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). *** 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 [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]