Newsletter
Pacific Northwest Chapter Newsletter
Volume XVII Fall 1998
This is my final year as editor of the newsletter. I have enjoyed working with all of you. Having never done this sort of thing before I can now appreciate the work involved to create all these letters in the past. Thanks again to all of you who answered my questions when I needed help (you know who you are!) Thank you also to everyone who sent in your contributions. I am, of course, responsible for all the errors. Hoping to see you all soon.
TREASURER'S REPORT
October 31, 1998
Total Cash Available on October 1, 1997 $1,753.21
Dues $280.00
Vancouver Meeting:
Registrations 130.00
Total Income $410.00
1996 Newsletter:
Printing $96.93
Postage 52.26
Vancouver Meeting:
Refreshments 33.61
Bank Charges 46.90
Total Expenses $229.70
PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER NEWS
Vancouver '98
The Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Music Library Association held its annual meeting May 1-2, 1998 at the Vancouver Public Library and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia
After a tour of the new Vancouver Public Library building, we had a demonstration of the VPL home pages by Helen Alexander and John Cull. Thanks to a state of the art presentation lab we could all participate in the demonstration at our own terminals.
At the same computer lab facility, John Gibbs described a pilot project in streaming audio for listening reserves. The project involved digitizing the audio and utilizing a Microsoft NetShow server to deliver the listening examples to the student's workstation. Technical requirements were discussed, as well as copyright ramifications
Many of the members met later for dinner and microbrews at the Yaletown Brewing Company Cafe, a wonderful restaurant in a new and increasingly trended part of Vancouver. Good food and/or beer were enjoyed by all.
The next day at the University of British Columbia Kirsten Walsh welcomed us. Dr. Keith Hamel, a Professor at UBC, and his graduate assistant gave demonstrations of music notation software. The UBC computer labs and how they are used was discussed and demonstrated
After a tour of the UBC Music Library and the new Koerner Library by Kirsten Walsh, we settled in for the Business meeting. After an update on the Directory project, it was unanimously decided that the Web would be a better publication choice at this time than paper. Cathy Gerhart volunteered to spearhead the marking up and mounting of the Directory in this format. See the Meeting Minutes for further details.
—Catherine Gerhart
MINUTES
PNWMLA BUSINESS MEETING
Vancouver, B.C.
May 1-2, 1998
I. The meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by John Gibbs, Chair. Sixteen Chapter members were in attendance
II. Members present introduced themselves
III. Minutes of the 1997 Business Meeting were approved as printed in the 1997 Newsletter
IV. The Treasurer's report was unavailable; a verbal report was accepted.
V. Old Business:
A Directory update. Cathy Gerhart reported on the long-awaited 2nd edition of the Directory of Music Resources in the Pacific Northwest. The discs need to be reformatted to be usable; therefore a decision was made to mount the directory on the Chapter webpage. A print version will be published on demand off the web page by the webmaster. A suggestion was made to include discussion of the mechanization of updating the directory at next years meeting.
B. Brochure. Nothing has been done so far on the creation of a promotional brochure. Betty Woerner asked for suggestions on contents
VI. New Business:
A. Election results. John Brower (Seattle Public Library) was elected Vice/Chair/Chair-Elect of the Chapter for the upcoming year, and our sincere appreciation was extended to Laurel Sercombe for also agreeing to run.
Chapter newsletter on the web. An unforeseen result of posting of the Chapter newsletter on the website is the available of member's home addresses. The Newsletter Editor and Webmaster both agreed that this should be avoided and members home addresses will be deleted from the posted copy in the future .
VII. 1999 Chapter Meeting:
Kirsten Walsh was thanked for hosting an entertaining and informative meeting at Vancouver, BC. Leslie Bennett offered to host the Chapter meeting in Eugene next year.
VII. The meeting was adjourned at 12.00
Dates and location for the annual meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Music Library Association will be held in Eugene, Oregon on April 30 and May 1, 1999.
