In my opinion, if one is in library school, no matter their interests, whether they may study archives, public, law, health science, academic, or music librarianship, it is absolutely imperative to go to a conference. Any conference, really! I have […]

While watching Robert Gupta’s TED talk, “Between Music and Medicine”, I kept wanting to shout at the computer: Yes! Music is power! Lest my roommate think I’m crazy, I kept my comments silent. But Gupta made some great points, with […]

If we take a (very) broad, retrospective look at things, music has been interwoven with the sciences – nay information – since its inception. From Pythagorean and other tuning systems to the particular mechanics of individual instruments, to the emergence […]

The relationships and overlaps between information, science, technology, data, and music are very intriguing. Where did this combination (or, at least, some part of it: i.e., music + ) begin? When did the notion of “science” first enter the musical […]

By internet standards, this is old news, but despite maintaining less than one degree of separation between myself and the internet during most waking hours, I hadn’t heard about the internet chatter over Sibelius until Frank, our membership officer, recently […]

E-books in libraries are certainly attracting a lot of attention these days. The public seems both fascinated and horrified by the idea of “bookless libraries”, while the library profession itself grapples with the manifold challenges raised by e-books. Access versus […]