Corinne Forstot-Burke
@corinne-isabel.bsky.social
Head of Music Library at UMich. Lover of books, music, dance, art, movement, philosophy, wit, reason, equity, love, and nature.
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So happy that this purchase is getting a moment in the spotlight!
We recently acquired a first edition full score of Aaron Copland’s "Inscape," with inscription by Leonard Bernstein. Read about it, including its U-M connection, in A Notable New Acquisition at the Music Library: myumi.ch/JPdME
August 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So happy that this purchase is getting a moment in the spotlight!
Lovely little mushroom find this morning by the lake #fungifriends 🍄🍄🟫
May 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Lovely little mushroom find this morning by the lake #fungifriends 🍄🍄🟫
Anyone had any luck securing Romanian citizenship by descent? Need to track down vital records, but those family members have all passed. Recommendations welcome!
May 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Anyone had any luck securing Romanian citizenship by descent? Need to track down vital records, but those family members have all passed. Recommendations welcome!
Hey, #AcademicSky - thoughts? #AcademicChatter
“He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,” she said.
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“He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,” she said.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
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May 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hey, #AcademicSky - thoughts? #AcademicChatter
“He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,” she said.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
“He’s telling us not to use it, and then he’s using it himself,” she said.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
I think, as an academic librarian, if you help x number of students get their PhD or x number of faculty get tenure, you should receive an honorary doctorate. #academicsky
May 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I think, as an academic librarian, if you help x number of students get their PhD or x number of faculty get tenure, you should receive an honorary doctorate. #academicsky
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Before we had Shazam for naming that tune, we had Thematic Catalogs. These reference works list compositions often with incipits (opening notes of a piece or movement), form, medium, location of manuscript, editions, and so much more. Check ‘em out!
April 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Before we had Shazam for naming that tune, we had Thematic Catalogs. These reference works list compositions often with incipits (opening notes of a piece or movement), form, medium, location of manuscript, editions, and so much more. Check ‘em out!
Do you still use mini scores? Do your library patrons still check them out? I feel like they’ve been forgotten.
#ThrowbackThursday - bigger than an iPhone, smaller than an iPad, miniature scores used to circulate heavily. How were they used? You could take them in your pocket to a performance and follow along, listen to a recording while following along (and they’re cute). They’re still here - check ‘em out!
April 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Do you still use mini scores? Do your library patrons still check them out? I feel like they’ve been forgotten.
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As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1
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March 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1
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I have several articles that were included. Check the data set - you may be surprised (or not) to find that your work is included too 😔 #academicsky
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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March 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I have several articles that were included. Check the data set - you may be surprised (or not) to find that your work is included too 😔 #academicsky
Spending time with dance scholarship in the @umich collection. Gorgeous volumes of history, choreography, costume design, photography. #dance #academicsky
March 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Spending time with dance scholarship in the @umich collection. Gorgeous volumes of history, choreography, costume design, photography. #dance #academicsky
What we’re talking about when we talk about backlogs. Want to discover more historical content? Fund technical services positions and project staff. These are not internship projects, this is not student work. Managing big collections requires staff.
February 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What we’re talking about when we talk about backlogs. Want to discover more historical content? Fund technical services positions and project staff. These are not internship projects, this is not student work. Managing big collections requires staff.
