The Library

As this page has grown, it has become somewhat amorphous, so I thought I'd use some minimal Library Science skills & classify it.

Art links
Bibliographic sources
Book Repair
Composer links
Computer-related
Dictionaries
Things gay
Investment research
Language instruction online
Library Science links
Literary links
Literature Online
Media Transfer
Misc
Museums
Music-related links
National Libraries
Online newspapers
Online translating
Out of print material
Slavic links
Specialty Search Engines
Web design

Art Links

Artists whose artwork is in our house: Arie ben David - my brother-in-law - we don't have any original works, but do have several posters; Dennis Dahill - whose work I saw at an exhibition of the Cambridge Artists Cooperative; Pamela Day - a dear friend from Lawrence. And here's more of her work from the Torpedo Factory.; Valerie Gates- local jewelry maker who uses beach glass in her creations; Bob Hesse - Winchester, MA-based photographer. His October Light was taken at the Mohegan Museum, Mohegan Island, ME. I met him when they were taking down the Cambridge Art Association show & I ran down to grab the picture before it got away. I'm still trying to figure out which way it faces. Here's another link to his work.; Hog Hill Pottery - made by a couple in North Carolina. We have one of their lovely Luster collection.; Christopher Holmes - whose work I saw at an exhibition of the Cambridge Art Association; Joy Imai - lovely Japanese-inspired pottery.; Melissa Kulig - although the pear painting I bought in 2006 is done on a black, wooden box, it is not one of the series shown here.; Nichibei Pottery - Sebastopol, CA; Francie Riggs, a New Hampshire artist. I was immediately struck by her assemblage, Ascension, at a recent show of the Cambridge Artists Cooperative. What you can't see so well in this picture is that the artwork is housed in a lovely black-sided box.; Kris Taylor - oil painter, and creator of lovely lizard pins (which she apparently no longer makes), & more; Anne Watkins - A cousin of mine. I don't own any of Anne's wonderful watercolors yet, but I wanted to give her a plug.; Ed Watkins - Fine art photography. Another cousin of mine. I now have a couple of his wonderful photographs.
Local artists whose work I enjoy: Susan Tait Porcaro - especially her colored pencil "Grace"; Carole Sousa - her jewelry is amazing. Some of her work is at the Museum of Fine Arts here. I got a pair of earrings for one of my sisters.
artbabble.org: (Archive.org version.) a place where everyone is invited to join an open, ongoing discussion - no art degree required.
Arte Povera: Piero Manzoni "a child of DADA & the father of Conceptualism" according to a recent NY Times article, was on of this Italian group's members
Arts and Crafts Press: Beautiful stuff based on the Arts & Crafts movement. Note cards, block prints and more.
Big Bang: Abstract Expressionism on full show at MOMA. A New Yorker article.
David Avery Etchings: kind of a latter day Richard Dadd
Лeв Сamoйлoвич Бaxt: (a.k.a. Léon Baxt). One of my favorite Russian artists. Russian-language page.
John Bauer: Swedish artist . His museum, in Jönköping, is here. Just discovered him on, of all places, Ravelry. Is he too close to Arthur Rackham?
Bronzino: There was a recent PBS show on this artist/poet so I thought I'd look up some links; Bronzino: Painter, Poet, Man - youtube video from the Met Museum, NYC; Towards a reading of Bronzino's burlesque poetry.
Hatje Cantz: German art-book publisher. I have their gorgeous catalog of the Wiener Werkstätte jewelry exhibition at the Neue Galerie, NYC.
Serge Diaghilev and His World: A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: This Library of Congress digital exhibition "(f)eatures material concerning the Ballets Russes, one of the most influential dance companies of the twentieth century."
Ephraim Pottery: Lovely pottery, mostly out of my price-range, from Ephraim, WI
Mark I. Chester: gay radical sex photographer, writer, performer and curator.
