<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">We are pleased to announce the 1.0 beta release of LibMEI, a C++ library for reading, writing, and manipulating MEI-encoded music notation. This software will be useful for developers who wish to integrate support for MEI in their applications.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Compiling instructions, API documentation, and more is available on the LibMEI website,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><a href="http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/libmei">http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca/libmei</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">LibMEI has been developed at the Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Lab, McGill University.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">For more information, please contact Andrew Hankinson (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><a href="mailto:andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca">andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">).</span></body></html>