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IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana Indiana University's Digital Library Program is pleased to announce the release of IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana. (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/inharmony/) This website provides access to thousands of pieces of sheet music from the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana Historical Society and the Indiana University Lilly Library and was developed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Drawn primarily from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the collection includes works by well-known composers such as George M. Cohan, Cole Porter, Al Jolson, and Jerome Kern. The sheet music collections of the Indiana State Library, Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society have been completely digitized. Thousands of items from the Lilly Library sheet music collections are currently part of the site. Work continues on creating records for more of the approximately 150,000 pieces held by the Lilly Library. As the records are completed they will be systematically added to the site. The IN Harmony Sheet Music Cataloging Tool As part of the IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana IMLS project, a sheet music cataloging tool was developed to assist libraries, archives, museums, and individual collectors describe their sheet music collections in a robust and standards-based way. This is a production system of the Indiana University Digital Library Program and was used to catalog more than 10,000 pieces of sheet music for the IN Harmony project. The tool collects descriptive metadata about sheet music and exports it in the MODS, simple Dublin Core, and OAI-PMH Static Repository formats. It is available under a BSD license from the IN Harmony Cataloging Tool SourceForge Project (http://inharmonycat.sourceforge.net/ ) in three formats: as a Windows installer, as a MacOS installer, and as source code. ======================== Stacy Kowalczyk Associate Director, Projects and Services Digital Library Program Indiana University Wells Library W501 (812) 855-8758 www.dlib.indiana.edu