IAML Friday News (October 31, 2014: Halloween Edition)

IAML News

• Last minute: IAML/IMS New York 2015 - Call for papers, Call for posters
  Deadline for submission is Saturday, November 1. This is you last chance!

• Conference Diary / Konferenztagebuch 15: Polski (Polish)
  Sonia Wronkowska, The National Library of Poland, Polish RISM Centre
  
  

From IAML's National Branches

• Latest issue of the NVMB Newsletter (IAML Netherlands) is online
  Lots of articles about IAML Antwerp, with some summaries in English

From IAML's projects

• RISM: Please take the RISM Survey
  Survey is available in English: http://goo.gl/forms/p40bcrZcJI
  And German: http://goo.gl/forms/02VLj4tSEj

Articles of Interest

• The journal Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues presents:
  Special issue on web archiving

• Archive of Contemporary Music and the Internet Archive Team up to Create a Music Library
  The ARChive of Contemporary Music is “one of the largest popular music collections in the world, with some three million sound recordings, 19,000 music-related books, and millions of photos, press kits and artifacts.  Now this rich musical resource—used primarily by musicologists and the entertainment industry—is teaming up with one of the largest digital libraries in the world, the San Francisco-based Internet Archive, to create a music library that will preserve and provide researcher access to a wide range of music and the rich materials that surround it.”

• Les archives françaises du Web s’ouvrent aux bibliothèques de province
  “Le ministère de la Culture a publié ce matin un arrêté qui va faciliter l’accès aux archives françaises du Web.”

• Book News: Happiness Study Says Library Trips Are As Good As A Pay Raise
  Annalisa Quinn, NPR
  “Going to the library gives people the same kick as getting a raise does — a £1,359 ($ 2,282) raise, to be exact — according to a study commissioned by the U.K.'s Department for Culture, Media & Sport. “

• Canadian musicologist makes 900 year old discovery
  Marc Montgomery, RCI
  “This led to the realization that it was Ademar who had created the musical notation for the entire manuscript with this innovation of vertical spacing of notes to designate pitch.”

• Infographic Shows How Libraries Are Champions for Academic Freedom and Balanced Copyright
  From ARL

• The Royal Shakespeare Company Releases Music From Its Archive
  Ari Shapiro, NPR
  "For more than a century, the Royal Shakespeare Company in England has hired composers to write original music for its productions. That sheet music has sat in a vault for decades — until now."

CFPs and Conferences

• Several Handel conferences are described on the IAML website

• ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections):
  The 49th annual ARSC Conference will be held May 27-30, 2015 at the Westin Convention Center Hotel, in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Friday Fun

The Librarian (1947): Vocational Guidance Films

Halloween postcards are from the New York Public Library Picture Collection via the Public Domain Review.

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