Message from the Chair
Spring 2017 Election Ballot
Spring 2017 Meeting Information
Noteworthy News
NEMLA Officers
Publication Information

Message from the Chair

Dear NEMLA members,

Spring is slowly tiptoeing its way into New England; I hope that by the time you’re reading this, warmer weather will have arrived at last.  Either way, NEMLA members are hard at work getting ready for the Spring Meeting, which will be on June 2 at MIT.  Jared Rex and Marci Cohen (the current roster of the Program Committee) have been working with Peter Munstedt to ensure that the space, refreshments, and musical programming will be top-notch.  The call for submissions is open until April 7, so if you’re interested in presenting, be sure to send your proposal in to Jared.  Early-bird registration for the meeting ends on May 26.  I’d also like to encourage anyone who is thinking about attending their first NEMLA meeting to apply for First-Time Attendees funding, which covers registration, lunch, and travel costs; the deadline for that will be May 19.  And I will put out a call for agenda items for the business meeting closer to the spring meeting itself, but if you already have a burning agenda item, please send it in to me!

It was wonderful seeing so many of you at MLA’s national meeting in Orlando in February.  The chapter dinner was a rousing success, with thirty-one members showing up for a fun evening of Cuban food and conviviality.  Pictures of the dinner are available here.  Special thanks to Pat Fisken for taking so many of the photos, and congratulations as she heads into retirement.  Many of us have been anxious about MLA Newsletter editor Michelle Hahn, who was badly injured in a traffic incident at MLA, but I’m glad to hear that she is out of serious danger and doing much better as of recent weeks.

At the Chapter Chairs meeting in Orlando, Jared and I had an opportunity to talk with MLA’s Web Manager, Katie Buehner, and Chair of the Web Committee, Ray Heigemeir, about MLA’s offer to centrally administer membership and web services for the chapters.  Unfortunately, MLA is not able to accommodate NEMLA’s existing membership structure within the framework they have developed, and in addition, moving our membership system to MLA would involve moving NEMLA’s website over to MLA’s platform.  MLA’s system is not yet able to handle meeting registration, which for our chapter (with biannual meetings) is one of the most time-intensive administrative tasks.  Because of all this and a current lack of active member time and energy to devote to moving our website again, we have decided to put the question of switching to MLA’s membership services on hold for the moment, pending further developments from MLA.

On another topic: everyone please remember to vote in the spring election! Ballots will be sent out to members in good standing on April 24.  The positions of Vice-Chair/Chair/Past-Chair and Treasurer are both up for election.  Thanks to everyone who expressed interest and/or agreed to run; we deeply appreciate those who volunteer their time, energy, and expertise to keeping this organization running smoothly.

It has been a pleasure serving this organization as Vice Chair and Chair for the last two years, and I’m looking forward to continuing to work with the NEMLA Board in the capacity of Past Chair for the next year.  At the Spring Meeting, the Chair position will turn over to Jared Rex, who I’m confident is going to be a great leader for this organization.  Looking forward to seeing you in Boston in June!

Respectfully submitted,

Laura Stokes

Chair, New England Music Library Association
Performing Arts Librarian
Virginia Baldwin Orwig Music Library, Brown University

Spring 2017 Election Ballot

At 9 a.m. on Monday, April 24th, 2017, members in good standing will receive an email message inviting them to participate in the election of two new members to the NEMLA board. Our thanks go to the candidates standing for election, and to the Nominating Committee for their work assembling the election slate.

Candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:

Marci Cohen has been the Assistant Head of the Music Library at Boston University’s Mugar Library since November 2015. She currently serves on the NEMLA Program Committee, which she also did from 2009 to 2011. Other NEMLA activities include the Education & Outreach Committee (2010-2012) and working on the design and administration of the volunteer/internship placement service survey (2011-2012). She presented on the Stooges at the Fall 2014 NEMLA meeting. She earned a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.L.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and an M.A. in music from Tufts University. Prior to coming to Boston University, she was a reference librarian at Berklee College of Music and a multimedia librarian at Northbrook (IL) Public Library.

Candidate for Secretary/Treasurer:

Alan Karass is Director of Libraries at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. He is a graduate of Clark University (B.A., Music), Simmons College (M.S., Library and Information Science), the University of Connecticut (M.A., Historical Musicology), and the Open University (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology). Alan served as co-editor of Music Reference Services Quarterly from 2000 to 2007, and has written articles for Serials Librarian, American Recorder, Music Reference Services Quarterly, Music Library Association Newsletter, and Boston Early Music News. His chapter “Identity, Music, and Festivity in Southern Tunisia” appears in the Handbook of Musical Identities published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He previously served NEMLA in numerous capacities including Newsletter Editor from 1996 to 1999, and Chair-elect/Chair/Past-Chair from 2000 to 2003.

Spring 2017 Meeting Registration

We are excited to announce the registration information for our Spring 2017 meeting!

Register here!

Our spring meeting will take place Friday, June 2, 2017 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While specific details of the day’s events are still forthcoming, we anticipate an exciting day featuring a wide variety of presentation topics and our annual business meeting. The day’s events will conclude with a special concert of compositions by MIT faculty member Charles Shadle followed by a reception in MIT’s Lewis Music Library (optional tours available). Please note that the Early Bird registration deadline is May 26, 2017.

Meeting Program

Registration and coffee/pastries will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Lewis Music Library with opening remarks tentatively scheduled for 9:45 a.m. in Building 4, Room 270. (See MIT’s campus map). Building 4, Room 270 is a short 3-minute indoor walk from the Lewis Music Library.

Early Bird registration will be $16 for regular members and $8 for student and retired members. Please register by Friday, May 26, 2017 to receive the Early Bird rate. Registrations from May 27 through June 2 (including walk-ins) will be $18 and $9, respectively.

Lunch will be on-your-own this meeting, but the schedule will provide ample time for dining at restaurants in the Kendall Square area. Here is a preliminary list of available dining options near MIT.

Hotels

Here is a brief list of hotels in close proximity to MIT’s campus:

Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142. Phone: (617) 494-6600

Doubletree Suites Cambridge/Boston, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA, 02134. Phone: (617) 783-0090

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4896. Phone: (617) 492-1234

The Kendall Hotel, 350 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. Phone: (617) 577-1300

A comprehensive list of hotels in the area is available from MIT. Due to limited availability, we encourage you to book your lodging accommodations at your earliest convenience.

Transportation

We strongly advise attendees to use MBTA subway/bus service to MIT from your desired starting location, if possible, as parking is extremely limited and expensive. For those using subway service, the Kendall Square/MIT stop on the MBTA Red Line is the closest subway stop to MIT.  MIT’s campus is also served by several bus lines; please visit the MBTA website for times and schedules.

MIT Information

Here is a campus map of MIT.  Please note that the day will incorporate the following buildings: the Lewis Music Library (Building 14, ground floor); Building 4, Room 270 (our meeting room, which is a short 3-minute indoor walk from the Music Library); Kresge Auditorium Little Theatre (the concert location: Building W16, basement). Kresge Auditorium is approximately a 15-minute outdoor walk from our meeting space.

The Lewis Music Library’s website is here.

Here is a link with detailed driving directions to MIT as well as pay parking lots.

If you are looking for things to do near MIT check out this link.

First-Time Attendees

If this is your first NEMLA meeting, we welcome you to apply for our First-Time Attendees Program. This grant covers registration, lunch, and travel expenses. Both current members and non-members are eligible, so long as they have not attended a meeting before. The deadline to apply for funding through this program is May 19, 2017. Please apply here.  Also note that funding is regrettably not available for all first-time attendees, but we do strive to accommodate as many as we can on a first come, first served basis.

Thursday evening dinner

All attendees are invited to a pre-conference group dinner on Thursday night, June 1st. More details are forthcoming.

Comprehensive registration information with a detailed schedule will be available in late April. Please watch the NEMLA listserv for more details.

Noteworthy News

Pat Fisken retired from her position as Head of Paddock Music Library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH on March 31, 2017. She worked in Cataloging at the Dartmouth College Library from 1973-1977, in Special Collections from 1977-1980, and in the Music Library since 1980.

Some things that Pat plans to do this spring and summer include:  visit her children and grandson in Pennsylvania and Oregon, spend more time outdoors, work on a community vegetable garden, swim, practice yoga, read, write, visit friends, and simply “be in the moment”!  Oh, and she hopes to get to NEMLA at MIT in June ;-).

Chair:
Laura Stokes
Performing Arts Librarian
Orwig Music Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
laura_stokes at brown.edu
Office: (401) 863-3999

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Jared Rex
Music Librarian
Fenwick Music Library
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
jrex@holycross.edu
(508) 793-2295

Past Chair:
Zoe Rath
Reference Librarian ILL Service
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
zrath at berklee dot edu
617-747-8143

Secretary-Treasurer:
Sharon Saunders
Bates College Library
48 Campus Ave
Lewiston, ME 04240
ssaunder at bates.edu
207-786-8327

Member-At-Large:
Jonathan Manton
Music Librarian for Access Services
Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
Yale University
120 High Street
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
jonathan.manton at yale.edu
T: 203-432-

Newsletter Editor:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
Archivist/Records Manager
New England Conservatory
Spaulding Library
290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu
(617) 585-1252

NEMLA Archivist:
Sofia Becerra-Licha
Archivist
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
sbecerralicha at berklee.edu
Office: (617)747-8001

Web Page Editor:
Sarah Hunter
Electronic Inventory Manager
Metadata Services Department
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
shunter at bu.edu
Office: (617)353-5810

Publication Information:

New England Quarter Notes is published quarterly in September, December, March/April and June/July.
Back issues may be accessed from:
http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/resources/newsletters/

Address all correspondence concerning editorial matters to:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu

Inquiries concerning subscription, membership and change of address should be directed to:
Sharon Saunders
ssaunder at bates.edu

Membership year runs September to August.
Regular Personal Membership:$12.00
Student and Retired Membership:$6.00
Institutional Membership$16.00

Message from the Chair
Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
Fall 2016 Meeting Minutes
Spring 2017 Meeting Preview
Seeking Nominations/Committee Members
Noteworthy News
NEMLA Officers
Publication Information

Message from the Chair

Dear NEMLA members,

Looking out the window at the blowing wind and huge piles of crunchy leaves, it seems that fall is drawing to an end and soon, too, the fall semester will come to a close.  Although I’m looking forward to cozy holidays inside, I’m glad to do so with fond memories of the NEMLA activities of recent months.

It was wonderful to see so many of you at the fall meeting, which took place on a breathtakingly beautiful day (October 14, 2016) at Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.  I’d like to express a great deal of appreciation to all the people who worked on this meeting, especially Vice-Chair Jared Rex, Marci Cohen of the Program Committee, and our host, Joe Tucker. They put together a wonderful day, which included a moving performance by an ad-hoc vocal ensemble at the end.  Jonathan Manton’s report on the meeting will fill you in (or jog your memory) about the specifics of the program, but I also want to thank everyone who presented or who participated in the committee work there.

If you’re still thinking about getting involved, it’s not too late: several committees are still looking for new members (especially Publications and Program), and we are still accepting nominations for the next election in the spring, when we’ll vote on Vice-Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, and Newsletter Editor.  Please see Past-Chair Zoë Rath’s call for nominations in this newsletter for more details, and get in touch with me or the committee chairs if you are interested in joining a committee.

A lingering matter from NEMLA’s summer board meeting is the question of whether NEMLA will, like other regional chapters, switch to using MLA’s centralized system for membership renewals.  I will be asking for feedback on this matter from the membership as a whole, so please watch your email. We will also be seeking information from chapters that have chosen to make the switch; over half of the other chapters are now using MLA’s renewal system. This system does allow for members to select chapter membership only if they do not wish also to join the national organization.

