Sibley Awarded NEH grant

Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Award of $273,820 in support of the Library's efforts to digitize music scores in the public domain (i.e., no longer protected by copyright). The principal goal of the project is to provide free online access to approximately 10,000-12,000 public domain scores, from the Library's general collections, held by not more than two other libraries in the world. Over the course of the two-year project (2009-2011), Sibley Music Library will digitize these materials and make them freely available from the University of Rochester's Digital Repository "UR Research"
(http://urresearch.rochester.edu). The Library has been engaged in digitizing public domain scores for the past four years-on a demand basis by Eastman School of Music faculty and students, as well as professional and amateur musicians around the world. To date, Sibley Music Library has digitized over 4,000 items, which have accounted for more than two million downloads from UR Research. The NEH award supports the hiring of two additional staff members, thus permitting the Library to accelerate the pace of its digitization program and thereby provide access to a significant portion of its pre-1923 scores holdings.

Co-administrators of the project are Sibley Music Library staff members Alice Carli, Conservator, and Jim Farrington, Head of Public Services.

Sibley Music Library is the largest academic music library in North America, with total holdings of some 750,000 items. Founded in 1904 by Hiram Watson Sibley (1845-1932) as a public music library for the Rochester, NY community, the library became part of the Eastman School of Music at the School's founding in 1921 as a constituent part of the University of Rochester. During the course of its first century the Library amassed large and noteworthy holdings of rare books as well as strong collections of circulating music scores, recordings, books, and journals. Sibley Music Library's public domain scores digitization program focuses on items drawn from its circulating collection of scores. Given the date of the Library's founding, Sibley is particularly rich in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century (i.e., public domain) scores, including solo, chamber, orchestral, vocal, and operatic music.

SML Now on Facebook

For those of you who are also on Facebook, Sibley now has a Facebook page. You can become a fan, get various kinds of updates (including new reference books), check out some pictures, and/or launch discussions.

New way to connect to online resources

University of Rochester users of Sibley's website will now be able to connect to remote resources, such as Oxford Music Online (i.e. New Grove) or e-journals, from home without needing to log in to VPN. Thanks to help from the River Campus Libraries, anyone with a valid UR NetID will be able to access these electronic resources from anywhere just by clicking on the link. If you are trying to access a restricted-access resource from somewhere other than the UR network (that is, from on campus), you will be prompted for your NetID login.









If you need a reminder of your NetID username and password, just go to the NetID homepage. When off-campus, you must access the library resources from either Sibley's website or the River Campus Libraries website to be prompted to login--do not bookmark databases and e-journals directly.

You will still need VPN to access any audio/video streaming source, such as Naxos, DRAM, or course reserves.

Holiday hours

Sibley Library's late December/early January hours will be:

Finals Week – December 14 - 20

Sunday, December 14: 1:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Monday, December 15: 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Tuesday, December 16: 8:00 AM – midnight
Wednesday, December 17: 8:00 AM - midnight
Thursday, December 18: 8:00 AM – midnight
Friday, December 19: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday, December 20: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Week of December 21 – 27

Sunday, December 21: closed
Monday, December 22: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Tuesday, December 23: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Closed the rest of the week from December 24 – 27

Week of December 28 – January 3: Closed

Week of January 4 – 12

Sunday, January 4: closed
Monday – Friday, January 5 – 9: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday, January 10 – 11: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Library resumes regular hours on Monday, January 12, 2009

Thanksgiving hours

Thanksgiving break hours:

Tuesday Nov. 25 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Wednesday Nov. 26 - Saturday Nov. 29 Closed
Sunday Nov. 30 1 - 11 p.m. (resume regular hours)

Naxos upgrade

Naxos Music Library is in the process of migrating to NML 2.0. During this transition period there may be some disruption of service. One problem that has surfaced is that if your NML session times out, you will not be able to log in again for a few hours. This should not happen once the migration is complete (which should be by September 12).

Here are a list of new features, taken from a recent email announcement from Naxos:

• Microsoft Silverlight player combines various elements to create a unique, cross-platform, easy way to stream music!
• An actual home page has been created to present the most recent album additions, featured new additions, and Naxos news updates.
• Links to major pages of the site have now been logically grouped as a main menu on the header section of each page. Likewise, the keyword search feature has now been made available to almost all the pages of NML 2.0.
• The album page now contains additional information such as the short album description and the album information summary. Soon we will also be offering links to the "Work" information used by each track.
• Aside from the album page, the Recent Additions, Genre, Labels, and Composer List pages also have significant changes in the design.

Wireless Network Upgrade

Sibley's wireless system has recently been upgraded. With these improvements (which include increased covereage throughout the building), come some changes. The new wireless system will no longer require each wireless device to be registered in the Eastman Computing Services office, but will enable you to connect to the wireless system from any device with the use of your NetID and password. The two choices are UR_RC_Internal and UR_RC_InternalSecure. We encourage you to use the UR_RC_InternalSecure connection if your computer is able to connect with WPA. The UR_RC_InternalSecure network provides security for your information while the UR_RC_Internal leaves your data out in the open. When you first connect to the UR_RC_InternalSecure network, you will be prompted to enter a wireless security encryption key. When are prompted, enter URWireless. After connecting to the network and opening a web browser (such as Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer), you will be redirected to the URWireless Acceptable Use Policy. You will need to enter your NetID and password (this is the account used for PeopleSoft, VPN, and student e-mail) in order to join the wireless network. Step-by-step instructions for connecting can be found at http://www.rochester.edu/it/wireless/.

Guests will also be able to obtain temporary NetIDs, but they must be sponsored by someone on the University staff or faculty. Information on the Guest NetID program for accessing the UR Wireless network is available at http://www.rochester.edu/it/netid/guest_netid.html.