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President’s Report...... 2 Ask MLA...... 6 E-Mail Digest...... 7 Transitions ...... 8 Chapter Reports...... 9 MLA Plan 2001 ...... 10 Committee Reports...... 11 NEWSLETTER Roundtable Reports...... 18 Members’ Publications ...... 21 No. 120 March-April, 2000 ISSN 0580-289-X Calendar...... 28

Plenary II: Plenary III: Copyright In Music Reference at the Millennium Leslie Troutman, the Digital Age University of Illinois ing history of Mozart’s bibliographers and catalogs. His preview of the new Köchel catalog currently in preparation Brian Cockburn, he legacies of Sir George Grove revealed the myriad challenges which James Madison University T and Ludwig Köchel formed the face the Mozart bibliographer. foundation of Saturday’s plenary ses- Following David Hunter’s gracious enore Coral, chair of sion. Stanley Sadie (editor, and amusing introduction, Sadie L MLA’s legislative New Grove Dictionary of thanked the audience for the feedback committee, moderated Music and Musicians, 2nd and response they provided on the the Friday Morning edition) offered a brief history development of the upcoming New Plenary session. of Sir George and his dictio- Grove, 2nd edition. He then spent Dwayne K. Buttler of nary followed by a preview of some time recounting the engrossing Indiana University and the New Grove, 2nd edition (especially for a music librarian) his- Laura (Lolly) N. Gas- and a description of how it tory of Sir George and his most famous away of University of will differ from its predeces- dictionary. Turning to the discussion of North Carolina, Chapel Hill — two sors. Neal Zaslaw (Cornell University) what he refers to as Grove 7, Sadie highly respected copyright authorities lead the audience through the fascinat- continued on page three — discussed copyright as it applies to “Copyright in the Digital Age — Elec- tronic Reserves, Distance Learning, and Fair Use.” Each panelist gave a brief presentation and both responded both to “scenarios” from the legislative com- mittee and to questions asked by atten- dees. Mr. Buttler first complimented MLA’s initiative in preparing its state- ment on Digital Transmission and Elec- tronic Reserves (which can be found on MLA’s website www.musiclibraryas- soc.org/). He continued with an overview of copyright and its relation- ship to libraries and instructional tech- nologies. In addition to detailing the requirements to copyright a work, Mr. In what may be evolving into an annual tradition, the 2000 edition of the Buttler enumerated the rights of own- MLA Jazz Band, organized by drummer Marty Jenkins, entertains their ership (reproduction, distribution, colleagues at the MLA Banquet. The original brainchild of Steve Fry, next preparation of derivative works, year’s band will be organized by Vincent Pelote and John Brower. continued on page four President’s Report MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Paula Matthews, Bates College, after 5 years as Convention and Officers MLA President Assistant Manager; BRAVA! PAULA MATTHEWS, President • Linda Barnhart, who has finished her Bates College his has been described as the terms as Chair of the Bibliographic JAMES P. CASSARO, Vice President “Thank You column” — which Control Committee. She will be suc- University of Virginia turns out to be an easy one to ceeded by Matthew Wise. T ROBERTA CHODACKI, Recording Secretary write (although longer than any editor • Richard Griscom, who will edit his East Carolina University might wish) — the one that follows a last issue of Notes for this September. wonderful meeting such as the one we Linda Solow Blotner will become the LAURA GAYLE GREEN, Treasurer University of Missouri - Kansas City had this year at the end of February in journal’s new editor and has already Louisville. So, here goes: begun the transition. BONNA BOETTCHER, Executive Secretary With gratitude to: • Steve Fry, who coordinated this Bowling Green State University year’s ASK MLA session which • Local Arrangements folk who pro- focused on the finances of MLA (and Members-at-Large 1999-2001 vided us with such served once again LESLIE BENNETT smooth arrange- as court pianist University of Oregon ments, friendly I heard of private and backbone of JIM FARRINGTON assistance, and trips to the Louisville the Big Band). Eastman School of Music wonderful • To those those BRAD SHORT weather. Slugger Museum, who have agreed Washington University • Don Roberts, Churchill Downs, to Chair and serve Susan Hitchins, on important Members-at-Large 2000-2002 Lenny Bertrand, Frederick Law search committees ALLIE GOUDY and the staff of the for the coming Western Illinois University Louisville Hyatt for Olmstead Gardens, year: LESLIE TROUTMAN the management and the Falls • Roberta Chodacki, University of Illinois of this Y2K con- who will be chair- vention. of the Ohio. ing this year’s PHILIP VANDERMEER • Program Chair Nominating Com- University of Maryland Ruthann McTyre for a superb choice mittee. Other members of this group of tasty programmatic morsels. From will be Ginny Danielson, Nancy ∞ E q soup to nuts, this was a feast of the Lorimer, John Drusedow, Jean Printed on acid-free, recycled paper. highest intellectual chow! Harden, Rebecca Littman and Anna • To our Special Guests: Ruth Solie, Seaberg, MLA NEWSLETTER current President of our sister Asso- • Diane Parr Walker, who will chair Linda Hartig, Editor ciation, AMS; Susan Oderwald, the search for a new Executive Sec- The Newsletter is published four times a year: MLA’s new Executive Secretary; and retary. She will be joined by Jane September-October, November-December, Phil Kimball, CEO of Kimball &Asso- Gottlieb, Dick Griscom, and Susan March-April, and May-June, by the Music ciates, the Music Library Associa- Oderwald. Library Association, P.O. Box 487, Canton, MA 02021, and is issued to its members free. tion’s new management service • Ralph Papakhian, who will lead the The purpose of the Newsletter is to keep provider. search for a new Technical Reports the membership of the Association abreast of • To our 58 first-time attendees and to Editor. Other members of his com- events, ideas, and trends related to music those many who might have been mittee include Nancy Nuzzo, Chuck librarianship. All communications and articles are welcome. Address correspondence to: becoming to an MLA meeting for the Herrold and Brad Young. last time as working Music Librarians • And, most of all, my personal (and Linda Hartig Technical Services Librarian (but surely not the last time as MLA private) thanks to those Members of Carroll College members!). Retirement rules! the Board of Directors for the Music 100 N. East Avenue • To Laura Dankner and her spectacu- Library Association who ended their Waukesha, WI 53186 lar Development Committee who terms at this Louisville meeting: [email protected] provided us all with the best on-site Diane Parr Walker, Roberta fund-raising opportunities ever! Chodacki, Bonnie Jo Dopp, Robert The deadline for submitting copy to the editor for issue number 121 (May-June • To all our colleagues who finished Curtis, and Ned Quist. Free at last! 2000) is 5 May 2000. this current stage of their work for Submissions are preferred via e-mail, but MLA, rotating off Committees, Congratulations to those newly paper copy (double spaced) via USPS moving on to other tasks, including: elected members of the Board: accompanied by 3.5” disk containing text files in Microsoft Word is acceptable. • Susan Hay Hitchens, who is retiring continued on the next page

2 M L A Newsletter • No. 120 Music Reference at the Millennium

continued from page one 20th century works lists. Nods of of early Mozart catalogs beginning with noted that coverage of the 20th century approval greeted his statement that the Leopold’s first catalog of Wolfgang’s will be expanded geographically and article on libraries was to be signifi- work which was made when the com- the early part of the century will cantly updated. Political issues to be poser was only twelve. He noted that receive more extensive treatment. Pop- contended with include Nazi music, Wolfgang began his own catalog when ular music coverage will be extended music and Marxism, and he was twenty-eight as well. Changes in musicology over composers in the former (covering K. 449-623). the past twenty-five years have resulted east bloc countries. Sadie Zaslaw shocked us all in revised views of the early Renais- observed that there was a with the image of sance, the 19th century, and organol- concerted effort to be Costanze sending off ogy. Moreover, there have been more inclusive with pieces of the composer’s significant changes in the approach to emphasis given to gay and sketches as gifts. Much of non-western and traditional music. All lesbian studies in musicol- Mozart’s work was sold these developments will be reflected in ogy, women in music, and to Andre, who also the new publication. post-modern viewpoints. While the attempted an early catalog of the The bibliographies and works lists editor mentioned the electronic version works. One very useful bit of informa- are among the most significant features of Grove 7 only briefly, he did inform tion provided by Zaslaw was the URL of the New Grove. Sadie observed that us that this edition, unlike Grove 6, for the Neue Mozart Ausgabe web site bibliographies have grown and that will include an article on “Music.” (www.nma.at). Among other features, there will be better presentation of the Professor Zaslaw traced the history this site provides a searchable database of Mozart’s autographs, so widely dis- persed after his death. The remainder of Zaslaw’s presentation was devoted President’s Report to his work on the new Köchel cata- log. He detailed in particular problems continued from the previous page we are now prepared for anything after associated with revision in chronology • Vice President/President Elect: James Suki’s triumphal march into our Busi- and numbering. Cassaro ness Meeting dressed as the Statue of This most interesting session • Recording Secretary: Lynn Gullick- Liberty and after receiving a real New looked back on the history of two of son York welcome from the Local Arrange- our most important reference tools in • Members at Large: Allie Goudy, ment team headed by Jane Gottlieb and music. At the same time it looked for- Leslie Troutman, Phil Vandemeer John Shephard! Michael Rogan, Pro- ward to the next millennium with the gram Chair, has already been hard at promises of expansion, improvement, They will join Leslie Bennett, Jim work devising a series of events that and new means of access. It’s an excit- Farrington, Brad Short and myself for will feature The Performing Arts. We ing time to be a reference librarian in our next Board meeting in Bowling will be inviting our neighbors from the music! ◆ Green, Ohio, June 7-11. Theatre Library and Dance Library com- Along with the LAC-arranged tours munities to join us as special guests. to Indiana University and Shakertown, Michael has been in touch with chairs Ashbee and Lasocki I heard of private trips to the Louisville and coordinators to make sure that our Slugger Museum, Churchill Downs, colleagues from the other performing Win Oldman Prize Frederick Law Olmstead Gardens and arts will feel welcome at our meeting the Falls of the Ohio; lovely meals at and be included in our stimulating yet Andrew Ashbee and David Lasocki the Seelbach and bourbon tasting; diverse association. (with Peter Holman and Fiona walks in the warm Kentucky sun. My And, think of all the New York Kisby), A Biographical Dictionary own memories are of the hotel rooms, poetry you can anticipate! of English Court Musicians, 1485- and seeing all of you who were able to To quote from our millenium Notes 1714, 2 vols. (Aldershot, Hampshire join together on Wendell Berry’s porch issue, which arrived in time for the & Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998) over the river (“...the look of the world Louisville conference, and which will has been awarded the C.B. Oldman withdraws into the vein of memory...”) be issued as a monograph in the Tech- Prize by IAML(UK) for the best Looking ahead to next year’s New nical Reports Series: music reference work published York meeting (and more Frederick Law in 1998. David Lasocki is Head of Olmstead opportunities, not to mention “Dal centro al cerchio, e si dal Reference Services in the William potential of lovely — and cheap! and cerchio al centro...” and Gayle Music Library, Indiana exotic! meals) to be held February 21- —Dante Alighiere University. 25, 2001, at the Grand Central Hyatt, (Paradisio 14.1) ◆

M L A Newsletter • No. 120 3 Copyright In the Digital Age

continued from page one its streamed audio image with the means the physical library and its public performance, and public dis- other? The answer was a resounding branches, not academic buildings. play) and commented that each right “No” based on Section 109(a), or the • If an early recording is reissued and must be considered separately when “first sale doctrine.” However when is of very poor quality – for example examining copyright issues. asked whether one library could direct a CD reissue of a particular 78 disk Mr. Buttler distributed a “Checklist its users to an image on another and the recording speed is incorrect for fair use” prepared by the Indiana library’s server, both panelists agreed – does the library have the right to University Copyright Management that the act of linking may not, in itself, create its own copy from the original Center (http://www.iupui.edu/~copy- be a copyright violation, if the linking recording? Yes, following the provi- info/) which can be found at the library has no reason to believe that sions in Section 108(c). Prior pur- center’s website. This form provides the linked file may infringe copyright. chase of the CD would be an the factual circumstances important to A third scenario asked whether a additional consideration. fair use and can be used as critical library may provide access to digitized • Is it allowable to make digital copies documentation for fair use decisions. recordings for listeners if a library- of institutional phonorecordings (i.e. Next, Ms. Laura Gasaway com- owned recording is damaged and with- performance tapes) and distribute mented on preservation exemptions to drawn and the recording is out-of-print those recordings? Yes, it is Section copyright as found in Section 108 and but still in copyright. The answer is yes 108(b) that applies, and perhaps also distance education exemptions as as long as the provisions in Section the “fair use” umbrella, if the library found in Section 110(1)-(2). She 108(c) are followed, which include cannot meet the requirements of Sec. defined the word “premises” as found among other provisions that the digital 108. Institutional intellectual property in both Sections 108(b) and 108(c) as copy must only be accessible within rights policies would have significant “the library and branches.” However, the library premises. bearing on this issue, as well. this section applies solely to preserva- The attendees had a chance to ask tion exemptions and is not a considera- questions as well, and a list of these It seems that many libraries are tion in digital distribution of audio and brief answers follows. planning, implementing, or currently reserves. Ms. Gasaway emphasized that considering streaming audio for some section 108(c) (published works) • Do library consortia agreements purpose. Fortunately, this plenary ses- cannot be applied until loss or deterio- affect copyright? No, each library is sion actually answered more questions ration have occurred. to consider copyright individually. than it raised – a tribute to the pan- Additionally, she endorsed ALA’s • What does premises in copyright law elists and our moderator. ◆ definition of “fair price” as the “last mean? In Section 108(a), premises suggested retail price” allowing libraries broader permission to make preservation copies of damaged or lost published material. Ms. Gasaway com- The MLA Finds a New Home pared Section 110(1) [face-to-face The Music Library Association is Music Library Association teaching] and 110(2) [distance educa- pleased to announce that it has 6707 Old Dominion Drive, Suite 315 tion] and emphasized that transmission signed a Letter of Agreement with McLean, VA 22101 of performances were limited to non- Kimball & Associates, of McLean, Vir- Phone: 703 556-8780 dramatic literary and musical works. ginia, to provide business services Fax: 703 556-9301 Both panelists were asked to for the Association, beginning Janu- respond to various scenarios regarding ary 1, 2000. For more information about the streaming audio for listening reserves. These services will include cleri- Music Library Association’s new busi- Stated assumptions were that no per- cal and office support of the business ness home, please see the MLA web manent copy could be downloaded to activities of the organization, includ- site at http://www.musiclibraryas- the listener’s workstation and that ing maintenance of the subscription soc.org or contact: libraries are operating under Fair Use and mailing lists. and Library Privileges — not licensing We welcome Kimball & Associ- Bonna Boettcher, arrangements. Both panelists agreed ates into the MLA community and MLA Executive Secretary location or number of listeners was look forward to a long and mutually [email protected] irrelevant if rigorous authentication rewarding relationship. — or — was employed to limit access to only The following address will be the Paula Matthews, those registered for the class. official “home” of the Music Library MLA President Other questions asked of the pan- Association, beginning January 1, [email protected] elists were: If two libraries own the 2000: same recording, may one library share

