[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: DDM-Online Update, News

[Announcements for the AMS]

Dear Subscribers:
   The mid-summer update of DDM-Online has now been completed and is
available for your use at <<http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/>http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/ddm/>. This update
includes sixty-eight new or revised records (received as of 6 July 2009) and
brings the total size of the database to 14,045 records.
   This update also concludes our project of adding index numbers for (as
appropriate) ProQuest/Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest/UMI, RILM Abstracts,
and British Library Document Supply to the records of all completed
dissertations. Thanks to the work of several of our graduate assistants
(especially Molly Ables, Molly Ryan, Nik Taylor, and Alexis Witt), thousands
of new index numbers have been added to the DDM-Online records over the past
couple of years, and we hope users will find this information helpful.
   With this update, the time has come for me to retire as Director of
DDM-Online, and I am delighted to announce that as of July 2009, Dr. Peter
Slemon (<mailto:pslemon at indiana.edu>pslemon at indiana.edu), my long-time colleague as Associate Director
of Indiana University's Center for the History of Music Theory and
Literature (CHMTL), will take over responsibility for DDM-Online as Interim
Director of the CHMTL for the academic year 2009-2010. I am very pleased
that he has agreed to take on this role so that we may make as orderly a
transition as possible, both for DDM-Online and for all the other CHMTL
databases, which will continue to be available just as they have been.
   Since 1996, the size of the DDM database has nearly doubled; its
international coverage has been greatly expanded, thanks especially to the
support and encouragement provided by various musicological societies around
the world; and DDM-Online has responded to more than 14,000,000 database
searches. The enormous growth and success of DDM-Online would not have been
possible without the thousands of authors over the years who took the time
to register their dissertation topics and re-register their completed
dissertations, not to mention the many graduate advisors and other
individuals who kept us informed of projects that had been completed (or, in
a few cases, abandoned) and supplied information on musicologically related
dissertations that had not been registered with DDM-Online for one reason or
another. In departing, I want to thank individually each and every one of
them, as well as the colleagues who worked with me on DDM-Online on a daily
basis since its inauguration thirteen years ago: Dr. Nicholas Butler
(1996-97), Professor Andreas Giger (1997-2000), and Dr. Slemon (2000 to the
present). Finally, I want to express my appreciation to the AMS for the
privilege of serving as director of DDM-Online.
   As always, I close by inviting you to check your record in DDM-Online,
and if it needs updating from a topic to a completed dissertation (or if it
is not present at all), please do register your work with us, either through
the link on the DDM-Online home page or with one of our conventional
registration postcards, which we will be glad to mail you upon request.
   Wishing you all the best,
     Sincerely,
        Thomas J. Mathiesen

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