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February 26, 2008
New E-mail address for order requests
In conjunction with the upcoming move of St. Paul Technical Services to Wilson, we have consolidated all of the monograph email boxes to one address.
The new address for all monograph order requests and queries is:
tsbooks@umn.edu
Requests for non-book materials which are monographic in nature should also be sent to this address. For example: Music scores and recordings, DVDs, and Maps.
Email sent to the following addresses will automatically be forwarded to our new central mailbox for the next 6 months:
mplorder@umn.edu
stporder@umn.edu
mplquery@umn.edu
stpquery@umn.edu
We hope having only one email address for books will help simplify your life just a little. Information on the Tech Services Home Page/At Your Service/Monograph Order Requests will be updated soon.
Questions? Contact Lois
Posted by huism002 at 8:19 AM | Comments (0)
SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
From the Brief:
SIXTH ANNUAL SPARK FESTIVAL of Electronic Music and Arts is Feb. 26-March 2. Founded in 1992 by School of Music professor Doug Geers, SPARK brings renowned scholars and performers of electronic music and arts to the West Bank Arts Quarter for lectures, performances, master classes, and multimedia installations. This year, the festival features pop-influenced live electronica performances, with video every night at the Nomad World Pub, among other things. For the complete schedule, see SPARK fest
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February 8, 2008
Musical Sharp Sign in the Authority File--Update
Just a reminder that the musical sharp sign is one of the new MARC characters recently implemented. Here's an excerpt from the update sent by LC CPSO to NACO project participants:
We'd like to update you on a few projects that have had, or will have, an impact on the NACO authority file.
Last fall we issued announcements notifying NACO catalogers to begin using several new MARC characters, including the degree sign and the musical sharp. We also indicated that OCLC was considering automated means to convert earlier records that used substitutes for the degree sign and musical sharp. We're very pleased to announce that Robert Bremer of OCLC has just completed a project to convert existing NACO records that contained a superscript zero where a degree sign was intended, and to convert pound signs into musical sharps, where appropriate.
Pound sign --> Musical sharp
Robert reports that this conversion resulted in 538 changed authority records. Robert has also produced a list of the LCCNs of the NACO records where any 1XX, 4XX, or 5XX field was changed when converting to a musical sharp.
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