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Naxos Music Library Records Now in the Princeton Library Catalog

By Darwin F. Scott on December 3, 2010 7:35 PM | 1 Comment
The library has purchased a limited set of catalog records for thousands of the streamed audio recordings in the Naxos Music Library, making it now possible to access these recordings directly from the Princeton Library catalog without searching the Naxos Music Library directly. You can recognize these catalog records by [electronic resource] in the title, Naxos Music Library in the publisher and series fields, "ONLINE" for the location, "electronic resource" as the call no., and, of course, the direct link in the "Electronic access" field. By clicking on this link, you will directly launch this recording in the Naxos Music Library database. Here is a sample of the key fields:

Title: O mio babbino caro [electronic resource] : famous soprano arias from Italian operas.
Published/Created: [Hong Kong] : Naxos Music Library, [2004]
Electronic access: http://princeton.naxosmusiclibrary.com/streamcat.asp?s=8939%2fPrinceton07&item%5Fcode=8.555796
Series: Naxos Music Library.
Location: *ONLINE*
Call number: Electronic Resource

Remember, if you are accessing the catalog from a remote, non-Princeton location, you must have VPN or the proxy server running in the background for the direct link into the Naxos Music Library to work; otherwise, a log-on window will prevent you from entering the resource.

To date, there are 6,142 records now in the Princeton Library catalog describing and pointing to recordings in the Naxos Music Library. To see all of them, search "naxos music library" as the publisher and electronic as a title in the guided search, or click on this link for a pre-canned search. You might want to sort by author for an easier preview once the results appear on the screen.

Keep in mind that acceptable cataloging for all the recordings in the Naxos Music Library is presently not available (particularly for recordings added since 2009), and that to get a full picture of all the recordings available, you must search the Naxos Music Library directly. Nevertheless, it's a real bonus to have even this limited access to over 6,000 complete recordings available at the click of a mouse now available directly from the Princeton Library catalog. 

Online Version of Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music Now Available

By Darwin F. Scott on October 26, 2010 7:20 PM | 1 Comment
I am happy to break too long a silence on this blog to announce that Princeton now has online access to the full-text of Richard Taruskin's award-winning magnum opus Oxford History of Western Music (http://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com), originally published in 2005 (hardcover, 6 vols.) and reissued in paperback (2009-10, 5 vols.) This electronic version is only available to authorized Princeton users, and if you are accessing remotely, remember that you must have VPN (or the proxy server) running in the background.

A bit about this resource:

"The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Since its original publication in print [in 2005 and subsequent reissue in 2009-10], Taruskin's landmark study has received universal acclaim and numerous awards." More information is available on the home page of the electronic version and also from the Oxford University Press here.

Features of the online version include:

  • The full text from The Oxford History of Western Music (2009 edition) with notes, bibliographies, and further readings for all 69 chapters.
  • 500 illustrations, 1,800 musical examples, and index from the 2009 print edition.
  • More than 1,700 editorially-selected links to relevant entries in Grove Music Online.
  • Sophisticated search and browse options for easy navigation of the text, and the original pagination from the 2009 edition is retained to aid location of references.
  • Printer-friendly format.
  • Export citations automatically to ProCite™, EndNote™, Reference Manager™, RefWorks™, and Zotero™.
  • DOIs (data object identifiers) and static URLs.
Enjoy this new addition to Princeton's electronic texts on music!

Cheers,

Darwin

Access to Individual Classical Music Library and DRAM Streamed Audio Recordings Now Available in Library Catalog

By Darwin F. Scott on April 14, 2010 7:15 PM | 1 Comment
I'm delighted to report that we now have records in the online catalog for the individual streaming audio recordings in DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) and a good number from the Classical Music Library (we are loading these bibliographic records as they are supplied by the producer of this resource, Alexander Street Press). You no longer have to go only to these electronic resources themselves to find the recordings but can use the Princeton Library catalog, with all the title, composer, and subject access points you'd expect. Plus these streamed recordings will now come up when you perform routine searches in the catalog for recordings. This enhanced access will make these streamed recordings so much easier to find and use--you should be able to click directly from the bibliographic records to the actual sound files by clicking on the Electronic access link. You still need to go to Long View to see all the pertinent information about the recording, but the link is visible in the brief display.

REMINDER, if connecting to these recordings via the catalog from off campus, you'll need to have your VPM Princeton authorization running in the background for the electronic access to open to the streaming audio from the catalog records.

Here are a couple of examples:

DRAM recording sample--click here. If you want to see all 2,073 DRAM streamed recordings now accessible from the catalog, scroll down the Long View to the DRAM (Online service) link under Related name(s) and just click. Voila! You can also click here.

Classical Music Library recording sample--click here (or enter a series title search for classical music library as a phrase). You will see this number grow steadily as Alexander Street Press makes more and more bibliographic records available for us to download into the catalog.

To link directly to these streaming audio resources (you must have VPM running if trying this from off campus), click on the following:

DRAM

Classical Music Library 

Stay tuned--we hope to have similar types of catalog records for the content in the Naxos Music Library available soon.

Happy listening,

Darwin

New Jazz Resources Available at Princeton

By Darwin F. Scott on February 17, 2010 3:11 PM | No Comments
In the last few months, the Princeton University Library has acquired noteworthy audio and video jazz resources--from streaming audio to two large and outstanding gifts of CDs and DVDs--that greatly expand access to jazz listening, viewing, and study at Princeton.