4 M L A Newsletter • No. 120 Plenary Session I: Regional Music and Musicians

Lew Bowling, music revival of the 1960’s, first primar- years. University of Kentucky ily as vocal music, then later more in A secondary result of the competi- the forms of the fiddle tune and the tion is the collection of scores and he first plenary session, moderated string band sound. There is also an recordings, which includes all submis- T by Paula Hickner, opened the 2000 emphasis on the contrast between old- sions. There are now over 2,200 on meeting appropriately with three vary- time music and bluegrass, with the deposit, and a catalog is being devel- ing views of regional music and musi- former stressing the dance function oped. Compositions entered have cians. The first topic, The History of with moderate tempos, the come from every conti- Old-Time Music, presented by Dr. Ron tune, and unison melody, nent but Antarctica and Pen from the University of Kentucky, while the latter leans have varied from rock outlined the development in the 20th toward driving tempos, opera to works for indige- century of this regional folk music. Dr. improvisation, and har- nous instruments and one Pen illustrated his talk by performing mony. for 77 trombones. several fiddle tunes. The second speaker, The final paper of the Although based on a much older Dr. Paul Brink, from the Session was History of oral tradition, “old-time music” is actu- University of Louisville, Music in Louisville by Dr. ally a marketing term used by the moved to the opposite end of the spec- Jack Ashworth, also from the University recording industry and was applied to trum in presenting The Grawemeyer of Louisville. Dr. Ashworth traced the music of the Southern Appalachian Award and Collection of Contemporary Louisville’s musical life from the arrival people from the time of the first Victor Music. Dr. Brink explained what the of the violinist, Anthony Philip Hein- recordings in 1922. Rather than defin- Grawemeyer is, gave a brief history of rich (“The Beethoven of Kentucky”) in ing a specific type of tune or song, it its evolution since its establishment in about 1819 to the latter years of the refers more to the style of performance 1983, and described the collection of 20th century. and how the music was learned and scores resulting from the competition. A major point of emphasis was used. Sources of music could include Charles Grawemeyer set up the that throughout its history, music in traditional ballads, fiddle tunes, gospel $150,000 (now $200,000) prize for Louisville has been built on a tradition songs, or even more recent popular music composition in the summer of of amateur music-making. As a pre- tunes. Generally, however, it was 1983, with the first award being made dominantly German city, founded by music learned from family rather than in 1985 to Witold Lutoslawski. Compo- German immigrants, early musical life from radio or recordings. sitions can be no more than six years included German men’s singing cho- In the 1940’s and 50’s, commercial- old, cannot be submitted by the com- ruses. These groups would organize ized country and western music over- poser, must have received a public pre- national conferences, Louisville hosting shadowed the more folk-oriented mier, and must be submitted with a the second. For one of these in the music, and this led to the development quality recording. There are approxi- 1860’s, a hall was built seating 5,000 of three new styles: western swing, mately 200 submissions each year. Dr. with a stage holding 1,000 performers. bluegrass, and rhythm and blues. Old- Brink then described the procedure for Instrumental groups included the time music resurfaced during the folk judging, which has evolved over the Louisville Mandolin and Guitar Club, established in 1891 and still in opera- tion; amateur company bands spon- Hailstork Focus on Concert and Exhibit sored by the Yellow Cab Co., Ford Motor Co., the Post Office, and others; Virginia S. O’Herron, March 1, 2000. The exhibit provides orchestras such as the Louisville Old Dominion University an overview of Hailstork’s creative Orchestra, the Jewish Community processes from small works for one Center Orchestra, and the Kling Cham- Adolphus Hailstork, internationally voice or instrument to works for full ber Orchestra. known composer, music laureate for chorus or orchestra. An online exhibit Louisville also boasts a long tradi- the Commonwealth of Virginia and can be viewed at www.lib.odu.edu. tion of composers from Heinrich to Professor of Music at Norfolk State A concert of chamber works was William Hayes (Happy Birthday) and University, was the focus of a concert performed by Lorraine Bell, Robert John Mason Strauss (newspaper and exhibit sponsored by the Old Brown, Leslie Neal Douglas, F. Gerard marches). It is also the home of the Dominion University Libraries on Feb- Errante, Lee Jordan-Anders, Annie University of Louisville School of ruary 13, 2000. Loud, Victoria Kuan, Lee Teply, Frank Music, established in 1932 with assis- “Kaleidoscope: The Musical World Ward, Jeanette Winsor, and Agnes tance from the Juilliard School of Music of Adolphus Hailstork,” opened Mobley Wynne. Adolphus Hailstork and the Kentucky Opera, and claims Febrary 13 and will remain open until conducted. the oldest Fund for the Arts (estab- lished 1949) in the United States. ◆

M L A Newsletter • No. 120 5 Ask MLA: Open Forum on the MLA Budget

Richard Griscom, accounting, membership and subscrip- for chapter initiatives; offering profes- University of Illinois tion services, and some conference sional development opportunities planning and registration. They are not through teleconferencing; supporting n Saturday, a small but engaged responsible for publicity, development, new initiatives through grants of seed O group stayed indoors on an or membership; these activities will still money; establishing a scholarship uncommonly pleasant February after- be provided by volunteer members. fund; increasing the diversity of our noon to participate in this year’s “Ask Laura Gayle Green, MLA’s membership; hosting a MLA” session, which was titled “Fund- treasurer, reviewed income Toronto 2000 party to ing MLA: An Open Forum on the MLA and expenditures for fiscal bring in potential mem- Budget, Fund Development and Use, year 1998/99 and showed bers from other organiza- and MLA’s Financial Future, As Related a comparison of income tions; subsidizing to the Plan 2001.” Steve Fry, the ses- and expenditures over the preconferences. sion coordinator, emphasized the past twelve years. Brad Quist asked for a straw importance of topic by citing MLA’s Short, MLA’s assistant fiscal poll on how MLA might shrinking membership, growing officer, discussed next year’s best provide a “fix” — if expenses, and increased reliance on budget and emphasized the needed — to the budget: the generosity of donors. But before Finance Committee’s goal of approving should we tap into the MLA Fund on a embarking on his maiden voyage as a balanced budget. When asked about one-time basis, or should we increase “Ask MLA” coordinator, Fry took a the possibility of a dues increase, Short dues? The response was about equally moment to honor Steve Wright, who said that there are many ways to divided between the two options. Joe had served for eight years as coordina- increase revenue besides raising dues. Boonin argued that the MLA Fund tor. Following a moving tribute, Fry New activities and new publications, for should be viewed as a savings account presented Wright with an autograph example, can be sources for new rev- or retirement account and should be manuscript page from Alf Clausen’s enue. Dues increases are considered used only occasionally and only in the score to a recent only as a last case of an emergency. Phil Vandermeer “Simpsons” televi- resort. Richard introduced the idea of a sliding scale sion episode, Burbank, chair of for dues, which would make MLA inscribed by the New activities and the Investments membership more affordable for new composer. Subcommittee, members. Steve Wright mentioned that Fry then intro- new publications can recounted the his- the Membership Committee has submit- duced a panel of be sources for new rev- tory of the commit- ted a proposal to the MLA board for a MLA members tee and the various sliding scale that would insert a new involved in the enue. Dues increases endowments and category between Student and Regular association’s are considered only funds under its membership. Boonin suggested that we finances, both past responsibility. build on established categories rather and present. Ned as a last resort. Robert Curtis, than creating new ones and observed Quist, MLA’s fiscal former chair of the that there should be a larger number of officer, began by Investments Sub- sustaining members. David Lasocki talking about a committee, then asked why we are losing members and recent major change in MLA’s adminis- introduced the central discussion topic proposed the idea of conducting exit trative and financial management. He for the session: the MLA Fund and interviews. Bonna Boettcher, MLA’s summarized the process that led to a how it might be used. MLA policy has executive secretary, said that most contract with the management firm prohibited use of the fund until 2000, losses are among student members, Kimball & Associates (K&A). Phil Kim- and the MLA board of directors has administrators who are moving out of ball, chief executive officer of K&A, held to this policy for over a decade. music librarianship, and institutional and Susan Oderwald, MLA’s new exec- Curtis opened the floor for discussion, members. Wright announced that the utive director, spoke about K&A and and he encouraged the audience to Membership Committee will be con- the work the firm will be doing for think creatively about new projects ducting exit interviews of individuals MLA. They emphasized that their staff and initiatives. Among the suggestions whose memberships have lapsed. are MLA’s staff — MLA’s employees — proposed by members of the audience Quist concluded by urging those and that they should not be viewed as were: increasing support for develop- members who had proposed ideas to an outside firm. Oderwald spoke in ment activities; preparing a brochure consider requesting funding for these some detail about K&A’s fee structure describing the purpose of MLA Fund; initiatives when the call for budget and accounting procedures. K&A will targeting a broader spectrum of poten- requests goes out in April. Fry thanked be providing MLA with an official tial members; increasing support for the panel and the audience for their headquarters, executive management, the MLA Archives; providing subsidies ideas and suggestions. ◆

6 M L A Newsletter • No. 120 E-Mail Digest

Stephen Mantz, Davidson College copy and the online version of NG2. Exchange (www.abebooks.com), Bib- Some libraries, faced with tight budgets liofind (www.bibliofind.com), AddAll he past four months (November- and acquisitions policies that prohibit (www.addall.com/used), Music Books T February) have been lively ones purchasing duplicate titles, are consid- Plus (www.musicbooksplus.com) and on MLA-L, with a variety of topics ering purchasing only the online ver- alibris (www.alibris.com). Leslie Trout- being discussed. “Is this composer still sion. man (University of alive?” is one of the questions that Several librar- Illinois) noted that recurs frequently on the list. Often, a ians voiced the Digital audio reserves, BookFinder.com student needs to know this fact so that need for a “back- (www.bookfinder. the composer’s dates can appear on a up” of the online or ‘ereserves,’ are com) allows users to recital or concert program. Robert NG2, should they becoming increasingly search multiple new Acker’s (Depaul) query about Henri ever stop their and used book sites Dutilleux’s status prompted a discus- online subscrip- common. [Readers are simultaneously. sion about the need for death dates in tion. Others referred] to the MLA • • • programs and a call for including these noted that as the Copyright ques- dates in online catalogs. Ned Quist NG2 is updated Statement on the Digital tions continue to be (Peabody Conservatory) “curmud- over time, it will seen frequently on geonly” suggested that including death be necessary to Transmission of MLA-L, especially dates was a bizarre expectation of pro- have available the Electronic Reserves. those dealing with grams. Does the listener interpret the articles that are the web and music. music differently depending on replaced. Darwin Antoinette Powell whether a composer is alive or dead? Scott (Brandeis) posted a long mes- (Carnegie Mellon University) asked if Karl van Ausdahl (Appalachian sage, describing many of the issues locally made recordings of university State) presented two reasons for fac- facing consortiums and others consid- ensembles can be mounted on the ulty to require dates be included: 1) it ering purchasing the NG2, including web, and if so, whether royalties are develops historical awareness, and 2) it pricing issues, the need for usage sta- due to the publishers. Composer Mark encourages library use. In addition, he tistics, and the desire for one unified Gresham (Lux Nova Press) explained suggested that it was time that librari- NG2 (rather than continuing the sepa- that licenses for the broadcast of music ans push for catalogs to include the rate specialized dictionaries). Lisa on the web are being issued by many death dates of composers. Several Nachtigall (Grove’s Dictionaries) agencies, such as ASCAP. He reminded respondents agreed, noting that cata- responded to many of the concerns readers that the right to make the first logs are expected to be accurate— expressed. recording for distribution is reserved except for the dates of composers. • • • for the copyright owner; after a work Now that many online catalogs can Resources such as JSTOR and Pro- has been recorded for distribution, make global changes in headings, ject Muse provide access to the full text “compulsory license” conditions take there is little reason not to update of articles in selected journals. How- effect. Several respondents added that these headings. Joan Robertson (Uni- ever, music journal titles have been student compositions are also pro- versity of Otago), reported the con- conspicuously absent from these prod- tected by copyright. trasting view of a colleague who ucts. Darwin Scott’s report that JSTOR Digital audio reserves, or ere- believes that a library catalog is a find- was not including music titles in its serves, are becoming increasingly ing aid, not a reference tool. “future projects” prompted a discussion common, if questions on MLA-L are • • • among several concerned librarians. any indication. Three librarians—Anne The forthcoming edition of the Darwin, among others, suggested that Barker (University of Missouri—Colum- New Grove (NG2) was a topic of dis- perhaps MLA needs to assume an bia), Laura Dankner (Loyola) and Anita cussion throughout the last several advocacy role in this area. Nancy Breckbill (University of Nebraska—Lin- months. Dina Kaye (University of Wis- Nuzzo (University at Buffalo), chair of coln)—posted requests for information consin — Parkside) asked if libraries the MLA Publications Committee, on starting ereserves. Garrett Bowles were buying the print or online ver- offered the possibility of having an referred readers to the Music Library sions, or both. In summarizing the informal forum at the annual meeting Association Statement on the Digital responses to her query, she reported in Louisville and consequently set up Transmission of Electronic Reserves, that relatively small academic libraries the session. noting that this is essentially the policy such as hers “were overwhelmingly for There are many online resources they follow at the University of Califor- the print.” Other messages to the list for finding out-of-print books, as Sue nia, San Diego. He added that UCSD indicated that many libraries that pur- Berman (Palm Beach County Library tries to purchase for their collection chased two print copies of the first edi- System) found. Recommended web- any CD that a faculty person brings in tion are considering getting one print sites included the Advanced Book continued on page eight

