Dalhousie University Libraries is seeking a collaborative, innovative and enthusiastic individual to serve as the Head, Killam Memorial Library. The deadline for applications is April 10, 2012. For details please visit our Library Job Vacancies page.
Music Manuscripts After 1600
Published by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales / International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM), Music Manuscripts after 1600 is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts available. It contains more than 657,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries. Access from both on and off campus.
Ebook of the Week: The Starday Story
Published in 2011, The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most influential music labels of the twentieth century.
In addition to creating the largest bluegrass catalogue throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Starday was also known for its legendary rockabilly catalogue, an extensive Texas honky-tonk outpouring, classic gospel and sacred recordings, and as a Nashville independent powerhouse studio and label. Written with label president and co-founder Don Pierce, this book traces the label’s origins in 1953 through the 1968 Starday-King merger. Get it at Dal!
Book of the Week: In Other Worlds
Margaret Atwood’s exploration of her lifelong relationship with science fiction brings together her three unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010. “Flying Rabbits” begins with Atwood’s early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; “Burning Bushes” follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and “Dire Cartographies” investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood’s key reviews and thoughts about the form. This book is now available at the Killam Library!
Rebecca Kraatz at the Killam
March 8, 7:30 pm
Room 2616
Killam Library
494-3615 for more info
The Dalhousie Libraries are delighted to host a special presentation by award-winning graphic artist, cartoonist and writer Rebecca Kraatz. Rebecca will be in the library giving an illustrated talk about her acclaimed graphic novel Snaps (Conundrum Press, 2011).
Snaps takes place during World War II in a small town on Vancouver Island. Combining magic realism with pulp dialogue, the interweaving narrative is told from various points of view. Soldiers, seniors, working women, and children tell their “slice of life” stories in brief vignettes, like snapshots in the 1940s photo album which Rebecca found at a flea market and from which she originally drew inspiration.
Born in the Okanagan Valley, raised on the Alberta prairies and Vancouver Island, Rebecca Kraatz currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her comic collection House Of Sugar, compiled from comics she contributed to The Coast, won the 2007 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent. Rebecca is married to Halifax rocker Joel Plaskett.
This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome!
Dal Libraries Lunch and Learn: Scopus Database
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Wednesday, February 29
Jacob Slonim Room , 4th floor , Computer Science Building
RSVP to Janice.Slauenwhite@dal.ca by February 22
The Dalhousie Libraries invite members of the Dal community to a “Lunch and Learn” session on the Scopus database. This 60-minute session will focus on the unique features and capabilities of this important resource, and will be hosted and conducted by representatives from Elsevier, the science publisher that developed Scopus along with the full-text database ScienceDirect.
As an integrated part of Elsevier’s SciVerse platform, SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and also, more recently, in the arts and humanities.
Please join us on February 29 at 11:30am in the Jacob Slonim Room on the 4th floor of the Computer Science Building for a lively and informative session. The session is open to all current Dalhousie graduate students, faculty and staff.
Food and beverages will be provided. Please RSVP to Janice.slauenwhite@dal.ca indicating your intention to attend by end of business on February 22.
Munro Day Hours at the Libraries
Friday February 3 is Munro Day (thank you George!) All of the Dal Libraries will be OPEN on Munro Day, but our hours vary:
KILLAM LIBRARY: Regular hours
8 am – midnight
KELLOGG lIBRARY
9 am – 7 pm
LAW LIBRARY
9 am – 4:30 pm
SEXTON lIBRARY: Regular hours
8 am – 9 pm
Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
RIPM was established in 1980 to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. The Dal Libraries are now offering a 30-day trial of RIPM’s new interface for the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950), as well as the full-text Online Archive of Music Periodicals. The trial runs until February 26.
Explore RIPM and let us know how you like this music resource by posting comments here!
Dal Libraries UnZipped 2012
Our September 2011 UnZipped event was so successful we’re doing it again! And this time, we’ve tailored our presentations to your needs, based on feedback from those who attended the first time.
We invite Dal faculty, graduate students and researchers to join us for a day of lightning sessions on key library resources, services, and information management. Meet your subject librarian and find out how we support your research, teaching and publishing. Sessions include information on copyright, Open Journal Systems, ebooks, mobile health resources and much more.
View the full Dal Libraries UnZipped program
Please note that the presentations are divided into general (morning) and health-related (afternoon), and take place in two locations:
General sessions (10am – noon)
Room 1011, Rowe Building
Health-related sessions (1:30 – 3:30)
Room 4117, Dentistry Building
You may attend just one or as many as you like.
Please RSVP to tina.usmiani@dal.ca by February 16 if you plan to attend any or all of the sessions. We look forward to having you join us!
Singers’ Alert: IPA Source
IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera so singers can give each syllable the appropriate emotional content.
Extras offered on this database include diction help and MP3 recordings of songs and arias in Latin, Italian, German and French.
IPA Source is available both on and off campus, so start singing now!