Homepage address
Be sure to note our new Homepage address. It is now located at http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/pnwmla/pnwmla.html.
Call for nominations
The Nominating Committee requests your suggestions for candidates for the office of Vice Chair/Chair-Elect/Past Chair and Secretary/Treasurer. Under our timetable, the member elected to the office of Vice Chair/Chair-Elect/Past Chair in the Spring of 1999 will serve a total of three years. Please send or phone your nominations to John Gibbs, Chair, by February 1, 1999.
Call for program ideas
Please submit your program ideas or suggestions for the upcoming annual meeting to John Brower, Program Chair.
Newsworthy members
Thanks to Dorothea Kelsey for sending the editor a copy of the article in the Aug. 17, edition of Medford's Prime Times. Dorothea is certainly one of our most active retired librarians!
News from regional chapters
The spring meeting of the New England chapter included several sessions on ethnomusicology, specifically, folk song repertory of a small town in northern New Hampshire and methods of acquisition of Native American music with emphasis on local groups. The upcoming fall meeting will be concerned with acquisition of music materials plus a presentation on gifts.
The New York State/Ontario chapter fall 1997 meeting discussed educational programs at Syracuse University, SUNY, University at Buffalo and SUNY, University of Albany. Members also traveled to George Eastman House for an overview of the Eastman House Film Collection, replete with a performance of selected music created for silent films. The current newsletter features an article on the Kurt Weill Festival at Sibley Music Library.
The 1997 annual meeting of the Southeast chapter certainly sounded interesting. It included sessions on Civil War music in the Carolinas, an introduction to Gullah music and culture of the South Carolina sea islands, a discography of Cajun and Zydeco music, Carolina beach music of the '50's and '60's, and jazz in opera. In addition the newsletter concluded its articles listing resources in Arkansas of use to the music researcher.
The Mountain-Plains chapter started its annual meeting at the Broker Inn in Boulder. They ended the meeting with excursions to the Boulder Chautauqua or Leaning Tree Museum of Western Art and Celestial Seasonings Tea Factory. In between they discussed Boccherini's life, preservation issues for LPs, versions of the song Wimoweh and copyright issues and fair use.
The Southern California chapter spring meeting included planning for the national MLA meeting (surprise! surprise!) and sessions on the UC Encoded Archival Description project, the California Digital Library and thematic catalogs on the web. A variety of music from around the world was also performed by students in the Ethnomusicology Department of UCLA..
MEMBER NEWS
Betty Woerner
This year, we have a brand new auditorium which, because of the audio-visual services portion of my job, has landed squarely in my lap (ouch!) While it's nice to have a new, wheelchair-accessible performing space with decent acoustics (we've been deluged by performing groups wanting to rent it out), there has been no end of problems with the architects and the sound system sub-contractors, things that don't work, delays, etc., etc. Thank goodness for Patrick, our trusty AV technician, who is our guru of sound systems. All I can say is, if you work at an institution which wants to build a new auditorium, run the other way! Maybe not all architects and sound contractors are shysters, but sometimes it sure looks that way.
Also this year, we got a donation of some old tapes of performances here at Reed from the 50s and 60s by Pete Seeger and other notables, which are very interesting from a political standpoint. I have had these copied onto cds and tapes, and they are now waiting for cataloging. There is tremendous interest here in Reed's past as a bastion of counter-culture, which archives like these help to illustrate.
On the home front, my daughter is in her last year at Harvard Law School (yay!), and applying to the Dept. of Justice. My son has three more years at Marlboro College, and is now talking about transferring to Reed (Aaaa! ). I have converted my daughter's old room and am hosting a Chinese law student, a process which has really illustrated to me the vast differences between our cultures.
