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This report provides the findings of a study conducted as part of the project,Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History, led by the University of California, Irvine Libraries in collaboration with the California Digital Library. It is intended to answer two main questions: 1) How can regional and national digital collection aggregators (e.g., DPLA, the DPLAHubs Network, and other regional aggregators) work towards a more representative and inclusive aggregation; and 2) What is a responsible and inclusive digital exhibition framework that may amplify historically marginalized narratives? This report summarizes and contextualizes the organization and curator interviews conducted as part of this research.

This report provides the findings of a study conducted as part of the project,Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History, led by the University of California, Irvine Libraries in collaboration with the California Digital Library. It is intended to answer two main questions:1) How can regional and national digital collection aggregators (e.g., DPLA, the DPLAHubs Network, and other regional aggregators) work towards a more representative and inclusive aggregation; and 2) What is a responsible and inclusive digital exhibition framework that may amplify historically marginalized narratives? This report summarizes and contextualizes the national survey conducted as part of this research.

This study delves into the socio-economic challenges affecting Type 3 school libraries in the 'Thenmarachchi' education zone of Sri Lanka. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach involving surveys and interviews with librarians from 27 schools, it identifies barriers such as financial constraints, resource limitations, and declining reader interest. Correlation analyses reveal intricate relationships between these barriers. Notably, collaboration with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) emerges as a significant strategy, showing potential to alleviate financial constraints and enhance resource availability. Qualitative insights highlight community involvement and reading initiatives as complementary to proposed strategies. This study advocates comprehensive approaches to address socio-economic obstacles in fostering school library development, emphasizing the need for further research to evaluate the long-term sustainability of interventions., Introduction School libraries serve as pivotal hubs within educational systems, promoting literacy, fostering intellectual curiosity, and supporting academic achievements (Kuh, 2018). Their extensive resources significantly impact the formal learning process [...]

This column is compiled quarterly from a variety of sources, including publisher and vendor websites and announcements. If you are an author or editor of a recently-published music book and [...]

Joachim Raff. Symphonie Nr. 5 in E major ('Lenore'), Op. 177. Edited by Iris Eggenschwiler, in collaboration with the Joachim-Raff-Archiv Lachen. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, 2022. (Partitur-Bibliothek Urtext) [1 score [...]

Maria Szymanowska. Dwadziescia etiud i preludiow = Twenty Etudes and Preludes. Review by Elzbieta Zapolska Chapelle. Introduction by Irena Poniatowska. Translated by John Comber. Edited by Wojciech Karasinski and Marta [...]

This column features works by contemporary self-published Mexican composers who were either born in Mexico or had a large part of their musical upbringing there. The 38 composers included in [...]

Josef Hofmann: The Piano's Forgotten Giant. By Elizabeth Carr. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. [xv, 239 p. ISBN 9781538183403 (hardcover), $95; ISBN 9781538183410 (ebook), $45.] Illustrations, bibliography, index. This [...]

On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Compiled by Kerry O'Brien and William Robin. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. [xvi, 449 p. ISBN 9780520382077 (hardcover), $95; ISBN 9780520382084 (paperback), $34.95; [...]

Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music. By Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards. New York: Knopf, 2023. [403 p. ISBN 9781524749071 (hardcover), $32.50; ISBN 9781524749088 (ebook), price [...]

Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism. Edited by James Rovira. (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature, no. 151.) New York: Routledge, 2022. [xvi, 217 p. ISBN 9781032069845 (hardcover), $160; ISBN 9781003204855 [...]

Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods, and Directions. By Guy L. Beck. (SUNY Series in Religious Studies.) Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. [ix, 358 p. ISBN 9781438493114 (hardcover), [...]

Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers. By Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. [vi, 467 p. ISBN 9780374298623 (hardcover), $35; ISBN 9781250872906 [...]

Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai: Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy.' By Arthur Groos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [xxv, 269 p. ISBN 9781009250672 (hardcover), $110; ISBN 9781009250665 (ebook), $110.] Music examples, illustrations, [...]

The Musical Language of Italian Opera, 1813-1859. By William Rothstein. (Oxford Studies in Music Theory.) New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. [xxiv, 573 p. ISBN 9780197609682 (hardcover), $120; also available [...]

Interwar Symphonies and the Imagination: Politics, Identity, and the Sound of 1933. By Emily MacGregor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [xv, 269 p., ISBN 9781009172783 (hardcover), $110; ISBN 9781009187572 [...]

French Art Song: History of a New Music, 1870-1914. By Emily Kilpatrick. (Eastman Studies in Music, 186.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022. [xxi, 445 p. ISBN 9781648250545 (hardcover), [...]

Schubert's Workshop. By Brian Newbould. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 2023. [Vol. 1, Towards an Early Maturity: xviii, 240 p. ISBN 9781032317717 (hardcover), $128; ISBN 9781003311263 (ebook), $42.36. Vol. 2, [...]

The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies. By Nicholas Jones and Richard McGregor. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2020. [xiii, 368 p. ISBN 9781783274833 (hardcover), $115; ISBN 9781787446823 (ebook), $29.95.] Music examples, illustrations, [...]

Ralph Vaughan Williams and Adrian Boult. By Nigel Simeone. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2022. [xxi, 307 p. ISBN 9781783277292 (hardcover), $75; ISBN 9781800106376 (ebook: EPDF), $24.95; ISBN 9781800106383 (ebook: EPUB), $24.95.] [...]

Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation. By Nick Seaver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. [xv, 203 p. ISBN 9780226702261 (hardcover), $99; ISBN 9780226822976 (paperback), $20; ISBN [...]

Vaughan Williams and His World. Edited by Byron Adams and Daniel M. Grimley. (Bard Music Festival Series.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. [xi, 330 p. ISBN 9780226830445 (hardcover), $105; [...]

Live Music in America: A History from Jenny Lind to Beyonce. By Steve Waksman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. [xiv, 677 p. ISBN 9780197570531 (hardcover), $190; ISBN 9780197570548 (paperback), [...]

United States music history has for years privileged whiteness and largely ignored or disregarded the contributions of African Americans. The Stuart R. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, houses over thirty collections (and growing) related to African American musicians that could be used to both uncover and recover the critical role African Americans played in the music culture of the United States. This article presents a brief overview of these holdings to date, including the papers of composers (such as William Dawson, George Walker, and Undine Smith Moore), entertainers (such as Victoria Spivey, Bricktop, and Geoffrey Holder), and researchers (such as Rae Linda Brown, Geneva Southall, and Delilah Jackson). Types of materials held include manuscript letters and scores, photographs, and published music (both print and recorded) by and about African Americans., The Stuart R. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University (hereafter Rose Library), located in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the pre-eminent academic special and archival collections [...]

Music Collection Development and Management in the Digital Age. By Kirstin Dougan Johnson. (Music Library Association Basic Manual Series, no. 13.) Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2023. [xvi, 247 p. ISBN [...]

Music monograph and score publishing has become increasingly complex in the current digital age. Library approaches and methods of acquiring these monographs and scores continue to evolve and grow in [...]