SEMLA Preconference Workshop Music Acquisitions and Collection Development Oct. 18, 2012

Instructors: Holling Smith-Borne Director, Wilson Music Library Vanderbilt University [email protected]

-and-

Chris Durman George F. DeVine Music Library University of Tennessee Libraries 865-974-3474 [email protected]

With thanks to Marci Cohen and Michael Fling.

Resource List

Major Vendors

Baker & Taylor, Inc. (800) 775-1800 http://btol.com/ [email protected]

Bel Canto Society (audio and video recordings) Department A, 85 Furniture Drive Milford, CT 06460 Phone: (800) 347-5056 Fax: (212) 877-2792 http://www.belcantosociety.org

Broude Brothers Limited (scores only; publisher has own line of scholarly score editions) 141 White Oaks Road, P.O. Box 547 Williamstown, MA 01267-0547 Phone: (800) 525-8559 Fax: (413) 458-5242 http://www.broude.us/ [email protected]

DVD Planet (videorecordings) 900 N Rohlwing Road Itasca, IL 60143 http://www.dvdplanet.com [email protected]

Educational Music Service (scores; specializes in score orchestral literature) 33 Elkay Drive Chester, NY 10918

1 Phone: (845) 469-5790 Fax: (845) 469-5817 http://www.emsmusic.com [email protected]

Facets Multi-Media (videorecordings) 1517 West Fullerton Ave. Chicago, IL 60614 Phone: (800) 331-6197 http://www.facets.org [email protected]

Films for the Humanities and Sciences (videorecordings) 132 West 31st Street 17th Floor New York, NY 10001 Phone: (800) 322-8755 Fax: (800) 678-3633 http://www.films.com [email protected]

Harrassowitz (Music Services) North American Library Services office 820 University Blvd. South, Suite 2C Mobile, AL 36609 Phone: (800) 348-6886 Fax: (800) 574-5732 http://www.harrassowitz.de [email protected]

Hutchins & Rea (scores) PO Box 190309 Atlanta, GA 31119 Phone: (800) 733-BACH (2224) Fax: (404) 842-1248 http://www.hutchinsandrea.com/

Insight MEDIA (videorecordings) 2162 Broadway New York, NY 10024 Phone: (800) 233-9910 Fax: (212) 799-5309 http://www.insight-media.com/ [email protected]

J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc. (scores only) 2480 Industrial Blvd. Paoli PA 19301 Phone: (800) 345-6296 Fax: (610) 993-0563 http://www.jwpepper.com/ [email protected]

Kultur (videorecordings) 195 Highway 36 West Long Branch, NJ 07764

2 Phone: (732) 229-2343 http://www.kulturfilms.com/ [email protected]

Luck’s Music Library (scores; specializes in orchestral literature) 32300 Edward PO Box 71397 Madison Hieghts, MI 48071 Phone: (248) 583-1820 Fax: (248) 583-1114 http://www.lucksmusic.net [email protected]

Music Hunter Distributing Company Jay Sonin 4880 North Citation Drive, Suite 101 Delray Beach, FL 33445 Phone: (561) 450-7152 [email protected]

Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc. 16122 Cohasset St. Van Nuys, CA 91406-2989 Phone: (818) 994-1902 Fax: (818) 994-0419 http://www.tfront.com/ [email protected]

Video Artists International and VAI Audio (recordings and videorecordings) 109 Wheeler Ave Pleasantville, NY 10570 Phone: (800) 477-7146 Fax: (914) 769-5407 http://www.vai-music.com [email protected]

Many vendors offer e-mail notifications and customized spreadsheets for new publications or collections on a specific topic.

Sources for Out-of-Print music books

Abebooks (formerly known as Advanced Book Exchange) http://www.abebooks.com

AddAll Used and Out-of-Print http://www.used.addall.com

Alibris http://www.alibris.com

Bookfinder www.bookfinder.com

Amazon http://www.amazon.com (used)

3

Sources for Out-of-Print music recordings

Alibris http://www.alibris.com

Berkshire Record Outlet http://www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com

BuyUsed.co.uk http://www.2ndhand.org.uk

GEMM: Global Electronic Music Marketplace http://www.gemm.com

Mikrokosmos.com (LPs, and 78 rpm) http://www.mikrokosmos.com

Major record labels (three multinational companies control more than 80% of the world’s recorded music production. All market their own labels and distribute recordings of smaller companies as well.