For those of you who are planning to come to the MLA national meeting in Orlando: in lieu of a chapter meeting there, we will gather for a group dinner.  The chapter meetings are typically scheduled for late on Thursday (although that is still TBD on the meeting schedule as of this writing!), so let’s preliminarily plan on Thursday evening.  I will be looking for a restaurant that can accommodate a potentially large group with a diverse array of dietary needs—so if you’re planning on joining us, please send me a message so I can start to estimate the headcount.

All best wishes, and see you in 2017!

Respectfully submitted,
Laura Stokes, Chair, New England Music Library Association Performing Arts Librarian
Virginia Baldwin Orwig Music Library, Brown University

Secretary-Treasurer’s Report

Membership

Thanks to all who have renewed their memberships or have recently joined NEMLA.  We currently have 50 active members!  If the 21 people whose membership was last paid through Aug. 31, 2016 renewed their memberships, we would have 71 active members!  If you have any questions about the status of your membership, please e-mail me at nemlaboard@gmail.com

Meeting attendance

Bennington College was a spectacular place to meet in the Fall.  We had 30 people attend the meeting, one of whom was supported by our first-time attendee program.

Finances

Fall meeting income: $ 520.23

Fall meeting expenses: $ 565.96

First-time attendee expenses: $ 196.57

Checking account: $ 2508.77

Savings account: $ 4,005.09

Grant funds (Oral history): $ 480.50

Submitted by

Sharon Saunders
NEMLA Secretary-Treasurer

Fall 2016 Meeting Minutes

The Fall Meeting of the New England Chapter of the Music Library Association was held on the beautiful campus of Bennington College, VT.  I personally don’t remember a more picturesque setting for a chapter meeting than this, overlooking the Green Mountains on a spectacular Fall day.

Following an introduction from NEMLA Chair Laura Stokes, welcoming thirty attendees who had made the trip to Bennington, Jared Rex, NEMLA Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, introduced our wonderful sponsors for the day: Oceana Wilson, Dean of Crossett Library at Bennington, and Zeke Bernstein, Dean of Research, Planning, and Assessment. Oceana and Zeke spoke briefly about Bennington’s history, research ethos and the library’s critical role at Bennington. Dean Wilson highlighted a collaboration between the School of Music at Bennington and the library related to a collection of highly unusual custom built instruments created by long-time Bennington Professor, Gunnar Schonbeck, that are now held at Mass MOCA. The collection of instruments, which includes an eight-foot-tall banjo, were featured in frequent concerts during Schonbeck’s time at Bennington. The School of Music and the Library are now working to digitize posters and recordings from these concerts.

Jared Rex then introduced the opening act of the excellent program he and the Program Committee put together. Memory Apata, Pat Fisken, and Adam Nemeroff from Dartmouth College, introduced a recently released Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on the Dartmouth’s edX instance, DartmouthX, entitled Introduction to Italian Opera. The course, which is currently in session at the time of writing, was the result of a large scale collaboration including librarians from the Paddock Music Library, instructional designers, IT, and Steve Swayne (Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music at Dartmouth, who was the instructor for the course). Pat Fisken, Head of Paddock Music Library, spoke about the success of the course being a product of the effective team that was put together for the project. Pat noted that her principal role in the project had been to source the content to support the course and negotiate rights as needed. Adam Nemeroff, an Instructional Designer at Dartmouth, then outlined his role in the project. He noted that Instructional Designers are professional educators who collaborate with faculty and students to design and implement virtual learning platforms. Adam highlighted the design process for the MOOC, working backwards from goals and objectives, finally selecting content. He also highlighted a number of tools and methodologies he used in his role as Project Manager for the MOOC. Finally, Memory Apata, Music Library Supervisor at the Paddock Music Library, and recipient of a NEMLA First-Time Attendee award for the meeting, discussed her Teaching Assistant type role for the MOOC project. Her role included building resource lists for the course, which for the most part included high quality yet free resources given that many course participants would not have access to the paid databases and other tools to which many university libraries subscribe.  Memory was also responsible for promotion of the course, primarily via social media and mailing lists. Dartmouth is now working on another MOOC on German Opera, which is due to be launched in Spring 2017.

The second presentation of the day featured an update on the rapidly changing world of music vocabularies. Anne Adams, Music Cataloger at Harvard University, provided us with an overview of two recent vocabularies that are now being used by Music Catalogers, the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus (LCMPT) and Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT). Anne noted that both of these vocabularies have been designed with a view toward Linked Data. Anne highlighted that many libraries are still using Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) for terms that are now in LCMPT but that in time, LSCH will be used solely to describe the “aboutness” of an item. LCDGT is still not being used by many music catalogers, but will be something to keep an eye on for the future. For further news and updates related to these vocabularies and other topics related to music cataloging and metadata, follow the MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee’s blog 

Following committee meetings and lunch, Zoe Rath, Manager of Collection Development at Berklee College of Music, outlined work she had recently undertaken as an embedded librarian for a Music Therapy class at Berklee. Zoe mentioned that this was just one example of how she is trying to move beyond the reference desk more, to meet patrons outside of the library and to better connect with them. Zoe mentioned that her work as an embedded librarian involving meeting with the faculty for the class, attending classes for the program, creating Libguides specifically for the class, and holding drop-in hours for students to stop by for research assistance. Zoe hopes to build upon the success of this initiative, to have more of presence in Berklee’s recently launched online graduate degree course in Music Therapy, and to also create a collection of circulating instruments for music therapy students and faculty.

The final presentation of the day was by NEMLA’s chair, Laura Stokes. Laura spoke to us about her ongoing detective work into the publishing history of Musica Sacra, a 19th-century compendium of organ and vocal music, published (mostly) by Berlin: Ed. Bote & G. Bock. Laura outlined that the facts of publication for the various volumes differs wildly across myriad records in Worldcat and other bibliographic sources. She has been working to ascertain more accurate publication information for each volume, since the facts of publication have implications for Musica Sacra’s relationship to contemporary church politics. She is also interested in why there was a change of editor after volume four of the series, a change that may have also been politically motivated. All of this work is part of Laura’s doctoral dissertation, which she is due to defend in December.

With the meeting’s presentations complete, we were then treated to a vocal concert by Thomas Bogdan (Voice Faculty, Bennington College), Kerry Ryer-Parke (Voice Faculty, Bennington College), Dane Whitman (Kilpatrick Fellow, Bennington College) and Joe Tucker (Research Services Librarian, Bennington College). The quartet performed a highly diverse and imaginative program, from Monteverdi to Lennon and McCartney.

A huge debt of gratitude goes to Bennington College for hosting us, especially Joe Tucker from Bennington who, along with Jared Rex and Marci Cohen, took care of all of the arrangements for the meeting, including organizing the weather, which was amazing!

Submitted by
Jonathan Manton, NEMLA Member-at-Large.

Spring 2017 Meeting Preview

NEMLA’s spring meeting will be held on Friday, June 2, 2017 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA! While it has been a number of years since NEMLA met at MIT–the last time was May 2001–we look forward to being back in Cambridge to experience a diverse day of programming in the midst of MIT’s extensive campus (and to sneak a visit to MIT’s Lewis Music Library).

Considered among the world’s best universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1861. It supports a mission of advancing knowledge and educating students at the highest level. The Lewis Music Library contains a diverse assortment of musical materials supporting the school’s curriculum including approximately 18,000 books, 40,000 music scores, 26,000 recordings, and 100 journal subscriptions.

Please watch the NEMLA listserv for additional details in the upcoming months (including registration information, accommodations, call for proposals, etc.). Please e-mail Jared Rex (jrex@holycross.edu) if you have questions.

The program committee also encourages all NEMLA members to consider submitting proposals to present at the spring meeting. We want to hear about new initiatives and projects at your home institutions!

Special thanks to the program committee and Peter Munstedt for hosting us.

Jared Rex, Vice-Chair/Chair Elect
Music Librarian
Fenwick Music Library
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
(508) 793-2295
jrex@holycross.edu

Seeking Nominations/Committee Members

• Publishes at least four newsletters each year.
• Serves as an ex-officio member of the Publications Committee. Maintains and posts to social media sites, including NEMLA’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.
• Works with the Web Editor and other Board members to update NEMLA’s website.

Chair:
Laura Stokes
Performing Arts Librarian
Orwig Music Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
laura_stokes at brown.edu
Office: (401) 863-3999

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Jared Rex
Music Librarian
Fenwick Music Library
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
jrex@holycross.edu
(508) 793-2295

Past Chair:
Zoe Rath
Reference Librarian ILL Service
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
zrath at berklee dot edu
617-747-8143

Secretary-Treasurer:
Sharon Saunders
Bates College Library
48 Campus Ave
Lewiston, ME 04240
ssaunder at bates.edu
207-786-8327

Member-At-Large:
Jonathan Manton
Music Librarian for Access Services
Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
Yale University
120 High Street
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
jonathan.manton at yale.edu
T: 203-432-

Newsletter Editor:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
Archivist/Records Manager
New England Conservatory
Spaulding Library
290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu
(617) 585-1252

NEMLA Archivist:
Sofia Becerra-Licha
Archivist
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
sbecerralicha at berklee.edu
Office: (617)747-8001

Web Page Editor:
Sarah Hunter
Electronic Inventory Manager
Metadata Services Department
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
shunter at bu.edu
Office: (617)353-5810

Publication Information:

New England Quarter Notes is published quarterly in September, December, March/April and June/July.
Back issues may be accessed from:
http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/resources/newsletters/

Address all correspondence concerning editorial matters to:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu

Inquiries concerning subscription, membership and change of address should be directed to:
Sharon Saunders
ssaunder at bates.edu

Membership year runs September to August.
Regular Personal Membership:$12.00
Student and Retired Membership:$6.00
Institutional Membership$16.00

Return to the New England Music Library Association home page.

 

 

 

Message from the Chair
Spring 2016 Meeting Summary
Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
Fall 2016 Meeting Preview
Noteworthy News
NEMLA Officers
Publication Information

Message from the Chair

Dear NEMLA members,

It’s a pleasure to greet you as the chair of NEMLA for 2016–2017. Summer is in full swing, with the long days, a slightly slower pace (at least for many of us), and maybe even some time both to travel and to unwind.  Whether your summer adventures happen in far-flung places around the globe, or you’re day-tripping to the Cape, Tanglewood, or another nearby hotspot, or even just relaxing on a quiet porch, I hope everyone finds some time to enjoy it.  New England offers a wondrous array of musical opportunities, festivals, and events that can enliven the summer months; we’ve collected information about a few of them here:  http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/free-fun-summer-events-in-new-england-2/.

Looking back to the last few months, I’d like one more time to acknowledge the terrific team at Harvard for hosting our Spring 2016 meeting.  Amazing local host and outgoing NEMLA past chair Kerry Masteller has been a mainstay of the board and of our organization for many years, and she did incredible work to make the spring meeting happen.  The support from Sarah Adams, Lynn Sayers, Marty Schreiner, and Liza Vick was also invaluable. And Sharon Saunders’ work with the budget and registration is what makes it all function and flow together seamlessly.

With the end of the academic year, the annual turnover of the NEMLA board also occurred at the spring meeting.  Many thanks to (now Past Chair) Zoe Rath for a terrific 2015–2016 year under her leadership.  We will miss Chris Schiff as our Member-at-Large, but are pleased to welcome Jonathan Manton back, not only to New England but back to the NEMLA board, as our new Member-at-Large. Looking to the fall, Vice-Chair Jared Rex and the (slightly smaller) Program Committee are busily planning our next meeting at Bennington College, currently scheduled for October 14, 2016.

