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The Architecture & Fine Arts Library at the University of Florida completed a major renovation during the summer of 2017. Commencing in May, the project concluded by late August just as the fall semester began. Service to patrons continued through the project without interruption: materials were paged by staff and reference questions were addressed via e-mail. Now staff and users are pleased to work in a beautiful multipurpose conference/classroom that seats twenty and boasts a 90-inch wireless-enabled monitor. As music librarian, I appreciate being able to provide bibliographic instruction sessions in the library with scores and materials at hand, rather than traveling to the School of Music to teach. In addition to the classroom, the library now enjoys a modern, professionally-designed service desk that combines reference and circulation functions.

Alan Asher

University of Florida

The Anne Potter Wilson Music Library at the Blair School of Music (Vanderbilt University) is pleased to announce the acquisition of two autograph manuscripts by composer Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998). The manuscripts were purchased from J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians. The two manuscripts—Epilogue for Violoncello, Piano and Tape and Sinfonisches Vorspiel—are from Schnittke's mature period, and are dated 1993 and 1994, respectively. Epilogue was written for Russian cellist Mstislav Rostro povich, and is an arrangement from the concluding part of Schnittke's ballet score Peer Gynt (1986). Sinfonisches Vorspiel is a work for large orchestra, dedicated to the conductor Gerd Albrecht, who gave the work's first performance with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester in the Hamburg Musikhalle on 6 November 1994. Both scores are densely packed with erasures, cancellations, corrections, and indications of scoring.

Holling Smith-Borne

Vanderbilt University

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) assumes ownership of the Index to Printed Music (IPM), the world's only source for searching individual pieces of music contained in printed collections, sets, and series. In May 2017 James Adrian Music Company (JAMC), owner of IPM, signed an agreement transferring ownership of IPM to Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), effective 30 June 2018. IPM combines index, bibliography, series, and names databases into a highly comprehensive resource for searching and identifying individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly music editions. Currently the database includes 22,975 entries for individual volumes, an authority file with 25,889 personal names, 1,133 entries for series and sets, and an index to 538,354 individual pieces of music. It provides superior access to this content for scholars, performers, teachers, and other researchers, including powerful searching capabilities for finding information on specific performing forces and repertoire. Many of the sets and series indexed in IPM are adding volumes continuously, as new editions appear on the market. Therefore, IPM grows every year to be as comprehensive and up-to-date as possible. IPM is curated by a team of experts and is available on EBSCOhost and via the EBSCO Discovery Service.

IPM is a natural addition to RILM's suite of music resources. Since 2016 RILM has been expanding its resources for music researchers beyond its flagship publication, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature,adding RILM Abstracts with Full Text; RILM Music Encyclopedias; and, in partnership with Bärenreiter and J. B. Metzler, MGG Online. With the addition of IPM, RILM is entering the world of printed music. RILM's authority lists—including names, work titles, publishers, and terms—as well as RILM's proven database capabilities and subject expertise will contribute to the further development and enhancement of IPM.

The founder of the Index to Printed Music, Dr. George R. Hill, states: "We are pleased that with RILM's acquisition of IPM, its continuation, properly supported by an established leader in providing databases related to music, is assured. Over the years, IPM has largely depended on a dedicated group of musicologists and librarians devoted to its survival and growth. They include Joseph M. Boonin, Garrett Bowles, Lenore Coral, Mary Wallace Davidson, Elizabeth A. Davis, Vincent Duckles, Paul Emmons, Robert A. Falck, Virginia S. Gifford, Irving Godt, Ruth B. Hilton, Barton Hudson, Richard E. Jones, Sterling Murray, Barbara A. Renton, John H. Roberts...