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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's 2012 additions to the National Registry of Recorded Sound have been announced by the Federal Minister for the Arts Simon Crean.

The additions, with streaming audio, are on the NFSA website:

http://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/sounds-australi...

JMRO is now is calling for English language articles of the highest international scholarly standards in the areas of Composition, Early Music, Ethnomusicology, Gender Studies in Music, Interdisciplinary Studies in Music, Music Education, Music Technologies, Musicology, Performance Practice, Popular Music

Articles in other areas considered appropriate by the editor will also be considered for publication.

http://www.jmro.org.au/index.php/mca2/announcement

'Early bird' registration for the IASA 2012 conference "In Transition: Access for All" closes at the end of August.

Register now online to take advantage of the early bird rates: http://2012.iasa-web.org/

Hosted by the AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, ably guided by Shubha Chaudhuri, this will be one of the most important meetings of recent times. Held in the India International Center, near the tourist resources of Delhi’s bustling metropolis, it will be an exciting time for IASA attendees.

Message forwarded from Margarida Ullate i Estanyol (Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)

La Biblioteca de Catalunya ha fet traduir al català les "Directrius per a la producció i preservació d’objectes d’àudio digital" de la IASA, una obra considerada imprescindible per als professionals de la preservació i digitalització de documents sonors.