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

• An 18th century song called "April Fool" from the National Library of Scotland
  https://twitter.com/natlibscot/status/450915801860550656
  via @natlibscot
• Ever heard of Davide Adolphus Iestyn Bach, George Fogger-Houndsmilk, Lucas John Henderson, or Maria Felicity Humble?
  Winners of the Grove Music Spoof Contest
• Announcing a major change for King’s College Choir:
  http://youtu.be/ukDAfF0-8q8
  Illuminating related blog post from the MusiCB3 blog at Cambridge: http://musicb3.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/no-joke/
• From RISM: A cantata for 40 cats?!  
  Missing Works by Italian Composer Giovanni Francesco Bicchini Discovered
• And....from IAML--WAIT, this was fake??!
  IAML's newest R project: Répertoire International des Bruits Musicales (RIBM)
   

What other April Fools' jokes were out there? Leave them in the comments below!

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Photo credit: A late-19th-century “April fish” postcard. Digital Library, Villanova University