Applications are now being accepted for a travel grant funded by the Music Library Association, Atlantic Chapter. The grant supports travel, meeting registration, hotel and subsistence expenses to attend the National Meeting of MLA in San José, California, February 27-March 3, 2013. Please note that music library paraprofessionals/support professionals and library school students are among [...]
The Music Library Association (MLA)–Atlantic Chapter and the MLA Educational Outreach Program are pleased to announce a preconference on “RDA and Sound Recordings Cataloging.” Friday, October 19, 2012 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Woolworth Center of Musical Studies Princeton University–Princeton, NJ Early registration is $20, if postmarked by September 26, or $25 after September [...]
Mark your calendars! The Atlantic Chapter fall meeting will take place at Princeton University, October 19-20, 2012. Our host is Darwin Scott, and we will meet in the Woolworth Music Building, also home to the Mendel Music Library. Possible tours before our conference include a docent-led tour of the Princeton University Art Museum, and a [...]
On Sunday afternoon, October 30th, a panel of distinguished musicians and others gathered at the Free Library of Philadelphia for the symposium “The Black Composer in Classical Music: Talent to be Known” to discuss classical composers of African origin. Organized by Richard Greene, educator and researcher at Temple University, with lead sponsorship by Steven Landstreet, [...]
We’ve just begun a year-long project to enter all of the USMB members for the past sixty years into our database. Entries will include their dates of service, terminal rank, and instrument, and the work involves comparing rosters for each of those sixty years. (The ultimate dream would be to have all of our members [...]