Dorothea Kelsey
I have been doing cataloguing in our Rogue Valley Manor library for some time now. We have a very small budget - what we do spend our money for is for large print books. Large prints are a necessity for people in our retirement facility since most of our residents are 70 or older. They are not interested in doing away with our card catalog at all. Some of the books we get as gifts are on music but we don't have a separate section for music in our library-it's just not large enough.
We get many gifts of beautiful books from people who have just moved into our facility, from those who move to a smaller room and don't have room for them or from those who move out and we get the benefit of their many and beautiful books.
Mariol Wogaman
The $40 million expansion and renovation of The Valley Library at Oregon State University is due to be completed in Dec.1998. The music stacks will move into more spacious, brightly-lit accommodations than they had in the old building. The listening facilities, recordings, and majority of the scores remain housed in the Music Learning Center, a unit of the Music Dept. since 1972.
Deborah Pierce
The University of Washington Libraries unveiled its new _Information Gateway_ on September 14. The gateway is the product of an effort to have one interface to all of the Libraries resources. It is still under construction and we will be continuing to transition between the old and new interface to various databases and resources over the next several months. Another part of this transition is bringing up a web-based catalog for our collections. I am on the team that is implementing a new Innovative Interfaces WebPAC catalog which we hope to have public sometime after the first of the year.
With the various transitions in staffing in the Music Library in the past year, we were able to move staff around to accomplish a special five month project to work on recon for the World music portion of the Listening Center collection. All items that had cataloging copy available on OCLC were completed and several subject headings were successfully submitted to LC to help us better describe our collection.
I submitted a successful internal special funding proposal that allowed us to purchase Primary Source Media's microfilm collection _Women Composers_. The collection (28 reels) consists of sheet music from the University of Michigan's Women Composers Collection. The collection is housed in the Microforms/Newspapers section of the main library with a collection guide available in the Music Library.
On the personal news front, my absence from last year's chapter meeting was mostly because of a personal loss. My best friend of almost 14 years passed from this earth on May 1 after an extended illness. For those of you who met Mandy, you will know how we're missing her humor, love, and gentle caring.
John Brower
We have had an adventurous year in the Fine and Performing Arts Department of the Seattle Public Library. Our most important news is, of course, the outcome of the bond issue for new libraries. It is an extensive revitalizaiton of the entire library system. Of special interest are the number of practice rooms we hope to add to our department. We presently have one practice room with a digital piano. We are planning for a number of rooms in the new building, including one large enough for a ten person ensemble.
We are continuing to build the collection. This year we are making an effort to purchase everything (which we don't already own) in Basic Music Library for voice, keyboard, and fakebooks. We are making every effort to assure that we are a great urban public library. In the next few years we will make similar efforts in other sections of the music collection.
As your Vice-chair/Chair-elect, I have trying to get together with Cathy (it is amazing how hard it is to get our schedules together in Seattle). I have also gotten the dates of the annual meeting finalized. We will be firming up the other details of the conference in the near future. (stay tuned!)
Elaine Weeks
Ever wonder why Seattle Public Library's on-line catalog has so little music? Sheila Knutsen and I have been doing our best to correct this situation. For the past 6 month we have been squeezing a massive conversion project of our music holdings into the midst of our already busy workloads and hope to complete the project before I retire!
Beverly Stafford
In midsummer I began working at Multnomah County Library as Music Specialist, taking Barbara Rhyne's place following her retirement. I moved from Lewis & Clark, where I worked as a reference librarian with collection development for music, art, and other subjects in the humanities.
Barbara is continuing to come to the library as a volunteer to work on the song index and other projects, interspersed with travel. She has her same address: barbarar@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us for correspondence if you want to send her a note. I am looking forward to getting acquainted with all of you as opportunities arise. If you are coming to Portland at any time, please let me know so I can arrange to meet you if you have a chance.
