This section includes an annotated bibliography of resources, including articles published in professional journals, books, and online resources. A section on Conferences highlights recent papers and presentations pertaining to TAPS areas of interest. Do you have a resource you would like to add? Send your suggestion to our webmaster.

Bibliography

Technology
Archives
Preservation
Sound

Recent Conference Events

Links

Bell, Chauncey. "Re-membering the Future: Organizational Change, Technology, and the Role of the Archivist." Archival Issues 25, nos. 1-2 (2000): 11-32.

Discusses the changes facing the archival community in regards to the use of technology. Reaffirms the archivists role, not to classify records or design systems, but rather to mediate between our clients needs and the resources available to us.

Embrey, Theresa Ross. "Working with Wireless Devices: Library Applications in Support of the Needs of Students and Teachers." Teacher Librarian 29:5 (June 2002): 24-27.

Discusses the increased use of handheld devices (such as Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs), specifically designed for library applications. Prompts for the need to incorporate their use into our information literacy classes and the curriculum in general.

Kenney, Anne R. and Stephen Chapman. Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, 1996.

Tennant, Roy. "Selecting Collections to Digitize." Library Journal 125, no. 19 (15 November 2000): 26.

Short article lists basic considerations, gives additional sources of information.

Tibbo, Helen R. and Lokman I. Meho. "Finding Aids on the World Wide Web." The American Archivist 64, no. 1(Spring/Summer 2001): 61-77.

Good analysis of current search engines and the results achieved when searching for finding aids at this particular institution. Can be applied to how users search for information in any special collection.

Tsou, Judy. "Digital Media Reviews: American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library." Notes- Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57, no. 2 (December 2000): 453-57.

Describes and reviews the music collections available on the American Memory Project; presents some issues/ concerns that could apply to other digital music collections.

Weingarten, Frederick W. "Technology, Institutional Change, and the Role of Associations: A Technology Policy Perspective." Kanazawa, Japan: Seminar on Associations, 2002. (soon to be published in the conference proceedings)

Digital technology offers libraries opportunities as well as threats. Some policies have recently been put forth, based on the Internet's potential dangers, that would undermine the fundamental concepts of libraries as public service institutions. Associations need to respond to the crucial policy challenges arising from technological change and the renegotiation of roles. ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy offers a model.

Wright, H. Stephen. "Technology." Notes- Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57, no. 2 (December 2000): 591-97.

Technology and music librarianship at the turn of the century.

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Altman, Burt and John R. Nemmers. "The Usability of On-line Archival Resources: the Polaris Project Finding Aid." The American Archivist 64, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2001): 121-31.

Issues and concerns one university encountered when it posted electronic finding aids, with particular emphasis on user perceptions and the use of focus groups. Particularly useful for the user surveys included.

Cunningham, Adrian. "Waiting for the Ghost Train: Strategies for Managing Electronic Personal Records Before It Is Too Late." Archival Issues 24, no. 1 (1999): 55-64.

The author's most important contribution to current theory is that electronic records managers should be actively involved in influencing the creation of electronic records from the beginning in order to manage long-term retention of these records.

Saxe, Frank. "Internet Site Shines Light on Archival Blues Recordings." Billboard 113, no. 23 (9 June 2001): 82, 84.

Describes a public outreach program; an archives working in association with a local radio station.bh

Shoaf, R. Wayne. "Archives." Notes- Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 56, no.3 (March 2000): 648-54.

Archives and music librarianship at the turn of the century.

Yakel, Elizabeth. Starting an Archives. Chicago: Society of American Archivists; Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

A Basic manual, good overall introduction.

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Billington, James H. "Culture, Memory and Technology." Sewanee Review 109, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 218-25.

Thought-provoking article about the current state of preserving our cultural memory. Is technology actually helping? Who's choosing what to preserve?

Burrows, Toby. "Preserving the Past, Conceptualizing the Future: Research Libraries and Digital Preservation." Australian Academic & Research Libraries 31, no. 4 (December 2000): 142-53.

Discusses such issues as: what should be preserved? Who is responsible? What methods should be used?

Hedberg, Jane. "Audio Preservation Online." College & Research Libraries News 62, no. 5 (May 2001): 542.

Lists and describes two important online resources for audio preservation.

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn. Preserving Archives and Manuscripts. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1993.

A basic manual for getting started.

Shepard, John. "Preservation." Notes- Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57, no. 2 (December 2000): 574-80.

Preservation and music librarianship at the turn of the century.

Porck, Henk J. and Rene Teygeler. Preservation Science Survey: An Overview of Recent Developments in Research on the Conservation of Selected Analog Library and Archival Materials. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001.
Wiggins, Richard W. "Digital Preservation: Paradox & Promise." School Library Journal (Spring 2001): 12-15.

Discusses problems associated with digital preservation, issues to be address in the future.

Winters, Barbara A., Merrill F. Smith and others. "Responsibility for Preserving and Archiving Electronic Resources: Whose Job Is It Anyway?" Serials Librarian 40, no. 3/4 (2001): 419-24.

