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Month: April 2021
Library Minute: New Materials Added to the Galvin Rare Book Room Collections
Many new materials were added across Boatwright Library’s Galvin Rare Book Room rare book, archival, and artists’ book collections. New items added to the rare book collection include travel related works focusing on travel across North America in the colonial and early republic periods and on the Amazon River, an 1815 study on pneumonia with a section on medicine in […]
Library Minute: A Look Inside Library Cataloging and Congratulations to Leigh McDonald
If you’ve ever discovered something in Library by doing an online search, chances are you have a cataloger to thank for making that possible. Cataloging, simply put, is the process of creating and maintaining metadata to describe an information resource (books, journals, multimedia, etc.). This metadata includes everything from basic information about a resource (title, author, publisher, format, physical description, etc.), […]
Library Minute: Music Industry Resources
Parsons Music Library subscribes to three online resources that offer a wide range of data, analysis, and news related to the music industry: Music ID compiles global music industry data into three platforms. Music ID Data provides access to worldwide chart data tracking record sales, iTunes downloads, and Spotify streams, and can relate them to world events; Music ID Revenue tracks […]