by Ted Robbins January 5, 2011 NPR Music News The Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix, which calls itself the largest global instrument museum, is quiet — but only at first. “It’s one of the most quiet museums you’ll ever be in,” museum director Bill DeWalt says. “Everyone is listening to the sound through the headphones.” … Continued

There is BIG news about a release to our streaming music collections in Music Online: Listening. Released were nearly 400,000 tracks/17,000+ albums of new music to a number of databases. New music includes: JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY 4,654 albums (61,796 tracks) from a wide variety of genres and labels, including Storyville Records, JSP Records, Montreux Jazz, … Continued

The Library Express and item hold-for-pickup services will not be available during the winter break.  Storage requests made through the catalog however will still be retrieved for pickup.  If you need a recall placed on a particular item that is currently checked out, please contact the Music Library 974-3474

The Music Library will close at 6:00pm on the last day of finals, Thursday December 9. Starting December 10 and lasting til January 11, the hours will be: 8:00am – 5:00pm, Monday through Friday, CLOSED Saturday and Sunday The Music Library, along with the entire university, will also be closed from December 24 to January 2. … Continued

The Music Library subject guides, which cover all areas in Music Literature, Pedagogy, Genres, and Education, have been moved into the LibGuides environment, along with the other campus-wide subject guides.  LibGuides offers increased functionality in a number of ways, including direct catalog links for all selected resources, as well as a commenting function so that … Continued

We are pleased to announce another content release for Music Online. The MOST exciting news is the addition of the Blue Note label to Jazz Music Library. They have 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 … Continued

The next evening in the Documentaries in the Library Series this semester concens music and copyright. We’ll screen “RIP: A Copyright Manifesto” and the music video “Don’t Download This Song” thisTuesday, October 26 at 7:00 PM in the Hodges Library Auditorium and follow the film with a discussion. The focus of this documentary is fair … Continued

Starting on September 14th, the Fall 2010 Documentaries in the Library series will begin. The theme for the semester is “I want it now!: Information in the Digital Age.” All events are at 7pm and are free and open to the public! We hope to see you there! NC17=XXX: Censorship in Entertainment September 14th Documentary: … Continued

Alexander Street Press now offers a “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 streaming video collections later this year. What this means is that you can now send an audio track, video track, album, or … Continued

David Northington, professor of music, was recently selected as the Phi Kappa Phi Artist for 2010-12 for his achievements as a pianist, professor, and community volunteer. The award, given nationally by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi only once every three years, recognizes outstanding artist/scholars. Quest, UT Knoxville’s comprehensive research initiative, has selected Northington … Continued