Midwest Note-Book 16:1 May 2007 MIDWEST CHAPTER of the MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Midwest Note-Book 16:1 May 2007 MIDWEST CHAPTER OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

IN THIS ISSUE “Music Library 2.0” in Cincinnati 66th Annual Meeting 66th annual meeting takes a technological theme Overview ...... 1 Our Oral History ...... 5 An interview with idwest Chapter members! Be sure to Cincinnati Web Sites Joan Falconer reserve October 11-13 for the 66th Radisson Hotel Cincinnati From the Chair ...... 2 Mannual meeting of your MLA chapter http://www.radisson.com/covingtonky News & Notes ...... 3 in Cincinnati! We will be congregating at the Mainstrasse Village Publications ...... 3 Radisson Hotel Cincinnati, located just across http://www.mainstrasse.org/Home.html Newport on the Levee Tips from TAPS ...... 4 the Ohio River in Covington, Kentucky, and af- fording a great view of the city’s skyline. Our http://www.newportonthelevee.com/ Administrative Purple People Bridge Structure...... 12 host, and site for Friday afternoon’s sessions, is http://www.purplepeoplebridgeclimb.com/ the College-Conservatory of Music of the Uni- CincinnatiUSA.com versity of Cincinnati. CALENDAR http://www.cincinnatiusa.com/ Planning is well underway for a program All about Cincinnati events and attractions May 3-5, 2007 with the over-arching theme of “Music Library ARSC Conference 2.0.” Join us for “adventures in technology” as 2007 Meeting Contacts Milwaukee, Wisconsin we look at new integrated library systems, dis- Program Chair July 1-6, 2007 covery and socal software, EAD (Encoded Ar- Ruthann McTyre (University of Iowa) IAML Annual chival Description), and other technological is- Local Arrangements Chair Conference Paul Cauthen (University of Cincinnati) Sydney, Australia sues that are or will be impacting our library October 11-13, 2007 lives. 66th Annual Midwest Technology may be the focus, but it won’t Chapter Meeting be the only topic of the two-day conference. Oral History Project Cincinnati, Ohio As always, ateendees will discover something Joan Falconer interview leads off about the cultural and musical history of the DEADLINE conference locale. Wendy Sistrunk (University ith this issue we are pleased to begin of Missouri-Kansas City), who serves as librar- a series of interviews highlighting the August 1, 2007 ian and archivist for Mu Phi Episilon, will make chapter’s oral history project. Coordi- for the next issue of W Midwest Note-Book a presentation on women composers and the nated by the Publications Committee, the fraternity, which began in Cincinnati. project is a valiant and painstaking attempt to Cincinnati is also known as the first Ameri- record much of the history of the Midwest can city to commission an opera (Paoletta by Pi- Chapter and its members through their own etro Floridia), and we will hear about that from words and recollections. Bruce McClung, associate professor of musi- To lead off the series we feature an inter- cology at the College-Conservatory, in his pre- view with Joan (Jody) Falconer. Jody retired sentation “Municipal Opera: Cincinnati, Paolet- from the University of Iowa seven years ago ta, and the Ohio Valley Exposition of 1910.” after a long and fruitful career in music libraries More details on the program and events in and MLA. Her story is a vivid tour through the the area will be forthcoming in the September early days of the profession and includes some issue of Midwest Note-Book and on the chapter of the famous names in music librarianship Web site. In the meantime, start planning now and musicology over the years. by clicking on the following links to see the Oral history interviews will be appearing many attractions Cincinnati and environs have regularly in future issues of Midwest Note-Book. to offer. We’ll look forward to seeing you Oc- Join Jody on her journey (page five), and you tober 11-13 on the banks of the Ohio! will not want to miss one! From the Chair NEW MEMBERS Midwest Note-Book Eric Harbeson, student, t’s a beautiful morn- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign THE PUBLICATION OF THE ing in May, and I’m Alyssa Inniger, Mankato, MIDWEST CHAPTER OF THE sitting in my favorite MN MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION I Stephanie Hewson, chair, typing away on my student, Illinois State beloved laptop. We tech- University nically live in the city Peter H. Lisius, Music (Kansas City is our mail- and Media Catalog ISSN 1063-5327 Librarian and ing address), but I hear a Assistant Professor, Kent State University VOL. 16, NO. 1 rooster crowing from a farm a half mile away. The groundhog living WELCOME TO THE Published in May, under our shed awoke from hibernation back in MIDWEST CHAPTER! September, and January March, and we delight in seeing him every day. Midwest Note-Book is His job is keeping the weeds down, so we don’t MEMBERSHIP available free on the Web site have to. Then there’s the music of the birds— of the Midwest Chapter of the Music Library Association the red-winged blackbirds, robins, cardinals, It’s always a good time http://mlamidwest.org/ blue jays, goldfinches, sparrows, mourning to join or to renew doves and the silly bobwhites that make us membership in the Membership in the Midwest Chapter MLA Midwest Chapter! is $8.00 annually ($4.00 for students). laugh with their funny walks to and from the Annual dues are only Inquiries and renewals may be directed to: bird feeders. The neighborhood woodpeckers $8 for regular mem- Michael Duffy, Secretary-Treasurer are the percussion section—at times they try bers and $4 for 175-A Music Building out the house, but decide the sound (and the students. Northern Illinois University Members are urged to DeKalb, IL 60115 potential for food) isn’t so good. I hope you’re keep their membership [email protected] enjoying the music in your neighborhood! current so they remain I enjoyed seeing so many of you in Pitts- eligible to vote and to Submissions and communications burgh! I hope you enjoyed the meeting as hold committee regarding Midwest Note-Book membership. should be sent to: much as I did, and I’m sure you experienced Greg Fitzgerald, Editor the same problem I had: so many good ses- To join or