Speaking of the somewhat reduced forces on the Program Committee: NEMLA needs you!  NEMLA is one of the most active chapters in the Music Library Association, but we can only do that with the support and participation of our members, especially though committee work and hosting meetings.  The following committees are currently in need of new members: Program, Education and Outreach, Instruction, and Publications.  The Oral History committee is also reinvigorating and will be looking to long-term members who are willing to be interviewed.  You can see the work that has already been done on that project here: http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/oral-history-project/.

Committee work is a great way to participate in the life of the organization, become more connected with your colleagues, and stay aware of activities in various parts of music librarianship in the New England region.  If you are interested, please email the chairs or one of the NEMLA board members.  And please let us know if you’re interested in hosting a future meeting!

Wishing everyone an enjoyable rest of the summer.  See you all soon!

Respectfully submitted,

Laura Stokes, Chair

Spring 2016 Meeting Summary

The 2016 Spring Meeting of the New England Chapter convened at Harvard University’s Lamont Library on June 3^rd.  Those in attendance were treated to a program of amazing breadth and variety, a true testament to the eclectic duties and interests of our members and institutions, and to the careful selection of NEMLA’s program committee.

Following introductory remarks, the first session featured three different greater-Boston collections.  One of the key takeaways was: YOU (AND YOUR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS) ARE NOT ALONE!  Those collections that we all have nested away in boxes here and there are truly interesting, unique, and worth surfacing.  And when we do the work of cataloging and advertising we will find our audience.

A case in point was Dana Gee’s presentation on the project to locate and provide access to the plethora of American sheet music collections in the Houghton library.  As “duplicate” items were cataloged and partially digitized, they revealed both a rich and complex world of social references that is known in popular sheet music and a much richer world of performers.  Far from being duplicates, the rotogravure covers of well-known songs might feature as many as ten or more different insets of the performers that toured them in music halls.  They also opened doors on marginalized performers such as male impersonators.  For a taste, see this post on the Houghton Library Blog.

Catherine Hammer presented on The Minuetta Kessler Collection of the Boston Public Library.  Kessler’s career was in itself a near microcosm of music in the 20^th Century.  A child prodigy, daughter of Russian Jewish refugees who relocated to Calgary, Kessler was a Juilliard graduate.  Her 50 year residence in Boston included a Boston Pops performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto under Arthur Fiedler.  She wrote concerti, an opera, an amazing assortment of children’s music, and a tribute to Martin Luther King.  Materials in the Boston Public Library collection include manuscripts and sketchbooks for much of her music, including her first composition “The Bears and the Children Playing on the Bridge,” to a number of pieces for Jewish services, to scores from her own music publishing business (Music Resources), to photos of her music game “Staftonia” being played by some of the many children she taught.  Those in attendance were invited to select from de-accessioned duplicates of some of Kessler’s publications – a generous and lovely gift!

Last in this session was Lingwei Qiu’s introduction to the history of Chinese piano music, built around the 2015 publication of a 10 volume anthology celebrating the centennial.  The first published Chinese piano composition was inked by a Harvard alum, Chao Yuen Ren, but it takes sleuthing to find the score.  The initial printing was in the journal “Ke Xue = Science” published in Shanghai in 1915.  As with the previous two presentations, attendees were introduced to a world crying out to be discovered.  Though reasonably new, Chinese piano music has already gone through significant changes and obvious compositional phases, including the nationalist one that yielded Xian Xinghai’s famous Yellow River Concerto.  Attendees were able to visit the exhibit of these materials at the closing reception in the Loeb Music Library.  For images and more, please see “Along China’s Keys” in the Harvard Gazette.

The morning wrapped up with a presentation by Ronald Broude on “The Origins of Urtext.”  The concept of Urtext arises from 19^th Century scholarship which renewed an interest in seeing an unedited text in the way that its creator and contemporaries saw it.  But in the years following the Second World War it has been applied by various publishers in so many different and contradictory ways as to render it almost meaningless.  Henle, Bärenreiter, and Schott all apply the term to “performing” editions which are prepared (in some cases) from the composers’ complete works editions – all showing the intervention of an editor, and many frequently including interpolations (such as fingering) which composers rarely include.  For more, please see Broude’s paper “Musical Works, Musical Texts, and Musical Editions: a Brief Overview” in the journal Scholarly Editing.

The afternoon started with the annual Business Meeting.  Treasurer Sharon Saunders gave a report confirming the chapter’s solid financial standing.  Calls were made for committee participation and the election results were revealed.  Jared Rex of Holy Cross was confirmed as NEMLA Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Jonathan Manton was confirmed as the Member-at-Large.  They will need your support as they seek venues, committee members, and input during the year ahead, so watch for emails concerning future needs and developments.

After a very successful year, Zoe Rath turned over the gavel to new NEMLA Chair, Laura Stokes.  Zoe will head the Nominations Committee as Past Chair.  Watch for her call for nominations in the next academic year, and in the meantime think about ways that you or your colleagues might participate.  In her first official act, Laura Stokes forcefully gaveled the session to a close.

The afternoon presentations were full of surprises.

Alan Karass delivered a paper based on his doctoral research in ethnomusicology: “Singing ‘Hasta Siempre, Comandante’ in Tunisia (Or, What I’ve Been Doing in Tunisia for the Last Seven Years).”  Showing just how vital and in-tune with the zeitgeist music research can be, Karass discussed how a song lauding Che Guevara has been turned into a well-known folk anthem in not-normally-Spanish-speaking Tunisia.  The recently-minted Dr. Karass’ work encompasses the time during which the Arab Spring occurred.  In a hopeful sign he talked about how Che has gone from being an aspirational figure of striving for freedom (before the Arab Spring) to a historical figure known and studied even in Tunisian high schools (after).

The last talk of the day was delivered by James Jordan: “What Is Old is made New Again: The E.M. Skinner Organ Restoration at the Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, MA.”  As a member of the Community of Jesus, Jordan has been involved in the acquisition and reconfiguration of seventeen E. M. Skinner organs into a single (if it can be called such) instrument.  Reflecting the Community’s focus on worship through the visual and performing arts, the organ is both a musical and architectural masterpiece.  Jordan presented the history of the instrument and a tiny peek at the physical work of combining Skinner’s great organs.  Of course it takes a master to build a great organ, and Jordan dedicated a portion of his presentation to speak of the work of Nelson Barden on this project.  See their website for videos of Barden and the organ, and more on the organ project and the Church of the Transfiguration.  Those who might be on or near Cape Cod should try to schedule in a tour of the Church or one of their concerts.  It promises to be beautifully overwhelming.

The program wrapped up with a triumphant concert at the Loeb Music Library by NEMLA’s own Maria Jane Loizou (accompanied by Tal Zilber).  Her selection of Lullabies and Dances started with a lullaby by Paul Bowles, followed by works by Astor Piazzola and Kurt Weill, and finished with a selection of Greek songs, including a rousing finale in the 9/8 karsilama rhythm – and yes, I did see many audience members counting 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2-3, as she sang!  It was a beautiful end to the day, and a nice transition to the closing reception next door.

With this the author turns over the duties of the Member-at-Large to Jon Manton, and I send my sincere thanks to Kerry Masteller, who is also rotating off the board this year.  Kerry: Your firm hand and good counsel have made my time on the board a joy.  Thank you.  Respectfully submitted by Chris Schiff, former Member-at-Large, and now ACTIVE member of the Education and Outreach Committee.

Secretary/Treasurer’s Report

NEMLA Business Meeting Minutes, June 3, 2016, Harvard University

• Zoe Rath welcomed the first-time attendees.
• Sharon Saunders submitted the Treasurer’s report (reproduced below).
• Various NEMLA Committees Chairs reported on the status of the committee memberships. These included: Education and Outreach; Nominating; Program; and Oral History.  Committees are welcoming new members–please volunteer for a committee of your choice!
• Laura Stokes put out a call for topics/programs for future meetings and also a call for volunteers to host future meeting.
• Zoe Rath announced the election results and Kerry Masteller thanked all members who ran for election.
  • Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Jared Rex
  • Member-at-Large: Jonathan Manton
• Zoe Rath turned the meeting over to incoming Chair, Laura Stokes
• New business
  • Alan Karass talked about an archives conference that he attends. He will post information about it on NEMLA-L
  • Suzanne Lovejoy said that, as a Member-at-Large of the Music Library Association, she will take our concerns to the MLA Board

Laura Stokes adjourned the meeting

Treasurer’s Report from the Spring Business Meeting

Balances (June 1, 2016)
Savings	4,004.93
Checking	2,675.32
Total	6,680.25
Oral history grant
Beginning amount	1,000.00
Expense (3/2015)	183.00
Expenses (7/2015)	336.50
Current remaining	480.50
Checking account
Restricted funds (grant)	480.50
Unrestricted/NEMLA (non-grant)	2,194.82
Total	2,675.32
Members (57 current members)
Income from memberships paid this report period (6/1/2015-6/1/2016)	714.80
October 2015 meeting
Expenses	1,068.39
First-time attendees	139.20
Registrations	863.13
Fees
Eventbrite (meeting registrations)	111.87
Paypal (memberships paid online)	27.20

 

Fall 2016 Meeting Preview

Bennington College
Bennington, VT

Friday, October 14, 2016

The Fall NEMLA meeting will take place at Bennington College in Bennington, VT on Friday, October 14, 2016.

Bennington College, a small liberal arts institution, was founded in 1934. With a total enrollment of around 800 students, Bennington has a strong history of embracing the performing arts, especially modern dance, and continues to include the performing arts as an equal offering to its other liberal arts curriculum.

More details will be announced over the NEMLA listserv in the upcoming weeks including hotel information and a call for presentation proposals. Please e-mail Jared Rex (jrex@holycross.edu) if you have questions.

Special thanks to Joe Tucker from Bennington, for assisting with conference logistics, and to Marci Cohen, who is serving on the program committee.

Noteworthy News

Pam Bristah recently retired from her position as Music Librarian at Wellesley College, Bristah had worked in the Wellesley Music Library since the summer of 2000.  Before coming to Wellesley, she was Head Librarian at the Manhattan School of Music for eleven years. At Westminster Choir College, she sang in the Westminster Choir, which performed in the Spoleto Festival, both in Italy and Charleston, and with New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Boston Symphony Orchestra, among other orchestras, under Robert Shaw, Leonard Bernstein, William Steinberg, James Levine, Rafael Kubelik, and other conductors.

We will miss her but she plans to continue attending MLA meetings and looks forward to seeing us in Orlando!

Paraclete Recordings announces the release of For the Beauty of the Earth:  Celebrating Creation in Brass, Organ, and Percussion—a collection of contemporary brass works honoring Creation. From David Marlatt’s evocative Windscape and Earthscape to the brilliant and stirring hymn arrangements of James Curnow; from the echoes of space in Anthony DiLorenzo’s Luminosity to Charles Widor’s renowned Toccata arranged for organ and brass; and the beauty of Brenton Broadstock’s Benediction, each work expresses an awe and appreciation for the beauty and boundless mysteries of our universe.

The generous range of sound and colors produced by the 15-member Gabriel V Brass Ensemble and organist SharonRose Pfeiffer, worthily reflect the majesty of creation which words cannot capture.

Recorded in the superb acoustics of Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA, and it’s famous Worcester Organ, this disc gives the listener the full experience of hearing the brilliance of these works and the vibrant artistry of Gabriel V Brass Ensemble and organist SharonRose Pfeiffer.

