IAML News, Friday Edition (June 6, 2014)

THIS WEEK: IAML Antwerp -- Articles of interest -- New Electronic Initiatives -- New Acquisitions -- Webinar -- Friday Fun

IAML Conference in Antwerp: 37 days away!

Articles of interest

Music Librarianship: In Tune with Patron Needs
Interview with MLA’s Joe Clark and Susannah Cleveland
OhioLINK
June issue of CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries
The editor, Rick Anderson, writes: “This month’s recommendations include: Anner Bylsma plays Boccherini, another great CPE Bach box, Marc Ribot at the Village Vanguard, Jimmy Cobb’s Mob reunites, newly-discovered Bob Wills Tiffany transcriptions, new music from Blondie, and much more.”
Secrets of the Stacks
How libraries decide which books to keep--and which don’t stand the test of time
Excerpted from The Shelf: From LEQ to LES by Phyllis Rose
Using images in scholarly writing
Musicology Now
How music recording has changed over time
Christopher Fox, The Guardian
So Many Playbills, So Little Time: A Case Study in Fugitive Theatrical Material
Micah Hoggatt, James Capobianco, Susan Pyzynski
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, & Cultural Heritage. Spring 2014 (15:1): 31-39.
'Ask a librarian'—connecting Wikimedians with the National Library of Australia

New Electronic Initiatives

New Acquisitions

The Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library, Frost School of Music, University of Miami is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major collection of books and other secondary literature relating to opera and opera singers. The collection was the personal library of Roger Gross, a major New York dealer in musical autographs who had a special love of opera. The collection, which runs to several thousand volumes, relates to opera and opera singers from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Read on...

Webinar

The second in a series of three webinars on using RDA for music materials will be held on:
Thursday, July 31, 2014, 2:30pm Eastern/1:30 Central/12:30 Mountain/11:30am Pacific
Registration for the webinar includes access to the recording after the event.
The topic will be cataloging music scores (mostly) and sheet music (maybe one example).
More information and registration

Friday Fun