M L A Newsletter • No. 120 7 E-Mail Digest Transitions

continued from page seven institutions on the issue. Responses Roberta Chodacki, Music Librar- for digital reserves. The reserves are indicated that while some libraries are ian, Columbus State University, available only to students in a specific considering this change, there are con- Columbus, GA class and are distributed using stream- cerns about both the availability of Mary Wallace Davidson, Head, ing audio (Liquid Audio), which titles on DVD as well as the number of Music Library, Indiana University, cannot be downloaded. DVD players available to users. All Bloomington UCLA contacted some companies noted that DVDs were superior to VHS Betsy Gamble, Assistant Music for permission to use recordings in a videos in sound and picture quality. Librarian, Cornell University pilot ereserves project a year or so ago, Roger Flury (National Library of Leonard J. Lehrman, editor, but had mixed responses: generally New Zealand) reported watching a Opera Today positive from small companies, nega- Christmas show on television where Elaine Magusin, Music Reference tive from large ones. Stephen Davison Harry Connick Jr. and his band were Librarian, Boston Public Library remarked that today they create digital playing from scores displayed on com- Diane Napert, Assistant Head of reserves for library-owned materials puter screens. A lively discussion the Allen Library, University of Hart- under fair use guidelines. Kirsten ensued as MLA-L readers speculated on ford Dougan directed interested parties to the future of printed music in the digi- Daniel Scheide, Cataloger, OCLC the Mills Music Library website at the tal age. TechPro University of Wisconsin — Madison for • • • information on how they use electronic Most of the messages on MLA-L • • • reserves. are not part of lengthy discussions; Can’t we copy these LPs onto CDs? they are responses to the questions Hayward Cirker, President and With the price of CD-recorders drop- that librarians receive every day. Marty Founder of Dover Publications, ping, this is a question librarians are Jenkins (Wright State) learned that the passed away on March 8, 2000, at age hearing more and more frequently. “varsovia” frequently referred to in A 82. We in the MLA cannot underesti- Ann Clark (Bethel College), having Streetcar Named Desire is a courtly folk mate the great debt we owe to him been asked if copying LPs to CDs for dance in a slow 3/4 meter. Robert and his wonderful music catalogue. archival reasons was permissible under Delvin (Illinois Wesleyan) found that I first met Mr. Cirker in 1963 copyright law, was referred to Section the tune of the song “How Dry I Am” when the reprinting of the old Schu- 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Some has its origins in the 19th century bert Complete Works was being con- respondents indicated that they make hymn “(O) Happy Day.” Laurel Whisler templated. He asked me naively if I copies of LPs if the recording is (Furman), looking for an early Ameri- thought that it would sell “at least 200 unavailable. Others believed that copy- can recording of the song “Gloomy sets worth.” I assured him that I was ing was permissible, as long as the LP Sunday,” found it available at the Red personally willing to underwrite that was retained. Alec McLane (Wesleyan Hot Jazz Archive website (www.red- many orders. As we all know it sold University) commented that while Sec- hotjazz.com). many times that number. tion 108 allows copying for archival How do we refer to the first He then informed me that Dover purposes, it is only under certain cir- decade of the 21st century? Richard was well underway with a reprint of cumstances. You may copy a recording Griscom (University of Illinois) the two-volume edition of the that is “damaged, deteriorating, lost or received many responses, including Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. At $3.00 stolen, or if the existing format in (but not limited to) the “oughts,” the per volume (even in 1963 dollars) it which the work is stored has become “noughts,” the “zips,” the “two-thou- was a steal. It also set the precedent obsolete,” as long as you make sure sands,” and the “noughties,” before for Dover’s user-friendly pricing that an used replacement cannot be being pointed to more formal expres- policy. obtained at a fair price. Most LP collec- sions in the Chicago Manual of Style. A It was my personal privilege to tions, Alec noted, fit some but not all humorous exchange on the “mangled” work for Hayward from time to time of these conditions. LPs, for example, titles of pieces heard by librarians as a consultant. No matter where our despite the difficulties in purchasing included such gems as Beethoven’s discussions wandered, he was there and maintaining turntables, are far “Erotica Symphony,” Strauss’ “Salami,” with an incredible amount of back- from obsolete. “Lame is Rob” (Les Miserable), the ground knowledge. I understand that • • • “Taco Bell Canon,” and Elgar’s “Pomp this was not limited to music but DVDs are increasingly available and Circumcision.” spread out over all the areas in which and popular. Dennis Clark reports that • • • Dover published — originally reprints, Samford University is considering sus- The MLA-L archives may be but new titles as well. pending video purchases and acquiring accessed via the web at — Joe Boonin DVDs instead, and asked for com- http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/ New York Public Library ments from other small or medium mla-l.html. ◆

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advice. Mr. Marston and Mr. Wen Atlantic reminded us of the very important role Southeast that we music librarians have in help- Donna Fournier, Laurel Whisler, ing to collect, preserve, and dissemi- Haverford College Furman University nate historic recordings. The next morning we reassembled The proposed merger of the for breakfast and the session entitled The Annual Conference of the former Chesapeake and Pennsylvania “Indispensable Internet: sites vital to Southeast Chapter met October 21-23, Chapters has become a reality. Thanks my job.” Previous to our meeting, 1999, at Middle Tennessee State Uni- to the hard work of former chairs, Betsy Walker had solicited the mem- versity. The 50 conference attendees Brian Cockburn and Betsy Walker, a bership to contribute a list of websites enjoyed the hospitality of Mayo Taylor, new constitution was written, ballots for discussion. These ranged from sites Chair of the Local Arrangements Com- were cast and counted, and, by unani- organizing music associations, soci- mittee, and the rest of the staff of the mous decision, a new chapter was eties, publishers, vendors, song texts, Center for Popular Music. We also born! A nominating committee was and librettos, to a webpage where one appreciated the excellent job of host- then formed to elect a new chair can find the location of a composer’s ing by Don Craig, Dean, and the rest (Donna Fournier, Haverford College) grave! of the University Library staff during and a new secretary/treasurer (Cather- Atlantic Chapter business has been the opening reception and display in ine Dixon, DC Public Library). discussed at two meetings since our Special Collections, as well as of Peter Betsy Walker and the Curtis Insti- last MLA Newsletter report: in Novem- Carlin, the Music Librarian, who hosted tute hosted the chapter’s first meeting ber at Curtis and in February during a library open house. on November 19th-20th. Thirty-six of Louisville MLA Y2K. We talked about We heard many very interesting us made the trip to Philadelphia where putting the old chapters to rest by papers Friday, mainly on American we were able essentially to take over merging bank accounts and sending Music topics. Borrowing our theme Curtis while most of the students were Chesapeake and Philadelphia Chapter from our host state, most of the papers away. Our first session, held jointly materials to the MLA archives at the presented aspects of music in Ten- with the local chapter of the Art University of Maryland. We also talked nessee. Harry Eskew of the New Libraries Society, was about the art about proposing our “Breaking the Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary treasures of the Curtis Institute. Allen Historical Sound Barrier” program to told of his search for information on Townsend, Head Librarian of the MLA’s Best of Chapters session and Andrew W. Johnson, who wrote three Philadelphia Museum of Art, presented hope to bring Ward and Eric’s talk to shape-note tunebooks and lived in a slide show with commentary of the New York in 2001. We agreed that out- middle Tennessee. His paper was illus- paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and reach to students and paraprofessionals trated with a singing demonstration by iron work which decorate the former is important to us. This will be one of the Harper Valley Singers. Lewis mansions, now the home of Curtis. We the primary goals of our new member- Oswalt from Mississippi College dis- had ample time for a walk around the ship committee chaired by Carl Rahko- cussed R. M. McIntosh and his influ- premises to see the art works on dis- nen. We also talked how best to use ence on 19th Century hymn play. Afterwards, we were graciously our chapter website, newsletter, and collections. Keeping with this theme, treated to “Afternoon Tea,” a weekly listserv. Robert Freeborn will serve as Charles Wolfe of MTSU, took us on a tradition at Curtis. communications coordinator working trip through the “swamp” of Southern Our next session was entitled with Brian Cockburn, webmaster, Kile shape note songbooks in the 20th Cen- “Breaking the Historical Sound Bar- Smith, newsletter editor, and Alice tury. It was fascinating to hear about rier,” a presentation about the remas- LaSota, listserv owner. With the sup- lines of influence from the 19th Cen- tering and reissuing of historical port of our chapter, the Library of Con- tury figures and the spwaning of trav- recordings. Ward Marston, remastering gress has proposed that MLA 2004 be elling gospel singers from publishing engineer with Marston Records and held in Washington, DC. Convention houses. Eric Wen, an independent producer Manager Don Roberts will be visiting Our American Music papers con- with Biddulph Recordings, talked DC in April to investigate conference tinued with a paper by David Jallama about the tremendous value of making hotel possibilities. of the MTSU Center for Popular Music, historic recordings available to the Jim Cassaro at the University of who pointed out difficulties in early public, both in the commercial market Pittsburgh will be hosting our next blues notation and performance, par- place and in libraries. Together they chapter meeting on November 17th- ticularly in the music of W.C. Handy. shared their passion for collecting and 18th, 2000. One of our sessions will Bruce Nemerov, also of the MTSU their passion for preservation. We were feature music collections in Pittsburgh. Center for Popular Music, told of his treated to fascinating sound excerpts, For those of you in our chapter area, search for Sister O.M. 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Jane Gottlieb, eight key questions on the best new “Outreach Subcommittee” Juilliard School approaches for outreach to library (chaired by Allie Goudy), which is administrators and charged “to he members of MLA’s Plan 2001 decision makers, investigate, T Implementation Task Force held system developers, develop, and an open meeting in Louisville to dis- publishers, govern- provide educa- cuss the association’s continued work ment and arts agen- tion initiatives to on enhancing our visibility in the cies, and other groups which larger library and music communities. individuals and fall outside of, This central initiative of the Plan was groups who can but which are first discussed in a lively session at the benefit from the related to, the 1999 meeting in Los Angeles. The unique expertise of Music Library resulting “visibility document” was music librarians. Association.” published in the March-June 1999 It is clear that MLA is bubbling The Organizational Liaison Committee issue of the MLA Newsletter. It included with activity on the outreach front. The (chaired by Ruth Henderson), contin- a summary of member responses to Education Committee has established a ues to explore ways to best utilize MLA’s liaisons with other library and music organizations to enhance aware- ness of and support for our work. Alan Chapter Reports Karass, MLA’s energetic publicity offi- cer, sends press releases about organi- continued from page nine by using the HTML editor “Arachno- zational activities to a wide range of he was able to use stylistic traits in her philia”. Laurel Whisler of Furman Uni- individuals and institutions. He also music as clues to suggest religious versity discussed her LP weeding coordinates the traveling MLA exhibit, sects that she may have belonged to project and fielded a discussion of vari- which this year made its debut at the and eventually locate her. Finally ous issues related to keeping LPs and Public Library Association meeting in Robert Gordon, author of books on accepting them as gifts. Jennifer Otter- Charlotte, North Carolina. the blues, spoke about the unique vik of the University of South Carolina As discussed at the Los Angeles social and economic tensions in Mem- presented examples of their special session and again in Louisville, many phis and how those affected the music collections finding aids and databases outreach activities are best undertaken that came from Memphis in the middle on the web. Following these presenta- by individual MLA members. These part of the century. The day’s final tions was the SEMLA business meeting. include informing administrators about paper, about the cello collections in A few of the attendees opted to MLA activities; showing MLA publica- the University of North Carolina- tour Fisk University, one of the nation’s tions to colleagues; working closely Greensboro Library, was presented by oldest and most prestigous historically with system administrators and others Joan Staples and Sarah Dorsey. Their Black universities. We were treated to in one’s own institution to communi- paper highlighted etude books of four a quite extensive display in their cate effectively the “special needs” of composers, and they played cello library’s Special Collections unit, where music materials; crediting MLA-L when duets from those books. we learned more about Fisk and a reference question posed by a Friday’s banquet at the lovely African-American culture. Their Mass patron was answered on the listserv; Foundation House of Middle Ten- Gospel Singers were rehearsing in the and, in general, proudly representing nessee State University included a lec- Chapel while we viewed the architec- the association’s high professional ture recital that was a special treat. ture. It was a delight to hear part of standards. Sandy Conaster shared slides and their rehearsal. We also visited Jubilee Even after Plan 2001 is put to rest results of her research on the Ten- Hall, which was built with money in its current form in 2001, the associa- nessee Music Box, a dulcimer-like raised during tours of the Jubilee tion will continue to reflect upon the instrument unique to Middle Ten- Singers. This first permanent structure question “Can they see us yet?” and nessee. David Schnaufer and Stephen on the campus is now used as a dor- seek new ways to increase and Seifert then played dulcimer and music mitory, and we visited a meeting room enhance its visibility in the wider box music. that has a portrait of the original world. The members of the Implemen- Saturday provided an opportunity Jubilee Singers. Finally, we toured the tation Task Force (Leslie Troutman, for three of our membership to discuss Van Vechten Gallery which houses the coordinator; James P. Cassaro, David projects in their libraries. Tony Miller at Alfred Stieglitz collection of paintings Farneth, Jane Gottlieb, Paula Atlanta-Fulton Public Library showed by Georgia O’Keefe and others and the Matthews, Diane Parr Walker, and how to convert a bibliography pro- Aaron Douglas Gallery of African and Daniel Zager) welcome your ideas and duced in WordPerfect into a web page African-American art. input. ◆