NEMLA Officers

Chair:
Laura Stokes
Performing Arts Librarian
Orwig Music Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
laura_stokes at brown.edu
Office: (401) 863-3999

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Jared Rex
Music Librarian
Fenwick Music Library
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA 01610
jrex@holycross.edu
(508) 793-2295

Past Chair:
Zoe Rath
Reference Librarian ILL Service
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
zrath at berklee dot edu
617-747-8143

Secretary-Treasurer:
Sharon Saunders
Bates College Library
48 Campus Ave
Lewiston, ME 04240
ssaunder at bates.edu
207-786-8327

Member-At-Large:
Jonathan Manton
Music Librarian for Access Services
Irving S. Gilmore Music Library
Yale University
120 High Street
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
jonathan.manton at yale.edu
T: 203-432-5549

Newsletter Editor:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
Archivist/Records Manager
New England Conservatory
Spaulding Library
290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu
(617) 585-1252

NEMLA Archivist:
Sofia Becerra-Licha
Archivist
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
sbecerralicha at berklee.edu
Office: (617)747-8001

Web Page Editor:
Sarah Hunter
Electronic Inventory Manager
Metadata Services Department
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
shunter at bu.edu
Office: (617)353-5810

Publication Information:

New England Quarter Notes is published quarterly in September, December, March/April and June/July.
Back issues may be accessed from:
http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/resources/newsletters/

Address all correspondence concerning editorial matters to:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu

Inquiries concerning subscription, membership and change of address should be directed to:
Sharon Saunders
ssaunder at bates.edu

Membership year runs September to August.
Regular Personal Membership:$12.00
Student and Retired Membership:$6.00
Institutional Membership$16.00

Return to the New England Music Library Association home page.

 

Message from the Chair
Spring 2016 Election Ballot
Spring 2016 Meeting Registration
Noteworthy News
NEMLA Officers
Publication Information

Message from the Chair

Dear NEMLA members,

It has been a pleasure working as your Vice Chair and Chair of NEMLA and working with the board for the past 6 years. I am proud of everything this organization has accomplished during this time and what it continues to accomplish. Some of our achievements include the smooth transition to our WordPress website and the excellent documentation of our meetings through our newsletter, website, video recording, and photos. There is also a growing commitment to preserving our past through our archives and through our NEMLA oral history project. I would note that we are still missing quite a few previous presentations, although our website currently includes many past presentations. If you are willing to add your presentation, please email your powerpoint or notes to Sarah Hunter and she will post them.

It was nice seeing so many of you at this past MLA conference in Cincinnati and later at the NEMLA Korean dinner at the Sung Korean Bistro. Over 24 of you attended and I have never heard so many compliments on a good restaurant choice! You can see additional photos of our delicious dinner on the NEMLA Facebook page.

This year the weather seems to need some meds to get rid of the mood swings! I’m sure all are looking forward to Spring and then to Summer. I hope to see many of you at our upcoming Spring meeting at Harvard. Thank you to our Vice Chair, Laura Stokes and the Program Committee (Anne Adams, Ilana Revkin,  and Jared Rex), together with our Harvard host Kerry Masteller for their hard  work arranging this meeting,  Thanks also to Sharon Saunders for putting the registration site up on Eventbrite. To see more details about this meeting please read: Spring Meeting at Harvard 2016

Before I end this letter, I want to remind you all to please take the time to vote for our new Vice-Chair / Chair-Elect and Member-at-Large. A big thank-you to Kerry Masteller (Past Chair) and to the Nominating Committee for recruiting our candidates, and to the members who have decided to run. Short bios of the candidates are included in this issue of the newsletter; look for a ballot in your email soon. If your membership has lapsed, remember to renew it in order to vote.

I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at our Spring Chapter meeting in June at Harvard.

Respectfully submitted,

Zoë Rath, NEMLA Chair
Reference Librarian
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music

Spring 2016 Election Ballot

At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26th, 2016, members in good standing will receive an email message inviting them to participate in the election of two new members to the NEMLA board. Our thanks go to all of the candidates standing for election, and to the Nominating Committee for their work assembling the election slate.

Candidate for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:

Jared Rex

Jared Rex has been the Music Librarian at College of the Holy Cross since August 2015. He hosted NEMLA’s Fall 2015 conference and currently serves on NEMLA’s Program Committee. Prior to his time at Holy Cross, Jared held various positions including Acting Librarian at the Nashville Symphony, Head Librarian of the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, Library Fellow at New World Symphony, and Personal Librarian to conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. He has also worked in the music libraries at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, University at Buffalo, and the Boston Conservatory. Jared attended Manhattan School of Music Pre-College and the Boston Conservatory, where he received a B.M. in Piano Performance. He also holds a M.L.S. and M.A. in Music Theory from University at Buffalo.

Candidates for Member-at-Large:

Liz Berndt-Morris

Liz Berndt-Morris has been the music curator at the Boston Public Library since January 2015.  Her position includes predominantly providing reference and developing and maintaining the music collection of the BPL. She was previously employed at Central Michigan University, where she was a music librarian for almost six years.  During that time she participated in reference, collection development, original cataloging, and teaching in both one-time class sessions and a 100-level course, “Introduction to Research and Libraries,” each semester. She also earned tenure and had an approved sabbatical before moving to Boston. During her time in the Midwest, she was active in the Midwest Chapter of MLA by chairing the Public Services Committee.

Andrea Cawelti

Andrea Cawelti is the Ward Music Cataloger at Houghton Library, Harvard University. A graduate of Oberlin (Greenwood Conservatory Prize) and The Juilliard School, she began her career as an operatic mezzo-soprano. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including winning the Met Competition, she has sung with the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Opera, and the Columbus Symphony, among others. Prior to Houghton, she worked at the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University, the Chicago Symphony Archives, and the New York Public Library Music Division. She completed her MSLIS at Drexel University in 2010.

Jonathan Manton

Jonathan Manton is Music Librarian for Access Services at the Gilmore Music Library at Yale University. His role oversees all aspects of access to Music Library collections, both physical and digital. Notable areas of concentration include circulation and course reserves, and all things digital, including digital projects and audio and video streaming access for media.

Before joining Yale in February 2016, Jonathan was Sound Archives Librarian at Stanford University’s Archive of Recorded Sound. There he principally worked on creating access to an archive of nearly half a million sound recordings through arrangement and description, outreach and public services, and digital project work. While at Stanford, Jonathan notably created digital access to numerous collections from the archive’s holdings for the first time.

Previous to his position at Stanford, Jonathan was based in Boston, MA from 2010-2012. During this time he served remotely as Technical Support Officer for the Britten Thematic Catalogue Project, a forthcoming online resource in development at the Britten-Pears Foundation in the United Kingdom that, once complete, will detail all of Benjamin Britten’s works online, both published and unpublished. He was also a member of NEMLA during this time. He served as Secretary/Treasurer in 2012 and was on the Technical Services Committee from 2011-2012.

Jonathan received his MSc in Information and Library Management from the School of Computing, Engineering, and Information Sciences at the University of Northumbria, UK and MMus in Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Arts from the University of East Anglia, UK. He has published articles in both Brio (International Association of Music Libraries, UK) and Notes (Music Library Association, USA) respectively.

Spring 2016 Meeting Registration

Registration is now open for the Spring 2016 NEMLA meeting!

Registration

The spring meeting will take place on June 3, 2016 at the Lamont Library at Harvard University, followed by a short musical program and a reception at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library.  We have an exciting program to offer: various special collections, the history of the Urtext, ethnomusicological adventures in Tunisia, and the E. M. Skinner organ project.  Our day will end with an opportunity to hear the vocal stylings of our very own Maria Jane Loizou!

We are still working on the exact timing of the program schedule (watch for updates!) but we will gather for coffee and light breakfast items at 9 a.m. in Lamont, with the opening remarks scheduled for 9:45 a.m.

Early Bird registration will be $16 for regular members and $8 for student and retired members. Please register by May 27, 2016 to receive the Early Bird rate. Registrations from May 28 through June 3 (including walk-ins) will be $18 and $9, respectively.

No catered lunch this time, but the lunch break on the schedule will offer an opportunity to enjoy one of Harvard Square’s many dining options.  Check out http://www.harvardsquare.com/restaurants if you would like some ideas.

Hotel

We have negotiated a conference rate of $199 per night (with tax, that’s $228.28—it’s Boston…) at the Holiday Inn Boston–Brookline at 1200 Beacon Street in Brookline.  If you are driving, you can also park there for $34/night.  Please make your reservation by June 2 to ensure this rate.

Reservation’s #: 855-813-9839

Booking Code: MLA

Booking Link: New England Music Library Association

Transportation

Harvard’s transportation directions can be found at this page: http://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/visit-harvard/directions  Regardless of your mode of transportation, we recommend the use of public transit into Harvard Square itself, since parking is extremely limited.

The Lamont Library website is found here: http://library.harvard.edu/lam, with a link to a map showing its location.  The Loeb Music Library website is here: http://library.harvard.edu/mus, with a map as well.  Please note that we will gather in Lamont in the morning.

First-Time Attendees

If this is your first NEMLA meeting, we welcome you to apply for our First-Time Attendees Program. This grant covers registration, lunch, and travel expenses; both current members and non-members are eligible, so long as they have not attended a meeting before. The deadline to apply for funding through this program is May 20, 2016.  Please apply here: http://tinyurl.com/c8mjvz9.  Please note that funding is regrettably not available for all first-time attendees, but we do strive to accommodate as many as we can on a first come, first served basis.

Thursday Evening Dinner

All attendees are warmly invited to a group dinner at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, at Tanjore restaurant in Harvard Square.  If you are planning to come, please let Laura Stokes know by Tuesday, May 31 at the latest, so we can give the restaurant a headcount.

A huge, huge thank-you to Kerry Masteller, Sarah Adams, Marty Schreiner, Lynn Sayers, and the Harvard Library staff for hosting this meeting and contributing so much to the arrangements!

Noteworthy News

Holly Mockovak reports that Marci Cohen has joined Boston University as the Assistant Head of the Music Library, Mugar Memorial Library, replacing Sarah Hunter, who recently became BU’s Electronic Inventory Manager for the Libraries. Marci brings her knowledge of popular music, the music industry, and music journalism to the role, complementing the backgrounds of their staff. Within MLA, she’s currently the copyright web editor, a member of the Dena Epstein Award and Education Committees, and Coordinator of the Jazz and Popular Music Round Table. With co-author Grover Baker, her most recently published article is “Takin’ Care of Business: Music Business Reference” in Music Reference Services Quarterly 18/3-4 (2015), 157-163.

Sofía Becerra-Licha was accepted into the prestigious program: The Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries and Museums. The Coalition began in 2013, and is supported by grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with administration provided by OCLC.

The goal of the group is to work in deliberate coordination across organizational boundaries to devise and strengthen sustainable Continuing Education and Professional Development programs that will transform the library, archives, and museum workforce in ways that lead to measurable impact on our nation’s communities.

Amanda Axel joined Berklee College of Music as their Processing Archivist in April 2016. Prior to joining the Berklee staff, she served as Project Archivist for the Jonas Salk Papers at the University of California, San Diego, and Project Archivist at Northwestern University. A native of Illinois, Axel holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Illinois and a joint BA in History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Erica Charis, Assistant Director, Assessment Programs & Planning Learning Resources at Berklee, was a member of an international committee that recently published its findings. The edX Library Working Group on Intellectual Property Materials in MOOCs talked with libraries across the country about current practices and thoughts on best practices regarding class materials for “massively open online courses” like those available on edX and Coursera. Erica was involved in those initial screenings and then was asked to remain on the project to pull together a final report of best practices for IP in MOOCs and recommendations  for further research, from a multi-media perspective.  If you are interested, you can read the report at https://lettheceleryrot.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/ipmaterials-final.pdf.

One final note – check out this interesting Yale News article about the Oral History of American Music archive.