Streaming Audio: the Jazz Music Library

Authorized Princeton users can now listen to jazz online via the Jazz Music Library! This new Princeton resource for streaming audio from Alexander Street Press aims to become the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online--with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. For more information on the Jazz Music Library, click here. Other key links include a regularly updated "What's New" page, various browse options, and playlists--both pre-formed by Alexander Street and ones you can make yourself. All selections in the Jazz Music Library have unique, persistent URLs, making linking easy from reserve lists and other Web pages. Remember, if you are accessing from off campus, you must first activate VPN or the proxy server for the resource to recognize you as a Princeton user and log you in correctly to the Jazz Music Library.

Two Outstanding Gifts of Jazz CDs, DVDs, and Books

In the summer and fall of 2009, the Mendel Music Library received two remarkable donations of jazz collections assembled by life-long jazz lovers.

In May 2009, Laura Gates Burgess donated the jazz collection of her late father, Stephen Gates, Ph.D. *55. The focus of this pristine compilation of books, vinyl records, and CDs is a treasure trove of more than 400 CD remasterings of essential recordings by famous and lesser-known artists from the 1920s through the 1960s, the golden years of jazz. Numerous CDs of classic performances by Eddie Condon, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bobby Hackett, Fletcher Henderson, Red Nichols, Bessie Smith, Teddy Wilson, and other luminaries mixed with rare reissues of Wingy Manone, Wilbur De Paris, Bennie Moten, and the Goofus Five, among other delights. We have completed processing the Gates CDs, and they can all be accessed from the library catalog by clicking here. Remember to select "long view" after selecting a particular recording to see all the descriptive information (performers and recording dates, for example).

This fall, we received an extraordinary collection of CDs, DVDs, and books from Doris Rickles, the widow of Bob Rickles of Marlborough, N.J. Until his death in April 2008, Rickles was an active member of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (IAJRC) and the Duke Ellington Society in the UK. Bob was an inveterate collector of jazz CDs and his entire collection of some 3,500 jazz CDs is now being processed for the Mendel Music Library's collection. The depth of coverage of key jazz artists in the collection is phenomenal. Rickles was an obvious "completist" who sought to obtain every available recording of his favorite artists--note the number of Count Basie recordings, for example. In addition, the collection is very rich in more obscure performers and covers a wide range of performance and jazz styles. Another bonus of the Rickles collection is over 100 DVDs of jazz performances, none of which Princeton previously owned. The Rickles Collection is still in process and the number of CDs available to the Princeton community grows monthly. To access the processed (and in-process) CDs and all the DVDs from the library catalog, click here.

Both the Gates and Rickles gifts now provide Princeton with a breadth and depth of vintage jazz recordings it previously lacked, and offer a vital complement to the rising interest in jazz studies at Princeton, as marked by the Anthony H. P. Lee '79 Fund for the Study of Jazz, established in 2008.

New Search Interface and Cross-Search Options for RILM and the Music Index

By Darwin F. Scott on January 25, 2010 3:00 PM | No Comments

We now have a new interface for The Music Index Online and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature via EBSCOhost. We have revised the links on the main library electronic resources page, the Mendel Music Library Web page, and also the Music LibGuide. There could be some now errant links out there in on other pages you might occasionally use (please report if you encounter any).

Because the Music Index and RILM now are on the same searching platform, it is easy to cross-search both databases for simultaneous searching of names and terms--thus casting a wider net, since there is a good bit of the music literature not covered by both resources. You can refine the search in either of these databases to also include the other by clicking on the "Choose Resources" link at the top of the screen. But easier is to just use this link (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mah&defaultdb=rih) - which is now also on the Mendel Web page as well as the Music LibGuide.

If you have old, book-marked links, you should change them so that they will connect to these new paths:

Music Index: (http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=mah)

RILM: (http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=rih)

Please note: these links only work from Princeton terminals or by using a VPM or ProxyServer connection for authorized Princeton users working from remote locations.

Savvy searchers may also note that there is a new search default on all the EBSCOhost products: "Find all my search terms" - the default used to be Boolean/Phrase, which led to all sorts of false results for those used to basic keyword searching as a default in so many commonly used search engines.

I think you will prefer the EBSCO search interface for RILM over the previous one; similarly for the Music Index--although in this case we have no option as EBSCO bought out the Music Index last week. Such is corporate life in the world of music research as well!

Happy searching,

Darwin

Audio Reserves Now Available in Blackboard!

By Darwin F. Scott on October 22, 2009 2:36 PM | No Comments
With the help of systems staff, we've finally been able to perform a minor (or perhaps major) Mendel miracle here -- audio reserves are now available in Blackboard by clicking the Audio Reserve link within the course. There will no longer be a need for an extra password. Enrolled students (and, of course, the faculty member) can now access all print, visual, and audio reserve materials in one place for a course -- and have a total picture of what is available on reserve in all formats for the course as well. Students can access fall 2009 course reserves from the new Mendel Music Library home page in the Quick Links box.

A special thanks to Mendel's e-reserves supervisor Dan Gallagher for shepherding this enhancement through a long path of many months to completion this week.

Cheers,

Darwin
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