Thursday, September 8, 2011

Congratulations to Two of our Students: Sonia and Jacey!!

We are tickled pink about Sonia and Jacey's awards!!  WOO HOO!!  Congrats to you both!!  Here's the anouncement from SEMLA-L!

I’m most pleased to announce two winners of the Pauline Shaw Bayne Travel Grant for 2011: Sonia Archer-Capuzzo and Jacey Kepich.


Sonia Archer-Capuzzo received her MLIS this year from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently works as a volunteer in the UNC-G Music Library, following up her years there as a student assistant. Sonia holds a DMA from UNC-G and an MM from Texas Tech University. Her varied work experience includes free-lance clarinet performance, concert-series management, and professor/lecturer positions. She has published articles on performance-related injuries and has presented papers for ICA ClarinetFest and the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Southeast/Caribbean Chapter, among other groups. At our Saturday morning session in Chapel Hill, Sonia will speak on “Fieldwork and the Music Librarian.”

Jacey Kepich expects to receive her MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in May. She holds an MM from UNC-G and has taught clarinet there as part of her Graduate Assistant duties. Previously she served as Acquisitions Assistant at the Sibley Library of the Eastman School of Music and held internships with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, and United States Marine Band.

Thanks to Jaro Szurek and Tim Gmeiner for serving on this year’s travel grant committee. (And no, the committee did not make clarinetist-from-Greensboro a secret criterion for selection.)
Welcome to SEMLA, Jacey and Sonia! We’re looking forward to having you with us in Chapel Hill.


Joyce Clinkscales
Music Librarian
Heilbrun Music and Media Library
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30002

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Welcome Back - Yay Student Employees!

Because our student employees are so incredibly important to the efficient and excellent operation of our library, we are happy to celebrate them here.  We are welcoming our new and returning student employees to a new academic year with a photo display both here and in the display case in the Music Library.  Thanks to David Covert for organizing this display and making it look so cool!

Here are the photos in a somewhat random order (and, yes, *most* of them were all taken during our semester opening meeting in the CITI lab in Jackson Library on August 21, 2011):

 Laurence Evans

 Jacey Kepich

 Lena Timmons

 James Williams

 Kat Clift

 Gianna Capelli

 Miranda Freeman

 Emma Dhesi

 Lila Yasin

 David Covert

 Alaina Jones

 Jonathan Frederick (Fred)

 Jessica

 Liane Elias

 Chet Moon

Lauren Ritch

Miho Yamaguchi

Shonda Devine


With great gratitude from the Music Library management team:



 Ted Hunter

MK Amos

Sarah Dorsey (moi)
(David took this photo, I took the rest :-)

If you want to see the info about everyone, go to the Music Library display case before it is too late!

P.S. Some more cool people to come!!  Stay tuned!















Thursday, September 1, 2011

Cool New Info Available!

The wonderful Lena Timmons (DMA in Violonello) has been hard at work for a looooong time on these cool instrument-specific resources that you can also find in our Music Research Guide - they can help you with your research!  They are as follows (click to view):

Bassoon
Clarinet
Double Bass
Flute
Horn
Oboe/English Horn
Percussion
Piano
Saxophone
Trombone
Trumpet
Tuba
Viola
Violin
Violoncello
Voice
Woodwind Ensemble

Enjoy and let us know if you have any suggestions for changes, additions, deletions, etc. - sbdorsey@uncg.edu

cheers (and THANKS, Lena!!),

Sarah for the Music Library peeps

Friday, April 22, 2011

Appreciating our Student Employees!!

Without whom we would not be able to operate...really!!  Here are the photos in the current display case in the Music Library paying homage to our wonderful employees in the Music Library - THANK YOU ALL!!

Also, each student chose a service or a format with which to celebrate to publicize the variety we offer here in the Music Library...and to have fun (thanks, Sonia, for the idea and the captions that I'll add soon).

In random order (actually, chronological order of photos taken, come to think of it):


Sonia Archer-Capuzzo - Shhhhh!


Robert Dixon - Serena, the scanner!


David Covert - Booooks!


Lila Yasin - Graduate carrels!


James Williams - DVDs!


Jaydee Moore - Boom boxes!


Jon-Marc Dale - Blues collection!


Liane Elias - Freebies!!


Miho Yamaguchi - Digital voice recorders!


Lena Timmons - Music Research Guide!


