Welcome Christopher Walker to the Archive of Recorded Sound
Please welcome Christopher Walker to the Stanford Libraries and the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Blog topic: Music
100th Spotlight at Stanford exhibit published
We are thrilled to announce the publication of the 100th Spotlight at Stanford exhibit! Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres was created and published by Ray Heigemeir of the Stanford Music Library, with selected customizations supported by Chris Beer of Digital Library Systems and Services’ Access Team.
Music Librarians sail into Norfolk
Norfolk, Virginia, welcomed Music Library Association members traveling by planes, trains, automobiles (and perhaps a boat or two?) to the MLA Annual Conference February 26-March 1. Norfolk, on the Chesapeake Bay, is home to Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in the world.
Monterey Jazz Festival complete programs and posters now available online through Searchworks
The Archive of Recorded Sound with support from the Monterey Jazz Festival has just released the full run of the Monterey Jazz Festival programs and posters to Searchworks, and better yet, they are world accessible.
New titles in Music Reference, January 2021
The Music Library invites you to browse these recent additions to the reference collection:
Richard Wagner : Bibliographie zu Leben und Werk, 1833-2013 / zusammengestellt von Steffen Prignitz.
How to find streaming archival sound recordings in Searchworks
Recently, at the Archive of Recorded Sound we have had discussions with many students about finding more than just the expected in Searchworks. In this case digitized archival sound recordings. Many of the sound recordings we work to preserve and provide access to are available streaming to the Stanford community and a few are even available to anyone interested in the world. Following are two video tutorials on how to filter search results to streaming archival sound recordings in Searchworks.
Manuscripts from the Jenny Lind Collection
In celebration of Jenny Lind’s bicentennial, Stanford Libraries is pleased to make available to the public the manuscript scores and letters contained in the Jenny Lind Collection, one of the largest extant collections of primary source materials once belonging to Lind.