ANNOUNCEMENT: RISM A/II Database, Call for Updates

Call for Updates to the RISM A/II Database, December 2011

The AMS-MLA Joint RISM Committee seeks to update the U.S. holdings in RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600, an online inventory of music manuscripts primarily of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Our goal is both to update the holdings of libraries currently represented in the RISM A/II database and to add new libraries with appropriate collections and manuscripts not presently included in the resource. We are gathering information now in order to seek grant funding for the cataloging and digitization of these manuscripts so would like to receive information from libraries and collections regarding relevant manuscripts that have not yet been included in the A/II database.

The A/II database is now freely available for searching at http://opac.rism.info/, an open-access site developed collaboratively by the RISM Central Editorial Office, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; an English interface is available.

Instructions and additional information are available at: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/isham/rism.cfm#database_update

Please contact Sarah Adams, sjadams at fas.harvard.edu, or Darwin Scott, dfscott at princeton.edu, with any further questions.

We deeply appreciate your help in updating the U.S. holdings in the RISM A/II database and thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sarah Adams, Director, U.S. RISM Office
Darwin F. Scott, Chair, AMS-MLA Joint RISM Committee
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