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February 28, 2006
School of Music Contemporary Composers Festival
From UMN eNews:
From March 7 to 12, the School of Music (SOM) on the Twin Cities campus will host the 2006 Contemporary Composers Festival. The event--a mix of free concerts, a film screening, discussions, and lectures--will feature the music of American composer Elliott Carter and musicians from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and SOM. For complete information, including a complete schedule of festival events, see 2006 composers festival webpage.
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MLA 2006
Been walkin' in Memphis...and no, Elvis has not left the building! The 2006 Music Library Association conference, held in Memphis this past week was another truly fabulous meeting. It's such a great opportunity to meet colleagues, learn about what's new and see new products in the exhibit hall. MLA also celebrated its 75th anniversary this year in grand style with several of the group's past president and MLA citation winners present.
I'll be posting some conference reports to the TS website conference page, and would be happy to answer any questions about the conference. Pictures and information are also available from infoshare, the blog sponsored by the Information Sharing Subcommittee of the Reference and Public Services Committee. New this year was a conference wiki to share unofficial news and information about Memphis and MLA.
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Concert Announcement
Come to a World Premiere!
Heath Matthew's work "Indiscretions" will have its world premiere this Sunday, 3 March 2006 at 2:00 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church (519 Oak Grove Street, next to Loring Park and across from the Walker). Scott Hagarty will also be playing trumpet. Other works on the concert include works by Ewald, Calvert, and Faure. General admission tickets are $10 with a $5 student/senior rate.
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February 24, 2006
Live from Memphis
Greetings from Memphis!
There have been many interesting sessions so far. The music digitization workshop was great! Today I'll be attending the Aleph Music Users Group, my subcommittee meeting, and a session on musical form/genre headings. Tomorrow it's "Cataloging Day" with the RDA update, and other cataloging-related sessions.
See you on Monday!!
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February 10, 2006
LCRI 22.17 (Addition of dates to existing personal name headings)
To follow up on Stephen's message regarding the implementation of LCRI 22.17 (Addition of dates to existing personal name headings), here's more information about Cataloging Policy and Support Office's project to retrospectively deal with a specific group of name headings:
As a result of the change to LCRI 22.17 the CPSO has announced the list of headings to which they will add death dates as part of a special project beginning February 6, 2006. The project is expected to be finished by summer 2006. There are several music-related name headings in the list, including Samuel Barber, Count Basie, Leonard Bernstein, Perry Como, George Harrison, Frank Sinatra, Michael Tippett, plus many others.
It was decided at the CCG meeting yesterday to follow whatever policy LC puts forth regarding adding death dates (i.e., we will not search retrospectively for headings to change, but will only change those headings encountered in current cataloging.) See the forthcoming CCG minutes for further information.
Questions? Contact Mary
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February 8, 2006
Pick of the Week
There's been some discussion of a recent Honda advertisement on MLA-L The "music" is quite interesting...and if the score was to turn up, how would we classify it and what subject headings would it get??!!
To see the ad, skip the intro, then click "Watch" at the bottom
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February 1, 2006
Scores Exceeding 27 cm. in Width
Do not assign "Quarto" or "Folio" size designations for scores that are less than 27 cm. in height but exceed 27 cm. width (e.g., organ or keyboard music, etc.). For scores that are 40 cm. or greater in width, assign the size designation "Oversize."
I've added this instruction to the Streamliners guides for scores.
Questions? Contact Mary or Chris
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New Music Library Reserve Code
There's a new code for Reserve for the Music Library--TMURS. This code will appear when items are put on reserve. See the list of Aleph TC sub-libraries and collection codes here.
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Catalogers Desktop Updates
2006 Issue 1 of Cataloger's Desktop is now available online. Changes in data content can be reviewed by clicking the "What's New" view tab and then following the resulting links
Some items of interest:
Additions to MARC code lists
New relator codes:
anm animator
cng cinematographer
cov cover designer
mcp music copyist
ppt puppeteer
std set designer
stl storyteller
vdg videographer
Classification sources:
bcmc British catalogue of music classification
Term, name, title sources:
cilla Cilla: specialtesaurus for musik
musa Musiikin asiasanasto: erikoissanasto
New Library of Congress Rule Interpretations:
22.17 Allows addition of death dates to name headings (e.g., where there is an open birth date and the death date is known)
LC's Music and Sound Recordings Online manual (MOIM) include mostly corrections of examples, spacing, etc.
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