MMLLAA NEWSLETTER MMLLAA MMeeeettss iinn DDaallllaass Part I of Annual Meeting Coverage Inside: Feature: Get to Know Your Calendar . 15 President’s Report . 2 Membership . 9 MLA News . 18 Annual Meeting Coverage . 3 Developing Trends . 10 Announcements . 23 In Recognition . 5 New Members . 10 Members’ Publications . 25 Transitions . 8 Committee Reports . 11 No. 168 Mar–April 2012 ISSN 0580-289-X President’s Report MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Jerry McBride, MLA President In addition to the annual meet- Board of Directors Greetings, MLA members. ing, the work of Officers It is always a pleasure to review MLA continues. Work on the strategic JERRY MCBRIDE, President the events at a MLA meeting, and plan continued culminating in the Stanford University this year’s meeting at Dallas had its town hall meeting at the conference. MICHAEL COLBY, Vice-President/President Elect share of high points. From jazz col- Strategic planning is an ongoing University of California–Davis lections at UNT to best practices for process, and MLA members are en- PAMELA BRISTAH, Recording Secretary fair use, from form/genre terms to couraged to contact members of the Wellesley College information-seeking behaviors and board with your ideas and sugges- LINDA W. BLAIR, Administrative Officer new information tools in the cloud— tions for future directions MLA Eastman School of Music these are just a sampling of the should be taking. PAUL CARY, Assistant Administrative Officer wealth of interesting programs at the There were a number of task Baldwin-Wallace College conference. When there was time to forces that submitted their reports to slip out of the hotel, you could visit the board at its Dallas meeting. The Members-at-Large 2011–2013 DANIEL F. BOOMHOWER the nearby historic section of Dallas Archive’s Policy Task Force is plan- Library of Congress and performances of the Symphony ning for much better handling of KIRSTIN DOUGAN and Opera in the evening or more MLA’s eighty years of organizational University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign native forms of Texas entertainment. records. The Branch Libraries Task LAURIE J. SAMPSEL Visiting the exhibits was more con- Force report, soon to be on the MLA University of Colorado at Boulder venient than ever as they were di- Web site, will help libraries that are Members-at-Large 2012–2014 rectly next to the main meeting room, facing integration into a larger li- PAULA HICKNER making it very easy stop by in those brary. Both of these task forces will University of Kentucky spare moments in between sessions. continue their work into the next STEVE LANDSTREET No annual meeting is a success year. The IT task force has issued a Free Library of Philadelphia without the many hours of hard RFP to improve the entire MLA infor- MARK SCHARFF Washington University work by MLA participants. Thanks mation technology infrastructure for an imaginative program go to upon which the board will act this Typeset by A-R Editions, Middleton, WI. Morris Levy and the Program Com - year. A new Membership Committee MLA NEWSLETTER mittee. The smooth operation of in- has just been appointed with Misti Shaw, Editor numerable details of every aspect of Ruthann McTyre as chair to work on the conference is due to the superb building MLA’s membership. We are The Newsletter is published four times a year: September–October, November–December, March– planning and constant vigilance of moving forward on all of these is- April, and May–June, by the Music Library Associ a tion, the convention managers, Bonna sues to maintain the vitality of MLA c/o A-R Editions, Inc.; 8551 Research Way, Suite 180; Middleton, WI 53562, and is issued to its members Boettcher and Laura Gayle Green. as an organization. free of charge. Making our stay in Dallas and at the All of this work happens as a re- The purpose of the Newsletter is to keep the membership of the Association abreast of events, Fairmont a welcoming and pleasant sult of the dedication of MLA mem- ideas, and trends related to music librarianship. All experience were the many volun- bers. Members Paula Hickner, Steve communications and articles are welcome. Address correspondence to: teers in the Local Arrangements Landstreet, Mark Scharff, assistant ad- Committee headed by Michelle Hahn ministrative officer Paul Cary, and Misti Shaw DePauw University and Tina Murdock. Jim Zychowicz vice president Michael Colby join the GCPA Music Library and the Business Office ably handled board this year. Susannah Cleveland, 605 S. College Greencastle, IN 46135 the registration and other member Cheryl Taranto, and Liza Vick step [email protected] services. Many thanks to all of you. If down this year with our deep grati- The deadline for submitting