Greetings,

Here is a summary of 2004 announcements from the Music Library Association 
on new Board of Directors members, appointment of a new Editor for Notes, 
annual awards for publications and research, and travel grants. Additional 
information, including applications for next year's research and travel 
awards, can be found on the MLA website: www.musiclibraryassoc.org.
- Ken Calkins, MLA Publicity Officer

Election Results for the MLA Board
Vice President/President-Elect: Bonna J. Boettcher (Bowling Green State 
University).
New Members-at-Large: Pamela Bristah (Wellesley College), Ruthann Boles 
McTyre (University of Iowa), and Matthew Wise (New York University).
The re-elected Recording Secretary is Michael Colby (University of 
California, Davis), who will serve a second two-year term.

New Editor for Notes
James P. Cassaro (University of Pittsburgh) succeeds Linda Solow Blotner as 
Notes Editor. Mr. Cassaro has served MLA in many capacities, most recently 
as Past-President after two years as President and four years as Treasurer. 
MLA’s quarterly journal Notes has been in publication since 1934.

Publications Awards

- Vincent H. Duckles Award - for the best book-length bibliography or 
research tool in music published in 2002: to Sabina Teller Ratner for 
Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921; A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works. 
Volume 1. The Instrumental Works, published by Oxford University Press.

- Eva Judd O'Meara Award - for the best review published in 2002 in MLA's 
journal, Notes: to Tamara Levitz for her review of Untwisting the Serpent: 
Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts, by Daniel Albright; and 
Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist 
Musical Theatre, by W. Anthony Sheppard. The review appeared in Notes 58, 3 
(March 2002): 556-560.

Research Awards

- Dena Epstein Award - to support research in archives or libraries 
internationally on any aspect of American music, awarded to Kati Agocs, 
Jane Ellsworth, and Catherine Smith. Kati Agocs (doctoral candidate in 
composition at the Juilliard School) will write an introduction and prepare 
a critical edition of Leopold Damrosch's Symphony in A Major (1878) for 
publication in the series Recent Researches in American Music (A-R 
Editions). Jane Ellsworth (Lecturer in Music History at The Ohio State 
University; Instructor of Clarinet at Kenyon College) will trace the 
history of the clarinet in early America, from its appearance in the late 
1750s to 1820. She is focusing on major east-coast cities of colonial 
America. Catherine Smith is preparing a one-volume biography of William 
Grant Still to be published by the University of Illinois Press. Smith is a 
noted Still scholar and an experienced biographer.

- Walter Gerboth Award - for 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, awarded to Jennifer Oates and D.J. Hoek. 
Jennifer Oates (Queens College, CUNY) is continuing her research on the 
composer Hamish MacCunn to complete a “life and works” volume and is 
currently in negotiations with the Ashgate Publishing Company. Dr. Oates 
plans to use Gerboth funds to support travel to Scotland and England where 
resources related to MacCunn (1868-1916) are located. D.J. Hoek (Kent State 
University) will prepare an updated compilation of Arthur Wenk’s Analyses 
of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-1985. This new volume, 
which will include references to analyses through the year 2000, is under 
contract with Scarecrow Press and will be published in the MLA Index and 
Bibliography Series.

- Carol June Bradley Award - for historical research in music 
librarianship, to C. Rockelle Strader (The Ohio State University) for a 
project entitled "A history of the cataloging of sound recordings in the 
United States." The scope of the project includes three parts: a chronology 
and comparative description of cataloging codes and methods; a discussion 
of the development of the MARC format for sound recordings; and an 
annotated bibliography of materials on the subject that have been published 
after 1980.

Kevin Freeman Travel Grant to support travel and hotel expenses to attend 
the MLA annual meeting. The applicant must be an MLA member and either be 
in the first three years of his/her professional career, a graduate library 
school student (by the time of the annual meeting in February 2004), 
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.  Awarded to
Amber Johnson (Humanities Librarian, Music Specialty, Mansfield University)
Lisa Lazar (Preservation Program Specialist with Preservation Technologies, 
L.P. Ms. Lazar was hired in this position soon after receiving the Freeman 
grant; due to travel funding opportunities from Preservation Technologies 
she graciously returned her portion of the awarded grant for distribution 
among the other two 2004 recipients).
Nara Newcomer (Graduate Assistant, University at Buffalo, SUNY).

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Ken Calkins, MLA Publicity Officer
Music Librarian
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive #0175Q
La Jolla, CA 92093 -0175
voice: 858-534-1267
fax: 858-534-0189
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