML’s National Groups -- Symposium Recording Online -- Articles of Interest -- New Books -- New Electronic Resources -- CFPs and Conferences -- April Fools' Day Fun

IAML News
Registration for the IAML conference in Antwerp is now open:
http://www.libraryconservatoryantwerp.be/iaml2014/registration.php

From IAML’s National Groups

Sweden
This year’s first issue of the Swedish IAML society’s magazine called Musikbiblioteksnytt is now available. This issue focuses on children and music libraries (English summary at end):
http://www.smbf.nu/dok/mbn/mbn_2014_01.pdf
United States
Slides and handouts available from Music Library Association's February meeting in Atlanta:
http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BlankCustom.asp?page=mla_2014_slides

Symposium Recording Online
Recordings from the British Library from their "Keeping Tracks" symposium on music and archives in the digital age: http://shar.es/Bi8D4
via @IAMLAustralia

Articles of Interest

Michael Teets and Matthew Goldner, "Libraries’ Role in Curating and Exposing Big Data," Future Internet 2013, 5(3), 429-438 http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/5/3/429
This article examines how one data hub is working to become a relevant and useful source in the Web of big data and cloud computing. The focus is on OCLC’s WorldCat database of global library holdings and includes work by other library organizations to expose their data using big data concepts and standards. Explanation is given of how OCLC has begun work on the knowledge graph for this data and its active involvement with Schema.org in working to make this data useful throughout the Web.
UK will finally allow citizens to legally rip CDs
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/uk-will-finally-allow-citizens-to-legally-rip-cds/
The above via @IAMLAustralia
Opinion: "Paper vs digital reading is an exhausted debate"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/mar/31/paper-vs-digital-reading-debate-ebooks-tim-waterstone

New Books

Careers in Music Librarianship III: Reality and Reinvention, edited by Susannah Cleveland and Joe C. Clark. MLA Technical Reports Series. xi + 217 pp. $60.00 ISBN 978-0-89579-787-2 (2014) https://www.areditions.com/books/TR33.html

New Electronic Resources

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
Stanford University: Musical Acoustics Research Library New Digital Collection and Website
Stanford University Libraries has provided digital access to large portions of the Musical Acoustics Research Library (MARL) making available important research papers from some of the most eminent acousticians of the 20th century
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6h4nf6qc/
via @iasa_web

CFPs and Conferences

Music Library Association Call for Submissions: MLA 2015 Conference in Denver
http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/surveys/default.asp?id=ConferenceProposal

40th ICMC - International Computer Music Conference with the 11th SMC - Sound & Music Computing Conference
September 14-20, 2014, Athens, Greece
New deadline for all submissions: 15 April 2014
http://www.icmc14-smc14.net/

April Fools' Day Fun