renew, go to Maybee Music & Dance Library the chapter Web site, Western Michigan University sions, so little time, and so many sessions http://mlamidwest.org, 1903 W. Michigan Ave. scheduled against another good program! Jen and click on Member- Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5434 Riley’s one-handed cell phone solo at the cock- ship Info for a member- [email protected] tail hour was a smash hit. If you missed it, be ship form. Send the form with your check Deadline for submissions sure to e-mail Jen or ask her about it in person. (payable to Midwest is the 1st of the month I’d like to think that the music librarians Chapter, MLA) to: preceding publication. showed the musicologists a great time at the Michael Duffy Secretary-Treasurer The Midwest Chapter of the end of our Pittsburgh meeting. Midwest Chapter MLA Music Library Association This fall, Paul Cauthen and Mark Palkovic 175-A Music Building is a tax-exempt, non-profit are hosting our chapter meeting in the greater organization. Northern Illinois Cincinnati area, 11-13 October. Ruthann Mc- University DeKalb, IL 60115 http://mlamidwest.org/ Tyre, chapter Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, is planning a fabulous program with her dynamic Pro- gram Committee crew. It’s housecleaning time in our library. We have a short break before summer session be- gins, and student assistants are shelving, shelfreading, doing inventory, and completing projects that were held up during the spring semester. We also do planning during this time— budgets, equipment replacement and upgrades, etc. I’d encourage you to do some planning too! continued on page 11

2 PUBLICATIONS News & Notes Richard D. Burbank (University of Illinois at Urbana- MIDWESTERNERS ASSUME NEW ROLES ARTICLES BY GREEN, TROUTMAN HONORED Champaign). “Musical IN NATIONAL MLA AS JOURNAL’S “BEST OF VOLUME” Fusion in the Works of Olaf Stapledon: A At MLA’s annual business meeting in Pitts- Articles by Alan Green (The Ohio State Matrix of Storms and burgh in February, President Bonna Boettcher University) and the late Leslie Troutman (Uni- Stars.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts announced the appointments of new editors versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) have 16:4 (Winter 2006): and special officers, including these Midwest received “Best of the Volume” awards from 350-368. Chapter members. R. Michael Fling Music Reference Services Quarterly. Troutman’s (Indiana University). • D. J. Hoek (Northwestern University) is “Comprehensiveness of Indexing in Three Mu- “Tips on Acquiring the new editor of the MLA Technical Reports sic Periodical Index Databases” and “Keeping Music.” Notes 63:2 (December 2006): series, succeeding Stephen Wright (Northern up with the Times: Evaluating Currency of In- 279-288. Illinois University). dexing, Language Coverage and Subject Area Karen R. Little • Eric Harbeson (University of Illinois at Coverage in the Three Music Periodical Index (University of Louisville) and Julia Urbana-Champaign) has assumed the position Databases” by Green, both published in vol. 8, Graepel. Grawemeyer of Copyright Web Site Editor. no. 1 of the journal, were selected by a peer re- Award for Music • Jon Haupt (Iowa State University) has ac- Composition: the First view panel. Twenty Years. cepted the new position of Assistant Web Edi- “Taken together they [the articles] offer a Scarecrow Press/ tor. wealth of information about the various music MLA, 2007. David Procházka (The • Susannah Cleveland (Bowling Green indexing databases available to libraries,” the University of Akron). State University) will assume the position of journal stated in announcing the award in its “The Development of Placement Officer on July 1, 2007. Uniform Titles for vol. 9, no. 1. “We had difficulty selecting one Choreographic Congratulations and good luck to all! over the other and felt that the articles comple- Works.” Cataloging & mented each other—and provided a compre- Classification Quarterly 42:1 AMY PENNINGTON RECEIVES hensive way of evaluating available music in- (2006): 7-20. KEVIN FREEMAN TRAVEL GRANT dexes, which is particularly beneficial to the Amy Pennington of the Midwest Chapter profession.” GOT NEWS? was among four recipients of MLA’s Kevin MRSQ also announced that in honor of Freeman Travel Grant for 2007. The award the award, it will make a donation to the Leslie Do you have news of provides support to attend annual meetings to Troutman Scholarship Fund of the Midwest interest to chapter students, recent graduates, and others who are Chapter. members? New job? Recent publication? new to the profession. Troutman’s article was honored previously Significant library Amy is completing an M.A. in library sci- with MLA’s Richard S. Hill Award as best arti- acquisition? Send it in ence at the University of Missouri-Columbia. cle in music librarianship published in 2003 to Midwest Note-Book! Her B.A. in music is from Calvin College, (Midwest Note-Book, vol. 14, no. 1, May 2005). Committee chairs: update us on projects Grand Rapids, Michigan, and she holds the and activities. Retir- M.M. in viola performance from the University ...AND SPEAKING OF SCHOLARSHIPS… ees: we would love to of Missouri-Kansas City. Currently she is a The Executive Committee would like to hear from you. The library technical assistant in cataloging at newsletter is a great share this note from Eric Harbeson, a 2006 re- way to inform all your Washington University in St. Louis, where she cipient of the Retirees Scholarship: Midwest MLA col- recently completed her library science practi- “Please accept my very sincere thanks for leagues and the wider cum at the Gaylord Music Library. Amy re- library world. the generous scholarship to attend the Midwest ceived the Midwest Chapter’s Retirees Scholar- Chapter conference in Milwaukee! I enjoyed the Send submissions to ship to attend the chapter’s annual meeting in editor Greg Fitzgerald conference thoroughly, and learned a great deal at the address on page 2005. from it. The scholarship made a big difference 2. Deadline for the in allowing me to attend.” September issue is August 1. Our thanks to Eric, and to members of the Mid- west Chapter who make these scholarships possible!

