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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Alexander Street Streaming
Music and Video Content to go Mobile in 2010
Patrons of subscribing libraries will be able to
listen to hundreds of thousands of Music Online recordings
and watch thousands of full-length video titles from their iPhones.
ALEXANDRIA, VA,
November 9, 2009—Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today
announced that they will release a free iPhone application in early
2010 that will make their complete line of online streaming music
collections—including
Classical Music Library,
Jazz Music Library, and
Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries—fully accessible on
iPhone and iPod Touch handheld devices. With subsequent releases,
patrons of subscribing libraries will also be able to access all
Alexander Street video collections, such as
American History in Video,
Theatre in Video, and
Ethnographic Video Online.
Says Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “The iPhone is
an increasingly important device for accessing digital content, and
we want to make sure our customers benefit from the flexibility and
ease of access that mobile devices offer.”
Patrons of libraries that subscribe to Alexander Street’s
Music Online and video collections will also be able to
access and edit personal playlists, making it easy to stream music
and video content and instantly update playlists on the go. They
will also be able to search and navigate full-text resources,
including
classical scores. A
blog post on the publisher’s site offers a screenshot and
additional information.
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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning
online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing
arts, and music.
Alexander Street’s Music Online is a fully
cross-searchable suite of hundreds of thousands of classical, jazz,
American, and world music recordings; scores; and pages of full-text
reference content. Alexander Street collections are available to
library and educational institutions via annual subscription or
outright purchase of perpetual rights.
Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university
faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online
collections by emailing Meg Keller at
mkeller@alexanderstreet.com or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a
username and password.
Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 /
202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller@alexanderstreet.com
http://alexanderstreet.com
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