MLA Breakfast Memphis Feb06

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Music in context for the humanities and social sciences MLA Breakfast, Friday 24 February 2006

What I’d like to talk about: 

What I’d like to talk about Our Strategy Some exciting future music products African American Song

Our Strategy: 

To provide the best electronic collections in music Heavily focused on serving the music discipline Including all relevant materials, regardless of form or ownership, and lots of them Indexed to deliver superior usability Provide unique ways to explore and analyze Facilitate contributions from scholars & librarians Priced to enable unlimited access Our Strategy

Our Strategy: 

Our Strategy To build a comprehensive portfolio of music resources

Our Strategy: 

Our Strategy To include materials freely available on the web Free web collections

Our Strategy: 

Our Strategy To provide valuable tools to organize and share Playlists - Collections - Custom URLs

Our Strategy: 

Our Strategy To offer multiple access points to these resources Playlists - Collections - Custom URLs / MARC Records

Our Strategy: 

Our Strategy Specifically, the Music Conductor will: Be free to any purchaser of 1 or more music products Offer a single interface to access any music resource Be based on a common architecture of musical controlled vocabularies Provide centralized users tools to organise and share any resources (personal, institution, public) Provide centralized admin tools to allow librarians to manage their environment e.g. usage stats

Some exciting future music products: 

Classical Scores Library Classical Music Reference Library Other Music Reference Libraries under development (watch this space …) Some exciting future music products

Classical Scores Library: 

WHY?? The single most requested new product An online alternative to sourcing physical scores from the library A comprehensive collection of core repertoire An easy-to-use interface to browse/search for scores of interest Classical Scores Library

Classical Scores Library: 

A comprehensive collection of Classical Scores comprising: Will comprise at least 100,000 pages at completion Patrons will be able to print scores Sold as a annual subscription product or available for outright purchase Classical Scores Library Digitized by ASP Licensed editions currently in copyright Public domain editions Unique and valuable archives Web Collections Indexed by ASP

Classical Scores Library: 

Indexed to maximise accessibility and utility: Browse by Genre, Instrument/Instrumentation, Composer, Date of Composition and Type of Score: Full Score Piano Score Piano-Vocal Score Study Score Short Score Composition Title Composer Genre Period Composition Date Arranger Key Publisher Movement Title Work/Opus No. Instrumentation Classical Scores Library

Classical Music Reference Library: 

WHY?? Cost effective alternative to existing electronic resources Highly functional browsing will enable patrons to easily find related reference information Linked to recordings and scores Classical Music Reference Library

Classical Music Reference Library: 

Classical Music Reference Library A comprehensive database of Classical music reference covering: the major musical periods, including period-specific texts the major genres, including Opera History biographical information on the major Classical composers and artists definitions of musical terms. Including the highly regarded Baker’s reference titles: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians since 1900 Baker's Dictionary of Music Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music Sold as a annual subscription product or available for outright purchase

African American Song: 

Whether using guitar, piano, voice, harmonica, violin, or spoons, African Americans have always expressed their joy, pain, and hopes through song This is the first online resource to document the African American experience through the songs that were sung Launched at ALA January 2006 African American Song

African American Song: 

Genres covered include American Folk Blues Jazz Ragtime Sacred Spoken Word and Sounds Stage and Screen African American Song

African American Song: 

Instruments include Jug Washtub Bass Church Bells Tin Can Washboard Hand clapping Foot stamping African American Song

African American Song: 

African American Song REGION Browsing: Browse recordings by country, state, city TIME PERIOD Browsing: Browse recordings by date of recording (decade, year) ALBUM Browsing: Browse albums by title

And finally …: 

And finally … Don’t forget to request a trial of any of our products at MLA and enter a draw to win a box full of Smithsonian Global Sound CDs!

And finally …: 

And finally … Don’t forget to ask me about other Alexander Street Press products that may be of interest Drama Film Scripts

And finally …: 

And finally … Please join me in welcoming our guest speaker, Michael Taft Ph.D in Folklore and a Masters in Library Science Currently Head of the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress having previously worked as curator and archivist at a variety of institutions in North America including the Southern Folklike Collection at UNC His career includes significant experience in folklore fieldwork, research in African American Blues, and ethnographic archiving. Taft has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and reviews, as well as authoring, co-authoring, or editing a number of books