3 Tips from TAPS Technology, Archives, Preservation and Sound Committee

PDAS FOR SHELFREADING worker may choose to view a variety of results At MLA’s recent meeting in Pittsburgh, Sha in addition to the call number: charge status, Towers, Music and Fine Arts Librarian at Bay- browse status, item status, call number + (enu- lor University, gave an overview of a project meration, copy number, or other call number Baylor initiated to improve the accuracy and ef- information that is not from the call number ficiency of shelf reading by using PDAs (per- field in the bibliographic record), and/or place sonal digital assistants). In the time allotted for holders (a check box to allow the shelf reader questions, Alisa Rata, Director ad interim and to mark his or her progress through a list). Music and Dance Librarian at Southern Meth- The program then generates a simple list odist University, shared some additional in- with call number information and any other in- sights into a similar program at SMU. Since we formation selected for the search. This easy-to- are all beset by the need to keep our shelves as read display (optimized for hand-held devices) orderly as possible while facing diminishing is numbered, and these numbers are linked to a student wage budgets, it seemed like it would fuller record that includes author and title; be helpful to put some of the technical details from this more extensive record, it is possible in print. to “mark” an item with a status such as “weed,” Both Baylor and SMU are testing the use “missing,” “cat review,” or “circ review.” of hand-held PDAs to help student assistants Marked items are included in a list that can coordinate their shelf then be downloaded and reading duties with their imported into an Access institutions’ online cata- table for further action. logs. At Baylor, shelflists ShelfLister is a web- are first generated in the based program that re- online catalog using Inno- quires no specific plat- vative Interface’s “Create List” function. The form, simply a web browser on the portable list is exported to a Microsoft Excel file, which device. Scanning of the barcodes with PDAs includes call number, copy number, author, ti- has proven to be tricky so far at SMU, so they tle, barcode, and columns for marking. The Ex- have been testing the program using laptops cel file is synced to a PDA running Windows and tablet PCs. They hope soon to transfer this and Excel. The student assistants take the PDA work to a PDA with a specialized imager en- with them to the shelf and indicate whether gine that will enable the device to recognize each item is present or not, and whether it is in their barcodes effectively. need of repair. After the shelf is read, the data- While we would all love for our shelf read- base is exported back to a desktop computer ing to be instant and hands-free, most of us where staff members consult the status infor- still depend on student workers to complete mation indicated by the student assistants and this task for us. The addition of PDAs to the take appropriate action. process is one approach that can help take SMU is taking a slightly different approach. some of the pain out of the duty for them, and They are using a program called ShelfLister improve accuracy for everyone. Sha (http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/shelflister/) a util- ([email protected]) and Alisa ity developed expressly for Voyager users by ([email protected]) welcome questions you Michael Doran, Systems Librarian for the Uni- have about implementing such a project in your versity of Texas at Arlington. ShelfLister uses library. the library’s wireless Internet connection to Susannah Cleveland, Bowling Green State University generate a call-number sorted list of a range of materials from Voyager when a worker scans or For other Tips from TAPS, information and resources, keys the first and last barcodes of items on the see the TAPS Web site at: shelf. After inputting the two barcodes, the http://www.vandercook.edu/library/taps/

4 Speaking our History: Joan Falconer First in a Series in the Midwest Chapter Oral History Project “I think the greatest pleasure of my life is that most of the time I have been in a job I enjoyed. I can’t imagine what it is like to have to do things, week after week, month after month, year after year, that you don’t really enjoy...”

With this issue we inaugurate a series of interviews from the Midwest Chapter’s Oral History Project. ever be a secretary in a meeting, for example, When she retired in 2000, Dr. Joan (Jody) Falconer because I missed a lot of words. “I learned to swing was head of the Rita Benton Music Library at the University of Iowa. Lynne Weber interviewed Jody at apple boxes, boxes her home in Iowa City on January 28, 2006. At Cornell full of apples at an I went to Cornell University. Now, that early age. That was very good practice The Early Years was the only place I applied to. It never oc- for being a JF: I was born in Schenectady, New York. curred to me I wouldn’t be accepted since my librarian and I When I was six years old, we moved outside the father had gone there and three uncles and a could pick up city, to a little town called Burnt Hills, which at godmother or two. We had all kinds of con- stacks of books that time was a little sleepy country village. The nections. I won a Regents scholarship—that easily. I still have street in front of our house had only just been was no big deal either at that time. In my four that upper body strength...” paved. It’s about eight miles south of Saratoga. years there, I became a music major. My father wanted to have an apple orchard. The faculty included Donald Grout, one Even though he continued working as a civil of those great, revered names in our history; engineer all his life, we had these twelve acres William Austin, who started there the same of apples, plums, pears, peaches and other year I did, so we were both newcomers to Cor- things and that was how we spent our spare nell together; Robert Palmer was there; [and] time for many, many, many years. John Kirkpatrick, known to very many because My parents continued to run their orchard of his Charles Ives connection—I am sorry on a pick-your-own basis until my father be- Cornell lost him to Yale. Just at the time I left, came too ill to continue and that was around the English bass-baritone Keith Falkner came 1980. So we had two generations of people to teach voice. I was just very sorry that I was coming. I learned to swing apple boxes, boxes not there at the time that he was. He thinks full of apples at an early age. That was very that we were distantly related because he said good practice for being a librarian and I could their name was spelled the way ours is a gener- pick up stacks of books easily. I still have that ation before. [After he left Cornell he became “At Cornell, I sang in the Sage Chapel upper body strength which is very nice. President of the Royal College of Music in Choir and also in I went to the local schools in Burnt Hills. Britain.] the A Cappella This was rather sad because it was a very poor At Cornell, I sang in the Sage Chapel Chorus.... Donald school. We were all in one building at that time, Choir and also in the A Cappella Chorus, Grout was this was in the late 30’s and the 40’s. We had which was a subset of that. Donald Grout was conducting the practically no music instruction in the school, conducting the Sage Chapel Choir at that time, Sage Chapel Choir at that time, all the but my parents belonged to the Schenectady all the four years I was there. William Austin four years I was Choral Society. The conductor of that—who was the University organist. He had not origi- there. William was a lifelong family friend, a very dear friend— nally been an organist but he was an excellent Austin was the allowed me to sing with that group the last two pianist and Grout had known him at Harvard University years in high school. Ordinarily, no high school in the years before the war [WW II], and want- organist.” person was admitted, [but] he knew I needed ed to get him onto his faculty. The only posi- the musical experience. So I had a good time. tion that opened up was that of the university That was the only real musical experience I had organist. So Grout said to Austin, “Are you in my high school years. willing to play the organ in six months?” And I had one childhood trauma when I was by God, he did! (laughter) I can still see Bill three years old, a near-fatal strep infection. It Austin at that wonderful Aeolian-Skinner or- damaged my hearing. So my partial hearing loss gan console playing absolutely flawlessly, and is something I have had all my life. It has defi- not having to look at what he was doing. It was nitely been a professional handicap. I could not a great time.