NEMLA Officers

Chair:
Zoe Rath
Reference Librarian ILL Service
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
zrath at berklee dot edu
Phone: 617-747-8143

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Laura Stokes
Performing Arts Librarian
Orwig Music Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
laura_stokes at brown.edu
Office: (401) 863-3999

Past Chair:
Kerry Carwile Masteller
Reference and Digital Program Librarian
Loeb Music Library
Music Building, North Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
kmastell at fas.harvard.edu
Office: (617) 495-2794
Fax: (617) 496-4636

Secretary-Treasurer:
Sharon Saunders
Bates College Library
48 Campus Ave
Lewiston, ME 04240
ssaunder at bates.edu
207-786-8327

Member-At-Large:
Christopher Schiff
Ladd Library
Research Services
Bates College
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, ME 04240
cschiff at bates.edu
Office: (207) 786-6274

Newsletter Editor:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
Archivist/Records Manager
New England Conservatory
Spaulding Library
290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu
(617) 585-1252

NEMLA Archivist:
Sofia Becerra-Licha
Archivist
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
sbecerralicha at berklee.edu
Office: (617)747-8001

Web Page Editor:
Sarah Hunter
Electronic Inventory Manager
Mugar Memorial Library
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
shunter at bu.edu
Office: (617)353-5810

 

Publication Information

New England Quarter Notes is published quarterly in September, December, March/April and June/July.

Back issues may be accessed from:
http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/resources/newsletters/

Address all correspondence concerning editorial matters to:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu

Inquiries concerning subscription, membership and change of address should be directed to:
Sharon Saunders
ssaunder at bates.edu

Membership year runs September to August.
Regular Personal Membership:$12.00
Student and Retired Membership:$6.00
Institutional Membership:$16.00
Return to the New England Music Library Association home page.

 

 

 

 

 

Message from the Chair
Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
Fall 2015 Meeting Minutes
Spring 2016 Meeting Preview
Call for Nominations
NEMLA Officers
Publication Information

Message from the Chair

Dear NEMLA members,

I am pleased to report that we had a very successful fall meeting at The College of the Holy Cross at which 48 of you attended!

A huge thank you to our generous hosts Alicia Hansen, Jared Rex, and Sarah Bilotta for planning and organizing the spaces for the NEMLA meeting. The pasta spread and the reception spread of cheese, dips, cider, beer, and wine were a huge hit! And Jared,
thank you in particular for the spectacular signage and for organizing the intimate concert in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel. The cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws was mesmerizing, and the De Falla duo with the student Anastasia Dulskiy was a sparkling and enjoyable end to the formal meeting program. If you missed any of the programs or want to review the last meeting, please look at our past meeting page to find links to program, videos, and photos. I would also like to say a big thanks to Laura Stokes (Vice Chair) and the Planning Committee: Anne Adams and Ilana Revkin for their tireless efforts planning this last meeting. I invite you to read Ilana’s wonderful recap of the fall meeting in this newsletter.

Besides being entertaining and interesting, it was also a very strategic meeting because our committees were able to meet and plan for the coming year. Our newest committee on Oral History was able to meet and Marci Cohen stepped forward to chair this committee. Over the next year Marci and other members from this committee will draft a formal charge and will propose how to spend the grant money which we received from MLA.

Are you thinking of presenting at the next meeting? You will have more time to prepare since this year our spring meeting will be held on Friday, June 3rd at the Lamont Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. Why so much later in the year? We listened to
the member survey in which many of you said that a March meeting can be hard to attend due to inclement weather and MLA being only a few weeks earlier. We wish to thank our host, Kerry Masteller (Past Chair). Laura is providing a meeting preview in this issue and more details will be forthcoming.

I invite all NEMLA members to be more involved in the NEMLA organization and to consider running for one of the elected officers positions. Kerry as head of the Nominating Committee will give a detailed description in her article of the open positions for which we
are still seeking candidates. Thanks to Jared Rex for volunteering to serve on our program committee.

I hope to see many of you at the upcoming MLA meeting in Cincinnati and that you will join us for our NEMLA dinner (I will make an announcement about where and when in NEMLA-L closer to the meeting).

Best wishes for the holidays and New Year!

Zoe Rath
NEMLA Chair

Secretary-Treasurer’s Report

Membership

Thanks to all who have renewed their memberships or have recently joined NEMLA. We currently have 51 active members! If the 23 people whose membership was paid through Aug. 31, 2015 renewed their memberships, we would have 74 active members! If you have any questions about the status of your membership, please e-mail me at nemlaboard@gmail.com

Meeting attendance

I heard great feedback about the meeting at the reception. We had 48 attendees. 2 of the 48 were first-time attendees; 2 were guest speakers (i.e., non-NEMLA speakers); 6 were Holy Cross staff. There were 3 others–not counted in the 48–that had pre-registered but were unable to attend.

Finances

Fall meeting income: $ 875.13
Fall meeting expenses: $ 1,180.26
First-time attendee expenses: $ 139.20

Checking account: $ 2006.57
Savings account: $ 4,004.73
Grant funds (Oral history): $ 480.50

Submitted by
Sharon Saunders
NEMLA Secretary-Treasurer

Fall Meeting 2015

The Fall 2015 NEMLA meeting took place on the bucolic campus of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.  Out-of-towners gathered for dinner at the Flying Rhino Cafe on Thursday night.  The meeting began Friday morning at the Rehm Library in Smith Hall.

Our first presenter, hosted by Marci Cohen of the Berklee College of Music, was Glenn McDonald, Data Alchemist at The Echo Nest (now owned by Spotify). His presentation, “New Approaches to Music as Information,” gave us a glimpse of his work organizing the vast array of music on Spotify in order to personalize the listener’s experience and discovery of music. This involves a visual mapping of 1,387 genres and counting. For more information about McDonald and his work, visit his blog as well as articles on Spotify Insights.

Next, Anna Kijas, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Boston College, shared her work on digitizing and encoding a 14th-century Franciscan Antiphoner, a collaboration between musicologist
Michael Noone and the Boston College University Libraries. In addition to displaying the images and recordings of the antiphoner, the project aims to encode the incipits, texts, and metadata using the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) into the open source platform, Diva, as well as contribute to the CANTUS Database.  For more information, visit their project summary.

After a delicious catered lunch in the Browsing Room of the Dinand Library, followed by committee meetings and lightning rounds, Anne Adams, Music Cataloger at Harvard University Libraries and Hannah Spence, Catalog Librarian at NEC’s Firestone Library presented on behalf of the Technical Services Committee. Their presentation, “LCMPT and LCGFT Or, Look, Ma, no strings!”, provided an introduction to the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus and the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms that was aimed toward all librarians, not just catalogers. We learned that in contrast to LC subject headings which conflate all
aspects of a piece of music, medium of performance and genre terms parse them out in a way that is much clearer to musicians and researchers.

For the final presentation of the day, Lee Eiseman, President of the Harvard Musical Association, provided an overview of the HMA’s history and some examples of ephemera, scores, and recordings. Not actually under the purview of Harvard University, the HMA was
founded by Harvard alumni in 1837 to promote musical life in the Boston area through performances, publications, and the collection of music materials.

To round out the meeting, attendees were treated to a performance in the beautiful Brooks Concert Hall. Artist-in-Residence and coordinator of Holy Cross’s chamber music program, Jan
Müller-Szeraws, gave a stunning rendition of Osvaldo Golijov’s cello solo, Omaramor. He then treated us to Manuel De Falla’s Siete canciones populares españoles arranged for cello, accompanied by the talented freshman Anastasia Dulskiy. The performance was followed by a reception with appetizers and wine, held next to Holy Cross’s Fenwick Music Library, allowing attendees to explore the library for themselves.

Ilana Revkin
Program Committee

Spring Meeting Preview

Save the date! The spring meeting of the New England Music Library Association will take place on June 3, 2016, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We will be meeting in the Forum Room of the Lamont Library, with a planned reception in the Loeb Music Library after the meeting.

Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, dating back to 1636. Lamont Library, which was the first library in the U.S. specifically designed for undergraduates, opened in 1949. It currently houses the undergraduate collections in the humanities and the social sciences. If you’d like a sneak peak, Lamont offers a virtual tour of their facility here.

The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, located in the Music Building, includes the Isham Memorial Library and the Archive of World Music. It opened in 1956, uniting the music collections from Widener with the music department’s own collections.

We’re looking forward to an exciting, informative, and convivial day at Harvard and in Harvard Square. We would like to extend a special thank-you to Kerry Masteller and Sarah Adams for inviting us to
Harvard, and to Marty Schreiner and Lynn Sayers at Lamont for their assistance with space arrangements. NEMLA’s program committee includes Laura Stokes (chair), Anne Adams, Ilana Revkin,
and Jared Rex.

Call for Nominations

Serving as a NEMLA officer is a rewarding opportunity to serve your chapter, work with colleagues, and contribute to music librarianship, libraries and collections in New England. Nominations are being sought for the following positions, with elections to be held in May:

Vice Chair/Chair Elect (3-year term)

Member at Large (2-year term)

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:

• Performs the duties of the Chair in the latter’s absence.
• Serves as Chair of the Program Committee.
• Serves as an ex-officio member of the Education & Outreach Committee.
• The term of office shall be one year, after which the Vice-Chair shall succeed to the office of Chair and then Past-Chair, requiring a commitment of three years.

Member-at-Large

• Acts as liaison to relevant professional organizations in New England (such as the New England Library Association (NELA),the six state library associations, the New England chapter of ACRL (ACRL/NEC), and the New England chapter of the American Musicological Society), primarily to promote information
  exchange and outreach.
• Serves as Chair of the Education & Outreach Committee.
• The term of office shall be two years.

Terms of office begin immediately after the spring meeting. Officers must be in good standing and current with their dues. The Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect must also be a member of the national association.

Nominations are welcome through March 18, 2016.

If you would like to nominate a colleague for one of these positions (self-nominations are welcome) or if you have any questions, please contact any of the Nominating Committee members:

Kerry Masteller, Chair, kmastell@fas.harvard.edu
Patricia Fisken, Patricia.B.Fisken@dartmouth.edu
Alan Karass, alan.karass@necmusic.edu
Maria Jane Loizou, mariajane.loizou@necmusic.edu

NEMLA Officers

Chair:
Zoe Rath
Reference Librarian ILL Service
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
zrath at berklee dot edu
Phone: 617-747-8143

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Laura Stokes
Performing Arts Librarian
Orwig Music Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
laura_stokes at brown.edu
Office: (401) 863-3999

Past Chair:
Kerry Carwile Masteller
Reference and Digital Program Librarian
Loeb Music Library
Music Building, North Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
kmastell at fas.harvard.edu
Office: (617) 495-2794
Fax: (617) 496-4636

Secretary-Treasurer:
Sharon Saunders
Bates College Library
48 Campus Ave
Lewiston, ME 04240
ssaunder at bates.edu
207-786-8327

Member-At-Large:
Christopher Schiff
Ladd Library
Research Services
Bates College
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, ME 04240
cschiff at bates.edu
Office: (207) 786-6274

Newsletter Editor:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
Archivist/Records Manager
New England Conservatory
Spaulding Library
290 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu
(617) 585-1252

NEMLA Archivist:
Sofia Becerra-Licha
Archivist
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
sbecerralicha at berklee.edu
Office: (617)747-8001

Web Page Editor:
Sarah Hunter
Electronic Inventory Manager
Metadata Services Department
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
shunter at bu.edu
Office: (617)353-5810

 

Publication Information

New England Quarter Notes is published quarterly in September, December, March/April and June/July.

Back issues may be accessed from:
http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/resources/newsletters/

Address all correspondence concerning editorial matters to:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu

Inquiries concerning subscription, membership and change of address should be directed to:
Sharon Saunders
ssaunder at bates.edu

Membership year runs September to August.
Regular Personal Membership:$12.00
Student and Retired Membership:$6.00
Institutional Membership:$16.00
Return to the New England Music Library Association home page.

