What’s New at Schaffer Library

Database of the Week: Music Online

Alexander Street’s Music Online is going mobile!

What’s better than hundreds of thousands of audio recordings, videos, scores, and pages of full-text music reference? How about accessing it all on the go?

In 2010 Alexander Street’s entire music portfolio will be accessible on iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. Subscribers will be able to stream music and video, access scores, search and navigate full-text reference content, and even access and edit personal playlists.

Alexander Street’s iPhone and iPod Touch application will be completely free. Updating your playlists or listening to an assigned recording will literally be just a touch away. And thanks to newly developed streaming technology, you’ll do it all without buffering.

Look for Alexander Street’s iPhone app in 2010 on our Web site, on this blog, and through the iTunes store.

Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that Schaffer Library subscribes to: African American Music Reference; American Song; Classical Music Library; Classical Music Reference Library; Classical Scores Library; Contemporary World Music; Jazz Music Library; Dance in Video; The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online; and Opera in Video

Alexander Street’s First Annual Online Jazz Music Festival is Coming Soon! Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14 for:

* Free access to Alexander Street’s new online collection, Jazz Music Library, featuring more than 3,800 jazz artists and more than 18,000 jazz audio tracks in streaming audio

• Free music downloads
• Jazz videos from Concord Jazz
• Quizzes that test your jazz knowledge
• Links to teaching tools for jazz instructors

Check out the juried playlist contest to win CDs, flip videos, and a one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for the library of your choice.

Labels in Jazz Music Library include—Verve, GRP Records, Impulse, Jazzology Records, American Music Records, G.H.B. Records, Black Swan Records, Solo Art Records, Circle Records, Paramount, Concord Records, Concord Picante, Concord Jazz, Fantasy Jazz, Contemporary Records, Good Time Jazz, Milestone Records, Monterey Jazz Festival Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo Records, Peak Records, Prestige Records, Riverside Records, Stretch Records, and more.