5 Columbia and the Fulbright and of course, that did not go to a woman. After that, I did a year of graduate study in There was no chance of it going to a woman. musicology at Columbia University, … thanks to a godmother who all during the war years had University of Chicago been a teacher in school and moonlighted by So I applied for library school at Columbia driving a taxi and gave war bonds, one after an- and I applied to a couple others, including Uni- other, to her godchildren in succession. I had a versity of Chicago’s Graduate Library School bunch of bonds that paid my first year in gradu- and that was where I ended up going. I spent ate school. I did run out of money after that. I two years there, ’55 to ’57. It was a wonderful “I used to work had two younger siblings being educated. I went two years. I lived in International House the frantically copying home; I worked for a year at the Naval Supply whole time. International House was just down manuscripts from Depot in Scotia, New York, where my father the mall from the shore, a clean beach, it was at 9 to 2. Finally I had worked as Civilian Foreman of Labor dur- that time, on the lake, and I could walk down would stumble out into the sunshine, ing the war years. there and go swimming at the end of the day. going to a Then during this year, at Mr. Grout’s advice, I worked part-time in the Department of panetteria, I applied for a Fulbright [Scholarship] to Italy to Special Collections. The whole first year I getting some food study the cantatas of Giacomo Carissimi. I did spent “calendaring” the archives, some of the and sitting on the some Italian tutoring with someone from archives, of Poetry Magazine. That was the first steps of the Trevi fountain to eat Schenectady’s large Italian populations. I got the of the “little magazines” devoted to publishing lunch.” Fulbright, so I spent the next year, mostly in [poetry]. They had files and files of letters Florence, working with the Italian scholar Feder- from all of the poets who had submitted ico Ghisi. Since Carissimi’s manuscripts were all works to Harriet Monroe, who was the editor over the place, it gave me an excuse to visit all of Poetry Magazine. The Ezra Pound letters had these wonderful places. I spent two months in already been done; there were boxes and boxes Rome working at the Vatican and the Casanat- of them, and those were sort of off limits to ense Library. The Casanatense was open from 9 all of us. I calendared T.S. Eliot, among others. [a.m.] to 2 [p.m.]. I used to work frantically I held the manuscript of “Prufrock” in my copying manuscripts from 9 to 2. Finally I hands; I can’t believe it now—they don’t let would stumble out into the sunshine, going to a anybody handle it now. William Carlos Will- panetteria, getting some food and sitting on the iams, Hilda Doolittle, there’s a whole list...all of steps of the Trevi fountain to eat lunch. After that generation had submitted works to Poetry that, I would walk down to the Forum or some- Magazine, and all of these manuscripts had to place like that. That was a really wonderful cou- be dated. …Things would say Friday the 27th, ple of months. I was there March and April, an and you had to try and figure out the date. It absolute perfect time for weather. That year, I was a wonderful, wonderful job. “It was Bill Austin had saved a lot of money; they paid “Fulbright- Also, there was a very interesting manu- who had put in my ers” very well during those initial years. script there, a set of instrumental parts that I head the idea of being a music I came back after that year and managed to did some work with, that had been cataloged as librarian. I hadn’t get some scholarship money to return to Co- “violin music, organ music, et cetera.” That known there was lumbia and finish my master’s degree on Carissi- was its total entry. Well, it turned out to be a such a thing....he mi. Then I had a choice of what was I to do set of [manuscript] parts for the Handel Chan- said, ‘These are next. It was Bill Austin who had put in my head dos Anthems that definitely predated the first the people who the idea of being a music librarian. I hadn’t printed edition. I did a lot of work on that and the scholars depend on.’” known there was such a thing. We didn’t really insisted that they catalog it properly, and I nev- have one at Cornell at that time, but he said, er did anything else. I should have written “These are the people who the scholars depend about this in an article, but at that point I had on.” So during my second year of my master’s no mentor to help me with this kind of thing. degree, I had been thinking about this and final- It was subsequently done… I think [by] Hans ly decided the best way to finance further gradu- Lennenberg. I had some correspondence later ate study in music was to get a library school de- about it. It was a wonderful two years because gree because at that time, again, it was a money I could go down to the Art Institute and sit in problem. There was one teaching assistant posi- that room full of Renoirs anytime that I felt tion, I think, in Columbia at that time in music, depressed.