Constructivism: (Archived site.) A synopsis of Constructivism; Wikipedia article
Designers
E-cards from various museums
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction: Thanks you, Cornell University librarians!
Fine Arts in Hungary
Fluxus: fluxus.org/; Wikipedia article
From Russia with art
Gee's Bend Quilts: an incredible collection I've had the luck to see both in DC & Boston.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Fabulous resource from the Metropolitan Museum.
Jack Goldstein: American artist
Harvard University art collection: Online search capability.
Image indexing websites: WEHEARTIT - bookmark images and videos from any website with one button
Paul Klee: a new cultural center in Bern, Switzerland
Gustav Klimpt: Here's another one.
David Kupferman: Intriguing Boston-area artist
Morris Louis: "[T]he official website for the American artist Morris Louis (1912-1962), developed and authorized by The Estate of Morris Louis. Biography, paintings, drawings, the emergence, practice & technique of Mr. Louis and more.
Jan Mankes: A Dutch artist I was quite taken with at the museum in Spanbroek
Agnes Martin: One of my favorite 20th century artists.; Agnes Martin: a Matter-of-Fact Mystic A review in The New Yorker of the Guggenheim show; Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert. The Guardian article
Memory of the Netherlands: Thousands of images from hundreds of collections.
Met Publications: Amazing offerings of past & current issues of NYC's Metropolitan Museum's quarterly magazine. I think you might have to be a member to download them.
Les Nabis: An art group that includes some of my absolute faves, Pierre Bonnard & Edouard Vuillard
Ben Neubauer: (Archive.org site) Fantastic jeweler I met at the Wellesley Composers' Conference. Also plays a mean viola!
Pre-Raphaelites: (Archived version.) Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood: Kate & Myra Bunce from the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery collection.; Pre-Raphaelite Reflections A blog devoted to the PRB; V & A Paintings & Drawings Reading List - among other things.
Odilon Redon: One of my favorites. More websites here: Odilon Redon: Prince du Rêve - review, Around Redon, (Archived version.) Odilon Redon. Prince of Dream, and Odilon Redon: The Complete works, and an article by Dr Janet McKenzie following the 2005 MoMA exhibition. (She's also written several other interesting articles like Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops, 1913–19, and Radical Bloomsbury: The Art Of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, 1905–1925 for Studio International), and, courtesy of Artsy, with thanks to Jakob Halbrook, another page of images and articles.
The Russian Art Gallery: "a comprehensive panorama of Russian art from its early days to the present." Contains links to reproductions & a bio of one of my all-time faves, Mixail Vrubel'
Russiapedia: another good site for Russian art with an even better Vrubel' bio & a few reproductions.
Egon Schiele: Another of my faves. Here's another website, artsy.net, that has images and articles about him, courtesy of Jakob Halbrook.
Simeon Solomon: Gayish Pre-Raphaelite "and his artist siblings Rebecca Solomon and Abraham Solomon." Curated by Roberto C. Ferrari and Dr. Carolyn Conroy.
Sarah Sze: An amazing artist who does on-site one of a kind installations
Jan Toorop: Dutch Symbolist, Art Nouveau and other styles artist.
ubu.com: a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
The Victorian Web: The art links with biographical info re DG Rossetti, Burne-Jones, et al.calong with examples of their artworks are most wonderous
Visual Complexity: (Archived site.) A fascinating site that proposes "to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks." That is, rendering data in graphic form. Amazing results.
The Wessel + O'connor gallery an interesting art gallery in NYC http://www.wesseloconnor.com/
Podcasts from major museums - apparently you can also play these on your computer

