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Impact of funding changes on music collections in Canadian academic libraries
(Canadian Association of Music Libraries Annual Meeting, 2016-06-02)
Music librarians with shrinking acquisitions budgets, crowded shelves, and pressure to create more student study space face fundamental questions: How do we sustain the quality of the music collection with limited funds? ...
The Saskatchewan Music Collection
(Music Library Association, 2013-03-02)
Many libraries are developing local or regional music collections. Why librarians choose to create such collections and how they approach issues of development, selection, access, and marketing vary from institution to ...
Wikipedia And The Library: Righting The Imbalance Of Creators And Content Through Community Edit-a-thons
(Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians, 2016-05-29)
This paper discusses edit-a-thons held in Saskatoon and Banff during 2015–16 as part of
International Women’s Day celebrations, to collectively and purposefully improve the quality
and quantity of Wikipedia entries on ...
Saskatchewan Music Large Ensembles
(2017-01-01)
This dataset was produced to show information about sound recordings from large ensembles (bands, orchestras, and choirs) from Saskatchewan. These recordings are found in the Saskatchewan Music Collection, held at the ...
Digital heritage: Preserving and sharing Saskatchewan’s music.
(International Association of Music Libraries Annual Meeting, 2012-07)
The Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located just east of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, has a rich and fascinating musical history. In order to preserve and share Saskatchewan’s musical heritage the University of ...
Applying the Flipped Classroom Methodology in a First-Year Undergraduate Music Research Methods Course
(Music Reference Services Quarterly, 2016-05-21)
Online learning environments and teaching tools are becoming increasingly present on University campuses and continue to impact the way information literacy instruction is delivered. The flipped classroom is a methodology ...
Local Music Collections: Strategies for Digital Access, Presentation, and Preservation - A Case Study
(New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2016-05-21)
The Saskatchewan Music Collection (SMC) is a local music collection held at the University of Saskatchewan. This case study examines a project to digitize and present this unique special collection in the online environment. ...
Libraries Organizing Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons as a Form of Information Activism
(Saskatchewan Library Association Conference, 2016-05-07)
In Saskatoon, two Wikipedia Edit-a-thon events have been held in partnership between the local libraries and arts organizations. The purpose of these events was to collectively and purposefully improve the quality and ...
Music in Space and Time: Using Data Visualization to Understand a Local Music Collection
(Music Library Association Mountain-Plains Chapter Annual Meeting, 2016-05-20)
Collaboration between the music librarian and data librarian led to these critical questions: What does the intersection between special collections and data management look like? How can libraries use catalogue data to ...
Regional music collection practices in libraries: A qualitative systematic review and thematic analysis of the literature
(NYSO Chapter Meeting of the Music Library Association, 2016-10-15)
Regional music collections document the music of a particular geographic area, bringing together unique artifacts that represent the local history and culture. The practice of collecting regional music is now taking place ...