6 The faculty there included Lester Asheim, last year or two, sang in choruses. I sang in cho- Ruth French Strout, Leon Carnovsky, [and] ruses, we have all kinds of things in common Howard Winger. I think these names are but we still have this connection. Somewhere known to many people of my generation. along there, I met Joe Boonin. Howard Winger taught a course, and I think it LW: Were you involved in graduate work at “...I was half time was called “The History of the Book.” the same time you were at New York Public? on the regular desk We worked a lot with pre-printing [and ear- JF: Yes. My seminars for musicology were staff and half time ly printed] books, which included a lot about on Monday morning and afternoon, and my ...recataloging the music collection... watermarks. There were a lot of big volumes work at the public library, Tuesday through So, my first job of watermarks up in the Department of Spe- Saturday….I also sang in a church choir that re- was half and half, cial Collections, and that was a fascination that hearsed twice a week, and I sang in Cantata public service and I’ve had all my life—with watermarks. That Singers that rehearsed one night a week. I don’t cataloging. I loved also led to my choice of musicology disserta- know how I did it. I would stay and spend the the combination and for many years tion subject which I’ll talk about in a moment. whole day at Columbia on Mondays. after that, I had [During those years I met and became a friend LW: Did you study after working all day? jobs that allowed of Edna Christopher, whom many in MLA will JF: No, usually I had rehearsal. And I also me to do both.” remember.] went to hear the Budapest Quartet play a series at, I think, at the Metropolitan Museum, and Columbia University and New York Public the New York Pro Musica played a series at the Library 92nd Street Y[MCA]. I went to a lot of con- So I was there for two years and then I certs. I discovered the New York City Ballet went back to New York and started graduate and went to that. (laughter)…I don’t know how I studies for my Ph.D. at Columbia and got a job did it! But I do know that at that age you have with the New York Public Library, thanks to endless energy. And it was a wonderful life. I Catherine Keyes Miller. I had met [her] my first remember it anyhow. I did one course a semes- year at Columbia when she taught our music ter at Columbia. bibliography course. She is a name famous in I sang in the Cantata Singers, which for a annals of the Music Library Association. She number of years, was conducted—it was the was a wonderful person. She was the head of group founded by Arthur Mendel. Everyone, I the Music Circulating Library at that time, on hope, knows his name. He actually came back Lexington Avenue, just a couple of blocks and guest conducted a concert that I sang in—I “I went to a lot of from Bloomingdale’s. There wasn’t really a job, think it was the St. John Passion. The next con- concerts. I a position for me on the staff, but she managed ductor after him was Alfred Mann. Then we discovered the to put together two half-time jobs so that I was had Thomas Dunn, who was an absolutely New York City half time on the regular desk staff and half wonderful person, a wonderful conductor and I Ballet and went to time up on the top floor recataloging the music think, again, well known to people of my gen- that...I don’t know collection under the direction of Jean Bowen. how I did it! But I eration. Joe Boonin sang in …the chorus at do know that at So, my first job was half and half, public ser- that time and he met his wife Nancy there, so that age you have vice and cataloging. I loved the combination that was a right nice connection. Joe Boonin’s endless energy. and for many years after that, I had jobs that al- path and mine have crossed a lot, of course, And it was a lowed me to do both. [This] caused me prob- since I was doing music acquisitions for all wonderful life.” lems for the end of my life when I could only these jobs I’ve held. We agreed tremendously do one, at public service. strongly on a number of things—one of them Anyhow, it was a wonderful job and Jean being that Thomas Dunn is a magnificent con- Bowen …is a wonderful person. We had a ductor, and the other thing being that Cathe- grand time up on that floor. And then the peo- rine Miller was a magnificent person. ple downstairs …George Louis Mayer, who went on to become head of some unit at Lin- Columbia University Music Library coln Center, and Irene Munchak, who probably During two of the years that I was doing most people don’t know except those who used my [doctoral] course work at Columbia, I left the library. She was a wonderful public service New York Public Library and went to work in librarian. We still keep in touch. She lives in the Columbia University Music Library, where Pennsylvania. She is very elderly and until the Thomas Watkins, then and before and a long

7 time after, was the music librarian. That made Winston-Salem and the Moravian Music doing my classes … much easier during the Foundation “I went back to the time that I was there. And it was during the I had, meanwhile, settled on a dissertation New York Public time that I was doing subject courses and really subject, the works of Johannes Herbst, a Mora- Library after that. needed to have more library time than I would vian composer—one of the Moravians that Sometime along about then, the have if I had been working out of the system. came to this country in the latter part of the Lincoln Center There were other reasons for leaving New eighteenth century. The thing that fascinated Library was coming York Public Library. Columbia’s pay scale, at me about that was that it was a body of original into being.... The that time, was higher. In the New York Public manuscripts, watermarks and all, that were in Library had gotten Library, there were going to be staffing changes the Winston-Salem Moravian Music Founda- funding from the Rodgers and made; I no longer would have been able to be tion. So I applied for an AAUW [American As- Hammerstein on the Music Library staff, at least for awhile. I sociation of University Women] fellowship to Foundation, to thought, “This is the time to switch.” So, I go down there and work on my dissertation. I start cataloging went to Columbia. I was there for two years. In had been working with those manuscripts, pho- the collection of time, however, …maybe this is when the Rodg- tocopies, microfilms of those manuscripts for sound ers and Hammerstein project started, … I went two or three years after I finished my qualifying recordings...” back to New York Public, again for more mon- exams. Marilyn Gombosi was in charge of the ey than I’d been getting at Columbia. They said Moravian Archives, and she used to send me a those two institutions tended to leapfrog each couple of microfilms and I would transcribe other in terms of librarians’ pay. those and send them back to her. Catherine Miller…wrote a recommenda- Return to New York Public tion for me for this fellowship. The last conver- I think I finished my course work about sation I had with her about two weeks before 1962. I took a six-month leave from the New she died, was to tell her that I had gotten the York Public Library and I lived on my savings fellowship. So, I’m