Burlington Museum of Pez Memorabilia - Burlingame, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York

Museum of Modern Art - New York

Bibliographic Sources

Another great bibliographic source is http://www.bartleby.com/. It contains fulltext reference works, nonfiction, and literature. This includes Barlett's Quotations, The Columbia Encyclopedia, and Harvard Classics.
Bibliography database software programs
Easybib - quickly renders bibliography-ready formatting of website, books (as long as they're in Worldcat, newspapers and more
MusRef - "a site devoted to music and dance bibliography and reference [that] includes more than 7,300 bibliographies and reference sources (both print and online), approximately 1,880 of which are annotated with critiques on use, coverage, organization, and pros and cons."
Wikipedia - great internet resource with source material from such publications as the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Book Repair

Composer links

Here's an article, I found on Eric Satie. I'm including it since he's one of my favorite composers. (Favorite being Ravel.) Here is a archive of audio & video files. But you have to make a donation to access them.

Computer-related

CD recordable faq
Cataloging Software: Bruji - Bookpedia, CDpedia, DVDpedia, etc.; delicious library (MAC)
Cookies
Digital audio editors - LP to CD computer files: Audacity - free & open source; Goldwave; Tracer Tech
DVD Backup Software: CopyToDVD - Offers a free trial
DVD guides
DVD-ripping tools: a closer look at five of the best and most popular DVD ripping tools
Electronic gadgets (and other things) rating sites: Cnet.com - editors' reviews, price comparison and more; keepcash.com - coupon codes for major brands & big box stores; nextag.com - get your product number from Cnet or Consumer Reports, then search for the best price here (also has info on non-electronic merchandise); Pricespider.com - register with the site, set your price threshold and they will send you an email if it finds a listing; other deal-shopping sites - from Pete Freitag
Finale tips-n-tricks: Finale and Sibelius helpdesk; the finale blog from finalemusic.com; Finale Forum
Firefox from Mozilla
Fireworks tutorials: Fading images - video tutorial; Another fading tutorial
Font links
Google extras
(Archived site.) HTML escape symbols
Internet acronyms - want to know what ROTFLOLPIMP means? Check this site out.
Mac links: Audio Hi-jack Pro - listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record any audio with Audio Hijack Pro; Bruji - library and CD cataloging software; Mac cheatsheet - keep important computer-related info on a cheat sheet; Dashboard widgets; (Archived site.) Keyboard shortcuts; Link Checkers; Macmeters - a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X; Max fix-it - troubleshooting for the Macintosh; Networking Windows with OS X; Switch 101 - for PC users who have just switched to the Mac (like moi) and want to find out how to adapt old working habits to the Mac OS; Yahoo widgets - not clear how you determine whether they'll work with Intel-based Macs.; Zoho - browser-based software; Zoho library manager
http://www.mysql.com/
OLM cPanel tutorials
parallels.com: allows you to run Windows & Mac software simultaneously on a MAC computer.
http://www.ip2location.com/ - This tells you the location of your internet service provider
Weblogs Compendium - pdf file.

Dictionaries

Corpus of Contemporary American English 1990-2011
French
- french/english dictionary (online use or download)
- Here is a page with help on predicting the gender of French words. Le Truc de Genres.
German
- Beolingus - Archive.org web capture: Search through more than 900,000 translations with examples and hints, explanations, synonyms, sayings, aphorisms, and quotations in English and German. Browse lists for special topics. Listen to German and English pronunciations spoken by native speakers.
- German word/phrase dictionary
Italian
- Cyberitalian - free tutorials
Here is a link to an online medical dectionary: http://www.Online-Medical-Dictionary.org
Music dictionaries:

http://dictionary.onmusic.org/ (general)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Marble/9607/a.htm (general)
http://www.geocities.com/msicdic/ (French)
http://www.pianoinstructors.com/musicterms/term.html (Italian)

Oxford English Dictionary
(Archived site.) Pronunciation dictionary - from Iowa Public Radio - help with pronouncing the titles of classical music and the names of composers and performers
Russian
- Bibliotekar.ru - history, dictionaries, encyclopedias, artists, and more.
- Big Russian Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Russian Dictionaries
Urban dictionary.com - a slang dictionary with definitions provided by users.
Wordnik - words from multiple sources including American Heritage and Roget's II, Wiktionary & Tweets
YourDictionary.com

