IAML Friday News (August 8, 2014)

For this cat, every day is International Cat Day. (Source: Bibliolore)

IAML News

IAML's last Treasurer and active member, Kathy Adamson, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Academic of Music at its graduation ceremony this year.
The program is available from the carillon concert in Mechelen, Belgium
Conference Diary #2:
Anna Pensaert (University of Cambridge)
Please continue to send your slides from presentations in Antwerp to webeditor@iaml.info

Articles of Interest

Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed
By DAVID STREITFELD, New York Times
“I feel as if we’re seeing a shift in the paradigm of publishing right before our very eyes,” said Marlie Wasserman, director of Rutgers University Press.
Berlin: Staatsbibliothek erhält Nachlass von Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Info-Netz-Musik
Zu dem Nachlass gehören zahlreiche Musikdrucke mit eigenhändigen Notizen, darunter sehr viele Lieder und umfangreiche Korrespondenzen mit Musikern, Konzertagenturen, Firmen oder auch Verehrern. Sodann Manuskripte zu seinen Vorträgen, Aufsätzen und Büchern, des Weiteren Verträge, Fotos und viele Schallplatten und CDs. Ein besonderes Stück des Nachlasses ist sein Konzertflügel, den er in den 50-er Jahren zu Beginn seiner Karriere kaufte. See more at: http://info-netz-musik.bplaced.net/p=12376#sthash.hDwWUwRk.ldVi2E8u.dpuf
Cabinet Card Photographs from the Harvard Theatre Collection
Public Domain Review
John Overholt, Curator at Houghton Library, shines a spotlight on a few examples from the eclectic lot of cabinet card photographs found in the Harvard Theatre Collection, a series of images which are currently making their way onto Wikimedia Commons courtesy of the Wikipedian in Residence scheme
CD Hotlist:
New Releases for Libraries
Mining Large Datasets for the Humanities
Peter Leonard, International Federation of Library Associations/WLIC 2014
This paper considers how libraries can support humanities scholars in working with large digitized collections of cultural material.
Music Advisory with Heart
Steve Kemple (Music Reference Librarian at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County)
“The best recommendations are always encouraging and never judgmental...The goal is to spark exploration—to coax patrons to their own rabbit holes. When you listen—to music and to people—with open ears and an open heart, you’ll rock at music advisory.”
UConn makes 3-D copies of antique instrument parts
Researchers at the University of Connecticut are using medical technology to breathe new life into some antique musical instruments.
PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press

CFPs

Musicology at Kalamazoo Medieval Congress, May 2015
The program committee for Musicology at Kalamazoo (Anna Kathryn Grau, Cathy Ann Elias, Daniel DiCenso) invites abstracts for the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 14-17, 2015. The topics include: Chant & Liturgy, Music & Polyphonic Practice, Music & Context, Music & Text, and The Materiality of Music.
Society for Eighteenth-Century Music at Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, March 2015
The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is now accepting proposals for the panel “The Eighteenth-Century Miscellany and Its Social Impact,” which will convene at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Los Angeles, March 17-22, 2015.

Friday Fun

It is International Cat Day!

MusicForCats.com

All of the music that you ever heard, every note, every phrase was written by and for humans. Now for the first time, there is authentic music for cats.
Read more about it on Bibliolore, the RILM blog.
CATcerto
Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra, with conductor and composer Mindaugas Piecaitis, featuring Nora The Piano Cat