glad it happened in time for and studied for my doctoral qualifying exams. I her to know. So anyhow, I left New York, sub- think I took those in the spring of ’63. I went let my apartment to a friend, and went to Win- back to the New York Public Library after that. ston-Salem for a year…it was really a very nice “I had settled on a Sometime along about then, the Lincoln Center year. dissertation Library was coming into being—the whole Lin- subject, the works coln Center project. The Library had gotten Burnt Hills and Schenectady of Johannes funding from the Rodgers and Hammerstein After that, I had most of the material I Herbst, a Moravian Foundation, to start cataloging the collection needed but I needed to write this dissertation. I composer.... The of sound recordings that the Reference De- went home, back to Burnt Hills. I had a very thing that fascinated me partment owned. These are mostly, of course close family friend who was the head of the about that was at that time, still 78 rpms. LPs started in 1948, Schenectady County Public Library. Her name that it was a body and so they had a lot of LPs by that time. They was Leonore White… She gave me jobs in the of original were, I think, a depository library—a big col- Schenectady County Library part-time, when- manuscripts, lection. That cataloging project was organized, ever I needed them. She always seemed to have watermarks and all...” again, under the direction of Jean Bowen. a place for me. I spent a month of [one] sum- They moved us all—staff and all of the mer being a substitute children’s librarian and recordings—to the Library’s 9th Street annex, got to read stories, story hour, to the kids. way over near the Hudson River. We spent, I Then during the year, I did all the cataloging of think, a couple of years there. That was a won- the sound recordings that they got, [while] derful time because we had light in the building working on my dissertation. Remember, they and space. We were working at our own pace, did not have word processors. So I retyped and and we were a good group. Jean directed that retyped and retyped. I did all my own typing, all project except for six months when she had a my own editing. I think the whole dissertation maternity leave and I was the acting head of got typed about six times! the collection. We moved into Lincoln Center, I I spent quite a bit of time in Bethlehem, think certainly by 1965. Pennsylvania, because of the big Moravian collections there. Some of Herbst’s things were there also. I didn’t finish my dissertation until

8 1969, when I finally got my degree, because of SUNY Albany the retyping. After a couple of years of part- Subsequently [I] was hired at SUNY Alba- time work and having it substantially written, I ny. And the person who did the hiring was applied for and got a job at Connecticut Col- Drew Hartzel. He has been a lifelong friend, he lege. I was there from 1968 to 1970. and Marjorie. Marjorie plays harp and Drew sings and plays piano and does all sorts of mu- Connecticut College sical things. Anyhow, that was a wonderful rela- When I was at Connecticut College, I had tionship. I worked at SUNY Albany for a num- “...somebody told not been in a position of managing a small de- ber of years on almost a semester-to-semester me that Wellesley partmental library before, in all its various ins basis…Mostly it was two-thirds time. That en- College, that the music librarian and outs and methods. And one of the things abled me to get my own apartment in there had a that we needed to do there was to get some of Schenectady and not be in my parents’ house wonderful system our music bound. We had all this loose sheet anymore. So it was okay. I had enough but I of binding sheet music and it needed binding in the worst way. also knew that I could not stay there indefinite- music. So, I went And somebody told me that Wellesley College, ly. up there and that was when I made that the music librarian there had a wonderful the acquaintance system of binding sheet music. So, I went up Appalachian State University of Mary Davidson. there and that was when I made the acquain- So, I applied for other things and I ended She gave me a tance of Mary Davidson. She gave me a won- up going to Appalachian State University in wonderful tour of derful tour of the library. She showed me how Boone. I made very good friends there. Corde- the library.” the binding was done, [and] gave me a printed lia Inks was a very close friend until the end of form, a handout, which they used as a guide to her life, which was unfortunately much too ear- do it. So I took this back to Connecticut Col- ly. One friend, Allen Kindt, a fine pianist, just lege and taught my assistant how to do it. We retired from the university. His wife, Jody—she started going great guns binding up the collec- was Jody number one, I was Jody number tion there. I used the same method, of course, two—[had a] beautiful contralto voice. Her at SUNY Albany. We used the same method daughter, Maria, is my godchild. I met Peggy every place, at Appalachian and here at Iowa Polson there in the art department. She is now also. And I did, eventually, write an article retired here in Iowa City. about it…But I’ll always be grateful to Mary At that time, we began a project there of Davidson. She was very generous in sharing transferring all of our LPs, our discs to cassette everything she knew, all the advice she could tapes. It preserves the disc. It took a lot of le- give. gal back and forth, to such an extent that one “I ended up going of the legal counsels for the University of to Indiana University School Indiana University School of Music and North Carolina system came up from Raleigh of Music, where I Burnt Hills to talk to us about it because we were con- was Associate [Next,] I ended up going to Indiana Uni- cerned about copyright and so forth. But I Music Librarian, versity School of Music, where I was Associate knew of other institutions that had done this. reporting to Music Librarian, reporting to Dominique-René We asked—I remember one thing that was very Dominique-René de Lerma…. I loved de Lerma…. I loved the Midwest and that was nice—we asked if anybody else had been doing the Midwest and what made me realize that the Midwest was a this and he said, “Nobody else in the system that was what wonderful place to be. After that, I went back has been taking such a professional approach made me realize to Burnt Hills. I had varicose veins and I really to this.” that the Midwest needed surgery, so I went home and I had the One of the things we did there was start a was a wonderful place to be.” surgery. The doctor had said, “No, you can’t go major recataloging job. The cataloging schedule back to work for six months,” so that preclud- that we used was the so-called “Columbia-Vas- ed my applying for any other job, of course… sar,” which I had learned at Columbia Universi- Eventually I began working as a Kelly Girl and ty. But I had taken it with me to Connecticut did that for two or three years. One of the jobs College; we used it there. I used it at SUNY Al- I had was in a hospital library. bany. And we used it at Appalachian. Simply because it is very well suited [for] performance music. LC, by everybody’s admission, is not. It was one that I knew well and could do easily.

