Newsletter BREVE NOTES Southeast Chapter Music LibraryAssociation No. 75 August 2005 BBQ, Blues, and Beale Street: SEMLA in Memphis Preview of the 2005 Conference Anna Neal, Music Librarian, University of Memphis BBQ, Blues, and Beale honored Wednesday and Saturday nights. The hotel offers What more need we say!? a fitness room, wireless internet Oh yes, some pretty neat (802.11b), valet laundry, iron professional stuff, too! and ironing boards in rooms, coffee service, hair dryers, and Our 2005 meeting, data ports. Valet parking is scheduled for October 27- available at $16 per day. Other 29, will focus primarily on parking options nearby will be Memphis’ rich musical listed on the conference Web heritage, including both site. A major renovation of both presentations and tours. public areas and guest rooms is just being completed. Also We’ll open with a reception renovated is the TGI Friday’s at the Radisson (soon to be adjacent to the main lobby. The Doubletree) Hotel, again restaurant provides room service, hosted by our long time as well. Check the hotel Web site supporter/sponsor/friend for more information, but be Dana Jaunzemis of Music aware that the site is not yet Library Service Company. updated for the renovations and Registration will take place for the switch to Doubletree. concurrent with the reception and again Friday Friday and Saturday morning morning. sessions will be held at The Center for Southern Folklore, The Radisson is in just a couple of blocks from our downtown Memphis, only a hotel. The Center is a non-profit few blocks from Beale Street organization that “showcases and in one direction and the celebrates the wonders, Mississippi River in the lifestyles, people, history, and other. Rooms are $89 + 15% cultures of the South.” (from the tax, single or double, and Center’s Fact Sheet) Judy reservations should be made Peiser, co-founder and Director, through the local phone will share with us the development of the Center’s number, 901-528-1800, by Beale Street. Photo courtesy of Memphis Tourism and Visitor’s Bureau. September 27, 2005. The collection as well as some conference rate will also be current projects.—continues p.3 Contents From the Chair………………………….….3 SEMLA Travel Grant……………………..7 Fund Raising Update..……………………. 4 Officer Election Ballot……………………8 Member News…………………………..…5 Candidate Biographies…………………….9 75th Anniversary Commission…………......5 Conference Registration Form…..……….10 Weeks Music Library at Miami……………6 Minutes, Interim Meeting, Feb. 2005…….11 No. 75 • August 2005 2 • Breve Notes SEMLA Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association The Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association, Inc. (SEMLA), is a Executive Board non-stock, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the establishment, use, and growth of music libraries and collections of music materials in the DIANE STEINHAUS, Chair Southeast. It encourages communication and cooperation with libraries and University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill music collections not affiliated with the Music Library Association to determine how the Chapter may be of assistance to the individual library. SEMLA LYNNE C. JAFFE, Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect provides a forum for the exchange of ideas regarding all aspects of work with At-Your-Service: Library Contract music materials as well as initiating and encouraging activities to improve the Cataloging organization, administration, holdings, and public services of such libraries and collections. The region covered by the Chapter includes the states of Alabama, KIRSTIN DOUGAN, Secretary-Treasurer Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Duke University Tennessee and Puerto Rico. LENNY BERTRAND, Member-at-Large, 2003-2005 Membership Information Tulane University Membership in SEMLA is available at three levels: Personal ($10.00 U.S.), Institutional ($15.00 U.S.), and Student ($5.00 U.S.). An application for ROBENA ENG CORNWELL, membership appears on the back page of this newsletter. Make checks payable Member-at-Large, 2004-2006 to SEMLA. Send membership applications, renewals, dues, and corrections and University of Florida updates to: Kirstin Dougan Box 90661 Archivist 113 Mary Duke Biddle Music Bldg. LEE RICHARDSON Duke University University of North Florida Durham, NC 27708 Web Site Editor LYNN JACOBSON SEMLA Web Site Jacksonville Public Library (FL) Lynn Jacobson, Web Editor http://jpl.coj.net/semla/index/html Newsletter Editor [email protected] JOHN LESLIE University of Mississippi Breve Notes (Newsletter) John Leslie, Editor Breve Notes is published electronically on the chapter website three times a year: January, April, and August. Send submissions to: John Leslie J.D. Williams Library P.O. Box 1848 University, MS 38677-1848 Fax: (662) 915-6744 [email protected] SEMLA-L