CAML Review / Revue de l'ACBM (Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres / Association canadienne des bibliothèques, archives et centres de documentation musicaux)

This paper reports the results of a survey targeting current members of the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (CAML) that investigated the extent to which the current designs and structures of digital music libraries meet the needs of librarians in collecting, preserving, organizing, and disseminating diverse types of music documents. The challenges and barriers experienced in hosting digital collections are discussed. The gap between the current and ideal functionalities, as well as the future possibilities, are explored.

Goodchild, Meghan

English

Digital Music Libraries: Librarian Perspectives and the Challenges Ahead

Martin, Cheryl

CAML 2016 Annual Report: RISM Canada

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CAML Review: Addition of Peer-Reviewed Article Section   
La Revue de l’ACBM : ajout d’une section d’articles évalués par des pairs  
 
As announced at the recent CAML 
conference, we will be adding a peer-
reviewed article section to CAML Review. 
This move is being made in response to 
members who have expressed the need for 
an appropriate peer-reviewed publication 
venue for research related to Canadian 
music librarianship.  
As of the November 2016 issue, CAML 
Review will include a new section, 
“Research Articles,” which will be identified 
as peer-reviewed; a separate section will 
be entitled “Reports, News, Essays”; and 
the “Reviews” section will continue as 
before. The editorial team, with input from 
editors of other publications and after 
receiving feedback from the CAML board, 
has developed an internal procedure for 
the peer-review process, as well as new 
submission guidelines for contributors. The 
guidelines can be consulted on the journal 
site. 
The editors of CAML Review welcome 
submissions at any time. Please note that 
as of last year, CAML Review is licensed 
under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial 4.0 International License, 
with authors retaining copyright of their 
work.  
Cathy Martin, Editor, CAML Review 
On behalf of the editorial team: 
Megan Chellew, Associate Editor  
Deborah Wills, Associate Editor  
Desmond Maley, Review Editor  
 Comme nous l’avons annoncé lors du récent 
congrès de l’ACBM, nous ajouterons une 
section d’articles évalués par des pairs à la 
Revue de l’ACBM. Nous désirons ainsi répondre 
aux besoins des membres qui souhaitent faire 
paraître des recherches évaluées par des pairs 
sur la bibliothéconomie de la musique au 
Canada dans une publication appropriée. 
À compter de novembre 2016, la Revue de 
l’ACBM comprendra une nouvelle section, 
« Articles de recherche », évalués par des pairs; 
une autre section qui portera le titre 
« Rapports, nouvelles, essais »; et une section 
intitulée « Comptes rendus », comme 
auparavant. Après avoir consulté les 
rédacteurs en chef d’autres publications et le 
CA de l’ACBM, l’équipe de rédaction a créé une 
procédure à suivre quant à l’évaluation par des 
pairs, ainsi que de nouvelles lignes directrices à 
fournir aux auteurs collaborateurs. On peut les 
lire sur le site de la Revue. 
L’équipe de rédaction de la Revue de l’ACBM 
vous invite à lui soumettre des écrits en tout 
temps. Veuillez noter que, depuis l’an passé, la 
Revue est autorisée par la Creative Commons 
Attribution – Pas d’utilisation commerciale 4.0 
International, et que les auteurs conservent 
leur droit d’auteur.  
La rédactrice en chef de la Revue de l’ACBM, 
Cathy Martin  
Au nom de l’équipe de rédaction : 
Megan Chellew, rédactrice adjointe  
Deborah Wills, rédactrice adjointe  
Desmond Maley, responsable des comptes 
rendus de la Revue  
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
       
 


CAML Review: Addition of Peer-Reviewed Article Section / La Revue de l’ACBM : ajout d’une section d’articles évalués par des pairs

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Legault-Venne, Ariane

 CAML REVIEW / REVUE DE L’ACBM  44, NO. 1 (APRIL / AVRIL 2016)          PAGE 6 
 
Report on the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Quebec Chapter of CAML 
 
by Ariane Legault-Venne1 
 
Editor’s note: The following is an English translation of the original report as published in CAML 
Review vol. 43, no. 3: Compte rendu de la rencontre annuelle 2015 de la Section québécoise de 
l’ACBM. / Note de la rédaction : Vous trouverez ci-dessous la traduction du rapport original 
publié dans la Revue de l'ACBM, vol. 43, no 3 : Compte rendu de la rencontre annuelle 2015 de 
la Section québécoise de l’ACBM.  
 