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Several members will be leaving tions and concepts, and gave brief Automation the Subcommittee after the Louisville descriptions and examples of several Subcommittee meeting. Possible new members have of the most prominent metadata stan- been identified, two of whom attended dards, including Dublin Core (DC), Jean Harden, the business meeting. Nominations of Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and Subcommittee Chair new members will be forthcoming Encoded Archival Description (EAD). soon. He continued with a discussion of The Automation Forum this year metadata transport standards, citing The Automation Subcommittee, was a PowerPoint presentation on the MARC, SGML, and RDF. The talk chaired by Jean Harden, was responsi- workings of the DRA system at the ended with a quick survey of some ble for two sessions (a business meet- University of Hartford. Debbie emerging metadata projects in the ing and the Automation Forum) and Herman-Morgan was the speaker. music community. nine users’ groups meetings during the Nine system users’ groups met on The BCC has established a “Meta- MLA conference in Louisville. Saturday. Attendance at these ranged data and Music” webpage with links to At its business meeting, the Sub- widely, from about 55 at the Innova- Childress’s PowerPoint file, as well as committee finalized the last few items tive meeting to 3 each at the meetings other resources mentioned in his talk pending on the document “Automation for GEAC and NOTIS. Attendees at the and throughout the day. The site is Requirements for Music Materials.” Horizon meeting suggested that next part of the BCC website, which in turn (Since the convention, that document year it might be appropriate to have a is part of the larger MLA general site. has been completed and submitted to single meeting unifying the Horizon, Suggestions for topics of broad David Gilbert for posting on the MLA Dynix, and NOTIS users’ groups since appeal and substantive impact that website.) The Subcommittee then dis- all three systems are owned by the should be considered for next year’s cussed what to undertake next. Con- same company and since they will be open BCC meeting may be sent to the sensus was to work first on creating mixed in a new product which is sup- new BCC Chair, Matthew Wise, at some sample displays that follow the posed to be out before next year’s [email protected]. recommendations of the Automation MLA meeting. Requirements document. Next, the Update on BCC Activities Subcommittee will begin on a new Because in recent years the BCC revision of that document; this version changed the format of its open meet- will pay particular attention to issues Bibliographic ing to a topically focused discussion, raised by the use of HTML and of web- there is no longer an opportunity to based catalogs. Control Committee update the membership at the annual At the New York City meeting in meeting on the year’s activities. So Linda Barnhart, 2001, the Automation Forum will be what has the BCC been up to lately? Outgoing BCC Chair aimed particularly toward the members This has actually been a fairly of the Theater Library Association and quiet year. No large new documents or the ACRL Arts-Dance Librarians Com- An overflow crowd attended the initiatives were brought to us for com- mittee, who will be the guests of MLA. open meeting of the Bibliographic ment, so we spent our time on routine We will attempt to arrange a demon- Control Committee (BCC) in Louisville. Association business. stration of an online catalog that does The program’s focus on “Metadata and The four liaisons attended ALA a good job of handling materials rele- Music” piqued the interest of cata- meetings in New Orleans and San vant to the interests of our visitors. logers, reference librarians, and admin- Antonio and provided the perspective This might be a non-MARC system. istrators alike, with over a quarter of of the “music community” to broader The hope is that such a system will the conference attendees filling this cataloging groups including CC:DA, include functions of interest to music and the subsequent topically related MARBI, SAC, and ACIG. Their written librarians as well as to theater, arts, sessions. The BCC’s four subcommit- reports are available on the BCC web- and dance librarians. tees, which met the rest of the after- site. Other materials of interest on the The Subcommittee will again noon as well as the next day, built BCC website include the reports pro- update the list of users’ groups on the upon the metadata theme with a vari- vided to us by Library of Congress and MLA website and will also try to deter- ety of presentations that gave insights OCLC, which in the past were verbal mine whether there are other online into specific projects that use various presentations at the open BCC meeting. systems that should be represented by metadata standards. The Working Group on BCC Web- users’ groups at MLA. We invite input To provide a solid foundation, Eric site Processes completed its work fol- on these matters from any member of Childress of OCLC gave a user-friendly lowing the Los Angeles meeting and MLA. Please send any communications and content-rich talk entitled “Metadata was released with hearty thanks. The to the chair of the Subcommittee. 101.” Childress covered basic defini- continued on page twelve

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continued from page eleven Libraries, a part of ALA. The Joint expressions of interest will be solicited BCC Website, its role clarified with a Committee is chaired by Jain Fletcher through MLA-L this spring. mission statement and operational- (UCLA), on behalf of RBMS, and The anticipated publication date of level procedures, is thriving due to the includes two RBMS representatives. the Sheet Music Cataloging Guidelines, care and diligence of webmaster MLA is well represented, with Nancy the result of a long-standing effort of a Dennis Davies-Wilson (UNMLA). Lorimer (Stanford) taking lead respon- BCC Working Group, has been a fre- The Music Thesaurus Project sibility and reporting out on their activ- quent question at MLA meetings. The Form/Genre Terminology Working ities through the Subcommittee on completed manuscript was passed to Group had an uneventful year and is Descriptive Cataloging. Other MLA the new Technical Reports Editor expected to be renewed through the members include Charlotte Wolfe (Uni- during the course of the year, and it is New York meeting so it can complete versity of Michigan), David Hunter hoped that there will soon be news its charge of identifying and research- (University of Texas, Austin) and Stan- about its timetable for publication. ing form/genre terms for inclusion in ley Boorman (New York University). BCC completed some work begun the Music Thesaurus. We expect to form two new Work- earlier to revise its charge and the BCC was involved in the formation ing Groups in the coming months charges of its subbodies. A document of a new Joint Committee on Early related to various metadata initiatives with updated language was sent to the Printed Music Cataloging with the Rare that were brought to our attention MLA Board for discussion and Books and Manuscripts Section of the during the Louisville meeting. Further approval. Association of College and Research information will be provided and Finally, there were some personnel changes as members rotated off fol- lowing the completion of their four- year terms. Matthew Wise (NYU) Conference Attendees Give to stepped down as Chair of the Subcom- mittee on Descriptive Cataloging, and MLA at Record Levels was thanked for his years of stellar ser- vice. He will be succeeded by Nancy Laura Dankner, Chair, • Steve Fry Lorimer (Stanford University). Linda Development Committee • Richard and Patricia Jones Barnhart (UCSD) finished her term as • Paula Matthews BCC Chair; Matthew Wise will lead that Preliminary figures show that over • Paula Morgan group for the next four years. $10,000 was raised for MLA at the • Ned Quist Louisville meeting. This figure repre- • Gordon Rowley sents MLA Shop merchandise, the • Marty Rubin Silent Auction sales, contributions to • Karl Van Ausdal Subcommittee our various endowed funds, and unre- • Diane Parr Walker stricted donations. on Descriptive Who can forget the exciting horse We presented our brand new MLA Cataloging race featuring MLA’s own “thorough- Fund brochure in Louisville, which bred phillies,” a.k.a. marketing mavens was written by Development Commit- Matthew Wise, Sarah Dorsey and her kazoo-toting col- tee member Gordon Rowley and pro- Outgoing SDC Chair leagues? This special campaign, duced by Jim Farrington. designed to feature the newly renamed We’re already thinking ahead to The Subcommittee on Descriptive MLA Fund, raised a significant amount the fun and surprises in store for you Cataloging held an open meeting on of money. We were particularly at the MLA Table and shop in the Big Friday afternoon to a “packed house” pleased that so many members chose Apple next year. Of course, you don’t during the annual MLA meeting in this fund to honor some of our retiring have to wait until then to contribute to Louisville. Following member introduc- members. What a wonderful way to the MLA Fund or another worthy MLA tions, it was noted that Margaret Kaus honor your colleagues! As of this writ- cause. Information about making and Deta Davis would be rotating off ing, donations have been received donations can be found at the dona- the Subcommittee at the end of the (MLA Fund and our other Funds as tion section of the MLA web site. You conference. Both were sincerely well) honoring the following: may also contact our great new execu- thanked for their four years of service. tive office and executive director in Audience members wishing to be • Joan Anderson Virginia if that is more convenient. appointed to the Subcommittee were • Norbert Carnovale And again, thanks to you all for encouraged to submit written expres- • Roberta Chodacki your incredible show of support in sions of interest before February 26. • Jody Falconer Louisville. continued on the next page

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continued from the previous page The meeting concluded with a tion about the Subcommittee, its activi- Also, it was announced that Matthew very lively and rich discussion of meta- ties and the semi-annual MARBI Wise would be rotating off as Chair data issues and concerns. reports, please visit our website at and that Nancy Lorimer (Stanford Uni- http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org We versity) would be stepping into that welcome comments on issues related position. to MARC format at any time. Matthew Wise reported briefly Subcommittee on about news from the recent ALA Mid- winter conference in San Antonio. His MARC Formats complete report may be found on the Kathryn P. Glennan, Authorities BCC website and will be published in SMF Chair an upcoming issue of the Music Cata- Subcommittee loging Bulletin. Mark Scharff, Nancy Lorimer spoke about the The Subcommittee on MARC For- Subcommittee Chair recent establishment of the MLA/RBMS mats open meeting continued the BCC Joint Committee on Early Printed focus on metadata at the Louisville Music, which has been charged with conference. The well-attended meeting Nearly 100 persons attended the the preparation of a cataloging manual featured Eric Childress of OCLC speak- open meeting of the Subcommittee – for such materials. Chaired by Jain ing further about the Dublin Core stan- nearly twice the number that attended Fletcher (UCLA), the Committee is dards and how they relate to MARC 21, the Los Angeles meeting, and remark- composed of experts from the music especially through OCLC’s CORC able for a session that was the last of library, rare book and manuscript, and (Cooperative Online Resource Catalog) the Friday BCC subcommittee sessions. musicological communities. Issues cur- project. After welcoming the audience and rently under examination include the Stephen Davison from UCLA gave reviewing the subcommittee’s charge, scope of the manual (i.e., the defini- an overview of the EAD (Encoded chair Mark Scharff gave a brief report tion of “early printed music”) and its Archival Description) standards, how on the LITA/ALCTS Authority Control intended audience. A draft is in they evolved, and how in the Online Environ- progress and, when completed, the they differ both from ment Interest Group manual will be one of five which will MARC and from Dublin reporting session at ALA comprise the new Descriptive Cata- Core. Midwinter, which was prin- loging of Rare Materials series (DCRM). A panel discussion cipally an update from the The other four manuals will treat followed which included Library of Congress on the books, manuscripts, cartographic mate- examples of how meta- ILS and its authority-related rials, and serials. data has been used in par- implications. The chair of David Day (Brigham Young Uni- ticular institutions. Scott ACIG is Rebecca Dean versity) presented a paper entitled Landvetter (University of Chicago) (OCLC), an Authorities Subcommittee “Using Metadata in the Management of talked about his work on the CORC member. Scharff also recognized out- Music Special Collections,” in which he project, including how the resources going Subcommittee members Suzanne described the design and implementa- are selected and what the cataloging Mudge (Archives of Traditional Music, tion of an automated system which uti- process entails. R. Wayne Shoaf (USC) Indiana University) and Michelle Koth lizes FileMaker Pro templates, an described his experiences with meta- (Yale University), expressing gratitude Oracle server, and a WebObjects web data descriptions of photographic for their contributions to the group’s interface. The database includes com- images and the challenges and advan- activities. He mentioned that Mickey ponents for simplified cataloging (per- tages of moving from a proprietary would continue to work with the Sub- formed by student employees), system with homegrown metadata to a committee on maintenance of the authority control, bibliographic rela- system which uses the Dublin Core Types of Composition document. tionships (to related publications and standards. Lois Schultz (Duke Univer- Mickey then reported on the past reviews), collection affiliation, preser- sity) gave examples of how metadata year’s maintenance activities for the vation/digitization, rights management, has been used to describe items in document. use transactions, and donor/patron with their collection of Historic Ameri- The Authorities Subcommittee has information. The metadata elements can Sheet Music, as well as other appli- been working hard on resolving issues embedded in each of the digital docu- cations of metadata at her institution. with new and existing terms for the ments, which were developed in con- Due to the heavy metadata content document, including work in the busi- junction with BYU’s online Digital in this meeting, the normal Subcom- ness meeting. The list itself was Archive, are compatible with the mittee focus on proposals discussed by updated in February of this year. The Dublin Core and IMS standards. MARBI was omitted. For more informa- continued on page fourteen

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continued from page thirteen nology. FAST software will “decon- subject access (how can deconstructed URL for the document is: struct” LCSH headings while retaining elements be “reconstructed” when www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music the LCSH string, and will allow input needed to prevent false drops?). She /types.htm From this page, there is a of FAST headings (but with no attempt concluded by explaining that the title link to a list of the additions and to construct an LCSH equivalent). of her talk envisioned MARC as a cul- changes made to the Types document: Work has begun with topical, geo- de-sac (it’s hard to get out of the www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music graphic, chronological, and form/genre library “neighborhood” with it), the /typesadd.htm Mickey invited those headings and subdivisions, with sub- access control record concept as the with questions, comments, or new ject names and titles to follow later. entrance to the on-ramp, Dublin Core terms for consideration to contact her: Rebecca mentioned some of the chal- as the cloverleaf, and the Extensible lenges that music headings will pre- Markup Language (XML) as the super- Michelle Koth sent, particularly those with highway. The ensuing discussion was Yale Music Library parenthetical qualifiers for medium a lively interchange. 120 High Street PO Box 208240 statement, and the issue of analytical Committee Reports continue New Haven, CT 06520-8240 [email protected]