copy to the editor for you were not able to attend the tude and thanks for their service. issue number 169 (May–June 2012) is May 7, 2012. Dallas conference, seriously consider Past president Ruthann McTyre, and Submissions in Microsoft Word sent via e-mail attach- ment are preferred. attending the San Jose conference administrative officer Michael Rogan next February 27–March 3. Being in completed four years of amazing ac- the heart of Silicon Valley is sure to complishments for MLA. We will miss provide opportunities for exploring their experience and wisdom. The cutting-edge technologies in music Publicity and Outreach Officer, On the cover: A breathtaking view of the night- librarianship. continued on next page time Dallas skyline, taken by Gerry Szymanski. 2 M L A Newsletter • No. 168 Annual Meeting Coverage Plenary I: Jazz Collections and Performance Practice at the University of North Texas Submitted by Bracken Klar are now 350 student participants in those collections. Since the record- one of nine Lab Bands. ings are quite old and in a rather del- This, the 1st Plenary Session of Next, we were told about the icate state, there is a lot that hasn’t the 81st Annual Meeting, immedi- evolution of the band and some of been heard by any UNT folks at all. ately set the tone for the rest of the its accomplishments. Gene Hall came There is also an ongoing effort to se- conference. The presenters, Andrew into the picture in 1942 when he of- cure funding to transfer these older Justice, Mark McKnight, Donna fered a “Dance Band” undergraduate holdings onto more modern, stable, Arnold, and John Murphy, were en- degree. This was the program that formats. I was very happy to have gaging and obviously engaged with became the Jazz program in 1947. learned a little something a bit their subject, jazz. More specifically, Both the One O’Clock Lab Band and more obscure and a lot less “cow- the topic of this meeting was jazz at the jazz program are around today, boy” about the Texas area. While UNT and, as you will read, proved to having evolved into highly praised Western Swing is cowboy jazz, Texas be informative and unique to the and regarded entities, each in their isn’t a place that comes up a lot in University of North Texas. own right. The One O’Clock Lab jazz conversations. The first part of the presentation Band has performed at the White The next part detailed the per- was a kind of origins of jazz at UNT House and toured what was then the formance of jazz in the Denton area. presentation. We learned that UNT U.S.S.R. in the service of the Depart- There were two major media outlets offered a jazz degree program for ment of State, among other achieve- for jazz in the Denton area, WFAA the first time in 1944 and was the ments. UNT has a very nice collec- Channel 8 and WBAP 96.7 FM. Both first jazz degree program in the tion if one wishes to discover more started back in 1922, even before U.S. It was also the first program in about the history of jazz at UNT. The Fessor was leading the Aces around which students could receive aca- Kenton Collection details the devel- town. In the beginnings of radio, it demic credit for playing in a jazz opment and gradual acceptance of was common practice to eschew band. The program’s (pre) begin- the jazz program at UNT, in which prerecorded music in favor of live nings were traced back even further the One O’Clock Lab Band played an performance. These two outlets were to 1927 when Floyd “Fessor” Graham important role. both in that habit as well. During the started the “Aces,” a group of student In addition to the Kenton collec- time before televisions were present musicians who played around town tion, UNT houses a sizeable collec- in huge numbers throughout the at silent movie screenings. The Aces tion of studio, non-commercial, jazz country, WBAP collected huge were the progenitors of the One recordings. There is an ongoing at- amounts of sheet music. WFAA had O’Clock Lab Band. The One O’Clock tempt to better catalog the collection collected a large amount of sheet Lab Band is still around today. There and determine unique holdings in music as well, before the switch to prerecorded performance became the standard. As Television became the pub- lic’s preferred source of enter- President’s Report continued . tainment in the home, the switch continued from previous page As we look toward MLA’s work from live to recorded perfor - Renee McBride, and Index and Bibli- in the coming year, please feel free mance became more and more ography Series Editor, Mark Palkovic, to contact me any time with your prevalent. This left the vast collec- are handing over their responsibili- questions about MLA and your ideas tions of sheet music to be underused ties to Bob Follet and Dick Griscom.