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Libraries and library resources: RILM - Abstracts of Music Literature
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 20:42:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Dean McIntyre Subject: RILM Abstracts of Music Lit Now On Line Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I forward this exiting news from MLA-List, just received today. This is truly wonderful and exciting news to anyone involved in any kind of deep, serious music research on the net. Anyone working on theses or dissertations -- add this to your research. Dean McIntyre imdbm(a)ttacs.ttu.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION: Tam Dalrymple +1-614-761-5054 tam_dalrymple(a)oclc.org Nita Dean +1-614-761-5002 nita_dean(a)oclc.org RILM ABSTRACTS OF MUSIC LITERATURE IS NOW AVAILABLE ON OCLC FIRSTSEARCH AND EPIC SERVICES DUBLIN, Ohio, July 3, 1996--RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a comprehensive database of music bibliography, is now available on the FirstSearch service and the EPIC service, OCLC online reference services. Published by the Repertoire International de Literature Musicale, RILM is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines in 202 languages, including original language titles; title translations in English; full bibliographic information; abstracts in English; author, journal, and subject indexes. RILM offers broad, international coverage and concise abstracts. All formats of scholarly works are included--articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, conference proceedings and more. Concert reviews, recording notes and pedagogical manuals are also included if they are of scholarly interest. Areas of coverage encompass historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, dance, music therapy and various other fields as they relate to music, including literature, dramatic arts and visual arts as well as anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics. An additional feature of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature particularly valuable to scholars is its in-depth indexing. All records are thoroughly indexed by names and subjects covered in each bibliographic entry. "RILM is the largest bibliography of music literature in the world, and the only one that abstracts all types of published materials," said Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, RILM's editor-in-chief. "Its international coverage ensures scholars, students and musicians of finding virtually all sources on any topic they are researching." The RILM database contains approximately 200,000 records from 1969 through 1992. Records from 1993 will be added soon. The database will be updated quarterly. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature will be available by subscription as well as per-search on the FirstSearch service. "RILM serves as a terrific complement to the OCLC Online Union Catalog," said John Sullivan, OCLC director of online reference services. "The OCLC Online Union Catalog, WorldCat on the FirstSearch service, contains records of more than 900,000 sound recordings and 700,000 music scores." Mr. Sullivan also noted that OCLC worked closely with RILM and music librarians on indexing specifications for this database. Established in 1966 under the joint sponsorship of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centers, RILM was the pilot project of the interdisciplinary Bibliographic Center planned by the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1989, the International Council for Traditional Music added its sponsorship. RILM is headquartered at the City University of New York. OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link more than 22,000 libraries in 63 countries and territories. More information is available at the OCLC Web site http://www.oclc.org. |
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