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Call for Nominations: MLA Members-at-Large and the MLA Citation
The 2022 MLA Nominating Committee welcomes nominations for: I. Three Members-at-Large to serve on the Board of Directors for a two-year term, 2023-2025 Board members represent the membership as they carry out the Association’s work. The three incoming Board members will be selected by the President to serve as Assistant Parliamentarian, Assistant Planning and Reports Officer, or Assistant Fiscal Officer. Nominations should reflect the entire range and nature of the work of the Association’s members. Incumbents may not succeed themselves. Candidates for office must be personal members of the Association. We are especially eager to create a slate of candidates that
Get Involved in MLA Leadership
Please join the MLA board and friends for a town hall series about getting involved in MLA leadership. We both need and value a much more inclusive leadership body and to that end, are hosting a town hall on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 3-4 pm Eastern / 2-3 pm Central / 1-2 pm Mountain / 12-1 pm Pacific. This session will focus on demystifying MLA board of directors service (both how to get involved and what’s involved in service). The session will be led by Bruce Evans (Chair, Nominating Committee) and Ellen Ogihara (recent Student/Early Career Representative to the
SMART Copyright Act
In recent years, we have seen a number of legislative efforts brought forward that were introduced as anti-piracy measures, but whose design would go far beyond addressing copyright infringement, leading to significant censorship online. The SMART Copyright Act of 2022 introduced in the Senate seeks to require new technology measures to act as a filter to prevent infringing content online. It’s unclear why this bill is necessary: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act already requires internet companies to have technological measures in place to address issues of copyright infringement. As the Library Copyright Alliance points out, civil and criminal penalties for
2022 MLA Citation Award
The MLA Citation, the Association’s tribute for lifetime achievement, is awarded in recognition of distinguished service to music librarianship over a career. It is the highest honor we bestow. The 2022 MLA Citation Award recipient is Randye Jones. The text of the Citation was read at the business meeting on March 5, 2022: As a true champion of the music of African Americans and of paraprofessionals in music libraries, she has positively contributed to the work of MLA’s members and their patrons. Her decades-long, groundbreaking work has produced a multifaceted body of research and performances of African-American vocal music. Her websites,
2022 MLA Award Recipients
As announced at the business meeting at the virtual annual conference on March 5, 2022, here are the recipients of the awards given by the Music Library Association. MLA Diversity Scholarship The MLA Diversity Scholarship Award offers candidates from under-represented groups the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree in library and information science (MLIS) with financial support. The 2022 recipients of the MLA Diversity Scholarship are Michelle Rivera and Jade Vaughan. https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/DiversityScholarship Kevin Freeman Travel Grant The Kevin Freeman Travel Grant supports travel and hotel expenses to attend the Music Library Association annual meeting. Recipients must be either a student, recent
Newly Appointed Positions for 2022
Congratulations to the following people who have been elected and appointed to positions within MLA, as announced at the business meeting on March 5, 2022: Board positions:Vice-President/President Elect: Paula HicknerRecording Secretary: Veronica WellsAssistant Fiscal Officer: Katie BuehnerAssistant Planning and Reports Officer: Sonia Archer-CapuzzoAssistant Parliamentarian: Ray HeigemeirStudent/Early Career Representative to the Board: Elizabeth Uchimura Special Officers:Assistant Chief Financial Officer: Serena VaquilarAssistant Membership Management Officer: Melissa MollMembership Management Officer: Jason Imbesi Editors:Basic Manual Series Editor: Melanie ZeckIndex & Bibliography Series Editor: Lois Kuyper-RushingOpen Access Editor: Matthew Vest Many thanks all of those who were willing to run for the elected board positions,
Music Cataloging e-Courses Available through ALA E-Learning
We are happy to announce a collaboration with ALA (American Library Association) to provide Fundamentals of Music Cataloging, a bundle of four continuing education events that will give you a proper orientation to music cataloging and take you through key areas. These four events are: Introduction to Music Cataloging: A 4-week eCourse, Monday, May 2 through Friday, May 27, 2022 Music Cataloging with Library of Congress Vocabularies: A 4-week eCourse, Monday, May 30 through Friday, June 24, 2022 Music Cataloging with Library of Congress Classification: A 4-week eCourse, Monday, July 11 through Friday August 5, 2022 Using the New RDA Toolkit
RILM is hiring
RILM seeks to fill an Associate Editor position in its International Office in New York City. The successful candidate will be responsible for abstracting and indexing scholarship published in the German language, in addition to publications in French or/and Italian, making sure that they are fully and accurately represented in RILM Abstracts. For a detailed job description, including duties and qualifications, and to apply for the position, visit the Job Openings website of the Research Foundation of CUNY.
MGG Online Webinars
In order to fully convey the possibilities of using MGG Online, RILM offers a regular series of free webinars. In these, content, editorial structures, as well as the technical possibilities of the MGG Online platform are presented and discussed. The webinars are held in English and German and can, in the case of larger groups, be specifically tailored to the needs of interested parties. They can be combined with introductions to other RILM resources: RILM Abstracts, RILM Music Encyclopedias, and the Index to Printed Music. They are ideal for everyone who would like to find out more about MGG Online as well as for universities,
New Additions to RILM Music Encyclopedias
Three titles have just joined the continuously expanding collection of historical and current titles, RILM Music Encyclopedias: François Henry Joseph Blaze (Castil-Blaze). Dictionnaire de musique moderne (2nd ed.; Paris: Au magasin de musique de la Lyre moderne, 1825) 2 vols; xvi, 324 p. [25]; 389 p. First published in 1821, by its title alone, Castil-Blaze’s dictionary appears as a modernized version of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Dictionnaire de musique. Castil-Blaze follows Rousseau in terms of entry structure and content, but he updates and makes accessible the entries to a broader readership by focusing on issues that relate to the contemporaneous state of music and by doing so with