IAML Friday News (November 7, 2014)

From IAML's Partner Organizations

• IFLA launches toolkit to advocate for access to information
  “The toolkit will empower signatories of the Lyon Declaration, including library institutions and associations, to take the “asks” of the Lyon Declaration to policy makers in their country, and for that message to be heard at the UN.”
• The complete issue of the IFLA Journal (October 2014) is available online (PDF) (table of contents here)
• IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives): Recent conference in South Africa
  • Report by Kate Murray (Library of Congress): “Convergence of Audiovisual Archivists in the ‘Fairest Cape’: A Report of the 2014 IASA Conference”
  • Plenary session: a look back at a quarter century of significant change in audio preservation
    Carl Fleischhauer (Library of Congress): Audio for Eternity: Schüller and Häfner Look Back at 25 Years of Change
  • Report by Lizzy Komen, from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
    The latest on Sound and Audiovisual Archives at IASA 2014

From IAML's National Branches

• “AEDOM (Asociación Española de Documentación Musical, Spanish branch of IAML) is happy to announce its latest publication: “Listado de encabezamientos de materia de música”. This is a list of musical subject headings. It has been translated and adapted from the Library of Congress Subject Headings. All this work is due to Gardano, our music cataloguing working group. This publication comes to fill a huge gap in music cataloguing in Spain.”
  It is available for free as a PDF.
• IAML Hungary met with the MKE Music Librarians Organisation in Budapest
  Hungarian report  In English through Google Translate
• The Music Library Association announces its 84^th Annual Meeting, to be held February 25^th to March 1^st, 2014 at the Westin Denver Downtown in Denver, Colorado.
  Program information, including a pre-conference archives workshop and a post-conference THATCamp, is on the conference website.

Articles of Interest

• Budget cuts threaten Belgian cultural institutions
  The Theatre of La Monnaie/De Munt writes: “The federal administrative departments, among which De Munt, Bozar and the National Orchestra are included, will be subject to cuts of 4% on staff and 20% on operations, as from 1^st January 2015 and a 2% increase in the cuts each year until 2019.
  “For De Munt this means a loss of 2.93 million euro commencing de facto three months from now. The cuts signify a reduction of 16.28% over the next five years, amounting to a total of 6.5 million euro.”
  Stop the cultural blackout! 
  Send your opinion to black-out@lamonnaie.be
  Support their Facebook page

• The November issue of CD HotList: New Releases for Libraries has been posted
  “This month’s recommendations include a Lenny Breau box set, Sculthorpe string quartets with didjeridu (whaaaaa?), Miles/Trane boxes, Oliver Lake organ quartet craziness, 1970s Finnish psychedelia, and much more.  Enjoy!”
• La recommandation musicale en médiathèque
  ACIM
  Dans le Manifeste de l’UNESCO sur la bibliothèque publique de 1994, il est énoncé « que la bibliothèque publique est un instrument essentiel de l’éducation permanente ». Quant au bibliothécaire il est affirmé  dans un rôle de médiateur : « le bibliothécaire est un intermédiaire actif entre les utilisateurs et les ressources ».
• What We Can Learn From The Adobe E-Reader Mess
  Cooper Quintin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  "We can't trust vendors to protect our privacy for us. We expect Adobe didn't deliberately set out to undermine our privacy – but it happened anyway."

Friday Fun

All 9 of Beethoven's Symphonies at the same time, Movement 1
By MLA member Steve Kemple

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