Students, faculty, and researchers need an efficient way to access collections with specialized content. Discovery layers can be designed to precisely target that content directly, focusing search results on the most relevant collections. Such a distinct view in Blacklight, the open source discovery layer in use at Indiana University, is allowing…[Read more]

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]

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

Presentation given as part of a panel session on Research Data Management and Music Data at the 2019 Music Library Association (MLA) annual meeting. Presentation given Friday, Feb 22, 2019. File includes slides and notes.

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]