...Christine Fena Purpose This article aims to help music librarians and other information professionals effectively understand and support communities of choral directors and other groups dependent on networking and serendipitous information encounters. In addition, through discussion and comparison...

... the typology of the modes of music information used in the present study; this section also describes diverse approaches to situational relevance and characterizes the main features of studies of relevance of music information objects and Kuhlthau’s ISP model. Then, the research questions and the empirical...

...Antti Mikael Rousi; Reijo Savolainen; Maaria Harviainen; Pertti Vakkari A set of situational relevance types related to each mode of music information were identified. As a whole, the differences between the perceived importance of the modes varied a little. Music is a domain where...

...Ulla Pohjannoro; Antti Mikael Rousi The rest of this article is structured as follows. First, the problem of what constitutes as music information is discussed and the music information typology developed by Rousi et al. (2016) is introduced. Second, a literature review of related...

...Antti Mikael Rousi; Reijo Savolainen; Pertti Vakkari Purpose – A need to renew music-related information notions arises from both information-seeking models and literature of musical semiotics. The purpose of this paper is to create a music information typology, which aims at facilitating...

...Charles Inskip; Andrew MacFarlane; Pauline Rafferty Purpose If an information retrieval system is going to be of value to the user then it must give meaning to the information which matches the meaning given to it by the user. The meaning given to music varies according to who is interpreting...

... based on a case study of a particular arena of creativity, namely electro‐acoustic music composition. However, it also sought to identify issues that may apply more widely to other arenas of human creativity. Design/methodology/approach The research was based on a related series of three in‐depth...

...Knut Tore Abrahamsen Sanna   Talja . Music, Culture, and the Library: An Analysis of Discourses . Lanham, MD and London : Scarecrow Press   2001 . vi + 239 pp. , ISBN: 0 8108 4026 X © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Music Libraries User studies...