Message from the Chair
Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
Fall Meeting Registration
Noteworthy News
Seeking Nominations/Committee Members
NEMLA Officers
Publication Information

 

Message from the Chair

Dear NEMLA,

I hope you are managing the hustle and bustle of Fall semester and enjoying those last weeks of summer.

I am happy to announce that our fall meeting plans are well on their way thanks to the hard work of Laura Stokes, our Program Chair, and the Programming Committee. This year’s fall meeting will take place at the College of the Holy Cross on October 16th; please register by October 9th for early bird registration. This year’s fall meeting includes programs on topics such as open access, new approaches to music information, (Technical Services Committee) genre terms and music literacy. NEMLA members will also get a chance to meet with their committee, and new and current members are urged to join an existing committee. This will also be a chance for members interested in our Oral History to meet and discuss the creation of this committee (if you haven’t already, I encourage you to listen to our past oral history interviews).  At this summer’s board meeting we agreed that each committee should try over the next year to come up with a brief summary of goals and objectives that we can post on our website. Finally, to end our day, we have a concert and our closing reception. More details about this concert will be sent out soon, so please stay tuned!

I would also like to remind everyone that our chapter offers a First Time Attendees Program, which provides funding to cover lunch and travel expenses. Non-members, as well as new members, attending a meeting for the first time will be considered as recipients for this grant. I encourage you to invite interested library staff, librarians, or students considering librarianship as a profession, to apply for funding if it will help them attend this or future meetings.

If you’re looking for a roommate and/or to carpool to Worcester, please use this google doc. If you are coming down early or if Worcester isn’t too far out of your way, I hope to see you at our
Thursday NEMLA dinner.

Looking forward to seeing you at our fall NEMLA Meeting, Friday, October 16th,

Zoe Rath
Chair, NEMLA
Reference Librarian
Berklee College of Music

Secretary/Treasurer Report

New members and membership renewals
Welcome to new members who have recently joined us. We hope you enjoy your first year with NEMLA and look forward to meeting you either virtually via Twitter, Facebook, or our Google Group mailing list, or in person at one of our upcoming meetings.

NEMLA’s membership year runs from Sept. 1st through Aug. 31st. Renewal e-mails were sent out to those whose memberships were expiring on Sept. 1, 2015 or had expired in previous years. If you have not yet renewed, everything you need to do so is on our membership page. If you have questions regarding your membership status, please e-mail me at nemlaboard@gmail.com

Your continued support of NEMLA is very much appreciated and ensures the chapter’s continued success!

Sharon Saunders
NEMLA Secretary-Treasurer
Bates College Library

Fall 2015 Meeting Registration

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the fall meeting of the New England Music Library Association!

Register

The fall meeting of the New England Music Library Association will take place on October 16, 2015, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the Rehm Library, Smith Hall, with an afternoon concert and reception in Brooks Concert Hall and the Fenwick Music Library.  We have an exciting program planned, including a music encoding project, updates on music vocabularies, the history of the Harvard Musical Association, and a concert featuring some of Holy Cross’s own outstanding performers.

The meeting program will be as follows:

All events take place in Rehm Library, Smith Hall unless otherwise noted.

9–10 a.m. Coffee and pastries [Foyer above Rehm Library]

10–10:15 a.m. Chair’s welcome

10:15–11 a.m.  Marci Cohen (Berklee College of Music) & Glenn McDonald (Data Alchemist, The Echo Nest), “New Approaches to Music as Information”

11–11:45 a.m.  Anna Kijas (Boston College) , “The Encoded Medieval Antiphoner: an Open Access Digital Source for Music and Liturgical Pedagogy and Scholarship”

11:45–1:15 p.m.  Lunch [Browsing Room in Dinand Library]

1:15–1:45 p.m. Committee meetings [Rehm Library]

1:45–2 p.m. General meeting reconvenes; committee lightning rounds

2–2:45 p.m.  NEMLA’s Technical Services Committee, “Medium of Performance and Genre Terms for Non-Catalogers: Look Ma, No Strings!”

2:45–3:20 p.m.  F. Lee Eiseman (Harvard Musical Association), “Special Collections—The Harvard Musical Association and the development of musical performance and literacy in Boston and America”

3:30–4 p.m.  Concert (Program: TBA) (Brooks Concert Hall)

4–5:30 p.m.  Reception (Foyer adjacent to Fenwick Music Library)

Early Bird Registration will be $16 for regular members and $8 for student and retired members. Please register by October 9, 2015 to receive the Early Bird rate. At-the-door registrations are $18 and $9, respectively.

Register

Lunch
Please note that registration includes the option of a catered lunch. Lunch options will include vegetarian and non-vegetarian items. All attendees are advised that dining options within walking distance of Holy Cross are quite limited, and so we strongly recommend either the catered lunch or planning to bring your own.  We will be eating in the Browsing Room in the Dinand Library. The cost will be $12; please register for the lunch by October 9, so we can give Holy Cross Catering an accurate headcount.

Hotel
A block of rooms has been reserved at a conference rate of $114/night at the Comfort Inn in Auburn, Massachusetts, which is approximately a five-minute drive from the Holy Cross campus. The deadline for bookings at the NEMLA rate is September 30.  To register for the hotel, please call the Comfort Inn at (508) 832-8300 and mention the NEMLA hotel rate.

If you are traveling via public transportation, are staying in the hotel, and need additional assistance with transportation to and from Union Station to the Comfort Inn, please contact Jared Rex (jrex at holycross.edu) or Laura Stokes (laura_stokes at brown.edu) as
soon as you have finalized your plans.

Transportation
By car: Holy Cross is easily reached via I-90 (the Mass Pike) and I-290. From Rhode Island, RI-146/MA-146 will take you directly to Holy Cross. Please see the Directions to Hogan Campus Center webpage for more details.

The Holy Cross campus boasts ample parking, and since we are meeting during Fall Break, we project that the parking lots will not be crowded. Please park in the visitor lot near the Hogan Campus Center.

By train and bus: The MBTA Commuter Rail schedule for the Worcester Line is found here. Regional buses also arrive at Worcester’s Union Station at regular intervals. We have arranged a Holy Cross shuttle pickup timed for the MBTA train that arrives at
Worcester at 8:27 a.m., and another shuttle that will return to Union Station for the train that departs Worcester at 5:50 p.m. Please contact Laura Stokes or Jared Rex if you have additional needs. ***Please note that if the MBTA changes the commuter rail schedule
for fall, the shuttle time will be adjusted to reflect the change.***

First-Time Attendees
If this is your first NEMLA meeting, we welcome you to apply for our First-Time Attendees Program. This grant covers registration, lunch, and travel expenses; both current members and non-members are eligible, so long as they have not attended a meeting before. The deadline to apply for funding through this program is October 2, 2015.  Please apply here: http://tinyurl.com/c8mjvz9

Thursday evening dinner
All attendees are warmly invited to a group dinner at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, at the Flying Rhino Cafe. If you are planning to come, please let Laura Stokes know by Wednesday, October 14 at the latest, so we can give the restaurant a headcount.

A huge thank-you to Jared Rex, Alicia Hansen, and the College of the Holy Cross, for hosting this meeting and providing so much in the way of local arrangements.

Noteworthy News

Holly Mockovak reports that the Boston University Library systems Metadata Services Department has been reorganized and Sarah Hunter is now Electronic Inventory Manager. Her division will oversee the maintenance of the library resource management systems knowledge base for serials and electronic resource collection sets. Sarah has been Assistant Head of the Music Library for 9 years, where her work with a wide variety of information formats and discovery systems prepared her for this promotion. She recently headed a review of the library’s serials workflow where (in the words of our Library Director) “her clearheaded analysis and practical suggestions demonstrated her mastery of our complex technical systems.” Congratulations, Sarah, and thank goodness you remain only one floor away.

Holly also reports that Brett Kostrzewski is the BU Music Library’s new Evening and Weekend Instructional and Reserves Coordinator replacing Kate Stringer who has moved to a new position in BU’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Collections. Brett is a trained choral conductor moving into part-time doctoral studies in musicology and he is already leveraging his motto, “in your
library” and his background to shape some wonderful outreach and hands-on sessions.

After two rain outs, the Ramler Park Summer Sunset Concert for 2015 took place on August 24th. NEMLA member Maria Jane Loizou and her band played everything from Jazz standards to Piaf songs in front of an appreciative audience in the Fenway.

 

Seeking Nominations / New Committee Members:

As of September 2015, the NEMLA board seeks new members for the following committees:

Publications Committee
Sarah Hunter, chair (shunter at bu.edu)

Instruction Committee
Carol Lubkowski, chair (lubkowski at hartford.edu)

Education and Outreach Committee
Chris Schiff, chair (cschiff at bates.edu)

Program Committee
Laura Stokes, chair (laura_stokes at brown.edu)

Nominating Committee
Kerry Masteller, chair (kmastell at fas.harvard.edu)

Please email the committee chairs if you are interested in joining! In addition NEMLA continues to look into creating an Oral History Committee. NEMLA received funding from MLA to create an oral history, and while we have two members interested in being on this committee, we still need someone willing to chair it. If interested, please email Chris Schiff (chris schiff at bates.edu).

NEMLA Officers

Chair:
Zoe Rath
Reference Librarian ILL Service
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
zrath at berklee dot edu
Phone: 617-747-8143

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Laura Stokes
Performing Arts Librarian
Orwig Music Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
laura_stokes at brown.edu
Office: (401) 863-3999

Past Chair:
Kerry Carwile Masteller
Reference and Digital Program Librarian
Loeb Music Library
Music Building, North Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
kmastell at fas.harvard.edu
Office: (617) 495-2794
Fax: (617) 496-4636

Secretary-Treasurer:
Sharon Saunders
Bates College Library
48 Campus Ave
Lewiston, ME 04240
ssaunder at bates.edu
207-786-8327

Member-At-Large:
Christopher Schiff
Ladd Library
Research Services
Bates College
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, ME 04240
cschiff at bates.edu
Office: (207) 786-6274

Newsletter Editor:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
Archivist/Records Manager
New England Conservatory
Spaulding Library
33 Gainsborough St.
Boston, MA 02115
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu
(617) 585-1252

NEMLA Archivist:
Sofia Becerra-Licha
Archivist
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
sbecerralicha at berklee.edu
Office: (617)747-8001

Web Page Editor:
Sarah Hunter
Electronic Inventory Manager
Metadata Services Department
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
shunter at bu.edu
Office: (617)353-5810

Publication Information

New England Quarter Notes is published quarterly in September, December, March/April and June/July. Back issues may be accessed from:  http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/resources/newsletters/
Address all correspondence concerning editorial matters to:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr (m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu)

Inquiries concerning subscription, membership and change of address should be directed to:
Sharon Saunders (ssaunder at bates.edu)

Membership year runs September to August.
Regular Personal Membership:$12.00
Student and Retired Membership:$6.00
Institutional Membership$16.00

Return to the New England Music Library Association home page.

Message from the Chair
Updated NEMLA By-Laws
Spring 2015 Meeting Minutes
Fall 2015 Meeting Preview
Seeking Nominations
Noteworthy News
NEMLA Officers
Publication Information

 

 

Message from the Chair:

Dear NEMLA members,

It is a pleasure to greet you as the new Chair of NEMLA!

I would like to start by thanking Jennifer Hunt, our outgoing Past Chair, and Kerry Carwile  Masteller, for her leadership and service as Chair this past year. I am grateful that Kerry will remain on board another year in the Past Chair position. I would also like to thank our outgoing officers, and welcome Laura Stokes our newly-elected Vice-Chair and Program Chair, who is working hard on our Fall NEMLA meeting at the College of Holy Cross planned for Friday, October 16th.

