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What Do Music Reader Service Librarians Do?

Posted by: Donna Koh

As many of you know, the NLS Music Section is a specialized music library serving blind and print-impaired patrons. This week’s blog post will reveal some of the many interesting things our music reader service librarians do. One of the most important tasks we do in the Music Section is reference service. We receive diverse …

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Digitizing Braille Music 2018

Posted by: Donna Koh

This is our fourth blog on the digitization of braille music. So, what is new with this project? First, we are boosting our production by outsourcing the proofreading of scores scanned using Optical Braille Recognition (OBR). Our braille music specialist Gilbert Busch continues to review all the scans completed on DotScan so we can provide …