9 Since I had to do it myself, this was the only one of my frustrations was—again—having a option. And everybody at Appalachian agreed huge amount of unbound performance music, that we needed to do something about the cata- and she said she thought some Opera Supers loging situation there. I was at Appalachian for might help. Sure enough, two ladies turned up seven years and then went from there to Iowa. to volunteer—Mary Kane and Pamela Stew- art—and during the next four years they University of Iowa caught up our entire unbound backlog and did “I was successor I worked for Iowa until I retired at the very all the current materials. Meanwhile [they] add- to Rita Benton and end of March in the year 2000. By and large I ed immeasurably to the morale of our under- many people know have enjoyed my job here very much. First of staffed operation by their reliable and cheerful about Rita Benton. She was a very all, I was successor to Rita Benton and many presence… strong-minded people know about Rita Benton. She was a very The other great service of the Opera Su- person. She was a strong-minded person. She was a very bright, pers was the support of our music library very bright, bright bright person. I gather, a very fine pianist. She book sales, which began in 1994 and became person. ...she felt had died in 1980. I came in 1985. an annual event during my tenure. The Canters that performers I should say at this point, about Rita Ben- were among the principal organizers of the should buy their own music. That ton, that she felt that performers should buy Iowa City Public Library’s sales, so they trans- idea had validity in their own music. That idea had validity in the ferred their expertise to us, knowing how to the earlier years earlier years when there was not so much pub- organize, having good ideas on how to price when there was lished. But from about the 1950s on, the publi- things, and drawing on about a dozen Supers not so much cations in performance music just increased ex- and others to help. We made a lot of money to published.” ponentially and there was no way in the world add to our materials budget, and it was great that students could buy all the music that they PR because everyone had a lot of fun. needed to be acquainted with. One person that I should mention now something else that was of unflagging support all the time I was had happened after I retired because it is really working was Arthur Benton, husband of Rita. quite charming. Catherine Keyes Miller’s sister, In his quiet manner, [he] used to come along Margaret Keyes, lives here in Iowa City. She with money for things that we desperately was one of the forces behind the restoration needed, whether it was a really great item for of the Old Capitol Dome. Some of you may the rare book room or for staff assistance. He know that for two years in the mid-1850’s, funded a staff student assistant for a number Iowa City was the capital of the state before it of years. It was partly through him that we fi- moved to Des Moines. Margaret Keyes has nally got a cataloging project on all the gifts. written a book about the Old Capitol center. This was done by Glenn Lemieux, who some She was younger than Catherine by thirteen people may remember and may still know; I years. She is very elderly now. I have met her “On the day that I think he works for A-R Editions now. Dr. and had tea with her a number of times. Not retired...I kissed Arthur Benton really was a great support dur- too long ago, after Ruthann McTyre came as everybody goodbye ing these very difficult years. my successor, Margaret called me and said that in mid-afternoon, Along with Dr. Benton, I had continual she had a copy of her sister Catherine’s Yale drove down to Fort support from Miriam and Arthur Canter, who dissertation and she would like to present it to Madison, took the train out to for years have been among the primary “mov- the music library. And so she took Ruthann Flagstaff, and went ers and shakers” of musical life in Iowa City. and me to lunch at the Athletic Club and made on my second trip Arthur, a retired professor of psychiatry, is an us a presentation of this dissertation. It really through the Grand “amateur musicologist” who for over twenty was wonderful to have this helpful circle. Canyon.” years has written program notes for major musical events in Hancher Auditorium. Rather Retirement soon after my arrival in 1986, the then head of On the day that I retired, which was the the School of Music, Marilyn Somville, suggest- 31st of March of the year 2000, I kissed ev- ed to them that an opera support group would erybody goodbye in mid-afternoon, drove be an asset. So came about the “Opera Supers,” down to Fort Madison, took the train out to which Miriam organized and for which Arthur Flagstaff, and went on my second trip through wrote a newsletter for many years. Very early in the Grand Canyon. That was my post-retire- our acquaintance I mentioned to Miriam that ment gift to myself. I spent almost the whole

10 month of April in the Grand Canyon and I’ve had met at annual meetings before, or [some] been doing river trips and other travels ever had moved around. I think a couple of them since, as a number of my correspondents had been in the Southeast Chapter. Dena Ep- know. stein, who always roomed with Edna Christo- “Oh, there were LW: Since your retirement what have you pher, from the University of Chicago; Don just an awful lot of done personally? Krummel of course; Don Roberts; and every- nice people. A lot JF: I’ve done a great deal of traveling. My body knew Bill McClellan. I remember Forrest of them that I’ve known, [I] had met mother died just after I retired and I had a cer- Alter because he was active and he was not an at annual meetings tain amount of money from her estate and I academician. It was very refreshing to have before... Dena have done a great deal of overseas travel and a somebody from a public library have some- Epstein from the number of river trips. It’s something that I al- thing to say at meetings. And I could go on. University of ways wanted to do and am getting out of my Then of course, there were people who had Chicago; Don system. Beyond that, that’s pretty much it. I’ve been on my own staff. Bonna [Boettcher] and Krummel of course; Don begun buying CDs since I no longer have a Grace Fitzgerald, and Mark [Scharff], who was Roberts; and supply right handy at the library. I write letters a really marvelous student assistant. [Also] everybody knew to the editor about political matters and stuff Renee McBride and Elaine Bradshaw. Bill McClellan.” like that. LW: Well, in closing, do you have anything LW: Yes. Name some of the locations of that you would like to say? your trips. JF: I don’t see why librarians who are JF: Iceland. Jordan and Egypt—absolute- mainly giving service should be required to also ly the trip of a lifetime! I recommend it to any- publish whereas the academics often publish body who thinks the USA does everything the and that’s it. I think it clutters up the literature. best. Those civilizations, 5,000 years old, and We have far too much stuff being published. still continuing…they are just a