ABSTRACT Archival music scores are typically made available digitally as PDF or image-based files. For many users, this is not a problem – but, for some Disabled users, such files are inaccessible. These files cannot usually be remediated, so new alternatives are needed. Here, I discuss a workflow used to create Braille, modified stave notation, and audio files using the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI). I also present the findings of a survey about participants’ habits around finding and using music scores and 4 usability tests conducted on the resulting files. Ultimately, the workflow is successful but requires increased automation to be implemented more broadly.

ABSTRACT In an impact- and data-driven society where heritage institutions face an existential threat as a result of advancement in technologies, constant budget cuts and the increasing demand to demonstrate their value-add, these institutions are forced to find fresh ways of demonstrating impact. Among the promising measures of impact in music libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) are acknowledgments in scholarly outputs. For this paper, I used both qualitative and quantitative approaches – specifically bibliometrics and content analysis – on acknowledgments of LAMs in music Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) as proxy for determining the impact of these institutions. Findings reflect that 15.4% of the 654 ETDs studied acknowledge LAMs. In some instances, individual staff members of these institutions are also mentioned. Few LAMs and staff receive multiple acknowledgments, suggesting a Matthew effect. The expressions of gratitude can be categorized into nine categories: customer care, data support, information resources support, citation support, training and workshops support, space provision, moral support and unclassifiable. These results make a strong case for acknowledgments to be considered as one of the measures of impact in LAMs. I further recommend that LAMs should consider developing their own internal acknowledgment indexes for purposes of impact measurement.

"Music Education on The Verge: Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change." Music Reference Services Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2

"Sound Experiments: The Music of the AACM." Music Reference Services Quarterly, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2