Things gay

Adventure Travel Worldwide - provides gay men a supportive environment in which to venture out and explore the world
La Culture physique (Paris) - 1904-1936 - Gallica web page. Here is a shorr French Wikipedia article on the magazine.
The Estate Project for artists with AIDS
glbtq - an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture. Unfortunately archived as of 1.Aug.2015 because of a collapse of ad revenue. Fingers crossed someone continues to pay for the new web address for the archived articles. See also the three books the project engendered: The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts (2004); The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater (2004); and The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television (2005), all published by Cleis Press.
Craig Rodwell 1940-1993, founder of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop and a dear friend. His papers are at the New York Public library: http://www.nypl.org/archives/1839
In doing some searching for gay hip-hop links (Archived site.) - or homohop as it's called now, I guess, I found some interesting stuff:
- Holy Titclamps - a San Francisco (where else?) literary magaizine: http://www.holytitclamps.com/. Featured Boys Club: Queer Male Spoken Word in Sept. 2001.
- Karter Louis: "Prince of Hip-hop/Soul"
Gay Sculpture blog - by J-Christoph
Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome - a source book of basic documents in translation
Didier Lestrade - French publisher of Magazine (Archived site.), which he's generously posted online. Now he's writing for Minorités, which explores the connection between homophobia & Islamophobia.
Prop 8 - the musical
Queer Music Heritage - from KPFT Houston (TEXAS?? whod'a thunk.)
Queer Resources Directory - an electronic library with news clippings, political contact information, newsletters, essays, images, hyperlinks, and every other kind of information resource of interest to the GLBO community (I'm not clear on what the "O" is - others?)
The Russian Out List - Famous gay or bisexual Russians
The Stonewall National Museum & Archives
Tom of FInland, "From the Fringe to the Mainstream"- courtesy of the "This is Finland" website.

Investment Research
If you're interesting in researching stocks:

Securities & Exchange Commission - for companies' annual reports
Future earnings estmates - Zacks.com

Language instruction online

BBC - Free French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, other and Quick Fix - Essential phrases in 36 languages
Deutscher Welle - you guessed it, German
Learnlanguage.com - Free Russian language courses
Learning the language of travel destinations (Spanish, French, German, Mandarin and more). With thanks to Susan Lowe and her student, Mary
Live Mocha - free basic instruction. Then you pay.

Library Science links

Links to Library Science degree programs & how to choose a school
- https://www.ala.org/educationcareers/accreditedprograms/guidelines-choosing-masters-program-library-and-information-studies
  - Guidelines for Choosing a Master's Program in Library and Information Studies from the American Library Association
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) - Home of BIBCO, CONSER, NACO and SACO.
Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative - The Library of Congress is launching a review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. . . This web site will be the official location for information, announcements, and resources related to this initiative.
I maintained the music librarianship website for Simmons College, which is where I kept most of my other library links. In case you're interested, that website included a hip-hop bibliography and webliography (now available at <http://sites.google.com/site/hiphopbibweb/> that I put together for a music librarianship class, as well as links to major conservatories, performing organizations, and much more. I'm exploring ways to include the now-defunct pages on this site. Stay tuned.
Music Subject Headings - Thanks to Yale University
NEMLA (New England Music Library Association
OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards - in .pdf form from OCLC
RDA - Resource Description and Access - Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century

Literary links

Anna Axmatova
- A biography
In reading an article on Ian McEwan, British author, I came across a reference to Bergson's theory of consciousness, so I decided to look up what in tarnation that was. I fount this link.
Blake's The Tyger
Mixail Kuzmin

Kuzmin collection
Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Middlebury College bio
Mixail Kuzmin from poethunter.com

Gladys Mitchell - Writer of the The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries recently on PBS.
Stanislaw Lem - Polish-born Sci-fi writer
Osip Mandelstam
Victor Plevin
- http://urchin.earth.li/cgi-bin/twic/wiki/view.pl?page=VictorPelevin
- The OMON RA
Perseval Press - Viggo Mortentsen's publishing house
The Edgar Allen Poe Society - of Baltimore, MD
Victor Xlebnikov

Internet edition of Khlebnikov, Tvoreniia, Moscow, 1986, Poems by and articles on Khlebnikov (in Russian, and Selected Works (in Russian)
Poetryhunter.com

Literature Online (Full-text)

Archive.org - also home of the wayback machine. "The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public." Tons o' goodies.
Jane Austen - Project Gutenberg
Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova - Full-text Russian lit online. The English version is here. If you can read Cyrillic, however, there are some English versions available, e.g. Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (search for Master).
Loyal Books, (was Books should be free) - free audio books from the public domain
Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (complete with John Tenniel's illustrations!)

