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The Music Library Digital Scores Collection at the University of Washing ton (UW) Libraries is now available online directly at http://content.lib.washington.edu/mmweb/, or can be searched as a part of the UW Digital Collections. The collection currently includes digital images of manuscript musical scores dating from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, the majority of the collection comprising seventeenth- and eighteenth-century operas, opera excerpts, and other vocal music. The original manuscripts are held in the Music Library's Rare Book Collection and are indexed in Répertoire international des sources musicales (RISM A/II). The project was funded by the University of Washington Libraries 21st Century Awards. Co-principal investigators for the project are Deborah Pierce of UW Odegaard Undergraduate Library, and Anne Graham of UW Libraries Digital Initiatives. The images were photographed using a Canon EOS 40 D camera with a Canon EF 50 mm f1.4 lens and a copy stand. Metadata for the RISM A/II portion of the collection was provided by the International RISM Office, and modified to meet the needs of the project. Metadata is available for full contents analytics of each of the individual pieces in the collective manuscripts.

Deborah Pierce
University of Washington Libraries

University of Virginia. The DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Enriching Digital Collections Program—a collaboration of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft—has provided funding for a three-year, bilateral, collaborative effort to produce a Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) demonstration project, and to engage in dissemination efforts that will establish MEI as the predominant academic encoding standard for music notation. The demonstration project will include basic software for transforming material into MEI, a searchable archive of representative MEI-encoded data, and a prototype delivery system for items in the archive. Dissemination efforts will include presentations at professional conferences, workshops, the formalization of a governing council, and a first "MEI Members Meeting." In support of this project the National Endowment for the Humanities has provided $161,175, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft i128,148. Johannes Kepper, Erin Mayhood, Perry Roland and Joachim Veit are named principal investigators for the project.

Erin Mayhood
University of Virginia

The Howard M. Skinner Music Library of the University of Northern Colorado received the music collection of Ronald Grosswiler (1936-2010) at the end of August 2010. Grosswiler, who received his baccalaureate and advanced degrees in music education from the University of Northern Colorado, taught music in the Denver Public Schools for more than three decades, published several editions of guitar music with Mel Bay, and was an active member of several guitar, lute, and mandolin societies. One of his life's passions was the amassing of printed music for the instruments in which he specialized—plectral instruments and piano—with the explicit goal of acquiring everything in print, and much that was not in print, in classical and related repertories. At the time of his death, his collection consisted of approximately 15,000 items, virtually all of them in mint or near-mint condition. Roughly two-thirds of the collection consists of music for plectral instruments, solo or in ensemble, making this one of the largest known collections of its kind. As items are processed, they will be accessible to both local borrowers and via interlibrary loan.

Stephen Luttman
University of Northern Colorado

Michigan State University Fine Arts-Music Library has received a donation of clarinet music from Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr, clarinetist and faculty member emerita at Michigan State University. The donation of 953 items includes scores, books, and recordings; the finding list will be made available online. The collection includes all styles and genres, with a special emphasis on twentieth-century clarinet music and the music of women composers.

Mary Black Junttonen
Michigan State University

The Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library of the University of California, Berkeley, has received the donation of the collection of composer Andrew W. Imbrie (1921-2007), consisting of the manuscripts of his musical compositions (including sketches, drafts, and fair copies), correspondence, scrapbooks, papers, teaching notes, noncommercial recordings of his works, photographs, and other materials documenting Imbrie's career. Andrew Imbrie was a...