This summer I had the opportunity to try the sheet music newly available for the Kindle, the wireless reading device made by Amazon. I tried both the regular (6″) sized Kindle and the KindleDX, which has a 9.7″ screen. From Kindle Experiments Right now, Kindle treats sheet music as it does any other image. Most . . .Continue reading Kindle Music Experiments
Government Documents
Check out the display in the library’s Government Documents section. While a number of reports may be picked up on participants’ blogs from time to time, the Government Printing Office has released first hand accounts from the Middle East war zones that really bring the experience home. Laura Baines highlights these publications in a new . . .Continue reading Government Documents
Digital Collections
Low Country Digital Library The College of Charleston announces the launch of the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL), a collaborative effort to build a digital (online) library with more than 50,000 items drawn from public and private archives in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina. The LCDL will make unique and often rare items more broadly . . .Continue reading Digital Collections
Dedicated Listening Carrels ’09
Garrison Ries – for years of dedicated service Tiffany Gibson – for years of dedicated service Robert Wells – for being the most likely to end up on our shelves in the future Natalie Wren – for delving deep into the resources of the music library Heather Jackson – for serving as the music library . . .Continue reading Dedicated Listening Carrels ’09
Trial of RISM
If you are a Furman faculty member or student, you can access the trial to RISM Series A/ii: Music Manuscripts After 1600. This database is an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world’s musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti. A comprehensive annotated index and guide to . . .Continue reading Trial of RISM
Elliott Carter – 100 Years and Still Composing
In December, Elliott Carter celebrated his 100th year with a concert at Carnegie Hall. Carter is still composing now, in fact of his body of work containing just over 130 pieces, 30 were written in the past ten years. 10 were written in 2007 alone, and 6 in 2008. Other Resources:Carter Centenary Web siteContains press . . .Continue reading Elliott Carter – 100 Years and Still Composing
FU Community United to Save PASCAL
PASCAL is the agreement that allows our university access to myriad databases as well as providing PASCAL Delivers which many of us benefit from every day as a quicker way to request items our library does not own. The money that the State of South Carolina has put into this may soon be pulled, and . . .Continue reading FU Community United to Save PASCAL
Exciting News for Spring Semester
The music library has been approved to be open additional hours starting January 12, the first day of classes spring semester. Our new hours will be: Sundays 1 pm – midnightMondays 8 am – midnightTuesdays 8 am – midnightWednesdays 8 am – midnightThursdays 8 am – midnightFridays 8 am – 4 pmSaturdays 1 – 5 . . .Continue reading Exciting News for Spring Semester
Navigating the Current Periodicals
As we approach an increasingly digital environment, some of our journal subscriptions will go online because of package or consortial deals. This has already happened with the titles put out by Oxford University Press, which includes Early Music, Music & Letters, The Musical Quarterly, and The Opera Quarterly. While you will no longer see them . . .Continue reading Navigating the Current Periodicals
Redundant, Repackaging, Disingenuous
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