Sony Music Entertainment (formerly CBS/Sony) Includes Columbia Records, Epic Record Group, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, and Sony Wonder http:///www.sonymusic.com

Universal Music Group Includes Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Geffen, MCA, Mercury, Motown, Philips, Polydor, Universal Records, and Verve http://www.universalmusic.com

Warner Music Group (division of Time Warner, often abbreviated WEA) Includes Atlantic Group, Elektra Entertainment Group, London-Sire Records, Rhino Entertainment Group, and Warner Bros. http://www.wmg.com

Specialty Vendors, Labels and Catalogs

Albany Records http://www.albanyrecords.com

Allegro Media Group http://www.allegro-music.com

Amazon.com (for materials not found elsewhere) Try Amazon International too at http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=487250

Arkiv Music http://www.arkivmusic.com

4

Azuradisc Disc Repair Center (CD resurfacing) 7307 South 89th Place Mesa, AZ 85212 (480) 827-8786 http://www.azuradisc.com

BWI (vendor specializing in children’s materials for public libraries, offers standing orders for Billboard charts) 1340 Ridgeview Dr. McHenry, IL 60050 Phone: (800) 888-4478 Fax: (800) 888-6319 http://bwibooks.com/ [email protected]

Collectors’ Choice (reissues) http://www.ccmusic.com eBay.com (especially for out-of-print items)

Harmonia Mundi More than 50 labels http://www.harmoniamundi.com

Heartland Music (reissues, mainly classic country) http://www.heartlandmusic.com

Naxos (classical) http://www.naxos.com

Nonesuch (known for world music but they also issue pop, jazz and folk) http://www.nonesuch.com

Palm Kids (children’s music) http://www.palmkids.com

Rhino (pop reissues) http://www.rhino.com

Time-Life (gospel, country and pop reissues, mainly compilations) http://www.timelife.com

Yesasia.com (current pop music from Asia, especially Japan and Korea) http://www.yesasia.com

Streaming Music Vendors

Classical.com http://www.classical.com

Naxos http://www.naxos.com

5 Alexander Street Press: Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, American Song, Classical Scores Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, Opera in Video, and other specialized collections http://alexanderstreet.com/products/music

Awards

Academy Awards (songs and scores from films are awarded) http://www.oscars.org Nominees announced in January. Awards ceremony held in February.

Grammy Awards http://www.grammy.com Nominees announced in December. Awards ceremony held in February. Latin Grammy awards ceremony held in November.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://rockhall.com Nominations announced in October. Inductees announced in December.

Tony Awards http://www.tonyawards.com Nominations announced in May. Awards ceremony held in June.

Blues Music Awards (formerly known as the W.C. Handy Blues Awards) http://www.blues.org Nominations announced in December. Awards ceremony held in May.

Sources for identifying core recordings

A Basic Music Library: Essential Scores and Sound Recordings, 3rd ed., Chicago: American Library Association, 1997.

Holtje, Steve, and Nancy Ann Lee, ed., MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide, Detroit: Visible Ink Press, c1998.

Libbey, Ted, The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection, 2nd ed., New York: Workman Pub., c1999.

Moon, Tom. 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: A Listener’s Life List. New York: Workman Pub., 2008.

MOJO Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion. 4th ed., fully rev. & updated. Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, 2007.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for artists and songs that shaped rock and roll http://rockhall.com

Rolling Stone The magazine regularly runs lists of greatest recordings of all time. “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531 -or- “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407

6 Periodicals with Music Reviews

American Record Guide (classical reviews, no advertising) ISSN 0003-0716 http://www.americanrecordguide.com

BBC Music Magazine (classical) http://www.bbcmagazines.com/music

Billboard (reports national sales, with breakdown by genre) ISSN 0006-2510 http://www.billboard.com

CDHotlist: New Releases for Libraries (online only) http://cdhotlist.btol.com/

CMJ (formerly New Music Monthly) (rock/pop) http://www.cmj.com

Downbeat (Jazz and blues) ISSN 0012-5768 http://www.downbeat.com

Entertainment Weekly (mostly rock/pop; some country, jazz) ISSN 1049-0434 http://www.ew.com/ew/

Fanfare (classical) ISSN 0148-9364 http://www.fanfaremag.com

Goldmine (specializes in annotated rock discographies) ISSN 1055-2685 http://www.goldminemag.com/

Gramophone (classical) ISSN 0017-310X http://www.gramophone.co.uk

International Record Review (classical) http://www.recordreview.co.uk

MOJO: Music Magazine (rock/pop) ISSN 1351-0193 http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/

Music Reference Services Quarterly (primarily books) ISSN 1058-8167

Notes - Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (mostly classical) ISSN 0027-4380

Rolling Stone (rock/pop) ISSN 0035-791X http://rollingstone.com

7 RootsWorld: Listening To The Planet (online only) http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/

Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine ISSN 0037-5624 http://www.singout.org

The Source - The Magazine of Hip-Hop Music, Culture and Politics ISSN 1063-2085 http://www.thesource.com

Spin (rock/pop) ISSN 0886-3032 http://www.spin.com

Tempo (journal devoted to 20th-century and contemporary concert music) ISSN 0040-2982

Vibe (hip hop) ISSN 1070-4701 http://www.vibe.com/

Village Voice Pazz & Jop Poll (Based on poll of about 600 music critics. Results are announced in January; available online http://www.villagevoice.com) ISSN 0042-6180

Also, look through other periodicals that your library subscribes to.