Through the Looking Glass
Charles Dickens - the complete works
Antonin Chekhov.
East of the Web - short stories & ebooks online (including several Oscar Wilde short stories)
From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry - even some sound files of Kuzmin
Hathi Trust - a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Housman poetry online
Konek-Gorbunok's The hunchbacked pony
Leonardo Digital Review is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the arts, science and technology.
Poetry about love - Russian love poetry (in Cyrillic)
Poetryhunter.com
Poets.org - poets and poetry online. For some reason clicking on "K" in "Search by author's last name" brings you to a list of poems by Akhmatova and others, so I couldn't find if they had any Kuzmin. Searching for Balmont also came up bupkis.
Project Gutenberg is a wonderful web undertaking that provides full text versions of classic literature, among many other services.
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The Ultimate Poetry Resource Guide, with thanks to Beverly Schiff.
(Archived site.) University of Adelaide ebooks online
Vavilon.ru - contemporary Russian literature - texts, biographies and more
Words without borders - Foreign language lit translated & available online

National Libraries:

Visual Information Access - digitized images from Harvard's collection

Internet Culturale - Digital catalogs & collections of Italian Libraries
Library and Archives Canada
Library of Congress
Music Catalogs - courtesy of the Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali @ the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Die Deutsche National Bibliothek
National Library of Australia
National Library of Canada/Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada
National Library of the Czech Republic
National Library of New Zealand
National Library of Norway
The National Library of Russia. The English page has disappeared. - which also has Images of St. Petersburg and History of the National Library of Russia (formerly Saltykov-Shchedrin Library)
National Library of Spain
National Library of Sweden

Media transfer

LPs: Audacity - Free

Miscellaneous links

Anniversary names
Are you ready - videos & .pdf files from FEMA on emergency preparedness
Anti junk mail sites

41pounds.org $41 for 5-year membership
stopthejunkmail.com - couldn't easily find out membership charges

Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, MA
Buber's Basque Pages - music folklore & more
Celsius to Fahrenheit
Cell phone plan comparison links

point.com

Listing of the leaders of France - From 840 AD - the present
Mentioned on Closer to Truth
- Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
download.com - price comparisons, product reviews, etc.
Finding a human from an 800 number. Here's another link: Bringo Phone-tree killer
Free IRS tax filing for anyone taxpayers with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $52,000 or less
Enkoder Form 5.0 - Protect your Email address from Spam (unsolicited Email advertisements). Site appears to go down occasionally.
Finra.org - investment tools
Google maps
Gerard Hoffnung

Jewish Holidays

Pesach

The Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies
The Library in the New Age - an article by Robert Darnton in the New York Review of Books
Listserv searching
www.abelltolls.com - Long distance comparison
Nelco Amica Sewing Machine User Manual
Personality test
Ranck heritage center - who knew?
rathergood.com - Home of Kitty Vikings and more
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Randy Pausch has pancreatic cancer and only months to live. This is a video of his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.
Specialty Search Engines
Titanium toothbrushes

Soladey - must be activiated by bright light

Used Flutes.com
Wayback Machine - Browse through 55 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

Music-related links

21st Century Music

Full-text of the journal is available online from 2000 onwards

Bohemian Opera

Classical music in movies, and more

Boulanger Initiative Database

Advocates for women and all gender marginalized composer

The Classical Music Archives feature MP3 files and biographical information on many Slavic composers and others.

