2024-03-29T15:05:31Zhttps://thescholarship.ecu.edu/oai/requestoai:TheScholarship.intra.ecu.edu:10342/52692021-03-03T21:00:54Zcom_10342_2com_10342_1col_10342_4
Newcomer, Nara L.
2016-05-20T16:08:29Z
2016-05-20T16:08:29Z
2011-08-30
Newcomer, Nara L. “The Detail Behind Web-Scale: Selecting and Configuring Web-Scale Discovery Tools to Meet Music Information Retrieval Needs.� Music Reference Services Quarterly 14, no. 3 (2011): 131-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2011.596098
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2011.596098
Web-scale discovery tools are rapidly gaining popularity as a purported "one-stop search" for discovering library information. Music, particularly printed music and recordings, presents unique information retrieval needs. This article identifies, explores, and makes recommendations regarding key music-related aspects to consider when selecting and implementing a discovery tool, considering scope, metadata, and interface.
en_US
Discovery Tools
Music information retrieval
Summon
Encore
Primo Central
The Detail Behind Web-Scale: Selecting and Configuring Web-Scale Discovery Tools to Meet Music Information Retrieval Needs.
Article
oai:TheScholarship.intra.ecu.edu:10342/19162021-03-03T20:52:33Zcom_10342_2com_10342_1col_10342_4
Newcomer, Nara L.
2009-10-22T15:03:12Z
2009-10-22T15:03:12Z
2009
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1916
10.1108/01604950910999800
This article explores collection development for small libraries facing an extremely restricted budget, with an additional focus on international school libraries. Drawing on the author’s experience as a professional consultant for Oasis International School, Ankara, Turkey, this case study provides collection development advice, tips for librarians interested in volunteering or international travel, and a literature review. The article shows how an extremely restricted budget and the complexities of an international environment need not prevent libraries from taking steps towards improving their collection. Strategies include: seeking targeted donations from publishers, granting organizations, individuals, and others; intelligently exploiting non-targeted donations; utilizing volunteers; carefully balancing preservation and access; and implementing a basic inventory/circulation system.
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Collections management
Financing
Librarianship
School libraries
Turkey
Back to Basics: International Collection Development on a Shoestring
Article
oai:TheScholarship.intra.ecu.edu:10342/42802022-11-30T15:08:03Zcom_10342_2com_10342_1col_10342_4
Hursh, David
Avenarius, Christine
2013-11-05T19:48:07Z
2013-11-05T19:48:07Z
2013-06-10
East Carolina University
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4280
Improving services is what librarians are all about. Of course, doing that requires them to first determine what needs improving, a process that typically involves activities such as number-gathering (e.g., circulation statistics and gate counts), face-to-face patron interviews, surveys, and observation, all of which individually have shortcomings. If the source of the data is reliable, number-gathering is a highly-accurate evaluation method. Unfortunately, this method cannot be used to address all inquiries, and it lacks the human element that brings life to research. Face-to-face interviews and surveys may introduce the human element, but can be misleading because people often say one thing and do another. Likewise, observation introduces the human element, but it does so in a limited way when carried out in the traditional fashion, which centers on defining the behaviors on which observers will focus their attention (Zweizig 1996, 118). Doing this, however, means that any number of other behaviors, knowledge of which could prove useful to improving services, will be ignored. Though admittedly more challenging and time consuming, adopting an ethnographic approach to evaluating library services results in a more complete and accurate picture than is possible with traditional library evaluation methods.
en
Music
Music library
Patron activities
What Do Patrons Really Do in Music Libraries? An Ethnographic Approach to Improving Library Services
Article
oai:TheScholarship.intra.ecu.edu:10342/50642021-03-03T20:58:29Zcom_10342_2com_10342_1col_10342_4
Holden, Christopher
2015-11-12T12:32:20Z
2015-11-12T12:32:20Z
2015-10
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly; 53:8 p. 873-894
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5064
10.1080/01639374.2015.1057886
10.1080/01639374.2015.1057886
The traditional work-instance model differentiates between the intellectual content of a work and the semantic content of its material instantiations. Most scholarship on musical works has concentrated on classical music within the Western canon, and little attention has been paid to other genres of music. This article explores what would constitute an effective work-instance model applicable to sound recordings of non-classical music, examines the shortcomings of the standard work-instance model, and offers new perspectives on the idea of the musical work by integrating the views of philosophers and musicologists, suggesting an interdisciplinary approach to the knowledge organization of musical works. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly on 23 Oct 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01639374.2015.1057886.
en_US
Musical works
Music cataloging
Sound recordings
The Definition of the Work Entity for Pieces of Recorded Sound
Article
oai:TheScholarship.intra.ecu.edu:10342/10722021-03-03T20:52:30Zcom_10342_2com_10342_1col_10342_4
Hursh, David
2008-11-21T19:32:21Z
2008-11-21T19:32:21Z
2004
North Carolina Libraries; 62:2 p. 80-83
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1072
Tells about a digital exhibit celebrating the life of North Carolina patent medicine entrepreneur and folk musician Alice Person.
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Patent medicine
Digital exhibits
Southern folk music
Person, Alice
Good Medicine and Good Music: The Virtual Life of Mrs. Joe Person at East Carolina University
Article
oai:TheScholarship.intra.ecu.edu:10342/59792021-03-03T21:09:44Zcom_10342_2com_10342_1col_10342_4
Hursh, David
2016-11-08T16:05:58Z
2016-11-08T16:05:58Z
2016-10-21
Hursh, David. "Total Health for Music Librarians" SEMLA 2016 Annual Meeting, Duke University, Durham, NC, October 21, 2016.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5979
Slides and script for this presentation are provided. SEMLA stands for the Southeast Chapter of the Music Librarian Association.
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Music librarian
Academic Librarians
Total Health for Music Librarians
Presentation