Friday, October 23, 9:30 am-5:00 pm
Online through Zoom
Registration
The meeting is free to all attendees, but registration is required.
Schedule
9:30 – 9:45 Opening remarks
Lisa Wollenberg (NEMLA Chair)
Public Services Librarian, Allen Library, University of Hartford
9:45 – 10:30 Outcome of the NEMLA Diversity Survey
NEMLA Board
10:30-11:15 Immigrant Music Librarians in the U.S
Diversity is not all about race or other matters, but it is also about individuals’ cultural backgrounds. This presentation will talk about “immigrant music librarians and library staff in the United States,” and it will review/present how they shaped and served the country’s diverse library community regardless of the challenges they faced. Their unique perspective and background influenced the community users and the profession in a valuable way
Nurhak Tuncer, Elizabeth City State University
11:15-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:00 Lightning Talks
Overview of Wesleyan’s Indian music collection
Wesleyan University’s World Music Archives’ South Asian music collection houses arguably the largest, most important holdings of South Indian (Karnatak) music recordings in the Western hemisphere. It also includes a substantial (and equally important) number of recordings of music from North India. In keeping with the notion of “World Music” (a term coined at Wesleyan in 1962 by ethnomusicologist Robert E. Brown and used to reference all music globally including Western art music) and the diversity it implies, we will give a brief overview of our Indian music collection as one that is as culturally and stylistically varied as music here in the US.
Jody Comack Viswanathan, World Music Archives, Wesleyan University and Aaron Bittel, Director of the World Music Archives & Music Librarian, Wesleyan University
Omission of Jewish composers from music history: a case study – Prague
Dr. Tom Moore, Head of the Sound and Image department at the Green Library, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00 -1:30 Committee Meetings – break out rooms
1:30-2:45 Representing the Music Library Association’s Strategic Planning committee Ruthann will lead a discussion with the chapter about the future of the association including addressing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Ruthann McTyre, , Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Music Library Director, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 3:45 We’re Still Here!: Teaching Research Remotely
In this presentation, we will share successful outreach and instruction strategies that we employed in three music classes: a General Education course on the Golden Record, an undergraduate course on gender and music, and an Introduction to Musicology seminar for new graduate students. We will discuss the role that collaborative design played in the development of both synchronous and asynchronous research modules and share ideas for increasing student familiarity with library services and resources
Kerry Masteller, Reference and Digital Program Librarian, and Liz Berndt-Morris, Reference and Research Services Librarian, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
3:45-4:45 Virtual Listening Party
Close out your day at NEMLA by joining us for an all-genre virtual Listening Party whose themes are diversity & protest. We’ll move into the listening session at 3:45 and tracks will be played through YouTube inside of the existing Zoom meeting. If there is a song you’d like to share, find the YouTube link to that track using another browser (or find it in advance), and then put the link into the Zoom chat. Anyone else can use the chat for sharing reactions to the song we’re all listening to together. The session will be one hour, and we’ll do our best to play as many songs as possible.
Peter Laurence, Librarian for Recorded Sound and Media, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University