Music Online

MLA trial access

Last month's Music Library Association meeting in San Diego was a huge success. We'd like to thank everyone who attended our MLA Customer Appreciation Breakfast (our largest ever), and everyone that stopped by our booth in the exhibit hall. If you weren't able to make it to the breakfast, you can view Tim Lloyd's PowerPoint presentation on our Web site.

And just a reminder, all MLA members can enjoy free trial access to all of our online music collections, as well as Ethnographic Video Online. To begin your free trial, go to http://alexanderstreet.com/MLA.htm, then use the login credentials printed on the free trial card given to you at MLA. If you have lost or misplaced your trial card, please email marketing@alexanderstreet.com for a username and password. The MLA trial runs through April 30, 2010.

Online Jazz Festival playlist winners

The quality and quantity of playlists created during the Online Jazz Music Festival was tremendous, and we urge everyone with a Jazz Music Library subscription to check out the new additions. It was difficult selecting a winner for our playlist competition, so we chose two!

Our two winners have earned their libraries free, one-year subscriptions to the new Jazz Music Library.

• Phillipa McKeown-Green - Auckland University for for the playlist "Avant Garde and Beyond"
• Heather Buffington - Kings College London for the playlist "Freedom Songs"

Congratulations to our winners and their libraries, and thanks to everyone that created and submitted a playlist.

For more information on Jazz Music Library, visit our Web site or contact us.

Online Jazz Festival quiz winners

Our first annual Online Jazz Music Festival was a hit, thanks to the thousands of visitors that attended. As promised, we're sending a copy of The Very Best of Prestige Records from Concord Music Group to the winners of our online jazz quiz competition. The 2009 quiz winners are:

• Sabrina Celi
• John Robertson
• Allan Reyes
• Anne Scott
• Rod Cannon

We thank everyone that participated in our quiz competition. Check back here tomorrow when we announce the winner of our Jazz Music Library playlist competition.

Western Illinois University wins one-year subscription

Congratulations to Rod Sharpe and Western Illinois University, winners of our MLA drawing for a free subscription to Jazz Music Library. The entire WIU campus will enjoy a full year of access to our latest streaming music collection as soon as it goes live.

Jazz Music Library will contain 80,000 tracks of upon completion, making it the largest collection of streaming jazz available anywhere. Librarians and scholars can be among the first to explore the collection with Alexander Street's Sneak Peek access. Sign up now and we'll send you hassle-free access credentials as soon as the collection is launched, good for 48 hours.

For more information on Jazz Music Library, please visit our Web site. For institution-wide trials and pricing information, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com.

AMS/SMT Winner

We'd like to thank everyone that stopped by the Alexander Street booth and attended our annual breakfast at the AMS/SMT annual meeting in Nashville last month. We enjoyed talking to all of you and were overwhelmed by the number of participants in our drawing for a free subscription to Opera in
Video.

Congratulations to Dr. Victor Mansure and Appalachian State University, our 2008 AMS/SMT winners. Appalachian State University will enjoy a complimentary year of access to one of our most popular streaming video collections.

Please visit our Web site for more information on all of our music products.

And feel free to browse Opera in Video now. You will only be prompted to log in when browsing deep within the collection.

Contact us to request a trial for your library.

SEM Winners

We would like to thank everyone that stopped by the Alexander Street booth and attended our annual breakfast at SEM in Middletown, CT last month. We thoroughly enjoyed talking to all of you and were overwhelmed by the number of participants in our drawing for a free subscription to The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online.

Congratulations to Becky Miller and Hampshire College, our 2008 SEM winners. Hampshire College will enjoy a complimentary year of access to one of our most popular music reference resources.

Please visit our Web site for more information on all of our music products.

And feel free to browse The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online now. You will only be prompted to log in when browsing deep within the collection.

Contact us to request a trial for your library.