A Nod in the News

Posted onMarch 11, 2010
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The BGSU Music Library and Sound Recording Archives was mentioned in this article about the new Library and Archives at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Check it out!

Music Freedom Day – March 3rd

Posted onFebruary 27, 2010
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Freemuse observes an annual Music Freedom Day on March 3rd, in which “musicians and broadcasters world-wide will focus on music censorship.”

For a quick read, check out 10 moments of Music Censorship History published by Mental Floss.

Music Index: Now available through EBSCO

Posted onFebruary 18, 2010
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The Music Index is now available on our most popular platform, EBSCO. As an EBSCO database, it can now be cross-searched with RILM and other EBSCO databases simultaneously. Users can also now directly export citations to RefWorks and set up search alerts in Music Index through the “My EBSCOhost” tool. Ask at the Music Reference Desk for more information.

88 Counties, 88 Keys: Coincidence?

Posted onFebruary 12, 2010
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Cartogrammar thinks so too, but it’s still fortunate.

Check out Ohio is a Piano (in flash) and play a little ditty with the state of Ohio.

Updated DRAM Content

Posted onFebruary 12, 2010
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There are exciting new developments afoot at DRAM. Read their message below for more details.

New Content – Eight Labels Added to DRAM
In recent months, we have welcomed eight new labels to the DRAM family…. As a result, nearly 200 albums were added to the DRAM collection, and as these dynamic labels continue expand their own catalogues, DRAM will also continue to grow. For a brief description of each label, along with selections for suggested listening, please follow the links below:

Einstein Records
Firehouse 12 Records
b-boim records
Porter Records
Edition Wandelweiser
Peacock Recordings
Skirl Records
BMOP/sound

CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.) LPs Now Available
In addition to new content from the labels described above, we are delighted to announce the availability of twenty newly digitized LPs from the CRI label – the initial batch of approximately 400 CRI LPs that we will be making available over the coming months.

For more information, along with the complete list of CRI LPs made available in this first batch, please follow this link.

Electronic Resources Updates

Posted onFebruary 8, 2010
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We will soon see changes in some of the commonly used databases and tools:

Music Index moving to EBSCO
EBSCO has purchased the Music Index from Harmonie Park Press, and this resource will be moving to the EBSCO platform by late February. Also, we now have the Find It feature in Music Index, so that should make it easier to see if subscribe to periodicals you find there.

Importing from the catalog to RefWorks
The Endnote/RefWorks filter in Innovative has never worked properly with the newest versions of MLA and APA format in RefWorks (RW omits the date from these citations once they are formatted). We used to include both this filter and the “full display” filter in our BGSU-specific list in RefWorks, but since the EndNote/RefWorks one causes problems we have deleted it. Users should use the “full display” filter only.

RefShare now available
RefWorks has made RefShare, previously a paid subscription add-on, available to all RefWorks accounts. Our RefShare instance is live, and users may now choose to share specific folders or their entire RefWorks databases with other RefWorks users through urls or on the BGSU RefShare page . Take a look at this feature, and we will discuss it further at a reference meeting.

Thanks to Electronic Resources Coordinator Amy Fry for making and/or keeping track of all of these changes!