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Music Library Association
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No. 162 |
Sept. - Oct. 2010 |
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Outreach Activities in MLA |
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Reaching Out Is for All of Us Publicity & Outreach Officer Outreach Conference Exhibits
Our next exhibit will occur in November 2010 at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting. At the ALA Annual Meeting we have a presence not only in the exhibit hall, but also at ALA's Spectrum Leadership Institute Professional Options Fair (http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2010/may2010/spectrumfair_ofd.cfm), one of our most effective venues for communicating with underrepresented groups. Last year I began keeping statistics at exhibits, which has been very helpful in determining the interests of visitors to our booth and the effectiveness of exhibiting to various audiences. Old-Fashioned Mailings Possibilities for expanding outreach efforts in the future include participation in campus career fairs, organizing an event during National Library Week (April 10-16, 2011), and reaching out to secondary school students. At this year’s National Diversity in Libraries Conference, another exhibitor, Miguel Figueroa, Director of ALA’s Office for Diversity, spoke to me about the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant they recently received to recruit ethnically diverse high school and college students to careers in libraries. Miguel was very impressed with our new Careers in Music Librarianship brochure and took several with him, saying that it is just the sort of information they want to include in their outreach efforts. I am hopeful that MLA and music librarianship will be well represented in their project, Discovering Librarianship: The Future is Overdue (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/diversity/imls/index.cfm). Meanwhile, I am contemplating ways I might reach out to secondary school students at the local level.
Elliot, Paula. "Music in the Air: Meet the Professionals Who Help Make the Performances |
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Yi Hong Sim, MLSG Co-founder Greetings from the Music Library Student Group! The Music Library Student Group (MLSG) is a student-run peer support and career development group for music library students. As co-founders, Veronica Alzalde and I (both UW-Madison ’10) envision it as a supplement and stepping stone to active participation in MLA and MLA-L. Although MLSG’s activities will mostly take place online, it will also host meetings and programs at MLA national and chapter conferences. MLSG’s officers hope to provide its members with networking opportunities, peer advice, and online professional development events. Officers especially hope to assist the majority of student members whose budgets may not allow attendance at professional conferences as often as they would like. In short, at MLSG, we hope to empower music library students to accomplish their academic and professional goals, wherever in the world they may be. |
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Outreach Committee Unveils Music Librarianship Brochure
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| Developing Trends |
Jim Cassaro What a year this has been! The Development Committee and its Promotional Sales Subcommittee has accomplished many things in the last several months. Baptism by fire, hit the ground running, and all those related platitudes apply here. Nothing like rolling up one’s sleeves and getting your hands dirty! Of course, our accomplishments this year would not be possible without the generosity demonstrated on a continual basis by the loyal MLA membership, whose passion and dedication to the Association is evident at so many levels. As such, I would like to give you an overview of what we have done this past year, and what lies ahead development-wise for the association. |
| Our hearty congratulations to all those pursuing new opportunities. Alisa Rata Stutzbach, Placement Officer, Music Library Association Amy Kimura, Sheet Music Cataloger (Assistant Librarian-Project Archivist), University of Michigan Bonnie Elizabeth (Beth) Fleming, Music Librarian, Oklahoma City University Veronica Alzade, Access Services/Music Librarian, University of the Pacific Jennifer Ottervik, Head Librarian, The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University Alisa Rata Stutzbach is MLA's new Placement Officer, replacing Susannah Cleveland, who is presently serving on the Executive Board as a member-at-large. Alisa is Director of the Hamon Fine Arts Library at Southern Methodist University and has been a part of that staff since 2003, first as the Music, Theatre, and Dance Librarian . As Director, Alisa handles executive level responsibilities for the library and takes an active role in reference and instruction for patrons. Alisa earned master's degrees in library science and historical musicology from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and her undergraduate degree in viola performance at SMU as a President's Scholar. Alisa performs in the Dallas area on baroque and modern viola. She is also active in MLA's Texas chapter. The Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Dale Cockrell as the Interim Director of the Center, effective July 1, 2010. Dr. Cockrell has agreed to serve for one year while a nationwide search is being performed for a new Director. Dr. Cockrell has a very distinguished academic, scholarly, and professional record in popular music. He is Professor of Musicology at Vanderbilt University, currently on a research leave. Dr. Cockrell is the author of Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World, Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842-1846, and more than one hundred other books, articles, papers, and monographs devoted to the study of American popular music. His books have won various awards, and he has been elected to high office by his colleagues (including the presidency of the Society for American Music). Professor Cockrell has been the recipient of several grants, including three NEH Fellowships. He has held positions at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Indiana University, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Alabama. His The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook (a critical edition of the music referenced in the Little House books) will be published in late summer, 2010. He is also founder and president of The Pa’s Fiddle Project, an educational, scholarly, and musical program dedicated to recording the music of the Little House books and to reconnecting the nation’s children with the rich music legacies embedded in them. |
