The KCLS Catalog -Via telnet or web

Anna Seaberg
aseaberg@kcls.org

• Tools for searching the Web
• AltaVista -Keyword, field, or Boolean search
• Google -Highly relevant results, plus large document cache
• AlltheWeb -One of the largest indexes; also offers image & mp3 searching
• Yahoo! -Classified subject arrangement

 
• Verifying Sound Recordings
• All-Music Guide -Discographies and reviews of recorded popular music from the 1920s on, including some out-of-print
• Arkiv Music -Classical music specialists
• Barnes & Noble Music -Online music store with full label info, sound clips, and the All-Music Guide
• Compact Disc Connection -Online music store with superior search engine. The best first place to look
• GEMM -2,500,000 new and used CDs and LPs
• Record Labels on the Web -Searchable database of record label web sites; 5,000 links
• Africassette -African compact discs, cassettes, and videos
• Allegro -Large independent label distributor for jazz, classical, and world music
• CDEurope -Major and independent overseas labels
• CDNow -Searchable database of CDs and cassettes in print; special form for classical searches
• CDRoots -Unique small retailer of music from around the world. Choice stuff
• CD Universe -Full label information, audio clips, and reviews from Option, Q, Spin, Village Voice, more
• City Hall Records -Distributes hundreds of independent labels, with styles from hard-to-find times & places
• Descarga -Comprehensive resource for Afro-Latin music
• Document Records -Breathtakingly vast reissue project of blues, gospel, jazz from the 78 rpm era
• Dusty Groove -Key titles in specialty genres: world, jazz, electronic.
• Harmonia Mundi
• H&B Recordings Direct -55,000 classical recordings; excellent coverage of twentieth-century
• Koch International -Classical, jazz, world, and roots labels, including Smithsonian and original Folkways
• Ladyslipper -The place to go for music by women, all styles; lots of sound clips
• Multicultural Media -Video, audio, books and CD-ROM on traditional and contemporary world music and dance
• New World Records -Essential American musical styles
• Qualiton Imports -Major importer and distributor of classical, jazz, and world music on independent labels
• Rashid Sales Company -America's largest and oldest distributor of Arabic music
• Redeye Distribution -Independent labels from the southeastern U.S.
• Roots & Rhythm -American roots styles; perceptive reviews; a national treasure
• Rounder Group -Essential folk, world, and roots music distributor
• Stern's African Music Center
• Tower Records
• Wikipedia: List of Record Labels -With notes on who-owns-whom, and a separate list of independents
• Yahoo: Companies: Music: CDs, Records, and Tapes -Retailers, mainly
• Yahoo: Companies: Music: Labels

 
• Verifying Books
• AABA Booknet -Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America members' catalogs and websites
• Advanced Book Exchange -Co-operative database of used and out-of-print book dealers
• Alibris -Used, rare, and hard-to-find books
• Amazon.com -Search the 2.5-million-title catalog of this web-based retailer; includes out-of-print search service
• Barnes and Noble -Includes in-print and out-of-print databases, plus searchable Reader's Catalog
• Bibliofind -Cooperative database of used and out-of-print book dealers
• Bookfinder -Searches major cooperative databases of used and rare book dealers in N. America and Europe, Powell's, Amazon
• Library of Congress -Their web-based catalog
• OCLC -Via telnet; access requires an account and password
• OCLC FirstSearch -Access requires an account and password
• Powell's Books -Search their stock, both new and out of print

 
• Verifying Scores
• Music Publishers and Dealers -From the University of Washington Music Library
• Music Publishers Association -Publisher addresses, graphic design award winners, Copyright Resource Center
• Mel Bay
• Educational Music Service
• Theodore Front Musical Literature
• Edwin F. Kalmus
• Hal Leonard -Popular sheet music, songbooks
• Pepper Music Network -Music for libraries, educators, and students; one of the great bibliographic sites
• G. Schirmer
• Southern Music

 
• Popular Songs: Image Collections
• California Sheet Music -A virtual library of some 2,000 pieces, 1852-1900
• Duke University Digital Scriptorium: Historic American Sheet Music -3000 pieces, 1850-1920
• Hi-Fido -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
• ASCAP -Author, publisher and copyright info from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
• BMI -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
• Los Angeles Public Library: Song Index -Popular songs in collections at LA Public
• Popular Song Database -Popular songs in collections at the University of Washington
• Popular Song Index -Popular songs in collections at Arizona State University
• Songbooks and Sheet Music Databases -From the Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University)
• UTK Song Index -From the University of Tennessee at Knoxville