The 7th Annual Meeting of the Quebec Chapter of the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, 
Archives and Documentation Centres (SQACBM) was held on November 27, 2015. Located in 
Montreal, the Grande Bibliothèque of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec 
(BAnQ) hosted over 25 participants.   
Despite the ongoing renovations underway at the Grande Bibliothèque, we were able to find 
our meeting room without a hitch, where we savoured coffee, juices and pastries all the while 
forgetting about the dreary, rainy weather. The meeting began with a word of welcome from 
Marc-André Goulet, President of the SQACBM, who outlined the day’s events to come. 
Audrey Laplante, associate professor at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de 
l'information and I had the honour of giving the first presentation, sharing our research on 
searching for musical documents within discovery tools, which was conducted under the 
auspices of the larger SIMSSA (Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis) project. 
Our contribution to the project was to find an open source discovery tool that would be best 
suited for searching and exploring musical documents. We studied two tools, Blacklight and 
VuFind, as implemented in various college and university library settings, according to the 
difficulties encountered when searching for musical documents: ease of use, multiplicity of 
different types of documents and descriptive precision. In the end, we weren’t able to 
                                                          
Ariane Legault-Venne recently completed her Master’s in Information Sciences from the École de bibliothéconomie 
et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) at Université de Montréal. She is an adjunct research assistant with Audrey 
Laplante and Dominic Forest, associate professors at the EBSI, working on projects involving the information-
seeking behaviour of users looking for music-related information as well as those involving text mining. She holds a 
Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from Université de Montréal and teaches piano to students of all ages at Galerie 
Musicale Arpège, the very school where she learned music and of which she is now co-owner. 
 
 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 
 
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distinguish a clear winner. The quality of these tools is principally determined by the time and 
resources the libraries had invested in them in order to adapt the tools to the needs of their 
users. One solution that stood out in particular comes from the University of Virginia where 
users are able to search their Virgo catalogue by using different interfaces, one of which is 
called Music Search. 
Mélanie Dumas, director of access to the Collection universelle of the BAnQ then presented the 
cure minceur (slimness cure) of the audio-visual documents at the Grande Bibliothèque. This 
procedure was put in place in order to solve the institution’s rather fortuitous problem: it owns 
large collections that are greatly used. The issue here is two-fold: the high use rate makes 
weeding difficult and the large size of the collection means that the physical storage space is 
saturated, which in turn makes shelving challenging. The problem was solved by replacing the 
current cases with thin sleeves. Therefore, shelving space is gained, enabling more documents 
to be made available to users, and making the collection more attractive. Many different 
models of sleeves were tested in order to find one that would fit all the criteria required, such 
as the durability of the materials and the compatibility with an automated return system. It is 
worth noting that if a library decides to follow in the footsteps of the Grande Bibliothèque, it 
will have to keep in mind the disposition of its shelving as the documents must be outward-
facing in order to be easily identified. For more information, please consult the technical data 
sheet on the BAnQ’s website (French only).  
After a short break, Rémi Castonguay, librarian at the Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université 
du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) outlined the steps they are taking in order to display their sheet 
music collection using the VIRTUOSE discovery tool. This particular collection, donated by M. 
Pouchet, was acquired in 2002. Comprised of 32,000 scores, the collection primarily features 
French sheet music, with a large number of duplicate materials. A searchable database allowing 
users to search the collection was initially created. This system presented a few problems, such 
as the lack of controlled vocabulary used by the technicians during ingest of data, and, for the 
users, a search interface that was not easily accessible as it was not integrated into the library’s 
catalogue. After a number of years, the team decided to migrate the information into 
VIRTUOSE by using Omeka, a new, free open source data capture tool. It allows for the use of 
controlled vocabulary and exporting of data into a format that can be read by Primo, UQAM’s 
integrated library management system, via OAI-PMH [Open Archives Initiative Protocol for 
Metadata Harvesting]. The Pouchet collection can now be viewed in the VIRTUOSE discovery 
tool, increasing its visibility and circulation and thus rewarding the team’s efforts. The next step 
in this project is to digitize the scores, which are restricted to in-library consultation only. 
 
