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Here is the basic information on the 2001 Music Library Association Publications Awards, Gerboth and Epstein Awards, Freeman Travel Grant and election results. Further information about the awards, the recipients, next year's awards and the Music Library Association can be found on the MLA website: www.musiclibraryassoc.org.
Music Library Association
2001 Awards & Elections
Elections
Member-at-Large
Neil R. Hughes (Head, Music Cataloging, University of Georgia Libraries)
Elisabeth H. Rebman (Music Cataloging Consultant, Albert Seay Library of Music and Art, The Colorado College)
Michael J. Rogan (Music Librarian, Tisch Library, Tufts University)
Awards
Publication Awards
Vincent H. Duckles Award
For the best book-length bibliography or research tool in music published in 1999.
David Fallows. A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415-1480. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
James B. Sinclair. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
Richard S. Hill Award
For the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature published in 1999.
Jeremy Smith "From 'Rights to Copy' to 'Bibliographic Ego': A New Look at the Early Edition of Byrd's 'Psalmes, Sonets & Songs'." Music & Letters 80/4 (Nov. 1999): 511-530.
Eva Judd O'Meara Award
For the best review published in the organization's journal, Notes, in 1999.
Philip Brett. "[Review of] The Beggar's Opera as realized by Benjamin Britten (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1997), and two other scores by Britten." Notes 55/3 (March 1999): 735-739.
Dena Epstein Award
This award was created to support research in archives or libraries internationally on any aspect of American Music.
Ruth A. Inman (Librarian, Kennedy-King College, Chicago). Award granted to study the records of the Martin and Morris Music Company, a pioneering gospel music publishing business in Chicago between 1940 and 1980. The proposed project will result in a paper containing a biography of Sallie Martin and Kenneth Morris as composers, musicians, and businesspeople; a history of the Martin and Morris Music Company; and a catalog of Martin and Morris publications.
Elizabeth Bergman Crist (Assistant Professor of Music, University of Texas-Austin). Award granted to support research on Aaron Copland's music between 1932 and 1946 for a book tentatively titled: "Progressivism and Populism: Aaron Copland's Music and Aesthetics during Depression and War."
Roberta Lindsey (Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Indianapolis). Award granted to conduct research on the Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress. Her work in this collection includes 3 projects: the completion of a compilation of essays in honor of Copland; research on "Apache" dance from Grohg; a study of the impact of Concerts Koussevitsky on Copland.
Kevin Freeman Travel Grant
The grant supports travel and hotel expenses to attend the Music Library Association's annual meeting. The applicant must be a member of the Music Library Association and either be in the first three years of his/her professional career, a graduate library school student (by the time of the conference in February 2002), aspiring to become a music librarian, or a recent graduate (within one year of degree) of a graduate program in librarianship who is seeking a professional position as a music librarian.
James Alberts (University of Maryland)
Clayton Crenshaw (Southern Methodist University)
Melanie Zeck (Northwestern University/Dominican University)
Gerboth Award
Awarded annually to members of MLA who are in the first five years of their professional library careers, to assist research-in-progress in music or music librarianship.
David Hursh (Head Music Librarian and Asst. Prof., East Carolina University).
Mr. Hursh's project is a census survey concerning reference services in American academic music libraries. The survey builds on the results of the 1992-93 Reference Services and Evaluation Questionnaire distributed by the Music Library Association's Reference and Performance Subcommittee. Upon its completion, an article interpreting the results of the survey will be submitted for publication in Notes.
Alan Karass
Music Librarian - College of the Holy Cross
MLA Publicity Officer
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