PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER NEWSLETTER · 2012-05-15 · 2 MLA Pacific Northwest Chapter Newsletter...

Vol. XXVII Fall 2008

PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER

NEWSLETTER

Volume XXVII Fall 2008

In this issue Words from the chair p.1 Chapter Meeting, Victoria, B.C., April 25-26, 2008 p.2 Minutes from annual business meeting p.3 Call for nominations p.5 Treasurerʼs report p.5 News from the membership p.6 Newsletter Editor Message p. 7 Membership Renewal Form p. 8

WORDS FROM THE CHAIR It was great to see everyone (well, everyone who could make it!) again at the chapter meeting in Victoria, BC. Terry, Bob, Rebecca, and Leslie gave great presentations on sheet music collections in the region and Bill was a great host at the University of Victoria. Thanks to you all! Next yearʼs meeting will be a week earlier, April 17-18, 2009 at the University of Washington in Seattle. Look forward to seeing you all then. We are again pleased to be one of two chapters to receive a travel grant from MLA. This grant, which covers expenses to attend the local chapter meeting in Seattle or the national meeting in Chicago, is to be given to a library student aspiring to become a music librarian or to a recent graduate (within one year of degree) of a graduate program in librarianship who is seeking a professional position as a music librarian. The application is available on the chapterʼs website at http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/pnwmla/pnwmla.html. We had two recipients last time, Kathleen Loebig and D. Kim Croft, both of whom attended the national conference in Newport, R.I. Please encourage qualified persons to apply! In political news, Marian Ritter, from Western Washington University, was elected Vice Chair/Chair Elect. And Leslie Bennett and Kirsten Walsh agreed to be the Nominations Committee. Thanks everyone. Bob Tangney

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Chapter Meeting

April 25 and 26, 2008 Victoria, B.C.

Bob Tangney, Chair The chapter held its annual meeting April 26-27, 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia at the University of Victoria. There were three presentations on Sheet Music Collections in the Northwest: Terry Horner spoke of the British Columbia Sheet Music Project, its progress, use, and completion. Bob Tangney presented an overview and update on the KOMO Sheet Music Collection at the Seattle Public Library, a collection of over 26,000 pieces of piano/vocal sheet music and band arrangements of popular songs from the 1920s-1950s. And Rebecca Belford and Leslie Bennett gave a presentation on the University of Oregon Historic Sheet Music collection and described the process of getting the material digitally available. The collection includes the Oregon Music Collection and the Women Composers Collection. Also, Susan Lewis Hammond, a music professor at the University of Victoria, gave an interesting presentation entitled “Toward a Bibliography of Italian Secular Song, 1490-1640,” which spoke on the process of creating a bibliography and the multitude of options the bibliographer must decide upon. We then were led on a fun tour of the University of Victoriaʼs new music library by its music librarian Bill Blair. We finished the day with a lovely dinner at Swanʼs Bistro…and a few of us lingered after in the bar! What?!

University of Victoria New Music Library

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Minutes from Annual Meeting, Victoria, B.C., April 26, 2008

Bill Blair, Secretary/Treasurer

Present: Rebecca Belford, Leslie Bennett, Bill Blair, Cathy Gerhart, Terry Horner, Cindy Richardson, Laurel Sercombe, Carolyn Shandler, Bob Tangney, Judy Tsou, Kirsten Walsh. Chair: Terry Horner Notetaker: Bill Blair, Secretary/Treasurer

Agenda: 1. Welcome Meeting called to order by Terry Horner. 2. Adoption of agenda Agenda approved as presented, by a motion to approve, and vote of members. 3. Approval of minutes from last yearʼs meeting. Minutes approved as written, by a motion to approve, and vote of members. 4. Business arising from minutes The success of the Travel Grant was discussed. Overall consensus was that the Travel Grant worked well. Terry has applied for another travel grant for this year. 5. Financial report (Bill) Bill discussed the difficulties of moving the bank account: opening a new account, moving the account to another country, changing currencies. Financial report approved, with small editorial changes, by a motion to approve, and vote of members. Bill will send out revised report in June that will reflect the cost of the AGM and dues paid by members attending the meeting. 6. Presidentʼs report (Terry) Terry thanked everyone for coming and thanked Bill for hosting and organizing the general meeting. He talked about the success of the Travel Grant and indicated that he had applied for another grant for the coming year. Presidentʼs report was approved as written, by a motion to approve, and vote of members. 7. Election results Only one person put their name forward to be the next Chair Elect and so Marion Ritter was elected by acclamation. Next yearʼs executive committee will be