 
• Popular Songs: Lyrics
• CyberHymnal -Lyrics, history, and MIDI files
• Digital Tradition Folk Song Database -Lyrics and provenance for over 6,000 folk songs in English
• Lyrics World -Large collection of songs since 1930
• OLGA (On-Line Guitar Archive) -Lyrics and chords; easy to search by title or artist

 
• Music Reviews
• CD Hotlist -Recommended new releases for libraries
• Charlie Gillett -The Sound of the World, from the BBC's legendary world music presenter
• Christgau's Consumer Guide -Indispensible critique of nearly 12,000 popular & world recordings
• Gramophone -Large archive of classical CD reviews
• Metacritic -Review aggregator for music and video
• Paste Magazine -
• Rock & Rap Confidential -From Dave Marsh, conscience of rock & roll
• Rootsworld -Online magazine of world and folk music
• Rough Guides: Music -Review archive includes blues, classical, hip-hop, rock, and world
• Songlines -World music, pop and traditional; edited by Rough Guide's Simon Broughton

 
• Broadcasters
• BBC World Service -Broadcast schedules
• National Public Radio Listener Information -For those "I heard it on NPR" questions
• KBCS -Roots and world
• KEXP -Eclectic music programming
• KING-FM -Detailed playlists, classical music links
• KUOW -With links to other Seattle music and radio sites
• PRI: The World -Global Hit (map interface)

 
• Newspapers
• Billboard On-Line
• New York Times
• San Francisco Chronicle/S.F. Examiner -Full text, searchable back to November 2, 1994
• San Jose Mercury News
• Seattle Weekly
• The Stranger
• University of Washington Online Daily -Searchable back to September 1995
• Village Voice
• Washington Post

 
• Libraries on the Web: Lists
• Hytelnet -Peter Scott's classic listing of library catalogs worldwide
• Libdex -Worldwide directory of library homepages and web-based OPACs
• LIBCAT: Libraries in the U.S. -From Metronet, Minneapolis-St. Paul
• Library WWW Servers -Thomas Dowling's definitive list

 
• Libraries on the Web: Exemplars
• American Memory Project -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
• Indiana University Music Library -Special collections and other music links
• International Music Score Library Project -Public domain music score library
• National Archives and Records Administration -Online Exhibit Hall
• University of Washington Electronic Reference Shelf -World Factbook, Shakespeare, U.S. Weather Service
• Vancouver (BC) Public Library

 
• Music Resources
• Music Resources -From the Sibelius Institute
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources -From Indiana University
• African Music Encyclopedia
• Afro-Caribbean Music -Discographies, sound clips, other links; from Paris
• All-Movie Guide -Includes composer credits and biographies
• American Music Center -America's contemporary music resource center
• The Blue Highway -Classic blues, soundclips
• CCM Online -Contemporary Christian Music
• Dove Awards -From the Gospel Music Association
• The Grammy Awards
• Internet Movie Database -Music credits, including classical music used in movies
• Musical America
• 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
• RootsWorld -Online magazine of world roots and folk
• The 78rpm Home Page
• Yahoo: Entertainment: Music

 
• Music Librarianship
• Analysis Index -From the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Dynix Search Tips: Sound Recordings -How-to for the KCLS on-line catalog
• Gibbs Home Page -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 Cataloging at Yale
• Music Library Association
• Music Library Association Clearinghouse -MLA publications and links, Guide to Copyright, Placement Service
• Music Library Service Company -A summary of sound recordings in print from MLA's Basic Music Library
• MLA-L Archive -April 1990 to present, searchable
• PNW-MLA -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
• Selection Tools: World Music -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
• AcqWeb -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
• LibraryLand -One of the best general library/information science sites
• Library Web Manager's Reference Center
• Metadata: Readings and Links
• Net-Happenings -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

 
• What else does the Web do? Frequently asked questions, frequently updated information, and other sites to see. Recent additions are at the top
• This Week's Sky at a Glance -By the editors of Sky & Telescope
• International Radio on the WWW -Hear music and news from over 100 countries
• WhoWhere -Find phone numbers, e-mail and street addresses for individuals and businesses
• U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Lookup -Type in an address and get its zip code
• MapQuest -Interactive street atlas for the continental U.S.
• Webster's Dictionary
• University of Washington Geophysics Program -Information on recent earthquakes
• Seattle Metro Traffic -Real-time traffic map for I-5, I-405, I-90, 520.
• SmartTrek -Locates buses throughout King County in real time
• Xenon Labs: The Universal Currency Converter
• CDC Travel Information Page -Health advisories for world travel
• Jane Austen Info Page -Hypertext at its most painstakingly elegant
• A&E Biography -Includes 15,000 biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
• HTML Quick Reference Guide
• Known links to Music Selection Resources on the WWW