Newsletter southeast Chapter breve Notes Music Library Association Contents From the Chair ..................................................... 3 Call for Program Proposals ................................ 16 MLA Atlanta LAC Report ...................................... 4 Call for Officer Nominations .............................. 17 “Place to Be” – A Student’s Reflections on SEMLA Logo Change .......................................... 18 MLA Atlanta ................................................... 6 Interim Business Meeting Minutes.................... 23 Member News ................................................... 11 Treasurer’s Report ............................................. 27 Pauline Shaw Bayne Travel Grant Application ... 14 Membership Application ................................... 28 2 • Breve Notes SEMLA Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association executive Board The Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association, Inc. ( SEMLA), is a non-stock, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the establishment, use, and growth of music libraries and collections of RENéE McBRIDE, Chair music materials in the Southeast. It encourages communication and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill cooperation with libraries and music collections not affiliated with the Music Library Association to determine how the Chapter may be of JOYCE CLINKSCALES, Past Chair assistance to the individual library. SEMLA provides a forum for the Emory University exchange of ideas regarding all aspects of work with music materials as well as initiating and encouraging activities to improve the organization, administration, holdings, and public services of such libraries and AMY STRICKLAND, Secretary-Treasurer collections. The region covered by the Chapter includes the states of University of Miami Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Jacob Schaub, Member-at-Large, 2012-2014 Vanderbilt University Membership Information Membership in SEMLA is available at three levels: Personal ($15.00 leslie kamtman, Member-at-Large, 2013-2015 U.S.), Institutional ($20.00 U.S.), and Student ($5.00 U.S.). An University of North Carolina School of the Arts application for membership appears on the back page of this newsletter. Make checks payable to SEMLA. Send membership applications, renewals, dues, corrections, and updates to: Amy Strickland SEMLA Secretary/Treasurer Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library 5501 San Amaro Drive P.O. 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All rights reserved. You will receive a confirmation from the list. No. 101 • April 2014 Breve Notes • 3 From the Chair Renée McBride University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill home from Atlanta, All! I McBride Welcome hope you had a wonderful time at the MLA Annual Meeting and smooth travels back home. I want to thank each of you for your contributions to this very successful meeting. Fundraising, serving of activities that we can look forward to learning more on the Local Arrangements Committee, staffing the about in the near future, as well as reading more about registration desk, presenting at the meeting, contributing later in this issue of Breve Notes. Joyce Clinkscales at our business meeting, and just being friendly SEMLA (Emory University) is chairing our Pauline Shaw folks: all these things (plus more that I’ve forgotten, Bayne Travel Grant Committee; information about I’m sure) helped make this year’s meeting, hosted by applying for the travel grant is available on our website SEMLA, an excellent one. I want to extend extra special at http://semla.musiclibraryassoc.org/travelgrant.html thanks to the co-chairs of our Local Arrangements [also on pages 14-15 of this issue –gb]. Joyce has Committee, Kevin Fleming (Georgia State University) also been leading the way with our Best of Chapters and Shelley Rogers (University of West Georgia). Committee, who will be putting forward two McBride You two were nominations to the national MLA Best of Chapters awesome, truly, Committee. Elizabeth Hobart (UNC-Chapel Hill) and I can’t thank is updating our chapter website, and Lina Terjesen you enough for (Belmont University) is spearheading an effort to come all the effort and up with a new logo for SEMLA. commitment you put into ensuring Please note the call for officer nominations in this issue the success of the and think about who you would like to see serving meeting. I think SEMLA – including yourself! SEMLA put on a Another call to note in this issue is for presentations at darn good show, SEMLA’s Annual Meeting in Baton Rouge, LA from and I know that October 2-4, 2014. We love hearing from and sharing many MLAers with our colleagues, so give thought to what you might e x p r e s s e d contribute to the Baton Rouge program. From what a p p r e c i a t i o n Lois Kuyper-Rushing (LSU) told us at our business for the various meeting, the 2014 SEMLA Annual Meeting sounds like S E M L A it’s going to be fantastic! Thanks so much, Lois, for all contributions. you’ve already done and will be doing. At our business meeting in Again, heartfelt thanks to all of you for your Atlanta we heard contributions to the wonderful MLA Annual Meeting Dreaming of warmer days — like this in Atlanta. SEMLA rocks! one in September 2013 at Wrightsville about a number Beach, NC No. 101 • April 2014 4 • Breve Notes Local Arrangements Committee Report on the MLA Atlanta 2014 Conference Kevin Fleming and Shelley Rogers LAC Co-Chairs you enjoy MLA’s national conference in Miller, Anna Neal, and Diane Steinhaus. Additional Atlanta on February 26-March 1? We thanks to SEMLA members Ana Dubnjakovic for Didcertainly hope you were able to attend, because it chaperoning the Atlanta Botanical Garden tour, and to seemed to be successful in every way, thanks very much Carey Huddlestun for helping to stuff the tote bags and to a number of SEMLA folks. Laura Gayle Green, our staffing the registration desk. We couldn’t have done it intrepid and industrious Convention Manager, worked without you! Thank you all so much. countless hours to ensure a flawless conference. We all owe her a huge thanks for her superlative performance, So, what was it like? The word on the street is that both in planning before the conference and for the chapter has “redeemed itself” after a problematic executing/monitoring every detail during the meeting. experience in Atlanta in 1995. It isn’t fair to hold us The co-chairs would also like to thank the other LAC responsible for the colder than average temperatures members: Steve Burton, Joyce Clinkscales, Jenny this time around, but at least it wasn’t raining most of Colvin, Bill Coscarelli, Roberta Ford, Neil Hughes, the time. The staff of the Grand Hyatt Buckhead hotel Lynne Jaffe, Renee McBride, Anthony Miller, Cynthia see Atlanta Report — continued on page 5 No.No. 101 101 • • April April 2014 2014 Breve Notes • 5 Atlanta Report — continued from page 4 Let’s not forget the reasons we meet in the first place! The prepared well and worked hard throughout the conference. program was packed with informative sessions, of which Technical issues always arise, but they seemed to be SEMLA members figured prominently. The opening minimal and were handled quickly. Meeting room sizes plenary about Sacred Harp singing, moderated by Joyce were adequate for the attendees and the temperatures Clinkscales and featuring Southeast musicologists, were comfortable. The food was fabulous! Is anyone offered the expertise of local shape note singers. It was else working off the dark chocolate pops that were part of wonderful to hear about 400 MLA members joining the offerings at the Saturday evening closing reception? them in four-part harmony, all of us singing at the top of And how about those scrumptious pastries and cookies our lungs! Other sessions that featured our members or offered during the coffee breaks, which included various Southeastern experts included Musical Merger: Harmony flavorings for your or Collision? by java? The LAC Alan Asher and Ann welcomed attendees Lindell; Perspectives to Atlanta with on Collecting Black tours of the Atlanta Music in Atlanta Botanical Garden, by the Black Music Jimmy Carter Library Collections Round and Museum, Emory Table; Copyright University Special Litigation and Collections, Atlanta Academic Libraries: Public Library, and Wisdom to Share, an organ crawl. We with speakers hope everyone had from Georgia State positive experiences University; Viewing using the MARTA the Civil War through train system to 9 6 3