Rebecca Dean’s presentation, Boston Public Library Fellowship Announced “Authority Metadata and the Informa- tion Highway: Cloverleaf, Access Road, The Boston Public Library is tion, and a research proposal that or Cul-de-Sac??” first reviewed some of pleased to announce the Alicia Monti should not exceed three pages to the the field relationships between the Research Fellowship for research in Office of the President, Boston Public Dublin Core metadata model and the collections of the Research Library, PO Box 286, Boston, MA MARC and noted some of the compati- Library’s Music Department. The fel- 02117-0286. Applicants must be U.S. bility issues (no main entry, no uni- lowship is intended to stimulate the citizens and proposed dates of form titles as added or subject entries, use of special music collections and research must be included. Deadline no 240 uniform title; the difference in manuscripts at the BPL and to con- is June 20, 2000. the concept of “series”). She then tribute to research using original For more information, candidates looked at the linked authorities feature music sources. should contact Ms. Diane Ota, Curator of the OCLC CORC project (where The Alicia Monti Research Fel- of Music at (617) 536-5400, ext. 285. records contain pointers to authority lowship supports doctoral, post-doc- The Boston Public Library (BPL), records that provide the access points) toral and equivalent research in Music established in 1848, is the first public and noted challenges, particularly Department collections. In addition to library to be established in America those of dealing with validating subdi- its research materials, the BPL’s Music and the first library to allow people to visions. Rebecca noted several author- Department houses the Allen A. borrow books and materials, a truly ity metadata models in the wings, Brown Collection rich in 19th century revolutionary concept at the time. In including the access control record, “V- American music, the Walter Piston 1870, the BPL was the first library to cards,” and the Agents portion of the Collection, the Koussevitzky Collec- institute a system of branch libraries Dublin Core. She then focused on one tion from the Koussevitzky Seranak linked to a central library with the research project, taking its impetus residence in the Berkshires, and the opening of the East Boston branch, from activities of the ALA ALCTS Sub- archives of the Pro Arte Chamber and the first library to establish a ject Access Committee related to devel- Orchestra of Boston. space specifically designed for chil- oping a subject heading scheme for The one-month fellowship carries dren with the opening of the chil- metadata, though not a replacement a stipend and requires a brief report dren’s room in Copley Square in for Library of Congress Subject Head- or presentation related to the research 1895. Today, the BPL holds 7 million ings. With an eye to the functional as part of the fellowship experience. volumes; serves more than 2 million requirements laid out by ALCTS/SAC Candidates for the fellowship will people in its central library in Copley (simplicity, intuitiveness, scalability, be selected based on the value of the Square and an additional 350,000 logic, and applicability to specific disci- proposed project to the Library and to people in its 26 branch libraries plines and subject domains), the FAST the scholarship, on the documented around the city; and is one of only (Faceted-Application of Subject Termi- ability of the applicant to complete two public libraries in the country nology) aims to help fill the bill. the project, and on the project’s time- that are members of the Association Derived from LCSH, FAST proposes line compared to other proposals. of Research Libraries. The Boston use of a post-coordinated faceted Applicants are asked to submit a Public Library and its events are free vocabulary intended to allow a broad resume, two letters of recommenda- and open to the public. range of users to assign subject termi-

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profession. Taylor Entertainment has a subscrip- Subject Access The Public Libraries Committee’s tion-based verification site that also Subcommittee Open Forum was a free and frank dis- provides inventory checking, although cussion on vendors of compact discs, their website does not offer music Michael Colby, songbooks, and scores. A group of number search or contents listings, two Subcommittee Chair about 50 compared their experiences music essentials. One of the Open with service, discounts, fill rates, and Forum participants reported that Baker turnaround times. Many libraries dis- and Taylor has been very willing to The open meeting of the Subject tribute their purchasing work on including these Access Subcommittee was held on among three or more ven- enhancements in the February 26, 2000, at the annual MLA dors with different next release of the search meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The strengths. Quite a few software. The capacity following presentations were heard: include local sound for electronic ordering is A Non-LC Approach to Finding recording vendors within already available from this Recordings of World Music (Leslie a mix of nationwide ven- vendor, along with shell Troutman, University of Illinois— dors specializing in library records for ordering pur- Champaign-Urbana) service, such as AEC One- poses that can be Folk Music: The Definition Wars Stop, Baker and Taylor Entertain- imported into the library Continue (Drew Beisswenger, South- ment, CD One Stop, Compact Disc catalog. Libraries were advised to west Missouri State University) World, Gary Thal Music, and Music review the MARC profiling that the Subject Metadata in the Metadata Library Service Company. vendor provides with this function, Record (Lois Mai Chan, University of Core collections: Now and then, a which is easily customized locally. Kentucky) library will need to purchase or A related issue is the verification of As committee members Dan upgrade a core collection, and often popular songbooks and scores. The Cherubin and Mark Germer rotate off, will have a short amount of time to do J.W. Pepper website (www.jwpepper. their significant contributions to the it. Sources of core lists include Bill- com/) received high marks on its ease work of the committee are recognized. board, the Grammy awards, Tony of use by people with or without awards, on-line music retailers, and music backgrounds. such publications as the All-Music Regarding cataloging and prepara- Guide, which is also available on line tion of sound recordings, the partici- Public Libraries at www.allmusic.com/index.html. pants expressed a need for further Printed lists that are not updated at progress, especially in connection with Committee least annually were characterized as authority work. “doomed the day they are printed.” Anna Seaberg, Vendors who were mentioned as Committee Chair sources of frequently updated core lists included Compact Disc World and Statistics At the Louisville conference in Music Library Service Company, which general, it was clear that MLA is really uses MLA’s Basic Music Library as a Subcommittee putting some emphasis on the role that point of departure. The comment was Brian Doherty, public libraries play in music librarian- made that the Basic Music Library at Subcommittee Chair ship, both inside and outside of MLA. this point contains quite a few out-of- Two good illustrations of this are print titles, but can be useful for its lists MLA’s first-time-ever booth at the of popular artists and classical works. The Statistics Subcommittee held Public Library Association 2000 confer- The desire for frequently updated core its business meeting on Thursday, Feb- ence and the text of the Welcome lists to be made available on the web ruary 24, from 5:00pm – 6:30pm in Letter from the President on the MLA was expressed. Louisville. The meeting began with an website. This spotlighting of and out- Online verification of sound overview of the results of the subcom- reach to public libraries is good news recordings: Several participants men- mittee’s Music Library Expenditures for all of us who work with music in tioned the website “Music Selection Questionnaire by Brian Doherty. Dis- libraries: even if you work in an acade- Resources on the WWW” (www.hal- cussion ensued on how to present and mic institution, a public library proba- cyon.com/aseaberg) as a good source publish or post the results officially. It bly gave most of the people you serve of links to music labels and distribu- was determined that a full report their first glimpse of what a library can tors, reviews, music reference sources, on the results would be assembled do. If that includes music, it’s a good and library catalogs, as well as data- and posted on either the official MLA sign for the health and future of our bases of CDs in print. Baker and continued on page sixteen

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continued from page fifteen about $36 million. Construction is website or on the MLA Clearinghouse. MLA Facilities ongoing, and the library will reopen A report will also be forwarded to the Subcommittee in the Spring of 2001, although most MLA board. likely not in time for MLA’s meeting. Maurine McCourry and Stephen Elizabeth Davis, Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, editor- Luttmann then presented to the group Subcommittee Chair in-chief of RILM Abstracts and Director a revised survey based on the expendi- of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music tures questionnaire, explaining Research and Documentation, spoke changes made in format and content. The Louisville program on facili- on the several relocations of the RILM The subcommittee discussed issues ties looked forward to MLA’s meeting office from the former cramped quar- about the ease of answering the survey site for 2001, as librarians got intrigu- ters in the City University of New as well as the types of information that ing glimpses of current and recent York (CUNY) Graduate Center on would be important to building projects in New York 42nd St., through two temporary loca- MLA and its members. City. The program session tions (a suite of rooms in the Graybar The decision was covered projects for The New Building to a classroom at NYU), to made to solicit fur- York Public Library, the RILM their new spaces in the CUNY Gradu- ther comments and offices, the Juilliard Library, and ate Center quarters in the B. Altman suggestions from the Music & Arts Library at Building. The new quarters have a those attending the Columbia University. generous allotment of space with indi- group’s open session Unencumbered by tech- vidual work stations for each editor, as well as from other nological aids, Suki Sommer equipped with PCs that have fast committee chairs and to have of the New York Public Internet and e-mail access, as well as a survey ready for distribution by the Library used a captivating combination space for their library and inventory. summer or early fall. The subcommit- of sweeping gestures and artful chore- Much of her talk focused on the prob- tee felt that it was important to con- ography to convey the essence of lems and advantages of integrating the tinue to collect this information on an designs for the new Library for the RILM computer network with CUNY’s. annual basis. Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Jane Gottlieb presented a thor- David Hursh opened discussion on Now gutted, the library’s physical ough discussion of the pre-construc- the idea of creating a database of space will undergo a massive “re-ren- tion and construction stages of the music libraries to include in future sur- ovation.” The public areas on the third renovation of the Lila Acheson Wal- veys. The list of libraries used for the floor will feature an “enormous” read- lace Library at Juilliard. The renova- expenditures questionnaire would ing room with an area for recorded tion was a two-step process: all form the basis for this database. This sound and a facing one for viewing materials were moved out after gradu- would be an ongoing project that dance, reading areas at either end, ation in May, 1999, and construction would have to be revised and updated and a central location for patrons to was carried out over the summer. This on a regular basis. Such a database receive materials. culminated in an on-time completion would be important for many types of Audio and video recordings will and a re-opening on August 30, 1999. information-gathering activities of MLA. continue to be played by staff from a As part of the renovation, the library Other members present at the business basement location to atron stations in was able to annex space which previ- meeting were Jean Finks and Melva the reading room. For patron seating, ously had housed an organ studio Peterson. the Aeron chair by Herman Miller has (one of three), and this space was The open session of the subcom- been specified. Though expensive, the reconfigured to become the new Peter mittee took place on Friday, February Aeron is comfortable and, more to the Jay Sharp Special Collections Room. 25, from 2:00pm – 3:30pm. A report point, built to withstand rugged use: New carpeting (to replace the very was read by subcommittee chair Brian one suitable cleaning method is to familiar long-standing green one) was Doherty on the results of the Music hose it down! installed; stacks were rearranged so Library Expenditures Questionnaire. The research collections will that additional shelving was able to be Maurine McCourry and Stephen remain in closed stacks and housed in installed in the existing spaces; new Luttmann presented the revised ques- the basement. The circulating collec- exhibition cases were created; staff tionnaire and opened the floor to tion will be similar in concept to its areas were expanded and modernized questions and comments. earlier set-up, and its stacks will con- and more efficiently arranged; and, tinue to be open. The new layout new audio-visual facilities were brings all staff together on the same installed. More than 44,000 feet of cat- floor, including staff who work in the egory 6 network cables were installed circulating collection. The entire reno- throughout the library, with every vation project bears a price tag of continued on page eighteen

16 M L A Newsletter • No. 120 Freeman Travel Grant Awarded

Alan Karass, Publicity Officer

Daniel F. Boomhower, D.J. Hoek, Andrew Leach and G. Dale Vargason Jr. were recipients of the Kevin Free- man Travel Grant Award to attend the Musical Library Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, this year. This marks the fourth year the Freeman Travel Grant has been awarded. Daniel F. Boomhower is currently a Graduate Assistant in the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library and the Sousa Archives for Band Research at the University of Illinois Library. He will be completing his M.L.S. at that institution in May 2000. He has an undergraduate degree from Wittenberg University. Mr. Boomhower also has served as a Reference Assistant at the Freeman Travel Grant Recipients, (not in order), Daniel F. Boomhower, D.J. Hoek, Andrew Leach, and G. Dale Vargason, Jr. Thomas Library at Wittenberg Univer- sity. D.J. Hoek is Assistant Professor and Music/Media Cataloger in the at Buffalo. He has served as a Gradu- applicant must not have attended an Ablah Library at Wichita State Univer- ate Assistant in the Music Library at the MLA annual meeting prior to applying sity. He earned an M.L.S. from Indiana State University of New York at Buf- for the grant. University, an M.M. in Music Theory falo. His forthcoming book, Ernst Applicants must submit three and an M.M. in Composition from Bacon: A Bio-bibliography, will be copies of the following by July 15, Bowling Green State University, and an published by Greenwood Press. 2000: B.A. from Grand Valley State Univer- sity. He also has served as a Cataloging The Kevin Freeman Award 1. A letter of application with an Assistant, Cataloging intern and Application explanation of the reasons for attend- Bindery Assistant at the Cook Music Applications are now being ing the MLA annual meeting, a justifi- Library at Indiana University. accepted for the Kevin Freeman Travel cation of financial need, and a budget Andrew Leach is a Graduate Assis- Grant. The grant, established in 1994 to (the room rate in New York is approxi- tant in the Sousa Archives for Band honor the memory of Kevin Freeman mately $195 plus tax, single or Research and the Map and Geography and awarded for the first time in 1997, double). Library at the University of Illinois, supports travel and hotel expenses to 2. A current vita Champaign. He earned his undergrad- attend the Music Library Association’s 3. Two letters of support uate degree in Music History from the annual meeting. It covers the confer- University of Illinois, Champaign, and ence registration fee and a cash award Mail application and supporting will complete his library science up to $750 for travel and a room (at materials to: degree at that institution in May 2000. double-occupancy rate) at the conven- Mr. Leach also has served as a Data- tion hotel. Marsha Berman, Chair base and Resource Assistant for the The applicant must be a member Freeman Travel Grant Committee Lincoln Trail Libraries System (Cham- of the Music Library Association and 2417 - 4th St. paign, IL). either be in the first three years of Santa Monica, CA 90405 G. Dale Vargason Jr. was recently his/her professional career, a graduate appointed Catalog Librarian in the library school student (by the time of For more information, contact the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman the conference in February 2001) aspir- chair via email ([email protected]) or School of Music. He has an undergrad- ing to become a music librarian, or a phone (310) 399-3674. uate degree from the State University recent graduate (within one year of Recipients will be notified by of New York at Binghamton as well as degree) of a graduate program in October 15, 2000 and announced at an M.L.S. and an M.A. in Music History librarianship seeking a professional the MLA annual meeting in New York, from the State University of New York position as a music librarian. The February 21-24, 2001.