Please join me in thanking Sarah Funke Donovan, our outgoing Secretary/Treasurer, and Erica Charis our outgoing Newsletter Editor, for their service to NEMLA. I would like to congratulate
and welcome our new officers: Sharon Saunders, Secretary/Treasurer and Maryalice Perrin-Mohr, Newsletter Editor/Social Media specialist. You can see a complete list of current NEMLA Officers on our website.

This past March we had a very informative and engaging Spring meeting on a host of topics at Smith College.  Many thanks to Marlene Wong, not only for hosting but also putting together
such a interactive morning session on ukulele history and publishing, and for including a brief lesson with the Ukulele Meister, Stuart Fuchs, a.k.a. “Stukulele.”  The afternoon sessions on saving analog sound formats and on the composer Eugenie Göring were also fascinating to watch. Christopher Schiff, our Member at Large, will give a more detailed account of this meeting in this newsletter.

For those who missed the Spring meeting or who would like to review any of these sessions, please see Brendan Higgins’s video recording, 2015 NEMLA Spring Meeting. You can also see a great selection of photos from the meeting taken by Erica Charis, our NEMLA photographer.  Finally, last but not least I would like to thank the Program Committee, including Ilana Revkin, Anne Adams and Laura Stokes, for such a well-planned meeting.

The NEMLA board met in June and discussed a range of topics such as our recent survey, suggestions for updating the website, and ways to engage our members in current committees, as well as how to attract new members to the board. Speaking of membership: are you interested in being more involved with NEMLA? We have several committees:

• Publications Committee
• Instruction Committee
• Education and Outreach
• Technical Services
• Nominating Committee
• Program Committee

Many of these committees need new members! Please email Kerry at kmastell at fas. harvard dot edu with your interests, and she will direct you to committees with openings.

I hope to see you at our Fall meeting at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. I will repeat this reminder in September newsletter; please let your library staff and interns know that first time
attendees are free, and that financial assistance is available for travel and lunch through the First Time Attendees Program if needed.

I am looking forward to serving you in the coming year and hope you will all feel free to send me your thoughts and vision for NEMLA. I look forward to seeing many of you in Worcester!

Zoë Rath
NEMLA, Chair
Reference Librarian
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
zrath@berklee.edu

Updated NEMLA Bylaws

NEMLA, Spring 2015
Approved Bylaws Revisions
Music Library Association, New England Chapter Bylaws
Bylaws last amended October 6, 1979
Last revised March 20, 2015
Note: These revisions were formulated at the NEMLA Executive Board meeting in July 2014. They were discussed, voted on, and approved by the NEMLA membership following the spring 2015 membership business meeting (for the text highlighting revisions see the December 2014 issue of Quarter Notes). We reproduce here in full the new bylaws text with changes incorporated.

ARTICLE I. NAME

This organization shall be known as the New England Chapter of the Music Library Association.

ARTICLE II. PURPOSE
The purpose of this Chapter shall be:

• To bring together for exchange of ideas and discussion of problems all persons in the region interested in music libraries and collections, and to stimulate professional activities among the members.
• To initiate and encourage studies aiming to improve the organization, administration, and contents of such libraries and collections.
• To endeavor to establish communication with libraries not affiliated with the Music Library Association to determine how the Chapter may be meaningful to the individual library.
• Outreach to public libraries and generalist librarians charged with music reference and collection development and music cataloging (detailed under Article VIII.A.)

ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP AND DUES

• Membership in this Chapter shall be open to all members of the Music Library Association and persons and institutions interested in the activities and objectives of this chapter.
• Full membership is granted upon payment of annual dues to the Secretary/Treasurer.
• The membership year shall be from September 1 to August 31.
• Honorary membership will be extended to members who have received the Music Library Association Citation Award or have shown exceptional service at the chapter level.

ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS

• There shall be a Chair who shall preside at all meetings, appoint committees (see Article VIII for exception), and perform the duties customary to this office. The term of office shall be one year, after which the Chair shall succeed to the office of Past-Chair.
• There shall be a Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect who shall be responsible for programs and perform the duties of the Chair in the latter’s absence. The Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect shall also serve as an ex-
  officio member of the Education & Outreach Committee. The term of office shall be one year,  after which the Vice-Chair shall succeed to the office of Chair.
• There shall be a Past-Chair who shall appoint and chair the Nominating Committee and perform other duties as necessary. The term of office shall be one year.
• There shall be a Secretary/Treasurer who shall record the minutes of all meetings and preserve all official records and reports of the Chapter; notify the members of all meetings at least two weeks in advance; keep an up-to-date membership list; conduct any correspondence of the Chapter as may be required; collect dues; make authorized expenditures; maintain Chapter accounts and report on status of these accounts at each board meeting; prepare an annual budget; and perform duties customary to this office. The term of office shall be two years.
• There shall be a Member-at-Large who shall act as liaison to relevant professional organizations in New England (such as the New England Library Association (NELA),the six state library
  associations, the New England chapter of ACRL (ACRL/NEC), and the New England chapter of the American Musicological Society) primarily to promote information exchange and outreach. The Member-at-Large shall also serve as Chair of the Education & Outreach Committee. The term of office shall be two years.
• The Board may appoint non-voting, special officers for a two year term of service renewable at the board’s discretion. Except when otherwise specified, special officers may serve no more than
  four consecutive years.
• A) All officers shall be members in good standing of the Chapter. B) The Chair and Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect shall be members of the national association.
• Terms of office shall commence immediately following the Spring meeting.
• No officer shall be eligible for more than two consecutive terms in the same office.

ARTICLE V. ELECTIONS

• Officers shall be elected by a plurality of the ballots cast. Ballots shall be distributed to members at least four weeks before the Spring business meeting. Ballots will be collected online and
  collated by the Secretary/Treasurer. A majority vote of the Executive Board shall break a tie.
• Should an office become vacant mid-term, the Chair, in combination with the Executive Board, will appoint a NEMLA member to fill the position until the next election.

 ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS

• There shall be a minimum of two meetings a year.
• There shall be a business meeting in the Spring of each year.
• Meetings shall be called by the Executive Board with at least two weeks’ notice.
• A quorum shall consist of a majority of members present at any meeting.
• The Executive Board shall determine appropriate honoraria for guest presenters at the meetings; NEMLA members do not receive honoraria for presenting.

 ARTICLE VII. EXECUTIVE BOARD

There shall be an Executive Board consisting of the elected officers, the Past-Chair, the Archivist, and the Newsletter and Web site editors. Only the elected officers and Past-Chair are voting members of the Executive Board.

ARTICLE VIII. COMMITTEES AND ROUNDTABLES
ARTICLE VIII.A. COMMITTEES

• The Standing Committees shall be the Nominating Committee, the Program Committee, the Instruction Committee, the Publications Committee, the Technical Services Committee, and the Education & Outreach Committee. Except when otherwise specified, committee chairs and members may serve no more than two consecutive terms. Service as a member does not preclude subsequent service as chair for two additional terms. Members may be reappointed after being off a committee for one year.
• A) Nominating Committee
  • The Nominating Committee shall consist of at least three members, appointed and chaired by the Past-Chair, and shall present to the Executive Board a slate of candidates for office at least six weeks before the Spring business meeting
  • Members of this Committee may not serve for consecutive terms.
  • All candidates for office shall be members in good standing of the Chapter and shall fulfill all other eligibility requirements as set forth in Article IV.
• B) The Program Committee shall be chaired by the Vice-Chair and shall plan the meetings of the chapter. The committee shall consist of three additional members who are appointed by the Chair on a rotating basis, each serving a two year (i.e., four-meeting) term. The composition of the committee must reflect the interests of both technical and public services for both public and academic library sectors.
• C) The Publications Committee shall be appointed by the Chair and shall oversee all publications activities, including the Chapter newsletter, directory, and Web sites.
• D) The Instruction Committee shall facilitate and promote the regional discussion of issues and standards related to information literacy in music librarianship, by:
  • Serving as a networking tool to connect information literacy instructors, instruction designers, and instruction administrators at various institutions.
  • Hosting open discussions at NEMLA meetings, and assisting to enhance activities that touch upon information literacy issues which are provided by other NEMLA Committees.
  • Assisting in the distribution of information, dissemination of guidelines, and sharing of individual resources (libguides, learning outcomes, webcasts, etc.) with/to interested institutions and individuals in New England, particularly to those individuals who are unable to attend national MLA meetings or are unaffiliated with NEMLA.
  • Working with the NEMLA Program Committee to plan NEMLA sessions or programs.
• E). The Technical Services Committee shall facilitate and promote the regional discussion of issues and standards related to technical services in music librarianship, by:
  • Serving as a conduit to connect those seeking technical services knowledge with appropriate local technical services experts.
  • Hosting open discussions at NEMLA meetings, and assisting to enhance activities that touch upon technical services issues which are provided by other NEMLA Committees.
  • Assisting in the dissemination of information and guidelines provided by the Music Library Association’s Bibliographic Control Committee to interested institutions and individuals in New England, particularly to those individuals who are unable to attend national MLA meetings or are unaffiliated with NEMLA.
  • Working with the NEMLA Program Committee to plan NEMLA sessions or programs.
• F) The Education & Outreach Committee shall devise and coordinate activities related to professional and continuing education for music librarianship within the New England
  region, by:
  • Working with the NEMLA Program Committee to plan NEMLA sessions or programs which generally deal with topics in greater depth or with a stronger emphasis on practicality than in the general sessions of the semi-annual meetings.
  • Investigating, developing, and providing education initiatives to groups which fall outside of, but which are related to, NEMLA by presenting workshops on the basic precepts of music librarianship through the sponsorship of library schools
    or other regional library associations and councils. Target groups might include librarians and library staff working with music materials who are not members of NEMLA, and other groups not presently identified. The committee should
    determine how NEMLA’s mission can be promoted within the region through representation at regional library meetings (e.g. NELA, ACRL/NEC New England), career fairs (e.g. Simmons, Berklee College of Music), or state library
    association meetings in the regional meetings.
  • Ensuring that NEMLA membership options are promoted at outreach events.
  • The Education & Outreach Committee shall be chaired by the Member-at-Large. The Program Chair shall be ex-officio member of the committee. Additional committee members shall be appointed by the NEMLA Chair. Members should represent a broad spectrum of library professional staff from public, academic, and special libraries, from as many of the New England states as possible.

2. Other committees may be appointed by the Chair as deemed necessary.

ARTICLE VIII.B. ROUNDTABLES

• Definition: Roundtables are assemblies of members of the Chapter that convene at the Chapter’s semi-annual meetings to exchange ideas on topics not specifically addressed by the standing committees of the chapter. Each roundtable is led by a Coordinator appointed by the NEMLA Chair, in consultation with the Board. Coordinators shall be appointed for an initial term of two years, with the possibility of reappointment for no more than one succeeding term. Normally there are no other officers and no specified membership.
• Authorization: the NEMLA Chair may authorize the establishment of a roundtable for a term of four years after receiving letters of support from three members of the Chapter identifying a common area of concern. Renewal of the authorization for an additional four-year term requires
  two letters of support. The letters are due to the Chair by Aug. 31 of the year of expiration. Roundtable authorizations expire Dec. 31.  A roundtable may be dissolved by the Chair if it appears that it no longer serves a need or that its work could be carried on more effectively by a committee of the Chapter. If a roundtable fails to have a minimum attendance of four participants for two consecutive years, that roundtable shall be retired.

Activities: All roundtables hold two meetings a year convened by the Coordinator during the semi-annual meetings of the chapter. Roundtable meetings and other roundtable activities may be announced in the NEMLA newsletter and listed in the programs of the semi-annual meeting. Roundtables are encouraged to participate in developing programs for NEMLA meetings

ARTICLE IX. PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY

The rules contained in Robert’s Rules of Order shall govern this Chapter in all cases to which they are applicable.