We welcome the following new or returning MLA members ! |
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Elizabeth Alvarez, Alpharetta, GA |
Robin E. Mygrant, Bellevue, OH |
| Bibliography Roundtable Robin Rausch and Sarah Dorsey, Co-coordinators |
The Bibliography Round Table hosted a lively program on the publishing future of bio-bibliographies and thematic catalogues at MLA’s annual meeting in San Diego, 2010. Jerry McBride opened the session (Stanford University); his forthcoming bio-bibliography on composer Douglas Moore is the latest title in MLA’s Index and Bibliography Series. He was joined by Mark Palkovic (University of Cincinnati), editor of the series since 2001. McBride recounted how he wanted to write a book on an American composer from the early to mid-twentieth century. Douglas Moore, perhaps best known for his operas The Ballad of Baby Doe and The Devil and Daniel Webster, seemed a good choice because his scores and papers were easily accessible in New York. Most of Moore’s papers are at Columbia University and McBride was living nearby in Vermont. He discovered that not much had been written about Douglas Moore and devoted roughly 20% of his book to Moore’s biography. McBride was fortunate that Moore’s daughter and son-in-law were still alive and living in Moore’s house when he began his project; both died a couple of years ago. They were very supportive of his work and shared scrapbooks and papers they had in their possession. Serendipitously, after moving to California, McBride met Moore’s grand niece who also proved to be most helpful. As McBride began to search for a publisher he discovered that bio-bibliographies were not being published as they once were. Ultimately, MLA expressed interest in his project. Index and Bibliography Series editor Mark Palkovic showed off an advance copy of McBride’s book, which is being co-published with Scarecrow Press. Palkovic said that he has two readers help decide if a project is worthy of publication, but the most important consideration is whether the resulting work will be used. His role is to help authors get through the publishing process. The viability of the bio-bibliography genre appears to be improving. Palkovic mentioned another work in progress: Lois Kuyper-Rushing’s Eugene Bozza bio-bibliography. In addition, Constance Ditzel of Routledge informed the gathering that Routledge is looking for new bio-bibliographies. When asked about the citations in the bibliography, and how he knew when “enough was enough,” McBride said that with the choices made available by the internet he could have continued adding items indefinitely. He included most of the New York Times references since Moore spent his entire life in New York City. However, deadlines do help one finish things and at some point he decided to stop. Yet, even during the final editing he discovered additional Moore manuscripts that he had not known about. McBride was about to begin work on the index to his book, which led to a discussion of the pros and cons of indexing software. Both CINDEX and Macrex indexing software were mentioned; reviews were mixed. It was noted that there are still many composers who need a thematic index. Carl Czerny’s name in particular came up more than once. The situation with Georges Bizet, however, is about to improve thanks to Hugh Macdonald, Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis, the concluding speaker of the round table session. Macdonald served as general editor of the New Berlioz Edition, which completed publication in 2006, and he has been working on an online thematic catalog of Bizet, to be published in the next year by the Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University. He spoke of online publishing as the future of such tools because there are no space limitations and updates are easily accomplished. Rights issues notwithstanding, full scores and recordings could eventually be included, as well as full text of reviews, complete listings of performers, correspondence relevant to a specific work, and iconography. However, Macdonald admitted that in an online environment, decisions still had to be made. He stopped listing Carmen performances after 1900, but added that someone else is welcome to add them in the future. He sees his Bizet catalog as more of a compendium than a catalog and said the closest thing to it currently online is the Benjamin Britten project http://www.brittenproject.org/. The first prototype of the Bizet Web site is available here: http://hdw.artsci.wustl.edu/node/45. Macdonald hopes that eventually others will be able to contribute to it. The well-attended session was enthusiastically received. The co-chairs of the Bibliography Round Table wish to thank all who participated. |
| Announcements |
Poster Sessions Call for 2011 MLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia |
| Announcements |
Career Advisory Service: Here to help! |
| In Recognition |
These are the current Corporate Members and Corporate Patrons of MLA. |
| Members’ Publications | |
Please send citations for items published or premiered in the past calendar year to the column editor, Mac Nelson, via e-mail or USPS mail at the address below. Please follow the citation style employed below. You must be a current MLA member to submit citations. Mac Nelson
Moore, Tom (Rio de Janeiro) http://21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com/2010/07/interview-with-judah-adashi-tom-moore.html "Robert Baksa: An Interview.” Opera Today. (24 August 2010). http://www.operatoday.com/content/2010/08/robert_baksa_an.php "Mohammed Fairouz: An Interview.” Opera Today. (12 September 2010). http://www.operatoday.com/content/2010/09/mohammed_fairou.php |
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