Pop-up ads, 19th century style
February 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Pop-up ads, 19th century style
Learning about the relationship of synaptic pruning and #autism. Have there been studies on synaptic pruning, or lack thereof, in autistic mothers during and after pregnancy? Postpartum should be a time for synaptic pruning, but, what if it isn’t for these women? #psychology #neurodivergence
February 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Learning about the relationship of synaptic pruning and #autism. Have there been studies on synaptic pruning, or lack thereof, in autistic mothers during and after pregnancy? Postpartum should be a time for synaptic pruning, but, what if it isn’t for these women? #psychology #neurodivergence
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
For Black History Month, what can we do in the #academiclibrary beyond exhibits and short-lived nods of appreciation? Add Black creators to our approval plans, add them to our instruction examples, create guides that show students and faculty how to find them. Make lasting change. #academicsky
February 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For Black History Month, what can we do in the #academiclibrary beyond exhibits and short-lived nods of appreciation? Add Black creators to our approval plans, add them to our instruction examples, create guides that show students and faculty how to find them. Make lasting change. #academicsky
When will I learn to stop reading series that aren’t completely written/published!! Waiting for book 4 is going to be torturous. 😫 #booksky 💙📚
January 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
When will I learn to stop reading series that aren’t completely written/published!! Waiting for book 4 is going to be torturous. 😫 #booksky 💙📚
Have any academic librarians analyzed the effect that user preference for online resources has had on space issues in the stacks? Less physical items checked out means less room on our shelves for new material. #academicsky #academicchatter #academiclibrary #highered
January 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Have any academic librarians analyzed the effect that user preference for online resources has had on space issues in the stacks? Less physical items checked out means less room on our shelves for new material. #academicsky #academicchatter #academiclibrary #highered
Collection development is my favorite activity. New acquisitions by Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón featured here. 🇵🇷 #newmusic #womencomposers #musiclibrary
January 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Collection development is my favorite activity. New acquisitions by Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón featured here. 🇵🇷 #newmusic #womencomposers #musiclibrary
Dear music publishers and composers: I implore you to stop using comb bindings. Did you know that many libraries won’t purchase works with comb bindings? They rip the pages. To rebind, we need more room in the margin. Cutting off the comb results in loss of clef, time signature, and key at minimum.
January 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Dear music publishers and composers: I implore you to stop using comb bindings. Did you know that many libraries won’t purchase works with comb bindings? They rip the pages. To rebind, we need more room in the margin. Cutting off the comb results in loss of clef, time signature, and key at minimum.
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Six years ago today, the Institute for Composer Diversity was launched, and in celebration of its birthday, we're (finally) launching our Chamber Database! 16K+ total works with 9K+ by women composers and 8.7K+ by composers of color and searchable by over 200 instruments…Enjoy!
Chamber Search — Institute for Composer Diversity
This Chamber Search page lets you search for music for 1-9+ performers by composers from historically excluded groups.
www.composerdiversity.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Six years ago today, the Institute for Composer Diversity was launched, and in celebration of its birthday, we're (finally) launching our Chamber Database! 16K+ total works with 9K+ by women composers and 8.7K+ by composers of color and searchable by over 200 instruments…Enjoy!
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In 1954, U-M Library made the purchase of the music collection of Jean Auguste Stellfeld, a Belgian musicologist who had amassed one of the most significant music collections in Europe, providing a basis for the U-M Department of Musicology and the study of European music from the 16th century on.
January 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In 1954, U-M Library made the purchase of the music collection of Jean Auguste Stellfeld, a Belgian musicologist who had amassed one of the most significant music collections in Europe, providing a basis for the U-M Department of Musicology and the study of European music from the 16th century on.
From the rare book room: National nursery rhymes and nursery songs / set to original music by J.W. Elliott, with illustrations engraved by the brothers Dalziel. @umichmusiclibrary.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
From the rare book room: National nursery rhymes and nursery songs / set to original music by J.W. Elliott, with illustrations engraved by the brothers Dalziel. @umichmusiclibrary.bsky.social
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ICE raids across Austin today. Confirmed by local news and DEA Houston office. Keep your head on a swivel, know your rights, help your neighbors prepare for it as well.
January 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
ICE raids across Austin today. Confirmed by local news and DEA Houston office. Keep your head on a swivel, know your rights, help your neighbors prepare for it as well.
Elementary schools, hospitals… heads-up library workers, we’re going to see some shit.
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.
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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
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January 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Elementary schools, hospitals… heads-up library workers, we’re going to see some shit.
Some of the DEIA work I’ve done in collection development over the years is to un-anthologize the works of Black, Asian, Indigenous, Latin, and Latin American composers in our collections. Adding individual works and adding names to our approval profiles. Representation on our shelves matters.
January 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Some of the DEIA work I’ve done in collection development over the years is to un-anthologize the works of Black, Asian, Indigenous, Latin, and Latin American composers in our collections. Adding individual works and adding names to our approval profiles. Representation on our shelves matters.