Fred (Jonathan Frederick) - CD Rom orchestral parts!


Jessica - Sleevefacing...oops - see next photo!


Now, THAT'S sleevefacing!


Emma Dhesi - Video recorders!


Laurence Evans - LP Players!


Dana Boyle - Ipads!


Julian Hinshaw - Reel to reel player!  (Antique!!)


Alaina Jones - Laptops!


Chet Moon - UNCG Recital Recordings!

Thank you again, everyone!  We are so lucky to have such cool people to work with!!  Happy semester ending and summer to you all! 

 With love and appreciation from the ML Management team (MK Amos, Ted Hunter, Sarah Dorsey - and for 4 months, LaTesha Velez)



Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sleevefacing!!! Yes - vinyl!!

Yes, we have LPs!!  Yes, we want you to know this!!  We'll show you how to find them and how to use them.  Thanks to our friends at Bowling Green who inspired us to follow suit: http://blogs.bgsu.edu/librarysleevefacing/

Thanks to Liane Elias for taking these photos and getting the UNCG Sleevefacing ball rolling!  And to each of the creative faces behind the sleeves! This is just the beginning here at UNCG!


Louis Armstrong/Ted Hunter


Joan of Arc/Dana Boyle


Wilhelm Kempff/Liane Elias


Lucia Popp/Lila Yasin


Arthur Fiedler/Jolly Old St. Nick/Miranda Freeman


Julia Migenes-Johnson/Sarah Dorsey

Stay tuned for more!

Monday, September 20, 2010

New Content added to Music Online

A message from Alexander Street Press - Jazz and Contemporary World Music additions!

The MOST exciting news is the addition of the Blue Note label to Jazz Music Library. We've been working on licensing Blue Note for quite awhile and so are very pleased to have finally started loading their content.

The other exciting news is that all of the new tracks run at both 192kbps and 320kbps bitrates.

JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY

850 albums (8,000 tracks) from Blue Note, EMI, Angel Records, Capitol Records, and Vanguard Records. The new content includes releases by Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson, Cassandra Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Prima, Nigel Kennedy, Bernadette Peters, and more. Great recordings include:

*Duke Ellington Live at the Blue Note

*The Complete Imperial Sessions: Sonny Criss

*The Rudy van Gelder Edition CDs of Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Walter Davis Jr, Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon, and more

*Benny Green Live at the Village Vanguard

*David Axelrod at Capitol Records (1966-1970)

*The Complete Capitol Recordings of Art Tatum

*The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Herbie Nichols

*Kenny Burrell 75th Birthday Bash Live


CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC

99 albums from Virgin India, Angel Records, Air Mail Music, Playasound, Piranha, Tropical Music, and PAN Records. New material includes Indian Classical music, African drumming, cumbia, African gospel, chant, ritual music and more. Example new albums include:


*Ravi Shankar Collection

*Anoushka Shankar: Anourag

*Swar Shikhar - The Taj Heritage Series

*Samba Touré: Songhai Blues: Homage to Ali Farka Toure

Music Online now contains:

309,704 tracks

21,973 albums

66,855 pages text reference

21,878 scores (369,844 pages)

426 videos

Enjoy the new content!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

New Send-to-Mobile functionality in Alexander Street streaming collections

We now have "Send-to-Mobile" functionality in Music Online, including all of the individual streaming music collections and some items in Opera in Video. This functionality will follow in all of our Alexander Street streaming video collections later this year.

What this means is that you can now send an audio track, video track, album, or playlist from our streaming collections to your mobile device to listen to later. The item that you send stays on your device for 48 hours.


Go to any of our Alexander Street streaming music databases and look for a cell phone icon ("Send-to-Mobile") next to each track, album, or playlist. Wherever you see that icon you can click it and obtain a “shortlink” to send and enable playback on your mobile device.

We provide several methods to send this link:
* We can send a text message to your mobile.

* We can email the link to your email address, which you can pick up on your mobile.

* You can enter the link URL manually into your mobile's web browser.

* On supported devices you can scan a QR-Code directly from your computer screen. You will need to download a QR-Code reader application to do so.

At this time, this functionality is supported on:

* Apple iPhone on 3G network or better

* Mobile Device with Android OS


Shortlinks cannot be accessed outside of your institution network after 48 hours but will still be usable within it.

For more information please visit the Help page at http://muco.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/using_your_mobile_device


Let us know what you think.