IAML Friday News (August 15, 2014)

IAML News

• Conference Diary 3
  Jon Bagüés, Spain

• Conference diary 4
  Katre Riisalu, Estonia

• Remembering Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014)         

From IAML's National Branches

• From the Music Library Association (USA)
  Board minutes now available online for the spring meeting in Middleton (final version) and the Board’s July 29 online meeting (draft)

From IAML's Partner Organizations

• The IFLA conference will be taking place from 16-22 August 2014 in Lyon, France
  Follow #wlic2014 in Tweets and wlic2014 in other social media.  
  Over 140 papers are already available in the IFLA Library, the repository for IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) papers and other IFLA publications.
  26 satellite meetings are scheduled

Articles of Interest

• ARSC awards announced
  ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
  ARSC Awards for Lifetime Achievement & Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings

• A day in the life of a music librarian (in pictures)
  MusiCB3 Blog
  “Music librarians don’t have typical days. We have huge variety in our work – it’s what makes it so interesting.”

• Denver Public Library features local music
  “Volume is local music website that will allow Denver Public Library card holders to download and stream music from local bands and musicians, DRM-free.”

• Grünbuch "Was ist uns die Musik wert? Öffentliche Förderung in der Diskussion"
  “Mit dem Grünbuch „Was ist uns die Musik wert? Öffentliche Förderung in der Diskussion“ hat der Deutsche Musikrat einen breit angelegten öffentlichen und politischen Diskussionsprozess zur Zukunft der öffentlichen Musikförderung in Deutschland initiiert.”
  Mit Stellungnahme des Vorstandes der deutschen AIBM-Ländergruppe

• Libraries and archives leave international copyright discussions empty handed after countries again fail to reach agreement
  Originally appeared on IFLA's Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM)

• Sharing multimedia on Wikipedia now easier with new tool
  By Liam Wyatt, Europeana GLAM-Wiki Coordinator
  Galleries, libraries, museums and archives (GLAMs) can now make their digital content visible in Wikipedia articles more easily than ever before with the new GLAMwiki Toolset built by Europeana.

MOOC Corner: Do you MOOC? Should you?

• Making MOOCs Easier | Peer to Peer Review
  By Kevin L. Smith
  Library Journal, January 24, 2013

• To MOOC or Not To MOOC?
  John Covach
  Music Theory Online,Volume 19, Number 3, September 2013

• Drawing the Blueprint As We Build: Setting Up a Library-based Copyright and Permissions Service for MOOCs
  Lauren Fowler, Kevin Smith
  D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2013

CFPs and Conferences

• BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies
  An open access academic journal that publishes peer-reviewed essays pertaining to Bruce Springsteen. First issue and call for submissions online.

• „Schreiber- und Wasserzeichenforschung im digitalen Zeitalter: zwischen wissenschaftlicher Spezialdisziplin und Catalog enrichment“
  Das Kolloquium wird vom 6. bis 8. Oktober 2014 an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin stattfinden.

Friday Fun

• A brief guide to academic writing
• Michael Jackson on Beer Bottles:

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