Contemporary Music Centre - good for Moscow Autumn concert programs since 2002

Dolmetsch online

The story of the members of this remarkable family and their pioneering work, for over one hundred and twenty years, in the field of early music

The Electronic Music Foundation

Glinka State Museum of Musical Culture

The Golden Pages

Links for musicians from Royal Holloway, Univeristy of London - classified links for bibliographic aids & links, composers' homepages, etc., as well as unclassified links from Aberdeen Bach Choir to the Yellow Pages.

Helikon Opera Theater

Hoffmeister XIX

an on-line, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900. Containing some 400,000 records of music publications, it is the most extensive resource for establishing what was published where and when during that period.

The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection

an archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976

Werner Icking Music Archive

Free sheet music indexed by composer

Keepingscore.com

Website related to the Michael Tilson Thomas PBS Series

Klassic in Berlin

News and reviews from the Berlin cultural scene - operas and more

Lavignac Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire

Paris Conservatory encyclopedia

Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time

Addall list of online book sellers offering this title

Mirsky Collection of Salon Orchestra and Silent Film Music

University of Pittsburgh - Contains the instrumental parts for approximately 3,500 musical compositions, which include numerous markings, marginalia, and manuscripts in Mirskey's hand

The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture

In the golden age of the Métis Nation, circa 1816-1869, the Métis traversed the landscape of present-day Western Canada and the American Great Plains

Music under Soviet rule

from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (not the world's most attractive site, but informative, nonetheless.

Music under Soviet rule

from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (not the world's most attractive site, but informative, nonetheless.

Musica Ukrainica

Mutopia project

All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.

New York Philharmonic archives

Scores, business documents and images.

Operaone.de

German-language site with almost everything about opera - composers, performers, directors, etc. Eastern and Western Europe, the USA

PER MUSI - Revista Acadêmica de Música

a free access publication of the Graduate Music Program of UFMG (Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil) with articles in Portugese, Spanish, and English.

Polish Music Center

Pope Instrument Repair - Nilton Music Stands, etc. in Jamaica Plain, MA

Music & Dance Reference

From Brigham Young University

Russian Music and Musicians

annotated bibliography at Brigham & Young University

(Archived site.) Russian Musical Encyclopedia

Russian Sheet Music - available from ruslania.com

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Spectral music

from Wikipedia

Top 15 music sites

According to John Wagstaff, Associate Professor, Music and Performing Arts Library, University of Illinois @ Champaign-Urbana.

Indiana University Music Resources
Allmusic guide (All genres and styles of music are covered here, ranging from the most commercially popular to the most obscure. )
Library of Congress "American Memory"
Di Arezzo music scores site for scores and arkivmusic.com for redordings
Washington University's Music Necrology
Neue Mozart Ausgabe
Hofmeister's catalogs of 19th century music publications
Schubert manuscripts and early editions
Ira F. Brilliant Beethoven Center
Chopin first editions
(Archived site.) LiederNet Archive
Sheet music consortium
Music Treasures Consortium
Eastman School of Music Sibley Music Library digitized scores collection

Twelve Tones

Or the Bowl and the Laser Bat - very entertaining introduction to twelve-tone technique

Warsaw Contemporary Music Festival

Online newspapers

Online translating

Bilingual online reference term databases for Russian and English Eco/Fin: http://gaap.ru/glossary/all/790/ http://www.oreanda.ru/termins/index.html http://ocenka-express.ru/termins/ (Archived site.) http://www.ias-msfo.ru/gloss_ias.htm http://glossary.ru/ http://www.cofe.ru/finance/
Omniglot
Payment Practices: the oldest and most extensive dataset related to the payment practices of translation agencies and other consumers of translation services.
Rustran.com
Translators Cafe
http://translit.net: transliterates latin to cyrillic alphabets

Out of print materials

Finding out of print books on the WWW:

www.abebooks.com/

Finding out of print CDs

https://prex.com/
Parnassus Classical Compact Discs and Records http://www.parnassusrecords.com/
Berkshire Record Outlet http://www.broinc.com/