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This was followed by Daniel Paradis’ much-anticipated presentation: the librarian responsible 
for bibliographic control at the BAnQ shared some key elements of score cataloguing in RDA. 
His talk focused on the changes concerning the description of these types of documents as 
compared to AACR2. For example, the 250 “edition statement” field is now also used to note a 
particular voice range or a particular format for notated music. The majority of these changes 
are noted in his presentation, available on the SQACBM site. In addition to referring to RDA, 
one can also refer to the Music Library Association Best Practices, which detail the application 
of certain rules for musical documents and which can be found on the RDA Toolkit website 
under the “Resources” tab. Naturally, the question period turned into a roundtable discussion 
on the implementation of RDA for sound recordings and scores. The lack of benchmarks was a 
recurring concern for the participants. For example, when dealing with a compilation containing 
dozens of pieces, how in-depth should it be? Do you describe each piece, or do you stop after a 
certain number of items? All agreed that part of the answer lies in the interest this document 
would have for one’s users as well as for the library’s mission. 
This brought us to the halfway point of our day. A few days prior to the event, we were asked 
to choose between three options for our lunch boxes, each one more appealing than the other. 
Faithful to their descriptions, these lunches were delicious, quite frankly, as well as generous in 
portion. Many of us weren’t able to finish our plates! As we savoured our food, Marc-André 
Goulet opened the SQACBM Annual General Assembly, which proceeded smoothly. He 
presented the general review of the Chapter as well as the financial report, as Mélissa Gravel, 
the treasurer, was unable to be present for the event. Three positions on the Board of Directors 
were to be filled during the elections. Marc-André Goulet and Rémi Castonguay were re-elected 
for two-year terms and Christiane Melançon, music librarian at Université de Montréal was 
elected for a one-year term. Mélissa Gravel completes this quartet as she fulfills the second 
year of her term. The members will allocate the different roles to be filled amongst themselves. 
Keep an eye out on the SQACBM website for updates. 
After the lunch break, Benoit Migneault and Jean-Bruno Giard, respectively interim director 
general of the Bibliothèque nationale and project manager of Québec’s digital cultural plan 
(QDCP) at BAnQ, highlighted the presence of Quebec’s musical heritage within the QDCP. The 
digitization goals of the QDCP are added to the annual digitization programme of the BAnQ. In 
total, the institution aims to make over 5 million documents available online during the 2015-
2016 year period. The materials to be digitized must meet specific criteria: there must be 
diversity among the types of documents, equilibrium between archival and library documents, 
and potential user interest. Also, the documents selected are not all in the public domain. BAnQ 
negotiates agreements with rights holders such as publishers of scores that no longer have 
market value. This is the case for Éditions Archambault and La Bonne chanson, for example. As 
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well, BAnQ is actively looking for professional-quality legacy playback equipment such as 
Betamax, VHS, and reel-to-reel, etc., in order to be able to digitize all formats. Those who would 
like to donate this type of equipment can contact Benoit Migneault. 
Following this presentation, Denise Prince, librarian, and Anjela Rousiouk, library assistant, both 
from the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec (CMDAQ) in Montreal, 
revealed the library’s new website. As of June 2015, the CMDAQ Library now uses the InMedia 
portal from Bibliomondo to provide access to its online catalogue. The ability to automatically 
convert MARC 21 records into MARCXML, a format that can be easily read by Google bots, was 
a functionality of this new tool that greatly impressed the crowd. The cataloguing records 
appear as results within this search engine, which in turn acts as the main gateway to the web. 
The small size of the team and the fact that the CMADQ does not have an IT department was a 
big challenge in the implementation of this project. As such, the team had to put in place a user 
authentication system for patrons to access the electronic resources remotely. Despite a 
technical hiccup that didn’t allow us to view the catalogue in real time during the presentation, 
Ms Prince and Ms Rousiouk were still able to demonstrate the scope of the tasks they 
accomplished as well as how users benefited from this new system.  
We began the last roundtable of the day after a coffee break. Given the popularity of the 
morning’s session, we exchanged thoughts again on the questions brought forth by RDA, in 
particular with regards to popular music documents. For the user, the artist is often of greater 
importance than the creator, which is not reflected in the FRBR model. In another line of 
thought, some participants expressed their concerns regarding some users’ impulse to use 
YouTube and Google as opposed to library resources. 
To bring the day’s events to a close, we were given the option of choosing one of two tours: a 
visit to UQAM’s Music Library with Rémi Castonguay or to the 4th floor of the Grande 
Bibliothèque, where the Music and Film collection and the National Music Collection of the 
BAnQ are housed, with Patrick Desrosiers. The participants then went their separate ways with 
many wonderful ideas to implement in their workplaces. See you in Gatineau in 2016? 
The day’s presentations will be available shortly on the 2015 Annual Meeting page. Thank you 
to the organizing committee: Rémi Castonguay (UQAM), Marc-André Goulet (BAnQ), Mélissa 
Gravel (Université Laval) and Daniel Paradis (BAnQ).     
 
Translation: Melissa Pipe  


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