Bob Tangney: President

Marian Ritter: Chair Elect

Bill Blair: Secretary



Terry Horner will continue to do the Newsletter 8. Next yearʼs meeting Next Yearʼs meeting will be held at the University of Washington. A time is yet to be determined but will be sometime at the end of April. Bob Tangney will send out an email to members to determine what days will work best for everyone. 9. Other Items Thank you to Bill Blair for hosting the Chapter Meeting this year. Judy Tsou reported that IAML is meeting in Naples this year from July 20 – 25, 2008. She invited everyone to attend. 10. Adjournment Meeting was adjourned at 11:10 a.m.

Chapter Meeting Attendees



CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Kirsten Walsh and Leslie Bennett have agreed to serve as the Nominating Committee for the 2009 chapter election. The position of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect needs to be filled. Please contact Kirsten - [email protected] or Leslie - [email protected] by February 1, 2009. if you would like to nominate someone for either or both positions, a summary of officer duties is available on the chapter website: http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/pnwmla/handbook.html

Treasury Report May, 2008 Bill Blaire, Secretary/Treasurer

US Funds Canadian Funds Beginning Balance in the PNWMLA Account May 18, 2007: $ 10.63 New Account in Victoria, British Columbia Income April 1, 2007 – April 30th, 2008 Memberships 2007 Dec. 14 2007 U.S. Cash $10.00 $ 9.89 March 20, 2008 U.S. Cheques (membership dues) $40.00 $ 35.10 March 20, 2008 Canadian Cheque (membership dues) $ 10.00 Transfer from US bank account (old account) $ 1902.82 $ 1784.60 ($5.00 handling charge) Money from MLA for scholarship $ 1000.00 $ 1027.50 Interest $ 0.63 PNW Annual Meeting Income 2008: Meeting Registrations and memberships $ 298.80 Total Income: $ 3177.15 Expenses to May, 2008 PNWMLA Annual Meeting Expenses 2008: Catering / room rental / equipment rental $ 584.32 Friday Night Dinner $ 120.00 Honorariums: Susan Hammond Lewis $ 100.00 Total Annual Meeting Cost: $ 804.32 Other Expenses: Bank Fees for cheques $ 28.07 Scholarships $ 1000.00 Total Expenses $ 1832.39 Balance in the account from statement, March 25, 2008: $ 2878.35



NEWS FROM THE MEMBERSHIP

Bob Tangney

With John Brower's departure (he moved to Houston, became a branch manager at Houston Public and, most importantly, got married to Mary Du Mont, a Rice University music librarian!), his full-time music librarian position opened up at Seattle Public and I was fortunate enough to get the job! Though I've been at Seattle Public since 1998, it has always been on a part-time basis but as of September I've been full-time and loving it! On a music-related (but not library-related) note, my wife, Deeji Killian, and I direct the Sparkling Choir of Love and we will be touring Europe with about half of our group this coming May. If you happen to be in Tuscany or Provence at that time please come and see us!

Judy Tsou

I have been invited to join the editorial board of Journal of the Society of American Music; I will also continue to serve on the board of the Journal of American Musicological Society. I am also a contributing editor for the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, where articles in my area have now been commissioned. I hope to see the first articles appear in the online Grove (Oxford Music Online) by the end of 2009.