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Ledford, to learn clawhammer banjo. quotes various well-known male play- Women in Music Cari grew up in Kentucky and South ers who were inspired by women to Roundtable Carolina and studied banjo, guitar and play the banjo: Ralph Stanley learned mountain dulcimer. Her teachers the clawhammer banjo style from his Alice Abraham, WGBH Radio included Jean Ritchie, Lee Sexton, Rich mother, Lucy Smith, and Pete Seeger Kirby and Phil Jamison. She notes that remembers Samantha Bugarner at the The vibrant history of women Jean Ritchie once commented that “the 1935 Asheville Folk Festival as the first banjo players and women’s influences banjo is a low instrument and not person he heard playing the 5-string on ballads was the theme of Susan appropriate for women.” The banjo. Eacker’s and Cari Norris’s informal pre- banjo has sometimes been The banjo was the sentation at the Women in Music called the second cousin to first all-American indige- Roundtable. the fiddle — the devil’s nous instrument. It may Dr. Susan Eacker is assistant pro- instrument. Cari Norris’s have been an adaptation fessor of History and coordinator of upcoming CD is “Gems of (by added fret board & the Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Lily May Ledford: Rare strings) of African talking Program at Morehead State University, Concert & Studio Record- drums that were banned Morehead, KY. In 1997, Susan and her ings, 1968-1983” which will by slave owners. Susan husband, Geoff Eacker, a banjo maker be released on June Appal label Eacker traced different and Arts Center director at Miami Uni- in Whitesburg, Kentucky. possibilities of how this black instru- versity in Oxford, Ohio, received a Susan Eacker asked WMRT partici- ment got to the white Appalachian Rockefeller joint fellowship to docu- pants what came to mind for the word region. After the Civil War, the banjo ment women banjo players in West “banjo.” Responses included Deliver- became popular and was played on Virginia and eastern Kentucky. Susan’s ance, Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, “blue- riverboats and in minstrel shows. forthcoming book, Women, Banjos, grass” and “hillbilly.” She noted that all It is often women who are the and Ballads: Gender and the History of previous research on banjo players keepers of family traditions, preserved Appalachian Music, will be published focused on white males, so the Eackers in ballads. (Susan noted perhaps a sim- by the University of Tennessee Press. interviewed 10 female players and ilar role for many music librarians.) She Co-presenter Cari Norris was identified many more women who challenges Alan Lomax’s theory that “a inspired by her grandmother, Lily May were influential musicians. Susan ballad is a vehicle for aggressive social fantasies of females.” Cari Norris performed the haunting standard “Pretty Polly,” then com- Committee Reports mented that her grandmother consid- ered the bloody ballad a love song. A continued from page sixteen pletely rewired and rebuilt. A new lively discussion ensued on the gender seating table wired for data transmis- HVAC system was installed, 20 audio- differences in ballads – for females the sion. Jane capped her presentation video and computer stations and 23 songs were often cautionary. The bal- with slides documenting the progress carrels were designed, and large tables lads are real stories, often tragic, and of the construction. for collaborative work were added. serve as “bearing witness” so the vic- A slide presentation by Elizabeth New seminar and viewing rooms were tims won’t be forgotten. Davis on the new Music & Arts Library constructed, and additional shelving Cari demonstrated the frail style of at Columbia University completed the capacity was provided for printed playing as a rapid thumb brush alter- session. The renovated and expanded materials. Special mention was made of nating with fingers striking the strings Library opened in May 1997 and was the curved interior wall enclosing the using the front of the fingernails. This dedicated to the memory of Gabe M. library, constructed with glass panels in hard, fast-driven style was the signa- Wiener in September 1997. The new wood framing whose central panel is ture of her grandmother, Lily May Led- library, dramatically light and inviting, an exhibition case. This design theme ford. offers 180-degree views over the is mirrored in the curved circulation While growing up on a poor campus and the neighborhood. The desk joined to a dropped reference sharecropper’s farm in a remote area, size of the former library was tripled to desk, which allows for efficient staffing Lily May started playing banjo at seven encompass almost the entire 7th floor for public service and circulation/ and by age 11 started a band. Talent of Dodge Hall (the Center for Ethno- reserves supervision. Staff spaces were scout John Lehrer heard Ledford’s musicology occupies the remaining greatly enlarged, and the librarian’s band but selected just her for a radio space). The collections and services office boasts two windows — one with contract. Lily May quickly became pop- were relocated beginning in summer an eastern and one with a southern ular and at 19 left Appalachia for a 1996 while the space was gutted, com- exposure! continued on the next page

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continued from the previous page ment over the CD-ROM version. Sev- Two new facilities and one reno- rising career in early radio on WLS in eral members mentioned that head- vation of listening facilities (the addi- Chicago. She was “Going ‘Round the phones and speakers may need to be tion of equipment for dubbing World with the Banjo-Picking Girl” as purchased or leased at some institu- historical recordings) were discussed. she lead The Coon Creek Girls (the tions in order to access the sound bites Tom Moore (Princeton University), first all-women band) to fame on live featured in the online version of The who recently returned from a three- radio. New Grove Dictionary of Music and month research trip to Brazil, gave a John Lehrer insisted on a certain Musicians. Internet access upgrades to brief overview of the state of music image for The Coon Creek Girls. He listening carrels were also predicted. libraries and schools of music in that made Lily, Rosie, Violet and Daisy Finally, members discussed the differ- country. Hosted for three months by comply with the hillbilly stereotype ent consortial pricing structures that the Federal University, Tom described and wear calico dresses. When Lehrer they are using to purchase Web-based the music libraries’ wealth of printed intended to cut their salaries at products. music manuscripts, coupled with their Winthrow Valley barn dance sessions, Security systems were the next general lack of electronic resources the women left. topic, and everyone agreed that the and poor funding for new acquisitions As a young child, Cari had a close expensive playback equipment needed and equipment. relationship with her grandmother who to access many of the new electronic Finally, members brainstormed often babysat, singing songs and telling formats continues to complicate secu- possible program ideas for next year’s stories. Cari’s love of traditional songs rity issues. Two members addressed meeting in New York City. The idea of was wonderfully relayed to the WMRT self-checkout circulation plans, which joining with the Conservatory Round- group as she sang “John Brown’s complicate security concerns if cham- table to co-sponsor a lecture/perfor- Body,” “White Oak Mountain” and ber music scores and parts are mance featuring either a music/dance “Barbara Allen” while accompanying included in self-checkout projects with- or music/theatre collection was herself on her grandmother’s banjo out security-taping the individual parts. received enthusiastically. and guitar. Cari expresses her own story in the old songs for which her voice is well-suited. Bernstein Papers Added to LC Memory Collections For the packed WMRT group, the MLA Y2K conference logo of the banjo The composer, conductor, writer, The online Leonard Bernstein Col- took on added meaning after such a and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918- lection makes available a selection of lively and informative session about 1990) was one of 20th-century Amer- 85 photographs, 177 scripts from the women banjo players. ica’s most important musical figures. Young People’s Concerts, 74 scripts Bernstein came to national prominence from the Thursday Evening Previews, virtually overnight through a last- and over 1,100 pieces of correspon- minute conducting debut with the New dence, in addition to the collection’s Large Research York Philharmonic, when he substi- complete Finding Aid. tuted for Bruno Walter on November Three categories have been Libraries Roundtable 14, 1943. He was twenty-five. Because included from the Personal Correspon- Bernstein was a national figure from dence: correspondence between Bern- Judy Marley, University of Arizona, the very beginning of his career, his stein and his family; between Bernstein Co-coordinator friend and teacher Helen Coates, who and Helen Coates; and between Bern- became his secretary in 1944, main- stein and his two most significant men- The annual meeting of the Large tained his papers meticulously and tors, Aaron Copland and Serge Research Libraries Roundtable was extensively annotated many of them. Koussevitzky. held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in The Library’s Bernstein Collection, Two special presentations highlight Louisville on Saturday, February 26, acquired over a forty-four year span, the online collection: one is the Photo 2000, with fifteen MLA members in offers a remarkably complete record of Gallery, containing all the online pho- attendance. Judy Marley, Co-coordina- his life and is one of the Music Divi- tographs arranged chronologically; and tor, facilitated the discussion, following sion’s richest repositories in the variety “Professor Lenny” by Joseph Horowitz, the roundtable’s tradition of conduct- and scope of its materials. Its more an in-depth article on Bernstein as ing a structured, yet openly participa- than 400,000 items, including music music educator originally published in tory meeting. and literary manuscripts, correspon- The New York Review of Books. Addressing the first item on the dence, photographs, audio and video The Leonard Bernstein collection agenda, new Web-based music recordings, fan mail, and other types of can be found at the following url: indexes, the group agreed that Music materials extensively document Bern- Index on the Web is a big improve- stein’s extraordinary life and career. memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/

M L A Newsletter • No. 120 19 MLA Announces Walter Gerboth Award Winners

Alan Karass, Publicity Officer

G. Dale Vargason, Jr., and John M. Bewley are winners of this year’s Walter Gerboth Award, offered annu- ally 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 librarian- ship. The selection committee comprised Margaret Ericson, Alan A. Green, and Mary Wallace Davidson, chair. Mr. Vargason, who was recently appointed Catalog Librarian in the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music, will expand his Master’s thesis from the State University of New York at Buffalo on Ernst Bacon into a monographic bio-bibliography of the composer. He will use his award to study manuscript holdings in Chicago and Berkeley, and to inter- Gerboth Award winners (l to r) John M. Bewley and G. Dale Vargason, Jr. view friends and relatives of the com- poser in California. Ernst Bacon’s music is well regarded, particularly by founded the music library at Brooklyn from MLA (to a maximum of $1,000) American singers, but there has been College, and at the time of his sudden and its purpose (capital purchases are no general assessment or bibliography death was assistant director of its Con- not eligible). Indicate any other of Bacon’s music since his death in servatory. He was a much- sources of funding you 1990. The committee was impressed by loved former president of may have already secured. the scope of Vargason’s study and the Music Library Associ- 3. Two letters of rec- acknowledged the need to capture the ation, and devoted ommendation— one for proposed interviews. mentor of new mem- the project and one for your- Dr. Bewley received both his bers. self. M.L.S. and his Ph.D. degree in Music 4. A curriculum vitae Theory and Composition from Rutgers Walter Gerboth that also names additional University, and has been Senior Assis- Award: Call for references. tant Librarian, Archivist, and Cataloger Applications in the Music Library at the State Uni- The Gerboth Award was estab- If you have any questions about versity of New York at Buffalo since lished by the Music Library Association the award, particularly about whether 1998. From 1992 to 1994 he was in memory of its Past President and you are qualified to apply for it, or if employed at the University of Pennsyl- Honorary Member Walter Gerboth. It is you wish to submit an application, vania as a cataloger in the Eugene made to members of MLA who are in please contact the Chair of the Gerboth Ormandy Oral History Archive and the the first five years of their professional Award Committee: Eugene Ormandy Collection of Scores. library careers, to assist research-in- Ormandy, and his predecessor, progress in music or music librarian- Gerboth Award Leopold Stokowski, were the two prin- ship. Eligible members are invited to c/o Alan Green cipal conductors of the Philadelphia apply by June 15th for next year’s Music & Dance Library Orchestra from 1912 to 1980. Bewley award. Ohio State University plans to study their scores in both the Please send the following informa- Sullivant Hall Ormandy and the recently acquired tion to the address below: 1813 North High Street Stokowski archives that they marked Columbus, OH 43210-1307 and/or arranged, to analyze their con- 1. A description of the project and [email protected] tributions (and those of their copyists) a statement about its significance. to the “Philadelphia Sound.” 2. A detailed total budget, specify- Walter Gerboth (1925-1984) ing the amount of funding requested

20 M L A Newsletter • No. 120 Members’ Publications

Please send citations for items published or premiered Judith L. Marley. in the past calendar year to the column editor, Sarah “Guidelines Favoring Fair Use: An Analysis of Legal Dorsey, via e-mail or snail mail at the address below. The Interpretations Affecting Higher Education.” The Journal of deadline for submissions for issue 121 is May 1, 2000. Academic Librarianship 25, No. 5 (September 1999): 367- Please follow the citation style employed below. 71. Sarah Dorsey Michael Meckna (Texas Christian University). Music Librarian “95% Human and 5% Metal: Advice from the Tuba and School of Music UNCG Euphonium Masters.” The Brass Player (Winter 2000): 10-12. P.O. Box 26167 “Without Dubbing: Domenico Ceccarosi (1910-1997).” Greensboro, NC 27402-6167 The Horn Call 30, No. 2 (February 2000): 61-62. [email protected] BOOKS Carl B. Schmidt (Towson University). Ralph M. Hartsock (University of North Texas) and “Two New Foucault Sources of Lully Ballets in the Carl J. Rahkonen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). United States.” In Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully: Vladimir Ussachevsky: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Hommage à Lionel Sawkins=L’Oeuvre de Lully, 278-312. CT: Greenwood, 2000. [272 p. ISBN 0-313-29852-1. $75.00] Edited by Jerome de La Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Hildesheim: Olms, 1999. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS “Distilling Essences: Poulenc and Matisse.” In Francis Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature James P. Cassaro (University of Pittsburgh). , 199-209. Edited by Sidney Buckland and Myriam Chimènes. Aldershot: Ash- “Lully’s Ballet des Saisons: Manuscript Sources.” In gate, 1999. Quellenstudien zu Jean-Baptiste Lully: Hommage à Lionel Sawkins=L’Oeuvre de Lully, 159-174. Edited by Jerome de La Matthew W. Wise Gorce and Herbert Schneider. Hildesheim: Olms, 1999. (New York University). “Choruses and Marching Bands.” In Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia Dennis T. Clark (Samford University). . Edited by George E. Haggerty. “An Elizabethan Printer in Alabama: John Day and a New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. 1578 Copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes in the Samford University Library.” The Alabama Librarian 50, No. 1 SCHOLARLY EDITION (2000): 10-11. Clinton F. Nieweg (Philadelphia Orchestra). Critical Edition of Strauss’ Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24. Gisele Glover (SUNY at Stony Brook). Edited by Clinton F. Nieweg and Stuart Serio. Edwin F. “The Life and Career of Edward Hamond Boatner, and Kalmus & Co., Inc. 1999. [Kalmus A2117, $50.00] an Inventory of the Boatner Papers at the Schomburg Center.” The American Music Research Center Journal 8/9 SCORE (1998-9): 89-106. Martin M. Schreiner (Harvard University). Anatomy and Variations of the Sirens’ Song: for Oboe, Jean Harden (University of North Texas). Clarinet and Bassoon. Waltham, MA: Frank E. Warren “How is Music Cataloging Different from Book Cata- Music Service. New England Reed Trio, New Synthesis loging?” Music OCLC Users Group Newsletter No. 74 Series, W-014, 1999. (November 1999): 6-10.

