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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: Repatriation of song recordings from archives and private collections to communities of origin is both a common research method and the subject of critical discourse. In Australia it is [...]

'The local townsfolk do not like mountain music. They can't stand to listen to it. They buy Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, etc!' The typewritten missive in my hand, dated September [...]

Contemporary art museums have tended to treat sound art as video art's poor relation. But are things finally looking up for the art form in permanent public collections? Museums have [...]

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 [...]

This article discusses innovations in audio technology such as compact discs and high fidelty, which provide opera collectors with more sophisticated ways to record their favorite works. The author provides information for creating CDs on home recorders or personal computers.

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. [...]

Chris Strachwitz came to California from Germany as teenager in the late 1940s. He immediately fell in love with American music from Central Valley hillbilly and Western swing to the [...]

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 [...]