Verifying Sound Recordings
Discographies and reviews of recorded popular music from the 1920s on, including some out-of-print
Classical music specialists
Online music store with full label info, sound clips, and the All-Music Guide
Online music store with superior search engine. The best first place to look
2,500,000 new and used CDs and LPs
Searchable database of record label web sites; 5,000 links
African compact discs, cassettes, and videos
Large independent label distributor for jazz, classical, and world music
Major and independent overseas labels
Searchable database of CDs and cassettes in print; special form for classical searches
Unique small retailer of music from around the world. Choice stuff
Full label information, audio clips, and reviews from Option, Q, Spin, Village Voice, more
Distributes hundreds of independent labels, with styles from hard-to-find times & places
Comprehensive resource for Afro-Latin music
Breathtakingly vast reissue project of blues, gospel, jazz from the 78 rpm era
55,000 classical recordings; excellent coverage of twentieth-century
Classical, jazz, world, and roots labels, including Smithsonian and original Folkways
The place to go for music by women, all styles; lots of sound clips
Video, audio, books and CD-ROM on traditional and contemporary world music and dance
Essential American musical styles
Major importer and distributor of classical, jazz, and world music on independent labels
America's largest and oldest distributor of Arabic music
Independent labels from the southeastern U.S.
American roots styles; perceptive reviews; a national treasure
Essential folk, world, and roots music distributor
Yahoo: Companies: Music: CDs, Records, and Tapes
Retailers, mainly
Yahoo: Companies: Music: Labels
Verifying Books
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America members' catalogs and websites
Co-operative database of used and out-of-print book dealers
Used, rare, and hard-to-find books
Search the 2.5-million-title catalog of this web-based retailer; includes out-of-print search service
Includes in-print and out-of-print databases, plus searchable Reader's Catalog
Cooperative database of used and out-of-print book dealers
Searches major cooperative databases of used and rare book dealers in N. America and Europe, Powell's, Amazon
Their web-based catalog
Via telnet; access requires an account and password
Access requires an account and password
Search their
stock, both new and out of print
Verifying Scores
From the University of Washington Music Library
Publisher addresses, graphic design award winners, Copyright Resource Center
Theodore Front Musical Literature
Popular sheet music, songbooks
Music for libraries, educators, and students; one of the great bibliographic sites
Popular Songs: Image Collections
A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces, 1852-1900
Duke University Digital Scriptorium: Historic American Sheet Music
3000 pieces, 1850-1920
Jazz sheet music and recordings, 1910-1929. From the Chicago Jazz Archive at the University of Chicago
Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection
Old and new technologies as revealed through cover art and song texts, 1890-1920; from MIT
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection (Johns Hopkins)
Popular American music, 1780-1960; includes cover and score images
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885
Online image collection of over 20,000 songs at the Library of Congress
Templeton Music Collection (Mississippi State University)
Rags, blues,
show tunes, 1890s-1930s
Popular Songs: Indexes
Author, publisher and copyright info from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
Author, publisher, and copyright info from Broadcast Music, Inc.
Library of Congress: Copyright Office
Search for copyright information about books, music, and other registered works
Popular songs in collections at the University of Washington
Popular songs in collections at Arizona State University
Songbooks and Sheet Music Databases
From the Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University)
From the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Popular Songs: Lyrics
Lyrics, history, and MIDI files
Digital Tradition Folk Song Database
Lyrics and provenance for over 6,000 folk songs in English
Large collection of songs since 1930
Lyrics and
chords; easy to search by title or artist
Music Reviews
Recommended new releases for libraries
Indispensable critique of nearly 12,000 popular & world recordings
Large archive of classical CD reviews
From Dave Marsh, conscience of rock & roll
Online magazine of world and folk music
Review archive
includes blues, classical, hip-hop, rock, and world
Broadcasters
Broadcast schedules
National Public Radio Listener Information
For those "I heard it on NPR" questions
Eclectic music programming
Detailed playlists, classical music links
With links to
other Seattle music and radio sites
Newspapers
San Francisco Chronicle/S.F. Examiner
Full text, searchable back to November 2, 1994
University of Washington Online Daily
Searchable back to September 1995
Libraries on the Web: Lists
Peter Scott's classic listing of library catalogs worldwide
Worldwide directory of library homepages and web-based OPACs
From Metronet, Minneapolis-St. Paul
Telnet links to 200 on-line catalogs
Thomas Dowling's definitive list
WebCATS: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web
Links to
catalogs with web interfaces (Peter Scott)
Libraries on the Web: Exemplars
Photos, oral histories, sound recordings from special collections at the Library of Congress
Berkeley Public Library's Index to the Internet
Like Yahoo, but no commercials
Columbia University: Bartleby Library
Literary and reference texts, plus the rare book room
Seattle's museum of popular music, opening in 2000
Indiana University Music Library
Special collections and other music links
National Archives and Records Administration
Online Exhibit Hall
University of Washington Electronic Reference Shelf
World Factbook, Shakespeare, U.S. Weather Service
University of Washington Music Library
Music Resources
From the Sibelius Institute
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
From Indiana University
Discographies, sound clips, other links; from Paris
Includes composer credits and biographies
America's contemporary music resource center
Classic blues, soundclips
Contemporary Christian Music
From the Gospel Music Association
Music credits, including classical music used in movies
Internet Underground Music Archive
Predominantly independent artist and label sites; lots of sound clips
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Picture Gallery of Classical Composers
Search by name or nationality
The Pulitzer Prize in Music: 1943-1995
Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930
Over 1000 songs in RealAudio; hundreds of bios, photos
Online magazine of world roots and folk
Rough Guides to Classical, Jazz, Rock, and World Music
Music Librarianship
From the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Dynix Search Tips: Sound Recordings
How-to for the KCLS on-line catalog
Electronic Resources in Duckles 5
Research-oriented music websites
Web authoring tools, discography, early music. From the University of Washington staff webserver
Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians
From the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association
Music Library Association Clearinghouse
MLA publications and links, Guide to Copyright, Placement Service
A summary of sound recordings in print from MLA's Basic Music Library
April 1990 to present, searchable
Music Library Association's Pacific Northwest Chapter
Music and Film Web Resources for Librarians
From Mickey Koth, Yale University
Selection Tools: Independent Labels
Presented at the Washington Library Association's annual conference, 1991; updated July 1996
Presented at the Music Library Association's 1991 conference; updated July 1996
Sound Recordings Selection: Criteria, Tools, Methods
Presented at the University of Washington Graduate School of Library and Information Science, February 17, 2000
Sound Recordings: What Do You Want? Where Do You Get It?
Prepared for the Music Library Association exhibit at the Public Library Association's 2000 conference
Web Resources for Out-of-print Sound Recordings
Prepared for
ALCTS, May 2002
Other Librarianship
The gold standard of library information sites
Indexer's Reference Sources on the Internet
American Society of Indexers
Information Conservation, Inc.
Options for hardcover, softcover, periodicals, and music binding
One of the best general library/information science sites
Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials
Thornton and Bonario's list
Library Web Manager's Reference Center
New and notable websites, with archive (Gleason Sackman, moderator)
Professional Library Tools on the WWW
Vanderbilt University Tools for Catalogers
Desktop
reference for people who make or use library catalogs
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