Other Online Resources

Allmusic.com, a comprehensive web site of recordings, including notation for whether a title is still in print and a weekly schedule of new releases. It has a separate search function for classical music. http://www.allmusic.com/

Radio Disney Top 30 Countdown http://radio.disney.go.com/radiodisneybeta/toplists/

Music Selection Sources on the WWW Anna Seaberg (King County Library System, Washington State) maintains a helpful website with links to vendor and publisher web sites at http://dslweb.nwnexus.com/aseaberg/

Copyright Issues

U.S. Copyright Code Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and archives Title 17, § 108 http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108

MLA Copyright for Music Librarians http://copyright.musiclibraryassoc.org/

8 Printed Directories of Print Music Publishers

Directory of Music Publishers, New York: Music Publishers’ Association of the United States; National Music Publishers’ Association; Church Music Publishers’ Association, 2001- . Annual Entries list foreign and domestic imprints distributed by the named U.S. publishers. The directory can be accessed online at http://www.mpa.org/content/directories

Music Publishers’ International ISMN Directory, Munich: K.G. Saur: International ISMN Agency, 1995- . Directory of publishers participating in the International Standard Music Number (ISMN) program as well as those that do not; arguably the most comprehensive directory of music publishers currently available. The directory can be accessed online at http://www.ismn-international.org/directory.php

Printed Directories of Recording Labels

BiIlboard International Buyer’s Guide, New York: Billboard Pubs., 1970- . Annual; separate listings of major and independent labels including web and e-mail addresses; also lists major “sheet music” publishers and video companies; a separate international section is arranged by country

Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts, Great Barrington, MA: ABC Leisure Magazines, 1974- . Annual; separate listings of American and international recordings companies; online version at http://www.musicalamerica.com is available to paid subscribers as a searchable database.

Recording Industry Sourcebook, Los Angeles: Ascona Communications, 1990- . Annual; separate listings of major and independent labels with web and e-mail addresses.

Music Score Approval Plans

J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc. 2480 Industrial Blvd. Paoli PA 19301 Phone: (800) 345-6296 Fax: (610) 993-0563 http://www.jwpepper.com/ [email protected]

Harrassowitz (Music Services) North American Library Services office 820 University Blvd. South, Suite 2C Mobile, AL 36609 Phone: (800) 348-6886 Fax: (800) 574-5732 http://www.harrassowitz.de [email protected]

Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc. 16122 Cohasset St. Van Nuys, CA 91406-2989 Phone: (818) 994-1902 Fax: (818) 994-0419 http://www.tfront.com/ [email protected]

9 Cassaro, James P. (2010) Winning Approval: The Ins and Outs of Music Score Approval Plans. In: Music Library Association Annual Conference, March 21-25, 2010, San Diego, CA. (Unpublished) http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/2846/

Resources for the Care and Maintenance of Library Materials

Websites for conservation of paper-based materials

CoOL (Conservation Online): http://cool.conservation-us.org/

Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Technology http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/don.html (part of CoOL site)

Care, Handling, and Storage of Books (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/books.html

Websites on audio formats

Basic Inspection Techniques to Sample the Condition of Magnetic Tape http://www.specsbros.com/whitepaper.html

The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials http://cool.conservation-us.org/byauth/st-laurent/care.html

Cylinder, Disc, and Tape Care in a Nutshell http://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/record.html

Websites on video formats

Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide (detailed information from the Texas Commission on the Arts) http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video/assess.asp

Caring For Video http://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/care/caring-for-video/

Video Format Identification Guide http://videopreservation.conservation-us.org/vid_id/index.html

Maintenance Equipment

For CD & DVD repair: DiscChek Eco-Smart system by RTI http://rtico.com/ecosmart/

For phonodisc cleaning: Nitty Gritty cleaning systems http://www.nittygrittyinc.com/index.html

NOTES/Other resources mentioned in this workshop:

HSB 10/07/10 CLHD 10/16/12

10