Slavic Links

In doing translating work over the years, I've discovered many interesting links:: Abbreviations in Russian Language 1996-1999 - ussed to be a website. Now you have go buyu a book; Armeniapedia.com - the online Armenia encyclopedia; English language edition of Pravda; Encyclopedia Krugosvet; Kireevsky Google search; Классика- XXI - Russian publishing company; The Mariinsky Theater; Мир словарей - links to all kinds of Russian dictionaries, biographical, etc.; Московский академический Музыкальный Театр - Moscow Stanislavsky/Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theater - lists artists & administration - with bios; Masterrussian.com - "free grammar lessons, useful vocabulary words and phrases, helpful tips on learning the Russian language, and hand-picked links to the best Web sites about the Russian language"; music@sumail.ru Muzikal'naya Academja email; Names and their nicknames - nicknames for common Russian male and female names; Perm Academic Theatre; Perm Opera and Ballet Theater - in an historic building; Ruslania - is a Helsinki-based bookstore specializing in Russian books and related products!; Russian Art Dictionary - all kinds of neat stuff but you have to read Russian - oh, and you have to click on the country name @ the top before you see the artists they have for that country.; РУССКИЙ БИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ (Russian biographical dictionary); Russian cuisine; Russian Jewish Encyclopedia - a translation of names and minimal personal data for 8,500 people included in Jewish Encyclopedia of Russia (Rossiyskaya Evreiskaya Entsiclopediya); first edition; 1995, Moscow; Russian Language learning on the Web - texts by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy & Blok with articles, quizzes; The Russian Virtual Library - Russian literature and poetry of the 18th-20th centuries; ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИИ САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГА - St. Petersburg Encyclopedia - 3523 articles, 8684 names, 4622 addresses; CЛОВА.ИНФО - Russian language encyclopedia; (Archived site.) Studies in Slavic Cultures - an interesting periodical put out by the University of Pittsburgh. Articles in .pdf format; Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка - Vladimir Ivanovich Dal's dictionary - apparently good for non-current Russian words.; A Touch of Russian - A beginners' guide to the language from the BBC; http://www.translit.ru/ - get Cyrillic from Latin and visa versa

Web design

Accessibility

Accessibility: the clock is ticking - from 1999
Section 508.

Cgi links

Background images, colors, etc.
Bluerobot - CSS centering & more
CSS - a guide for the unglued
css dropdowns & more
css floats
css panic guide - css, a guide for the unglued
evolt.org/
http://tantek.com/favelets/
http://www.htmldog.com/
Maxdesign.com - Sample CSS Page Layouts
http://www.meyerweb.com/

HTML

Web Accessibility Resources from W3C
HTML 4.0 Reference
A list apart - explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices
lynda.com - online subscritions to various web design tutorials
Dublin Core metadata generator
Replace special characters with HTML Entities - Online tool
Candy Schwartz, collator of (Archived site.) GSLIS bibliomystery
XHTML Code standards

Image manipulation

FDR Tools - "turns even unimposing photos into expressive works showing a degree of detail and contrast that was not considered possible until recently" - free basic program
Photomatix - offers two ways to solve blown out highlights and flat shadows. Runs on Mac OS X and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista. Freeware version puts a watermark on the finished product
Vector Magic - a way kewl website provided by Stanford University where you can upload your bitmap files & chamge them to vector images on the fly

Making a website Index in HTML

Javascript
- The JavaScript Source - "an excellent JavaScript resource with tons of "cut and paste" JavaScript examples for your Web pages. All for free! "
PHP

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/index.html - books, magazine articles, scripts, etc.
wikipedia list of php editors
php faqs
PHP Open-Source Projects - courtesy of binpress "The Marketplace For Open-Source Projects"
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/

XHTML
- XHTML Explained
XML
- In a class on XML I looked up a link on XML tutorials, and an XML editor.
- I also discovered a link on the Text Encoding Initiative.
- Since we were discussing namespaces, I found several links about those.

johnranck.net

The Library