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An introduction to British Library MS Lansdowne 380.
June 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION The British Library manuscript Lansdowne 380 (hereinafter Lans 380) is a quarto volume comprised of 280 paper folios, measuring 210 cm x 145 cm. It was re-bound in 1970, so the original binding, which might have given some clue to the manuscript's provenance, is now lost. It...

Necrology index.(List)
June 1, 2009... This document is an extract from the necrology file of the Gaylord Music Library, Washington University, available online at http://library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/index.html. It comprises those names that are listed in the dictionaries and encyclopedias cited following the double bar...

Digital media review.(website evaluation)
June 1, 2009... For information regarding the scope of this column, consult the head note in the September 2008 issue (p. 136 of this volume). The dates of access for each review of an online source indicate the dates during which the reviewer was evaluating the resource. All Web sites were last accessed to...

MLA-L at twenty.
March 1, 2009... ABSTRACT MLA-L, the electronic-mail distribution list for music librarians, is now twenty years old. Before the establishment of the list in 1989, professional communication among music librarians was paper based and slow. The growth of computer networks in the early 1980s led to the...

Copyright and historical sound recordings: recent efforts to change U.S. law.
March 1, 2009... ABSTRACT Constantly expanding copyright laws in the U.S. have made it increasingly difficult for archives to preserve our past effectively, and for the public to legally access it. This is especially true in the field of historical sound recordings. Most people are surprised to learn...