ARTICLE X. DISSOLUTION

In the event of the dissolution of the Chapter the records of its activities and its assets, if any, shall become the property of the national organization of the Music Library Association.

ARTICLE XI. AMENDMENTS

• Proposed amendments shall be submitted to the Executive Board for consideration at least eight weeks before the meeting of the Chapter at which it is requested that the proposal be presented.
• Upon approval by the Executive Board texts of the proposed amendments shall be distributed to Chapter members at least four weeks before presentation for discussion at the meeting.
• Ballots and texts as revised at the meeting shall be distributed to Chapter members in a timely manner, generally in the next issue of the chapter newsletter. Ballots will be collected online and collated by the Secretary/Treasurer.

Spring 2015 Meeting Minutes

The Spring 2015 NEMLA Meeting convened in at Smith College on Friday, March 20th. Though the meeting convened less than 10 hours before the vernal equinox, intrepid attendees were treated to one last reminder of the seemingly endless New England Winter. Still, amidst the flurries, sunny music and warm camaraderie reigned.

After greetings from NEMLA’s Chair Kerry Masteller, our host Marlene Wong, and the Director of Smith College Libraries, Christopher Loring, we took a turn toward Jiminy Cricket and George Harrison. The morning session concentrated on the “Third Wave” of ukulele popularity in the United States. A panel discussion on the current state of the ukulele featured “Jumpin’” Jim and Liz Beloff of Fleamarket Music, NEMLA’s Marlene Wong, Downtown Sounds music store proprietor and ukulele club leader Joe Blumenthal, Faith Kaufmann of Northampton’s Forbes Library, and ukulele virtuoso Stuart Fuchs. The ensemble covered every imaginable angle on the instrument – economics, sociology, history, and how to play. Blumenthal spoke of sales of the eminently affordable instrument as a populist moment in music. For as little as $50, a budding uke enthusiast can get started with the instrument – or so can a library on a tight budget! That is how Faith Kaufmann started the ukulele (now extended to other portable instruments) lending program at Forbes Library. The experiment led Marlene Wong to start her own uke lending program at Smith, and both the public and academic programs are thriving.

Leading us through the history of the increasingly popular instrument were “Jumpin’” Jim and Liz Beloff of Fleamarket Music. The Beloffs keyed their history first to their extensive collection of ukulele sheet music from the early twentieth century, giving a nod to Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards whose ukulele inflected version of Singin’ in the Rain was a hit in 1929 and whose voice was immortalized as Jiminy Cricket in Disney’s Pinocchio. Following the short-lived, Arthur Godfrey inspired, “second wave” of ukulele popularity in the 1950s, current, “third wave,” interest in the instrument owes much to the publications of the Beloffs themselves. Their many compilations of uke music have provided instruction and song books and ukulele tabs for the modern repertoire, making new converts to the instrument and inspiring some of the biggest names in popular music — among them Eddie Vedder (Jumpin’ Jim played a significant role in his Ukulele Songbook) and the Beatles’ George Harrison.

Our morning session ended with a demonstration of virtuoso ukulele and a lesson from Stuart Fuchs, who spoke of his ukulele-centered music therapy practice. Fuchs’ facility and control of the instrument was evident as was his range of styles: everything from the comic which is so frequently associated with ukuleles to an impromptu snippet of Bach. The combined ukulele collections of the two libraries (augmented with instruments from Downtown Sounds) were distributed amongst attendees in an excellent demonstration of how quickly one can learn the basics and start making music. In addition to NEMLA’s crop of excellent string players, the ensemble was filled-out by ringers from Northampton’s AEIOUkes.

The NEMLA business meeting was conducted over lunch. Changes to the by-laws were approved which are intended to make it easier to replace officers who cannot fill out their terms and unelected
committee chairs. Board election results were announced, with Laura Stokes of Brown University becoming our new Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, and Sharon Saunders our new Treasurer. The meeting ended with the transfer of the Chair’s gavel from Kerry Masteller to our new chair Zoe Rath.

The afternoon session started with “The Day the Music Didn’t Die: Saving MIT’s Analog Music Recordings.” MIT’s Peter Munstedt opened with a scenario familiar to many in the room: years of concern for (but inaction on) digitizing the library’s collection of recital and performance recordings. To jump start the project a donor was found and the Digital Audio Music Project (DAMP) was born. Munstedt emphasized that a project such as this must be a team effort. Although he indicated that he had had this on his to-do list for decades, it became part of a larger emphasis on MIT digital collections, and that allowed for the right environment to foster the project.

Enter Tricia Patterson, MIT’s National Digital Stewardship Resident. She discussed the FileMaker Pro database that was developed to inventory the collection. Cate Gallivan, the project assistant hired to
perform the inventory, discussed the importance of documenting the workflow(s), responsibilities, and processes to make the material accessible and to preserve it into the future. One huge takeaway from this session is: a well-designed project is almost certainly going to be complex. The fact that MIT is documenting this complexity in all its intricacy will, one hopes, benefit many other institutions. This is a work in process that will bear revisiting in the future.

The final presentation of the day was by Alice Abraham and concerned her research on the composer Eugenie Göring. The complex story that Alice unfolded – part archival research, part genealogy, and part mystery – mirrors the complexity of Göring’s times. A woman composer of considerable abilities, Göring’s musical manuscripts were found abandoned in a barn in Windsor, VT. Some of the mysteries surrounding her come right out of a thriller. Was she related to Herman Göring? Could she have been a German spy? Or was she a lesbian trying to live her life in freedom and seclusion?

Among the pieces of evidence pointing to the latter possibility is a piano solo cryptically titled “Amazonen Kampf” (Struggle of the Amazons). This was one of the manuscripts magnificently performed by well-known pianist and lecturer Virginia Eskin, whose realization of Göring’s piano music was enthusiastically received by the attendees.

For a fuller understanding of this story, please see Alice’s publication in The Kapralova Society Journal: http://www.kapralova.org/journal23.pdf

The day ended with tours of the Werner Josten Library, and a sumptuous reception. In addition, several attendees snuck off to the last day of the Smith Bulb Show and were transported for ever so brief a time into Monet’s garden. If you ever have a chance to see the bulb show, by all means take the opportunity. It was a perfect way to end the conference.

Respectfully submitted,
Christopher Schiff
Member-at Large

Fall 2015 Meeting Preview

College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA
Friday, October 16, 2015

Save the date! The Fall 2015 NEMLA meeting will be held on Friday, October 16, 2015, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.

The College of the Holy Cross was founded in 1843. A leading liberal arts college with roughly 2,900 students, it offers a wide-ranging undergraduate curriculum in the Jesuit tradition. The campus spans
174 acres atop of Mount St. James in Worcester, and has won numerous awards for landscaping and architecture.

More details about the presentations, hotel arrangements, and the catered lunch that will be available will be coming out on the NEMLA-L listserv shortly.  We would love to see everyone at the member dinner on Thursday evening before the meeting. Stay tuned for more information through the listserv, and email Laura Stokes (laura_stokes at brown.edu) if you have any questions.

Special thanks to Alicia Hansen, who is serving as the main contact and host for Holy Cross, to Alan Karass for facilitating many aspects of the arrangements, and to the program committee, which includes
Anne Adams and Ilana Revkin.

Seeking Nominations / New Committee Members:

As of July 2015, the NEMLA board seeks new members for the following committees:

Publications Committee
Sarah Hunter, chair (shunter at bu.edu)

Instruction Committee
Carol Lubkowski, chair (lubkowski at hartford.edu)

Education and Outreach Committee
Chris Schiff, chair (cschiff at bates.edu)

Program Committee
Laura Stokes, chair (laura_stokes at brown.edu)

Nominating Committee
Kerry Masteller, chair (kmastell at fas.harvard.edu)

Please email the committee chairs if you are interested in joining!

In addition NEMLA continues to look into creating an Oral History Committee.  NEMLA received funding from MLA to create an oral history, and while we have two members interested in being on this committee, we still need someone willing to chair it.  If interested, please email chris schiff at bates.edu.

Noteworthy News

Joe Scott will retire from my position as Music Catalog / Metadata Librarian at the University of Connecticut effective July 1, 2015. Joe has served the Music Library and its collections in that capacity since December of 1976.

Without his “day job”, Joe’s choral singing schedule will be a lot more manageable as he is a member of the Vernon Chorale (CT)), the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus (New London), the Immanuel Congregational Church Choir (Hartford), in addition to his own church choir. In addition to singing, Joe plans to look into family genealogy, study the WWII period of American history – hoping to learn about his dad’s service during the war, and maybe seeing more of the country by attending national ACDA conferences and NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four tournaments.

Erica Charis is Berklee College of Music’s new Assistant Director of Assessment Programs & Planning for Learning Resources, starting June 1, 2015. Erica has held various positions at the Stan Getz Library at the Berklee College of Music over the past eight years, starting as a paraprofessional while she was still studying toward her MLS at Simmons. She is an active member of Music Library Association (MLA), the New England Music Library Association (NEMLA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG).

Erica also has a performing background, completing her BFA in Vocal Performance at York University in Toronto and performing occasionally in Boston after graduation. When not giving away library branded kazoos and running theremin trivia contests, she can often be found at creative writing workshops or poetry festivals or on the saddle of her beloved touring bicycle, Bonnie.

Paddock Music Library at Dartmouth College opened as a small departmental library when the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1962. It became a branch of the Dartmouth College Libraries in 1975, and relocated to a new expanded facility within the Hopkins Center in 1986.

Just this year Dartmouth completed a renovation of some of the public, non-stacks areas of the music library. Students and faculty are happy with the results, and we all look forward to a possible further expansion and relocation in the future when the Hopkins Center is expanded and renovated in its entirety.

 

 

NEMLA Officers

Chair:
Zoe Rath
Reference Librarian ILL Service
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
zrath at berklee dot edu
Phone: 617-747-8143

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect:
Laura Stokes
Performing Arts Librarian
Orwig Music Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
laura_stokes at brown.edu
Office: (401) 863-3999

Past Chair:
Kerry Carwile Masteller
Reference and Digital Program Librarian
Loeb Music Library
Music Building, North Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
kmastell at fas.harvard.edu
Office: (617) 495-2794
Fax: (617) 496-4636

Secretary-Treasurer:
Sharon Saunders
Bates College Library
48 Campus Ave
Lewiston, ME 04240
ssaunder at bates.edu
207-786-8327

Member-At-Large:
Christopher Schiff
Ladd Library
Research Services
Bates College
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, ME 04240
cschiff at bates.edu
Office: (207) 786-6274

Newsletter Editor:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
Archivist/Records Manager
New England Conservatory
Spaulding Library
33 Gainsborough St.
Boston, MA 02115
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu
(617) 585-1252

NEMLA Archivist:
Sofia Becerra-Licha
Archivist
Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
sbecerralicha at berklee.edu
Office: (617)747-8001

Web Page Editor:
Sarah Hunter
Assistant Head
Music Library
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
shunter at bu.edu
Office: (617)353-5810

Publication Information

New England Quarter Notes is published quarterly in September, December, March/April and June/July.

Back issues may be accessed from:
http://nemla.musiclibraryassoc.org/resources/newsletters/

Address all correspondence concerning editorial matters to:
Maryalice Perrin-Mohr
m.perrin-mohr at necmusic.edu

Inquiries concerning subscription, membership and change of address should be directed to:
Sharon Saunders
ssaunder at bates.edu

Membership year runs September to August.
Regular Personal Membership:$12.00
Student and Retired Membership:$6.00
Institutional Membership$16.00

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