Addresses where the responsibility should rest for the preserving and archiving of electronic resources, from a periodicals/serials perspective. Concludes that information should be "global" and the ultimate responsibility will be in the form of a consortium arrangement.

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Griscom, Richard. "Distant Music: Delivering Audio Over the Internet." Notes- Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 59, no. 3 (March 2003): 521-41.

Discusses the issues involved, especially within music libraries.

Moore, Tom. "Sound Recordings." Notes- Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 57, no. 2 (December 2000): 635-40.

Sound recordings and music librarianship at the turn of the century.

Paton, Christopher Ann. "Whispers in the Stacks: the Problem of Sound Recordings in Archives." American Archivist 53 (Spring 1990): 274-80.

Classic article dealing with sound recordings in archives.

_____. "Annotated Selected Bibliography of Works Relating to Sound Recordings and Magnetic and Optical Media." Midwestern Archivist 16, no. 1 (1991): 31-47.

Pickett, A.G. and M.M. Lemcoe. Preservation and Storage of Sound Recordings. Washington: Library of Congress, 1959. Reprint, Kansas City: Lowell Press, 1991.

Ward, Alan. A Manual of Sound Archive Administration. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower Publishing Co., 1990.

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4th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval

The annual ISMIR conference is the first established international forum for those involved in work on accessing digital musical materials. It will be held October 26-30, 2003 in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, go to http://ismir2003.ismir.net/.

MLA in Austin

The Music Library Association met in Austin, Texas in February 2003. Several sessions relating to the interests of TAPS are highlighted below.

• The Resource Sharing and Collection Development Committee hosted the panel "Sharing Music in Electronic Environments."
  • "Sharing Music in Library Consortia: Obstacles and Opportunities," presented by Dan Boomhower (Princeton University), addressed the challenges faced by library consortia in making diverse materials available to their member institutions and the benefits arising from these arrangements.
  • "Sharing Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Music: the Role of the Music Librarian," by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith (Louisiana State University), addressed issues pertaining to ETDs, such as access, intellectual property and copyright in media-based documents, and preservation.
  • "Sharing Digital Scores: Will the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) Provide the Key?", presented by Jon Dunn (Indiana University), Constance Mayer (Harvard University) and Peter Munstedt (MIT) outlined a model to create a cooperative digital library of public domain musical scores by facilitating cross-collection searching of multiple sites. This Powerpoint presentation can be found at http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jwd/scores-mla2003.ppt

• "Using Dublin Core Metadata to Describe Music Materials", poster presentation by Kirstin Dougan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), described a collaboration between the Digital Content Group and Mills Music Library to convert six existing MS Access databases (three describing sheet music and three describing recordings) in Dublin Core metadata to allow for application independence and the ability to participate in the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). This project can be located at http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/MillsSpColl/

• Archives Roundtable Presentations:
  • "'Luck and Work': Digitizing James Sinclair's A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives", presented by Richard Boursy (Yale University), described the process of converting a book to EAD and HTML formats. The html version can be found at http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/music/ci-d.htm.
  • "Subject Access and Authority Control in the Registration of Music Archives", presented by David Day (Brigham Young University), described the ISAD and ISAAR standards developed by the International Council on Archives (ICA), which are being used for the IRMA database.
  • "EAD and Sheet Music", presented by Robert Kosovsky (New York Public Library), explained why EAD is not very compatible for the large amount of description necessary for scores, and proposed several alternatives.

IAML Meets in Berkeley

The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) met in Berkeley, California in August 2002. Several sessions relating to the interests of TAPS are highlighted below.

• The Working Group on the International Register of Music Archives (chaired by David Day) discussed the IRMA database being constructed at Brigham Young University to collect information from music archives around the world. This exciting project can be viewed at http://web.lib.byu.edu/irma.

• "Developing Digital Access and Preservation: Treatment of Multi-Media Collections" was presented by Virginia Danielson. This presentation outlined the decisions made at the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University concerning preservation and access for collections that include recorded sound, images and print media.

• "Researching the Music of the First People of the Pacific Northwest: From the Academy to the Brain Room" was presented by Laurel Sercombe, University of Washington. This presentation offered suggestions for ways institutional archives can facilitate research in Native American story and song traditions, particularly by members of the communities from which those traditions originated.

• "Accessible to All: Audio Preservation at the University of California, Santa Barbara" was presented by David Seubert. This presentation discussed the library's project of putting audio files of wax cylinders on the web. This project can be viewed at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/cylinders.html.

• "The Preservation Task of a Sound Archive", by Peter Copeland (former conservation manager, British Library National Sound Archive) discussed the concept of "original intended sound" and how this has been documented (or not documented) in sound archives.

• The Open Archives Initiative uses harvesting protocol to bring together data from many different institutions. They are seeking institutions willing to participate in this digital resource sharing project.

• The UCLA Digital Archive of Popular American Music provides an excellent example of a digital sheet music project.

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