To subscribe, send a message to [email protected] and type only the following in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SEMLA-L Your first nameYourlast name (substitute name) You will receive a confirmation from the list. No. 75 • August 2005 Breve Notes • 3 a web-based questionnaire for libraries to fill out. This is a FROM THE CHAIR much needed revision to a very valuable resource. Make sure your library is included! Diane Steinhaus In this issue are ballots for electing a Member-at-Large and Secretary/Treasurer. Many thanks to Member-at-Large and Nominating Committee Chair Lenny Bertrand and his University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill committee (David Guion and Lois Kuyper-Rushing) for presenting us with yet another stellar slate. Please remember to vote (either electronically or paperly)!! “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra And many thanks once again to John Leslie for this his third Hot and humid greetings to my fellow Southeasterners! Not a high-class edition of Breve Notes. You have no idea how good bad time to start thinking about spending a wonderful fall he is at herding cats! Our newsletter and website (thank you, weekend in Memphis, Oct. 27-29, for our annual SEMLA Lynn Jacobson!) are how the world and our parent meeting, huh? See Local Arrangements Chair Anna Neal’s organization know us best and I’m very proud of what they cover article in this issue on the plans in the works by her see! committee and the Program Committee, chaired by Robena Cornwell (with Leslie Kamtman and Anna) for our music- All the best, filled weekend. Bring your dancing shoes – it sounds like there’ll definitely be a whole lotta shakin’ going on! And Diane Steinhaus remember, if you know of a staff person or library school UNC Chapel Hill student who would like to join the fun, please encourage him/her to apply for the SEMLA Travel Grant, organized this year by Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Lynne Jaffe. SEMLA in Memphis—continued from front page This marks my final column to you as chair of SEMLA. We will also be hearing from Nashid Madyun, We’ve accomplished a “whole lotta” this year as a chapter, Curator/Director of the Stax Museum of American Soul thanks to the many gluttons for punishment in our midst – We Music. Stax Records was home to Rufus and Carla Thomas, came upon Yogi Berra’s fork in the road… and we took it! All Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. and the MG’s, and of it! Under Laurel Whisler’s undaunted leadership SEMLA many more. The Museum is part of Soulsville USA on the site has – so far – raised close to $20,000 toward the 75th of the old Stax Records. Soulsville USA also includes Stax Anniversary commission and other local arrangement Academy, which offers educational opportunities for at-risk expenses for MLA 2006…. Give that woman some chocolate youth and is opening a college prep, music-enriched charter when you see her in Memphis! Y’all have been great sports as school for Fall 2005. this year’s board inflicted upon you ballots to amend the bylaws and constitution to raise chapter dues for the first time, Bill Ellis, most recently a music reviewer for The Commercial to allow for electronic voting, and to bring other aspects of our Appeal in Memphis and currently an ethnomusicology documents in line with current practice (ahem); Sarah Dorsey graduate student at the University of Memphis, will speak on and her many helping hands (is that the name of her new current Memphis musical trends. He’ll include a look at the band?) revised the Chapter Officers Handbook last Fall. Look local hip hop scene, which is receiving so much buzz from the there to find out everything you’ve ever wondered about being new made-in-Memphis movie Hustle and Flow. a chapter officer (do they really hold email discussions in Klingon?). And then let a board member know if you’re Covering a different era will be Louis Cantor, author of interested in running for an office or being on a committee in Wheelin’ on Beale: How WDIA-Memphis Became the the future. We’re always looking for new blood! Nation’s First All-Black Station and Created the Sound that Changed America. B. B. King and Rufus Thomas spent some This year we also held a special election mid-year to fill the of their early careers at WDIA, and the station was office of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, affording the long-awaited instrumental in introducing blues and other race music to a Lynne Jaffe possession of the yellow plastic hammer of white culture steeped in country music. despotism come the October meeting. I am thrilled that Lynne is finally getting the chance to wield that hammer. She will be The remainder of the morning will be devoted to our business a great chair and I look forward to serving with her as Past meeting. Chair for the next year.