New Home for American Organ Archives The American Organ Archives of and other illustrations, organ plans journals from many countries distin- the Organ Historical Society, Inc., has and specifications, recital programs, guish the Archives. Other focal areas opened a renovated and expanded catalogues, correspondence, ephemera include American music history, facility housing the world’s largest and other documentary materials per- church music and church history, his- repository of pipe organ research taining primarily to organ history and toric preservation, conservation, materials. Located in Princeton, NJ, at design, organ building and playing, organ-related technology and engi- Talbott Library, Westminster Choir organ music and organists, and neering, acoustics, and architecture. College of Rider University, the records and publications of the Organ To celebrate this expansion, a Archives is a closed-stack, non-circu- Historical Society. committee chaired by Prof. John Ogas- lating collection that embraces books, Unique manuscripts, rare books, apian (University of Massachusettes at periodicals, pamphlets, photographs and complete runs of hard-to-find continued on page twenty-four

M L A Newsletter • No. 120 21 Epstein Award Presented in Louisville

Alan Karass, Publicity Officer former hometown, and tape number. as to applicant’s age, nationality, pro- The indexes will be given to the fession, or institutional affiliation. All At the annual meeting of the Archives of Traditional Music at the proposals will be reviewed entirely on Music Library Association, held in completion of the project and will be the basis of merit. Louisville, Kentucky, the 2000 Dena included in the final publication. Applicants must submit four Epstein Award for Archival and Library Karen Rege is a musicologist and copies of the following documents: Research in American Music was Librarian at the Delaware College of granted to Jo Burgess and Karen Rege. Art and Design. Ms. Rege was granted 1. A brief research proposal The award endowment was estab- the Epstein award to support her (under 10 pages) that includes: lished through a generous gift from research on Arthur Farwell and his a. a description of the project Morton and Dena Epstein to the Music relationship to the Arts and Crafts b. a detailed budget for the pro- Library Association in 1995. Movements of the early twentieth-cen- ject, indicating: Jo Burgess is Assistant tury. Award funds will be 1) the amount of funding Librarian and Head of used towards travel requested (Capital purchases Conservation Services at expenses for Ms. Rege to such as computer equipment Indiana University, study the Arthur Farwell and furniture are ineligible) Bloomington. Ms. scores and papers, which 2) justification for the funding Burgess was granted the are located in the Sibley 3) additional sources of funding Epstein Award to support Music Library at the East- c. a demonstration of how the her project on southern man School of Music. applicant’s research will contribute to Illinois folk music. Jo The resulting article- the study and understanding of Ameri- Burgess and her research partner, length study will aim can music G.L. Harrison, plan to select 400 to specifically to place the composer and 2. A curriculum vitae of the appli- 500 ballads and songs from the David publisher’s career in a “social and cul- cant. S. McIntosh Collection at the Archive tural context through the study of his 3. Three letters of support from of Traditional Music for book publica- philosophies and their relationship to librarians and/or scholars knowledge- tion. David S. McIntosh, former music Farwell’s environs.” Arthur Farwell, able about American music. professor and chair of the music owner of the Wa-Wan Press, lived department at Southern Illinois Uni- near Boston, a leading center of the Mail the required documentation versity, Carbondale, collected more American Arts and Crafts Movement. to the chair of the Dena Epstein than 1,000 folk songs from the 1930s Correspondence with architect Frank Award Committee at the address through the 1950s in southern Illinois. Lloyd Wright, book designer Daniel below. Please note that awards may The book may also include 200 more Berkeley Updike, and author Alice be presented to an individual appli- instrumental tunes from the G.L. Harri- Fletcher will be among the materials cant or divided among multiple appli- son Collection at Eastern Illinois Uni- examined by Ms. Rege. cants during 2001. At its discretion the versity. G.L. Harrison collected committee may choose not to award a instrumental folk music from southern 2001 Epstein Award Requirements grant during any particular year. An Illinois during the 1970s with funding The Dena Epstein Award for applicant who has not received an support from the National Endowment Archival and Library Research in Epstein award for the first year of for the Arts. American Music was created through a application may resubmit a proposal Epstein Award funds will be used generous gift from Morton and Dena in the two following years for any one by Ms. Burgess “to travel throughout Epstein to the Music Library Associa- project. An applicant may receive only southern Illinois and adjacent states” tion in 1995. Requests are currently one award for any one project. Submit to interview descendants of David S. being accepted for one or more grants applications to: McIntosh’s main folk music sources. to be awarded for the year 2001. The Biographical information and anec- maximum value of the 2000 award Joan O’Connor dotes about the sources and copies of was $2,050. The decision of the Dena Music & Media Services Librarian family photographs will be obtained Epstein Award Committee and the Trinity College - Austin Arts Center whenever possible. The project Board of Directors of the Music 300 Summit Street researchers have already listened to Library Association will be announced Hartford, CT 06106-3100 the entire McIntosh Collection and at the MLA annual meeting in New [email protected] organized McIntosh’s papers. A data- York, NY, in February 2001. base has also been created, consisting A grant may be awarded to sup- The deadline for receipt of appli- of more than 2300 names; it will be port research in archives or libraries cations is July 15, 2000. Applications the basis for creating cross-references internationally on any aspect of Amer- received after that date will be consid- by song title, performer name, per- ican music. There are no restrictions ered for funding in 2002.

22 M L A Newsletter • No. 120 Of Barges, Bebop, and Bel Canto: The Best of Chapter Sessions in Louisville

James P. Cassaro, amount of music. stint studying music at UCLA (she was University of Pittsburgh The remainder of Coral’s paper to finish her degree in 1977), she centered on a manuscript catalog to began playing in several local bands. The Best of Chapters, a competi- the collection now held in the British In these early years she played mostly tive process spearheaded by Brian Library. A synopsis of the various with female bands, including The Cockburn (James Madison University) musical genres collected by the family Sweethearts of Rhythm and The and designed to showcase the vital was given and revealed that several of Queens of Swing. Playing bop was her activity of our regional chapters, had the Sharps subscribed to Handel’s Mes- main interest at this time. its first annual presentation on Friday, siah, among other contemporary Cardell then surveyed aspects of 25 February 2000, during the Associa- works. The catalog, which includes lesbianism in these bands and the tion’s conference in Louisville, KY. some incipits, specifies the number of oppression black musicians faced in Four MLA chapters submitted nine parts available, thus suggesting the the early days of television, both of papers to a jury for consideration. performing forces employed. which had an effect on Bryant’s career. Three papers were subsequently After outlining the Sharp family’s In the early 1950s, she stopped playing chosen for presentation at the meet- involvement in the public musical life in female bands not because of the ing. They were Lenore Coral’s “The in London, Coral provided some ques- sexual issues, but because of the petti- Sharps: An Insight Into English Musi- tions that need further investigation. ness of the players, a situation she was cal Life in the Second Half of the Eigh- to experience in male bands as well. teenth Century,” Vic Cardell’s “’Gal Bryant was a regular performer at The With a Horn’: Clora Bryant and Los Oasis in Los Angeles and recorded for Angeles Jazz,” and Jennifer Ottervik’s This stimulating the Mode label. She toured internation- “Jazz in Opera: It Ain’t Over ‘Til the ally, most notably to Russia in the late Fat Lady Swings.” session amply demon- 1980s. In 1990, she was diagnosed Coral’s presentation was originally strated the vitality and with chronic bronchitis that all but put given at the fall 1999 meeting of the an end to her playing career. She then New York State/Ontario Chapter meet- infinite variety of focused on teaching jazz history. ing in Buffalo, a meeting dedicated to papers given at our Jennifer Ottervik’s provocative the careers of James B. Coover and handling of the issue of jazz in the Carol June Bradley. Her lively narrative chapter meetings. opera, the focus of her forthcoming chronicles three generations of the book, was first presented at the South- Sharp family, their book and music east Chapter in the fall of 1999. The collecting activities, and their private idea of writing a “jazz opera” was first music making. John Sharp (1644-1714), These included whether the Sharps suggested by Otto Kahn in 1925. Kahn once the Archbishop of York, was an provided parts for private perfor- thought that this was the future of avid book collector. His son Thomas mances other than those given by the American opera. Ottervik surveyed (1693-1758) inherited his father’s love family, and the issue of the dissemina- several works in this idiom including of books, which he then passed onto tion of the collection after its initial Joplin’s Treemonisha, Gershwin’s Blue his own sons. Around 1755, the Sharp purchase. Monday, and Frank Harling’s Deep brothers began a series of instrumental Vic Cardell’s skillful handling of River. Another example is Krenek’s concerts aboard barges on the Thames Clora Bryant’s life and career was origi- Jonny spielt auf (1927), the premiere of River. Coral presented iconographical nally presented at the Mountain/Plains which Otto Kahn attended in Berlin. evidence for one of these concerts that Chapter in May of 1999. Clora Bryant Kahn brought the work to the Metro- took place around 1779. This portrait, was a pioneering trumpeter in Los politan Opera, characterizing it as a now in the National Portrait Gallery, Angeles in the 1940s and a leading “jazz opera,” a label Krenek found shows fifteen members of the family exponent of that city’s Central Avenue problematic. Several other issues were on the Apollo, one of their smaller jazz sound. As a young woman, Bryant presented, including the development barges. Several instruments are shown, sang in school and church choirs and of swing rhythms in the 1930s and including one of the earliest depictions played the piano. She picked up the their subsequent use as material for of the piano in England. In addition to horn after her brother left his instru- opera, and the free jazz movement these aquatic excursions, the family ment behind when going off to serve of the 1960s, a fusing of jazz and clas- gave Sunday evening concerts at home in the military. Clora was especially sical styles that was characterized as that were devoted solely to sacred fascinated with trumpet mutes, which “third stream music” by Gunther music. These two activities indicate she referred to as “hats.” She moved to Schuller. Indeed, Schuller’s 1967 opera that the Sharps owned a significant Los Angeles in 1945, and after a brief continued on page twenty-four

M L A Newsletter • No. 120 23 Publications Awards Announced in Louisville

Alan Karass, Publicity Officer will play a key role in bringing serious assessment of the book’s strategies and focus to a composer who has unde- achievements, however; with a caveat At is 69th Annual Meeting, held in servedly received comparatively little here and a prompt there, he effectively Louisville, KY, the Music Library Asso- attention from musicologists and theo- helps readers gain a foothold where ciation announced the following publi- reticians alike. She has provided for us the territory may appear unfamiliar, cation awards: a touchstone which will become the anticipating responses and emphasiz- The Vincent H. Duckles Award, bible of Sibelius studies for years to ing passages that will play a role later for the best book-length bibliography come.” on in the argument.” or research tool in music published in The Richard S. Hill 1998, was given to Glenda D. Goss. Award, for the best article Call for Nominations Her book, Jean Sibelius: A Guide to on music librarianship or The MLA Publications Research, was published by Garland article of a music-biblio- Awards Committee seeks Publishing and is part of their Com- graphic nature published nominations for the three poser Resource Manual series. In during 1998, was given to awards for published works selecting Ms. Goss’ work, the Publica- David H. Thomas and given annually by the Asso- tions Award Committee commented: Richard P. Smiraglia for ciation: “In the area of Sibelius scholarship, their article “Beyond the Vincent H. Duckles most primary sources and published Score” published in Notes, vol. Award for the best book- research are available in languages not 54, no. 3, pp. 649-666. length bibliography or other research understood by many. Glenda Goss has In nominating Mr. Thomas and Mr. tool in music organized this often obscure micro- Smiraglia for the Hill Award, the Publi- Richard S. Hill Award for the cosm of knowledge into logical regions cations Award Committee noted: best article on music librarianship or and has provided abstracts that are “Through a thorough examination of article of a bibliographic nature in always clear and succinct. Her work the literature the article further devel- music ops the concepts of the musical work Eva Judd O’Meara Award for the and musical bibliographic families and best review published in the Associa- Chapters challenges accepted cataloging theory tion’s journal, Notes. and rules related to bibliographical Publications nominated for awards continued from page twenty-three relationships for music. Considering to be given in 2001 must have been The Visitation was the first work to use the musical work to be an abstract published during the 1999 calendar jazz improvisation. concept realized in sound, opens a year. Nominations may be directed to The remainder of this presentation way to a more accurate representation any member of the Committee: Mark focused on the topic of creating opera of the range of library materials that is Germer ([email protected]), that is accessible to black audiences. not necessarily dependent on the chair; Jerry McBride (jerry.mcbride@ Early attempts include Ellington’s Quee- description of physical items. The arti- middlebury.edu); Mark McKnight nie Pie and Adderly’s Big Man. Recent cle suggests how this representation ([email protected]). (and more successful) attempts include can lead to improved retrieval of musi- Dave Burrell’s Windward Passages and cal works in future bibliographic sys- Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times tems to benefit library users.” of Malcolm X. Anthony Braxton’s Tril- The Eva Judd O’Meara Award, Organ Society lium and Jon Faddis’s Lulu Noire for the best review published in the (1997), in Ottervik’s opinion, will be as organization’s journal, Notes, in 1998, continued from page twenty-one significant contributions to the genre as was given to Andrew Dell’Antonio for Lowell) is planning an international Burrell’s and Davis’s. his review of Rose Rosengard Subot- symposium to be held in Princeton in A brief discussion of the reception nik’s Deconstructive Variations: Music fall 2000, tentatively entitled “American of these works resulted in an interest- and Reason in Western Society (Min- Organ Research: New Century, New ing dichotomy, that is that works in the neapolis: University of Minnesota Directions.” idiom of jazz opera by white com- Press, 1996). The review appeared in The American Organ Archives was posers have been published, while Notes, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 894-897. founded in 1961 and first housed at those by black composers have not. The Publications Award Commit- the Historical Society of York County, This stimulating session amply demon- tee remarked: “Andrew Dell’Antonio Pennsylvania. In 1967, the collection strated the vitality and infinite variety of communicates an appreciation for a was moved to Ohio Wesleyan Univer- papers given at our chapter meetings. body of scholarly writing about music sity, and relocated again in 1984 to The Best of Chapters will again be part that is unusual in its focus on philo- Princeton. Information about the of our next annual conference meeting sophical and ethical values. He accom- Archives can be seen on the OHS web- in New York. plishes more than a thoughtful site at www.organsociety.com.

