IAML Friday News (September 19, 2014)

Jim Cassaro Appointed Next Editor of Fontes Artis Musicae
Membership committee: Members needed!
Deadline to apply is September 22
The Advocacy Committee is looking for your contributions:
Pam Thompson, Advocacy Committee chair, writes: “We plan to collect and produce information which shows why music collections are different, why they are challenging, whether in cataloguing, collection development and retention, multiplicity of editions, the digital environment, or experienced staff and training – and the associated costs.
If you have any information (in any language) which you think would be useful, please do send it (or a link to it) to: advocacy@iaml.info.”
Call for Papers and Posters at IAML/IMS 2015
Submit your proposal by November 1
Conference diary #12:
Isabelle Ringuet (Bibliothèque et Archives Canada)

The IAML Poland branch will be celebrating 50 years with a conference next week
The annual meeting of AIBM Deutschland will also take place next week
New issue of Notes, the journal of the Music Library Association (table of contents)

IAML signed the Lyon Declaration On Access to Information and Development earlier this month.
Please consider sharing this important initiative with your institution and encourage them to sign it. See: http://www.lyondeclaration.org/

EBLIDA Newsletter nr. 9 (September 2014) has been published and is on their website

Beethoven-Bibliothek: Rotary Club übernimmt Buchpatenschaft
Der Rotary Club Bonn fördert die Rekonstruktion von Beethovens Privatbibliothek im Beethoven-Haus. Die Zuwendung ermöglicht den Ankauf von Schubarts "Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst“. Wertvolle Bücher werden zugänglich gemacht. Weitere Bücher warten auf Paten.

CD-Loving Japan Resists Move to Online Music
By BEN SISARIO, New York Times
Around the world, the music business has shifted toward downloads and streaming. But in Japan, the compact disc is still king.

Historic collections could be lost to ‘digital dinosaurs’
Michael Brünig, The Conversation
Australian’s museums, galleries and other cultural institutions must adopt more of a digital strategy with their collections if they are to remain relevant with audiences.

Slides from the conference RDA – Resource Description and Access – status and perspectives 2014 are available on the website of the German National Library

Top 40 Musical Universities in America: How Students Listen
A study from Spotify:
Which are the most musical universities? And what does each of those schools listen to? We found the schools whose students signed up for our student deal at the highest rates last semester, because that plan appeals to students who love music. Then, we ranked the schools where these listeners played the most songs, because people who love music listen a lot.

The next webinar presented by members of the Music Library Association will be about cataloging classical music audio recordings using RDA. The webinar is scheduled for October 2, 2014, 2:30-4pm (EST). This is the third and final RDA music cataloging workshop which MLA will present in collaboration with ALA.
To find more information and to register for the RDA classical sound recordings cataloging webinar, please see the following links:
Individual registration: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11189
Group registration (3 or more people): http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11190

The Lilburn Trust, in association with the Alexander Turnbull Library (National Library of New Zealand), is delighted to announce the invitation of applications for the Lilburn Research Fellowship, 2015
The aim of the fellowship is to encourage scholarly research leading to publication on some aspect of New Zealand and music, using the resources of the Archive of New Zealand Music and the wider published and unpublished collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The Lilburn Research Fellow would also have access to the general collections of the National Library as well as online resources.
Further information, including conditions and application guidelines, can be found on the Douglas Lilburn website at:
http://www.douglaslilburn.org/lilburn_research_fellowship.html
Please note that the closing date for applications is 13 October 2014.

Listen to the world’s oldest Mozart recording
Europeana Sounds
In a climate controlled section in the basement of Statsbiblioteket (Denmark), you can find a couple of old solid wooden boxes. These boxes used to contain some of the world’s oldest sound recordings on wax cylinders, called the “Ruben collection”. One of the cylinders contains what might be the oldest existing Mozart recording in the world: the famous Danish opera tenor Peter Schram (1819-1895) sings Leporello’s aria from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni.
A library you can eat