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Nara Newcomer replied to the topic Interacting with vendors in the discussion
MLA/TLA Annual Meeting 2021 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
The ability to make appointments and to try out electronic resources (maybe short trial period logins, like some vendors already distributed in the past) are important. Also useful would be time window (s) with an open room (like Zoom, but whatever platform) where I could drop in for discussion with vendors but also having colleagues in the room -…[Read more]
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Nara Newcomer deposited The Secret Lives of Musicians: Implications for Library Design on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Presentation at the Music Library Association Annual Meeting, February 23, 2019.
Music librarians seek to design facilities that meet user needs. Therefore, we need to know what those needs are. Many of us make informed guesses, but how much do we actually know about what patrons really do in music libraries? We’ll answer these questions with d…[Read more]
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Nara Newcomer deposited Common Threads: Music Information Literacy as Community Practice on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months ago
Presentation at Music Library Association Annual Meeting, February 21, 2019. Discussion of instruction-related intersections between technical services and public services, including aspects of the catalog and teaching through search strategy and music discovery
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In January 2018, the Music Library Association released the Music Discovery Requirements 2 (MDR2) freely online. The MDR2 explores “discovery needs specific to and especially important for music materials, particularly scores and recordings.” We recommend it to everyone creating or configuring discovery systems that will include music, inc…[Read more]