24 M L A Newsletter • No. 120 Music Collection and Acquisition Practices in Public Libraries in Connecticut

NEMLA Public Libraries Committee in the realm of public institutions, such going on out there?” The results of a as the public library. Music services survey done more than fifty years ago Why music? may be provided by a unit as large as by Otto Leuning indicated that only 23 The June 6, 1999, issue of the New a department or by a single individual, of 60 libraries surveyed collected Haven Register (New Haven, Conn.), far removed from the administration scores. Stevenson acknowledged the announced that area hospitals were that makes the policy decisions con- numerous sound recording collections including CDs of classical music in cerning the value of music, therefore in public libraries since that time and with the diapers and other baby sup- affecting budgets, staffing, and space asked if the money spent on these col- plies given to new mothers when they allocation for music. lections might have been better spent leave the hospital. The reason? It Writing in 1981, Stevenson said on circulating score collections for seems that playing classical music for that public librarians have always been amateur musicians. The answer to his infants can help stimulate brain devel- represented in MLA, but never with a question can be reached through “an opment. very strong voice, and with a voice approach to public library music ser- And what is on these CDs, called that has grown weaker since the early vices which has as its foundation a “Smart Symphonies?” The music, 1940s. He notes an under representa- knowledge of a community’s music chosen in consultation with experts in tion of medium and small public structure and some sense of how vari- “music and early childhood develop- ous groups of people use music in ment,” includes the second movement their lives and how they experience of Beethoven’s 8th symphony, a Bach A movement in MLA whatever type of music which has prelude in D minor, and the third on behalf of small- and meaning to them.” The conclusion of movement of Mozart’s Concerto for Stevenson’s article gloomily predicted two pianos, K. 365. medium-sized libraries that MLA will be unable to offer much This follows an article from March in the mid-1970s of interest to public libraries. 15, 1999, in the Hartford Courant resulted in the establish- Since Stevenson’s article appeared describing the efforts in other states to in 1981 in Notes, the Music Library expose infants and young children to ment of the Public Association has taken steps to broaden classical music. There is a proliferation Library Committee its membership to include more public of sites on the Web devoted to the librarians (MLA Plan 2001, Objective II. Mozart Effect. Most of these sites are (now the Public A) in order to help them with the uni- commercial, offering Mozart CDs to Libraries Committee). verse of “ever-expanding music help you “perk” up or relax, “tune up” resources”). In that spirit, the New or “strengthen” your mind, or “heal” England Chapter of MLA (NEMLA) the body - all for a price. libraries in MLA, with the most visible requested and received MLA grant It seems the importance of music public libraries in MLA being the large funding to survey the public libraries in our lives is finally being re-acknowl- research libraries- closer to their acade- in Connecticut about the status of their edged. As librarians, we have a golden mic counterparts than to smaller public music collections. This survey was opportunity to help bring music into libraries. Stevenson wondered why the based on an earlier and smaller survey everyone’s lives, not just infants and number of public librarians in MLA of twenty-two small public libraries children, in public libraries. was so low, and speculated that either done by Kathleen Marszycki, now the there were few full-time music librari- director at the Old Lyme-Phoebe Grif- Music in public libraries ans in public libraries or that the goals fen Noyes Library in Old Lyme, Conn., Historically, the public library has of MLA may not be concordant with as a project for a library science course been seen as a cultural leader for the the needs of music librarians in public at Southern Connecticut State Univer- community it served. The National libraries. A movement in MLA on sity. Initial results of this survey indi- Plan for Public Library Service of 1948 behalf of small- and medium-sized cated a great need, especially in small advocates the “development of aes- libraries in the mid-1970s resulted in public libraries, for assistance with col- thetic appreciation” and the “enrich- the establishment of the Public Library lecting and maintaining music materi- ment of personal life” as two goals. Committee (now the Public Libraries als. One success directly related to this This requires that the public library Committee), with one of its purposes survey was the creation of a music col- make available literature, music, and being to encourage interaction lection at the Cragin Memorial Library the visual arts.1 In his article “Music between the different sized public in Colchester, Conn. Librarianship in the United States,”2 libraries as well as between public and The newly-formed NEMLA Public Gordon Stevenson pointed out that academic libraries. Libraries Committee took on the task music services are far more likely to be He continued by asking, “What is continued on page twenty-six

M L A Newsletter • No. 120 25 Collection and Acquisition Practices

continued from page twenty-five more libraries (16) wanted to collect CDs are in the budget line with all of revising and enlarging the original world music than pop (6) or rock audio-video, including CD-ROMs. We survey. The two-page survey was sent (12). Fifteen wanted to collect classi- had hoped to get a clearer picture of to all 190 public libraries in Connecti- cal and eleven wanted to collect how many libraries have a budget line cut. Of the 190 sent, 109, or 57%, opera. Clearly, an opportunity exists solely for music. were returned. The results were tal- for music librarians to help our col- We also asked what percentage of lied and presented to the Chapter at leagues in public libraries. the budget was allocated to music the Spring Meeting, May 7, 1999, in We asked the libraries that do not CDs versus videos. We wanted to New Haven. The survey was intended maintain an active music collection determine if there was a great dispar- to be a pilot for all of New England, what prohibits them from doing so. ity in the amount spent for each. If with funding to be requested from the Forty-eight responded that budget this was indeed the case, perhaps national organization in a year or two. constraints are a factor and thirty budget constraints are not such a An analysis of the answers will help responded that they lacked sufficient great barrier to collecting music. us revise, change, or add questions to space. Other factors were lack of time The majority of libraries spent less the next survey. or expertise in acquiring and cata- than 5% of their budgets on CDs (87) loging music, and a perceived lack of and videos (56). Much more is being The survey results patron or staff interest. All of these spent on videos. While only ten The survey emphasized recorded responses are telling, but the last two libraries spent between five and fif- music, with reference to printed music are the more worrisome. A perceived teen percent of their budgets on CDs, and videos. Of the 109 libraries lack of patron interest should be fur- thirty-seven libraries spent the same responding, 90 have CDs, 54 have on videos. Two libraries devoted cassettes, and 22 have LPs. We more than 15% of their total budgets attempted to determine the status of on videos! Perhaps budget allocation acquisition of recorded music by A wide range of rather than true budget constraint is asking libraries to describe their music people is responsible the major issue limiting music collec- collection development efforts. Unfor- tions. tunately, the terms from which they for selection of were to choose (active/vital, highly music materials in Percent of total budget spent on selective, minimal, or nonexistent) Connecticut’s pubic CDs and videos caused confusion. The ambiguity of Of the amount budgeted for CDs, the data was confirmed when we saw libraries, from the most libraries (59) spent approxi- that although forty libraries thought library director mately what was budgeted, while their efforts were active or vital, fewer three spent significantly more and than half the libraries spent more than to patrons. three spent significantly less. One of 5% of their budgets on music. the libraries spending significantly more had received gift funding specif- What do they collect and for ther investigated. A lack of staff inter- ically for CDs. whom? est would be inexcusable. Most libraries noted that their Fifty-one libraries surveyed target Those libraries with no music col- budget for both categories remained their music collection to adults. Thirty- lection were asked if they had a music the same for the past two years. Only eight also aim their efforts toward collection at one time, and if so, what five libraries saw a decrease in fund- children and 34 toward young adult. happened to it. Five libraries had LP ing for either; forty received more for More manipulation of the data is collections, which were either dis- CDs and forty-one received more for needed to determine how many carded or sold for various reasons. videos. libraries target more than one age group. Budgets Collection Development/ The libraries collect in a wide We wanted to explore the subject Acquisitions range of genres, with the highest of budget and how it is allocated, A wide range of people is respon- numbers in blues, musicals, classical, specifically whether music had a sepa- sible for selection of music materials and opera. Classical and musicals tied rate line in the budget and how the in Connecticut’s public libraries, from for the highest at 87 each. Even amount committed to music compared the library director to patrons. Fre- libraries that do not collect music are to that for videos. Thirty-four libraries quently more than one person is interested in building collections in indicated that they have a separate responsible. Some libraries involve all these same categories. Surprisingly line item for music; however, many staff in these efforts; one library forty-five libraries also collect world libraries include audio books and CDs formed a committee of professional music. It is interesting to note that in the same budget line. Often, music continued on the next page

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continued from the previous page patrons to borrow music recordings. libraries to build a funding base for musicians and aficionados. Only four libraries disagreed, and none music collection development might be Most selectors don’t have the time strongly disagreed. adversely affected. Generally speaking, or resources to locate and wade We also asked to which music one can’t hope to successfully build a through the proliferation of CD periodicals the libraries subscribed. budget for any kind of resource with- reviews available for all genres. Some The most popular were Opera News out giving it visibility as a separate libraries indicated that their music (11), Stereo Review (10), and Rolling budget line. recording collection only consists of Stone (10). Related to this issue of visibility is whatever they receive as gifts, and that of tracking circulation statistics for many rely heavily on patron requests Conclusion music separately. Music collections in for selection. Several libraries It is apparent from the survey public libraries are more likely than in expressed an interest in receiving results that most public libraries in academic libraries to be part of a larger monthly flyers with succinct reviews of Connecticut either have or want collec- fine arts collection. In these situations, recommended CDs, arranged by genre, tions of recorded music, and those that statistical record keeping for use and to assist with selection. Again, this is have collections wish to develop them circulation of music materials, as well an opportunity for music librarians to further. It is also apparent that many as for music reference questions, is help. For example, the Public Libraries libraries, especially the smaller libraries necessary to extrapolate information Committee is currently compiling core surveyed, are in need of assistance in about any perceived or actual interest lists of 10 to 20 CD titles by music the areas of selecting, acquiring, cata- in the collection, and thus warrant the genre. loging, and processing recorded music special costs and needs involved in Sixty-seven libraries responded in all genres. The committee noted that acquiring, cataloging, processing, that they would be interested in pur- because music often is included with shelving, maintaining, and servicing chasing a pre-selected core collection other media in budgets, the ability of continued on page twenty-eight of CDs in one or more genres. Even the libraries with established music col- lections wanted to know what they Call for Nominations for MLA Board & MLA Citation might be missing. (The core lists being developed can be used for these pur- Roberta Chodacki, Chair, MLA Nominating Committee poses.) The idea behind this question was to see if there was enough interest The Nominating Committee welcomes recommendations for nominations for to approach reputable vendors with three Members-at-Large to serve on the Board of Directors for a two-year term, these lists. These core collections could 2001-2003. Board members represent the membership as they carry out the be available to public libraries at a Association’s work, so it is very important that all of the membership is reflected reduced price. Survey results indicated in the Board’s composition. MLA can achieve this goal only if members forward that it would be useful if the collection recommendations to the Committee that represent every chapter, type of institu- came cataloged and processed as well. tion, and work within our ranks. Sixty-eight libraries used a vendor The Committee also invites nominations for the MLA Citation, the Associa- for acquiring recorded music. Not sur- tion’s tribute for lifetime achievement, awarded in recognition of contributions to prisingly, the most popular supplier is the profession over a career. Baker and Taylor, a major contracted Please send your recommendations to one of the Nominating Committee vendor for library materials in Con- members listed below. Please include the institutional affiliation for each pro- necticut. posed candidate as well as a very brief justification for the recommendation. We also asked about printed music Communications should be received by May 15th to be guaranteed full consider- and found that nineteen libraries col- ation. Thanks for participating in this important process. lect scores. The respondents were equally divided about how important it Roberta Chodacki is to provide patrons with the opportu- [email protected] nity to borrow scores. Forty-seven agreed that it was important and eight Ginny Danielson Rebecca Littman strongly agreed. It is disheartening to [email protected] [email protected] note that fifty disagreed and four strongly disagreed. John Druesedow, Jr. Nancy Lorimer On the other hand, most libraries [email protected] [email protected] agreed (44) and even more strongly agreed (61) that it was important to Jean Harden Anna Seaberg provide the opportunity for their [email protected] [email protected]

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May 5, 2000 continued from page twenty-seven Copy deadline for MLA Newsletter, issue 121 music materials. The survey clearly indicated ways May 31-June 3, 2000 in which academic music librarians ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) 2000 Conference could help their public library col- leagues develop a music collection. Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Although the interest in music scores was not high, it indicated a possible June 16-18, 2000 future course of action). The NEMLA TOSCA 2000: An interdisciplinary conference featuring Public Libraries Committee is already historians, music scholars, and performers, acting on some of the suggestions and hopes, through the New England Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, Italy Chapter’s work, to propose a model for regional initiatives throughout the June 29-July2, 2000 country. In addition, and in anticipa- International Conference on Nineteenth-century Music tion of future use on a larger scale, the London, England Connecticut survey will be fine-tuned as necessary to achieve a better quality August 6-11, 2000 of results. International Association of Music Libraries, Sandy Brooks, Eastern Connecticut Archives & Documentation Libraries, Willimantic, CT Edinburgh, Scotland Michelle Koth, Yale University, New Haven, CT August 10-12, 2000 Kelly Marszycki, Old Lyme - Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, “Listening to the West: Music in the Soul of a Region” Old Lyme, CT Conference and Festival Suzanne Risley, Brainerd Memor- Boulder, Colorado ial Library, Haddam, CT August 24-27, 2000 1 Monroe, Margaret E. “The Cultural Role of the Public Library,” Advances in Librarianship, vol. 11, Third Latin American Congress of IASPM (International Association 1981: 2-3. for the Study of Popular Music) 2 Stevenson, Gordon. “Music Librarianship in the Bogota, Colombia United States.” Advances in Librarianship, vol. 11, 1981: 163-206.

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