Find out more about Walter Gerboth
The Gerboth Award was established by the Music Library Association in memory of its Past President and Honorary Member Walter Gerboth. It is made to members of MLA who are in the first five years of their professional library careers, to assist research-in-progress in music or music librarianship. Awards are announced each year at the MLA Annual meeting. Calls for applications are issued in the spring.
2013 Call for Applications
- 2013
- Jessica Nay
- Project:The development of a catalog to the words of Ferdinand Praeger.
- 2012
- Bonnie E. (Beth) Fleming
- Project: A biography of visionary arts patron Betty Freeman
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- 2011
- Anna E. Kijas
- Project: A bio-bibliography of pianist and composer Teresa Carreño.
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- 2010
- Mac Nelson
- Project: “The Varga Legacy: An Oral History.”
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- 2009
- Mark Puente
- Project: The development of a Music Library Association personnel characteristics survey.
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- 2008
- Kristine Nelsen
- Project: A study of the working musicians of Las Vegas showrooms and lounges from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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- 2007
- Michelle Lynn Oswell
- Project: A database for the English lute song from 1597-1622.
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- 2006
- Christopher Mehrens
- Project: An investigation of American music criticism sources in the Library of Congress.
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- 2005
- No Award
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- 2004
- Jennifer Oates
- Project: An exploration of Hamish MacCunn resources in Scotland and England.
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- D.J. Hoek
- Project: An updated compilation of Arthur Wenk’s Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music.
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- 2003
- Daniel Boomhower
- Project: "Bärenreiter-Verlag's Bach Publications: 1923-1954."
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- 2002
- John Anderies
- Project: “Tri-College Digital Music Initiative: Developing a Core Integrated Collection.”
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- 2001
- David Hursh
- Project: A census survey concerning reference services in American academic music libraries.
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- 2000
- Gary Dale Vargason, Jr.
- Project: A bio-bibliography of the composer Ernst Bacon.
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- John M. Bewley
- Project: A study of the scores in both the Ormandy and the Stokowski archives that were marked and/or arranged by them, to analyze their contributions (and those of their copyists)
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- 1999
- Mary DuMont
- Project: A qualitative survey of reference performance at decentralized academic music libraries.
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- 1998
- Kristina Shanton
- Project: Research on J. Bodewalt Lampe.
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- Deborah Herman-Morgan and Philip Ponella
- Project: The role of information technology in the public services offered by academic music libraries in the United States.
- 1997
- Jennifer Ottervik
- Project: a bibliography of operas incorporating Jazz elements.
- 1996
- No Award
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- 1995
- Edward Komara
- Project: "Charlie Patton's 1930 Paramount Records Sessions"
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- Georgina Binns
- Project: "An Annotated Bibliography of Australian Patriotic and Nationalistic Songs to 1919."
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- 1994
- Felicia Piscitelli
- Project: "A bibliography of Catholic hymnals published in the United States from the Second Vatican Council to the present (1965-1993)."
- 1993
- Harriette Hemmasi
- Project: An augmentation of the prototype music thesaurus.
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- 1992
- Pamela Bowden Dahlhauser
- Project: A study of unindexed United States District Court Copyright Records.
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- 1991
- Alan A. Green
- Project: A bio-bibliography of American composer Allen Dwight.
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- 1990
- David Hunter
- Project: The preparation of bibliographic "descriptions of opera and song books published in England, 1703-1726.
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- 1989
- Joan Redding
- Project: a descriptive catalog of the manuscript scores and musical sketches of Lennox Berkeley.
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- 1988
- David A. Day
- Project: An annotated catalog of the printed and manuscript opera and ballet collection of the Théâtre de la Monnaie, housed at the Archives de la ville in Brussels.
- 1987
- Robert Richart
- Project: an annotated bio-bibliography of György Ligeti.
- 1986
- Holly Ann Gardinier
- Project: bibliographic and historic research of French music and theater almanacs in the Sibley Music Library.