revelation. I Most of it rehashes the whole thing. Maybe can’t name a place that I’ve been to that I didn’t sometimes somebody has something new to enjoy. Actually, Peru I’ve been to twice and I say, but I don’t think it should be a requirement “It’s been a great have a former colleague who now lives there for tenure. I think it would be much better to pleasure to trip and is a wonderful hostess, Helen Ryan. I’m have community service or something akin to down memory going to Greece this coming March. And of that as a requirement for librarian tenure with- lane. I hope I course, the river trips, the Grand Canyon and out… It is the community, either academic or haven’t stepped on the Copper River and Alaska, which is certainly public that we serve. That’s where our focus too many toes.” suffering the ravages of global warming…I should be. have seen it. I have seen what it is doing to the Well, thank you, Lynne. It’s been a great forests up there. Oh, every place I’ve been I pleasure to trip down memory lane. I hope I like. But those are the ones that stand out. I haven’t stepped on too many toes. went to Antarctica too, with all of the penguins LW: (laughter) Well, it’s been a good day for and the icebergs. us. Thank you. LW: What are your long-range plans after Greece? JF: I’m going back to the Grand Canyon From the Chair… for the third time, with very dear friends, in continued from page 2 September. I have my fifty-fifth Cornell Uni- We’ll be having a chapter election for the Secre- versity reunion in June. And I hope that Bonna tary-Treasurer position this fall, and if you’d [Boettcher] will be there. She hopes so too but like to encourage a support staff person or a li- there’s a chance that she may not be. But it brary school student to apply for a chapter would be fun to see her on my old stomping scholarship, please start thinking about it now. grounds. And beyond that, I haven’t thought I wish you all a wonderful and restful sum- particularly—remodel my kitchen. mer. LW: What do you recall about Midwest —Laura Gayle Green, University of Missouri-Kansas City Chapter members and officers that you have talked about? JF: Oh, there were just an awful lot of nice people. A lot of them that I’ve known, [I]

11 MIDWEST CHAPTER OF THE MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE midwest Terms expire in October of the year indicated. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SPECIAL COMMITTEES Chair: Laura Gayle Green (University of Missouri-Kansas Cataloging City), 2007 (Three-year terms; members may be reappointed; Chair Chair-Elect: Ruthann Boles McTyre (University of Iowa), serves one year as Chair-Elect, two years as Chair, 2009 one year as Past Chair) Secretary-Treasurer: Michael J. Duffy (Northern Illinois Mark Scharff (Washington University), Chair, 2009 University), 2007 Kerri Scannell (University of Kentucky) Past Chair, 2009 Newsletter Editor: Greg Fitzgerald (Western Michigan Stephanie Bonjack (VanderCook College of Music), 2007 University), 2007 Richard Burbank (University of Illinois), 2009 Webmaster: Rebecca Littman (University of Wisconsin- Donna Campbell (Missouri State University), 2009 Milwaukee), 2007 Patty Falk (Bowling Green State University), 2008 2007 Local Arrangements Committee Grace Fitzgerald (University of Iowa), 2009 Paul Cauthen (University of Cincinnati) Jill Garbs (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville), 2008 Jeff Gibbens, 2008 STANDING COMMITTEES Mary Huismann (University of Minnesota), 2008 Damian Iseminger (Indiana University), 2009 Bylaws Deborah Morris (Roosevelt University), 2009 (One-year terms; members may be reappointed) Ralph Papakhian (Indiana University), 2009 Beth Christensen (St. Olaf College), Chair, 2007 Amy Pennington (Washington University), 2009 Laura Gayle Green (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Jessica Schomberg (Minnesota State University, ex officio, 2007 Mankato), 2009 Grace Fitzgerald (University of Iowa), 2007 Wendy Sistrunk (University of Missouri-Kansas City), 2007 Membership Sue Stancu (Indiana University), 2009 (Three-year terms; members may be reappointed; Chair Barry Zaslow (Miami University), 2008 serves year as Chair-Elect, two years as Chair, one year as Past Chair) Public Services Mary Huismann (University of Minnesota), Chair, 2008 (Three-year terms; members may be reappointed; Chair Stephanie Bonjack (VanderCook College of Music), 2008 serves one year as Chair-Elect, two years as Chair, Keith Cochran (Ball State University), 2008 and one year as Past Chair) Michael J. Duffy (Northern Illinois University), 2007 Robert Delvin (Illinois Wesleyan University), Chair, 2008 Laurie Lake (Indiana University), 2009 Jana Borchardt (Evangel University), 2008 Richard LeSueur (Ann Arbor District Library), 2007 Emma Dederick (Indiana University), 2008 Sheri Stormes (Butler University), 2008 Therese Dickman (Southern Illinois University- Lynne Weber (Minnesota State University-Mankato), Edwardsville), 2008 2008 Jon Haupt (Iowa State University), 2008 Don Widmer (VanderCook College of Music), 2009 Kathleen Haefliger (Chicago State University), 2008 Christine Kubiak (Illinois State University), 2008 Program Rebecca Littman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), (One-year terms; members may be reappointed) 2008 Ruthann McTyre (University of Iowa), Chair Brad Short (Washington University), 2008 Paul Cauthen (University of Cincinnati) Sheri Stormes (Butler University), 2008 Susannah Cleveland (Bowling Green State University) Don Widmer (VanderCook College of Music), 2008 Eric Harbeson (University of Illinois at Urbana- Carla Williams (Indiana University), 2008 Champaign) Mark Palkovic (University of Cincinnati) Technology, Archives, Preservation, and Sound (TAPS) Publications (Three-year terms; members may be reappointed; Chair (Three-year terms; members may be reappointed; Chair serves one year as Chair-Elect, two years as Chair, serves one year as Chair-Elect, two years as Chair, one year as Past Chair) one year as Past Chair) Donna Campbell (Missouri State University), Chair, 2008 Therese Dickman (Southern Illinois University- Stephanie Bonjack (VanderCook College of Music), 2008 Edwardsville), Chair, 2009 Susannah Cleveland (Bowling Green State University), Lynne Weber (Minnesota State University, Mankato), 2009 Chair-Elect, 2009 Emma Dederick (Indiana University), 2007 Michael J. Duffy (Northern Illinois University), 2009 Kathleen Haefliger (Chicago State University), 2007 Laura Gayle Green (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Jon Haupt (Iowa State University), 2008 2009 Andrew Leach (Center for Black Music Research), 2008 Kathleen Haefliger (Chicago State University), 2007 Deborah Morris (Roosevelt University), 2008 Ruth Inman (Kennedy-King College), 2009 Suzanne Mudge (Indiana University), 2008 Amy Pennington (Washington University), 2009 Misti Shaw (St. Olaf College), 2009 Wendy Sistrunk (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Don Widmer (VanderCook College of Music), 2009 2008 This version of the administrative structure should reflect changes made at the 2006 chapter meeting. Please report errors and omissions to the editor.