News for October 25, 2009
Music Library is open on Saturday, noon-5 PM for the remainder of the semester
The Music Library will be open Saturdays from noon-5 PM for the remainder of the semester. Please stop by, use the Music Library and let us know what you think of these additional hours. The Saturday dates are:
October 31
November 7
November 14
December 5
December 12
Precollege Halloween Open House scheduled for Oct. 29, 4-6 PM
Blair pre-college students and their parents are invited to a Halloween open house on Oct. 29, from 4-6 in the music library. Wear you Halloween costume, play a game of putt-putt, snack on some Halloween treats, and check out resources that are available in the music library. New this year is our book carts that will be decked out for Halloween courtesy of Sigma Alpha Iota, an International Music Fraternity for Women.
Faculty workshop on searching Acorn
Music Library staff will be offering a faculty workshop on searching Acorn today in the Seminar Room from 12-1 p.m.
News for September 30, 2009
Holling Smith-Borne to offer faculty workshop on free scores online
Today (Sept. 30) at noon in the Music Library seminar room, Holling Smith-Borne will be offering a faculty workshop on free music scores online. Material will cover how to locate and use free music scores including International Music Score Library Project and numerous manuscript collections.
Periodical articles from the Library Annex can now be sent to users' email accounts
The Library Annex service for periodical article requests can now deliver articles to library users through email. When submitting an article request through an Acorn catalog record, you will now be given a choice of the volume being delivered to a service desk or receiving a PDF copy in your email. Request turnaround time is within a four-hour window of receipt, Monday – Friday, until 4:30 p.m.
Holling Smith-Borne to offer faculty workshop on free scores online
Today (Sept. 30) at noon in the Music Library seminar room, Holling Smith-Borne will be offering a faculty workshop on free music scores online. Material will cover how to locate and use free music scores including International Music Score Library Project and numerous manuscript collections.
News for September 24, 2009
Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library Vol. 11 now available
The latest volume of the Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library, Wagner : Part 1, is now available. It contains the complete orchestral parts to Wagner's Symphony in C Major, A Faust Overture, Rienzi Overture, the Wesendonck Songs, the Siegfried Idyll, the American Centennial March, and four early operas (Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde), and is classed as MUS CDROM-11 v.11.
News for September 22, 2009
Anna Perkins to offer workshop on e-books
Please join us tomorrow (Wednesday, Sept. 23) from 12:10-1 PM in the music library’s seminar room for a workshop on electronic books. We will explore electronic books and what the music library has to offer in this format. Anna Perkins will lead this workshop, guiding us through the 95 e-book collections, showing us what e-books are available in music and demonstrating how to find/navigate them.
Future workshops:
Sept. 30: Free online music scores
Oct. 7: Tips and Tricks for searching ACORN for music materials, update on DiscoverLibrary
Music Library to offer Saturday Hours from 12-5 p.m.
The music library will be open on Saturdays on the following days:
October 31
November 7
November 14
December 5
December 12
News for September 1, 2009
Reserve the Music Library’s Seminar Room
The Music Library’s Seminar Room can be reserved for faculty instruction or for group study by students. To reserve the room, go to
http://lib1a.library.vanderbilt.edu/calendar/syswidecalsnew.htm.
View the calendar to see open times to reserve, then click “Add Event”. The Seminar Room has listening/viewing equipment, a piano, a white board, and a projection system.
New music reference librarian
Anna Perkins recently started working in the Wilson Music Library at the reference desk. Anna joins us from the University of North Texas (UNT) where she was working in the music library as a Graduate Library Assistant. The UNT Music Library has one of the largest academic music collections in the United States with over 300,000 print volumes and 900,000 sound recordings. Anna has a BA in Music Education from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX, an MM in Musicology and an MLIS from the University of North Texas in Denton. Stop by the Music Library and welcome Anna to the Blair School and the Heard Library system.
Michael Hime to offer OAK workshop for Blair faculty
Please join us for a workshop on OAK, led by Michael Hime, Blair’s Tier 1+ OAK support on Wednesdays, Sept. 2 and Sept. 9 from noon until 1 PM. Michael Hime will lend his expertise to interested faculty in the Music Library’s Seminar Room. Topics that will covered in the workshops include how to make your course available to your students, how to add a course builder, how to send an e-mail to all students enrolled in a course, and how to organize course content into folders. Please bring your questions and "stumpers" to the session and plan on learning tips and tricks on how to make your OAK course site a valuable resource for your students.
News for August 21, 2009
Music Library new website launched
What do you think of our new web site? We’re interested in your feedback. Do you like the design? Can you navigate to the resources that you use frequently? Send your comments to the webmaster.
Music Library purchases Bologna Q15 manuscript facsimile
Over the summer, the Music Library purchased the deluxe color facsimile of the Bologna Q 15 manuscript which is the largest international anthology of polyphonic music (masses and motets) of the early 15th century. It was compiled in the Veneto, in Padua in the early 1420s (stage I) and Vicenza in the early 1430s (stages II-III), all copied by a single scribe between 1420 and 1435. The three illuminations are an unusual luxury for a musical manuscript at this period. It was acquired by Padre Martini in 1757 and is one of the great treasures of his library in Bologna.
The purchase includes two volumes: the first volume is an extensive introductory study by Margaret Bent that tells about her work and study of the manuscript which also includes comprehensive indexes and catalogues. She spells out some of the conclusions to be drawn from the partial destruction of the manuscript by its own creator, a unique and extraordinary testimony to changing taste and contemporary reception. The second volume is the actual facsimile. The volumes will be stored with other rare materials owned by the Music Library. Stop by the Music Library service desk and ask to see these two new volumes.
Michael Hime to offer OAK workshop for Blair faculty
Michael Hime, Blair's Tier 1+ OAK support, will lend his expertise to interested faculty in a workshop on Wednesday, August 26, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Music Library Seminar Room. Topics that will covered in the workshop include how to make your course available to your students, how to add a course builder, how to send an e-mail to all students enrolled in a course, and how to organize course content into folders. Please bring your questions and "stumpers" to the session and plan on learning tips and tricks on how to make your OAK course site a valuable resource for your students. There will be additional sessions every Wednesday in September at the same time and place.
Music Library adds new electronic encyclopedia to its electronic resources holdings
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, edited by Colin Larkin is now available on the Music Library's web page. This resource is one of many titles that are offered through Oxford Reference Online, a package of electronic reference books that include the Oxford Companion to Music, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to the Musical Theatre plus many other titles. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music contains 30,000 entries covering all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. This title, now in its Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system. Link to this resource here.
Join us for breakfast
Each year on the first day of classes at Blair, the Music Library offers an open house and breakfast for all Blair students and faculty. On Wednesday, August 26 from 8:00 AM until noon, stop by the Music Library for good conversations, pastries, juice and coffee. During the open house, the Music Library will hold a book sale with proceeds going to the Music Library's acquisitions fund to purchase new materials. Materials for sale are gift materials that the Music Library already owns or are not in good enough condition to add to the collections.
