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August 19, 2005
Mary's Pick of the Week
Milwaukee's Irish Fest, arguably the largest around, celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend!
Unfortunately for those of us who must miss this great festival, we can visit the Music Library to find some Celtic music or readings...or try out some online music from Naxos (requires U affiliation)
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August 12, 2005
July Music Score Recon Stats
Click here to see a chart of the music score recon project progress! Although the fiscal year has ended, we plan to continue working on the project as time permits.
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August 10, 2005
Kilpinen Recital
Kristi will be participating in a recital at 2:00 today at the Ultan Recital Hall! The recital features the music of Finnish composer Yrjo Kilpinen. She will be performing several songs and also on the kantele!
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August 9, 2005
News from Library of Congress
From the latest LC Cataloging Newsline (vol. 13 no. 11 August 2005):
Music Cataloging
Bronislawa Nijinska Collection. Manuscripts in the Music
Division have been identified for description and access by an
expert Russian cataloger in the Special Materials Cataloging
Division. These manuscripts are an important collection of Russian
dance material and they contain, among many other items, early 20th
century diaries, letters, and notebooks of Stravinsky and Nijinsky.
CD Workflow
A new workflow for compact discs has been implemented
employing manual copy and brief cataloging performed by technicians
and related authority control performed by catalogers. For non-
roman languages, a brief template was devised for descriptive
completion by language experts in the Special Materials or Regional
and Cooperative cataloging divisions.
"I Hear America Singing"
The Special Materials Cataloging Division and the Music
Division have agreed on a plan to provide bibliographic access for
the items on the IHAS Web site
The Web site will effectively become an adjunct LC catalog for
printed music that celebrates the diversity of the American
performing arts.
Iranian Sound Recording Collection
The Special Materials Cataloging Division is beginning to
catalog a representative selection of all genres of Persian music
from 1950 to 1980 that have been banned from being played or
performed in Iran.
LPs
A workflow has been devised to deal with the many under- and
un-cataloged long-playing records dating from the late 1940s
through the 1980s in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded
Sound Division. State-of-the-art inventory control will be
performed so that users can access all LPs in future years.
"Whole Music" librarian pilot
A pilot has been announced and is in the planning stage
involving selected Music Division reference staff and Special
Materials Cataloging Division music catalogers with the ultimate
aim of enhancing their reference and cataloging perspectives.
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August 2, 2005
More New Music Services!
U offers a deal on digital tunes
A University of Minnesota-sponsored music-download service will soon let students transfer digital tunes to their portable music players — provided these aren't Apple Computer's iPods, the most popular such players by far. The entertainment service will be offered this fall in a deal with Ruckus, a Herndon, Va.-based tech firm. The Ruckus service joins RealNetworks' Rhapsody music-download service at the U as the institution tries to combat illegal file downloading by providing legal, affordable alternatives. The school is among dozens of U.S. colleges and universities that are teaming with the likes of Napster and Cdigix to set up on-campus music and movie services, which are intended to entice students away from music and movie piracy. Here's the story from the
Pioneer Press
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