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The current state of audio collecting in libraries is shaped by three interrelated phenomena: the changing media distribution landscape, evolving patron expectations and behaviors, and institutional missions that struggle to [...]

ABSTRACT Music materials, particularly scores and recordings, pose unique demands that must be considered for their successful discovery. Some of the discoverability challenges of music materials in public search interfaces [...]

The development of Resource Description & Access (RDA) (1) as a replacement code for the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2d edition, 1998 revision (AACR2),(2) stemmed from repeated calls to revise the [...]

ABSTRACT With an innovative use of the music conspectus, the Hong Kong Baptist University library conducted a score collection assessment to identify not only the strengths and weaknesses of the [...]

INTRODUCTION The recording of American Indian music began with Jesse Walter Fewkes's study of Passamaquoddy songs in February and March 1890, thirteen years after Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph [...]

The Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University (ARS) is pleased to announce the completion of the processing of the Maria Callas Sub-Collection of the Robert Baxter Collection. An illustrated [...]

The International Trombone Association (ITA) archives and the Glenn D. Bridges Archives have come together at Columbus State University, Georgia, allowing for the Bridges collection to be available to researchers [...]

Irish music followers worldwide may stream and download hundreds of newly-released music tracks in The Seamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a digital collection published by the Boston College Libraries. [...]

The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to announce the donation of an extensive opera and piano-music collection [...]

In the summer of 2015, our staff at the Music Materials Center of the James White Library, Andrews University, embarked on an extensive project to ensure our locally assigned call-number [...]

The University of North Texas Music Library has received as a bequest from the late Joe M. Morris of Dallas a large collection of historic sound recordings in various formats [...]

The Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound has recently finished processing the William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection. This collection is believed to be the largest of its kind in North [...]

The University of Richmond's Boatwright Memorial Library recently acquired a collection of papers and other materials from the civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker. Included in Dr. Walker's [...]

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, the Music & Media Center, and the Hogan Jazz Archive are pleased to announce several recently digitized music collections now available in the Tulane University Digital Library. [...]

The Fine Arts Library, University of Texas at Austin, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the KUT Radio Collection of CDs and LPs. Austin's award-winning NPR station moved into [...]

The Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives at the University of the District of Columbia has received a vast collection of jazz recordings from the author and critic, Will Friedwald. Herb [...]