Kirsten Walsh

I was able to combine the MLA meeting in Newport last February with a quick visit to Halifax, where my older daughter now lives and plays with Symphony Nova Scotia. Terry and I had a busy spring preparing to host our CAML (Canadian Association of Music Libraries) colleagues here during the 2008 Congress of the Humanities, which brought an estimated 8,000 people to UBC in early June. Iʼve become the Vice-President/President-Elect

of CAML, and am looking forward to being more actively involved with CAML for a while. This summer I was fortunate to go on an amazing voyage in the Norwegian Arctic, aboard an ice-rated Russian research ship leased by a US adventure travel company. Along with my sister and brother-in-law, who was trip leader, we boarded the ship in Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen Island, and spent 11 days circumnavigating the Svalbard archipelago. Every day brought new adventures as we zodiaced amongst icebergs and landed at points of interest to explore the flora and fauna. Highlights included polar bears, reindeer, Arctic foxes, walrus, huge seabird colonies nesting on cliffs, and exquisite miniature wildflowers. We got up to 80ʼ 33” north before the fast ice stopped us, and saw the solar eclipse from that vantage point. Back to work reality…it has been a busy fall term (arenʼt they all?). I was pleased to be able to revive a student concert series which is hosted by the Library. The concerts take place in the Dodson Room of the Barber Learning Centre roughly once a month.

Terry Horner Library assistant, Dana Harrison joined the UBC Music Library staff this summer, replacing Thom Geise who worked at UBC for about 35 years. Dana is a real asset to the library and is quick to find errors in cuttering we have made in the past! Dana is one of two copy cataloguers and is also assisting with reference. In the spring, she will be trained in ordering. As Kirsten mentioned, it has been a very busy fall. Training Dana, I have found we really need to have a good training manual which is under development, We are undergoing a database clean-up at this very moment, a very welcome and much-needed job. We look forward to getting all those additional cross-references in our catalogue, but donʼt look forward to a potentially large manual clean-up. CAML met with CUMS once again this year in Vancouver at the 2008 Congress which was extremely successful and a chance to show off



our second phase of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. From day one, it is difficult to find a seat in this welcoming and warm addition to the library system. My penchant for weekends away took me to Vancouver Island a few times, Cortes Island and Portland this fall. Two trips to Cortes resulted in finding many pounds of chanterelle mushrooms. A southern winter vacation would be welcome, but it looks like I will be looking after local relatives instead. My goal is to make 1,000 chocolates over the holiday, beating last yearʼs count of 783. I will be in Chicago for MLA, so will count that as my ʻwinterʼ vacation! I am in the process of applying for digitization grant to expand my sheet music collection and redesign the present web site. I will feature BC composers of sheet music which would include works not necessarily about BC. I did receive monies for digitization from our Music Library sale fund, a very welcome gift indeed. Hope to see some of you at MLA this year.

New Librarian at the University of Washington

Verletta kern Verletta Kern joined the Music Library at the University of Washington as Music Research Services Librarian on September 1, 2008. Verletta came to UW from the University of Redlands where she was the Electronic Services Librarian for four years. Her duties there also included music liaison. Verletta received her B.A. in Music from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, where she also interned at the Music Library. She also received a M.M. degree in Clarinet Performance from the University of Redlands. At UW, she will be in charge of selecting sound and video recordings, answering reference inquiries and library information instruction. She will also be in charge of gifts and preservation of our collection. You will all be able to meet Verletta at our next chapter meeting.

NEWSLETTER EDITOR MESSAGE Hello everyone! Thanks again for the submissions this year. As our numbers dwindle, so does the size of our newsletter! I look forward to our meeting next year in Seattle. Hopefully we can inspire more to join our small but quaint chapter.



Pacific Northwest Chapter Music Library Association Membership Renewal Form

May 2005 to May 2006 Name: _______________________________________ Address: (please check the box and fill in the section that you prefer for MLA mailings) ❏ Library/Business Address: ________________________Dept. ________________________Library/Business Name ________________________Street Address/PO Box # ________________________City, State/Province ________________________Zip/Postal Code Country ________________________Work Phone ________________________Work Fax No. ________________________Email Address ________________________Web Site (dept/music related) ❏ Home Address: ________________________Street Address ________________________City, State/Province ________________________Zip/Postal Code Country ________________________Home Phone/Fax _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Membership Dues: $10.00 US funds per year (a receipt will be sent) Please mail to:

Bill Blair, Music and Media Librarian McPherson Library

University of Victoria PO. Box 1800 STN CSC

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3H5

For questions about MLA membership, send a note to me at the address above, email: [email protected]

*****Thank you for your support of the PNW Chapter of the Music Library Association*****

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