One new activity here is a change in reference service which is web-based. In the older system, we received faxes coming in randomly but continuously from the phone information service on another floor of the library. These questions were sent to our desks for further work checking reference books, locating materials on the shelves, and generally collecting reference information of all kinds not retrievable by the phone staff. We then work on the questions and call the patrons back with whatever we find for them. Now, however, questions are sent to us in web format, and the library staff has been learning a new system. For me as a newcomer to the library, these questions are interesting for learning purposes. There are many questions for songs in particular. The fax machine is silent, and the questions are now all collected electronically. This forms of course a database which the organizers hope to use for training purposes.
I would add more, but there needs to be some space on the page for the next person.
Catherine Gearhart
We've had a rather exciting year here at the University of Washington Technical Services Department. We have a new name at both the Department and Division level. Cataloging Division is now called the Monographic Services Division and contains both cataloging and acquisitions operations for monographs. The Technical Services Department is now called the Resources and Collection Management Services Department and contains not only Monographic Services and Serials Services, but also the collection management operation. We're in the process of recruiting for a new Associate Director for this newly organized Department. In the short term my job doesn't seem to be changing much but I'm certain it will in the future.
My primary emphasis in the past few months has been cataloging Web resources for music. So far I've cataloged over fifty new titles for materials selected for inclusion in our catalog. Learning a new cataloging format was pretty exciting after doing the same basic 6 for the past few years (books, scores, recordings, video, maps, and computer files).
Ned and the boys are doing fine. Julian is now a string bass player. He made it into one of the Seattle Youth Symphonies and is progressing quickly after only a few months of practice. We had to take him out of the public school system because of problems that couldn't be resolved. He now attends a private school and is doing much better. I joined the Seattle Symphonic Band this year and am really enjoying playing more often.
I'm looking forward to being Chair of the Chapter this year and look forward to seeing all of you in Eugene next spring (if not sooner).
Anna Seaberg
At the King County Library System we have been planning a move of our Service Center from Seattle to Issaquah, which is actually in our service area, for June of 2000. So my golden age of commuting will be drawing to an end.
We did some interesting collection building this year, most notably a starter collection of recorded Arabic music, 1930's-1990's. And the World Wide Web made it all possible, allowing me to read, see, and listen to source material that would have been unattainable a couple of years ago. A highlight: the TV clips of Um Kalthoum and especially Nazem el Ghazali at http://almashriq.hiof.no/base/music.html
This spring I accepted a four-year appointment as chair of MLA's Public Libraries Committee. Also, my Music Selection Resources on the WWW site (www.halcyon.com/aseaberg) recorded its 15,000th hit since 1996.
Social notes: in March, I went to London, where the best entertainment of all was music shops: HMV and Virgin, 4 storeys each of CDs, with tons of world music (Complete works of Nusrat vol. 58, vol. 59,...). For fun I have been listening to banda music, a Mexican style played by brass/wind aggregations, Ezequiel Pena especially, whose tuba player makes Harvey Phillips sound like a slug, if you can believe it. Also am reading quite a bit about James Reese Europe and his era and colleagues. I keep a 1910 photograph of him with his 100-piece orchestra next to my desk.
In fact one year ago this week I was showing that photograph to my college professor John Ronsheim, the composer, early music conductor, and creative engine of academic culinary studies in America. He was visiting Seattle to select photographs and work on notes for a reissue of Ockeghem recordings that our Antioch Chorus made in Carcassonne, Florence, and Ronchamp in the 1970s. He died three weeks later, having just completed his notes, into which he had packed the whole history of everything that made him great (and that he made great). Mrs. Ronsheim asked me to edit the notes, which I did; so, in the midst of all this, another kind of highlight, not just of this year, but probably of all the years.
Paula Elliot
PNW pals, it's been a long time since we've seen each other! Since I had to miss the meeting in Vancouver, I feel rather unconnected. Last December I was made Head of Humanities Collection Development here are WSU Libraries, so I have several new responsibilities mostly summed up in saying NO. Our library has implemented some organizational changes. An elected library council is our decision-making body, and we've formed a number of "Working Groups" which make recommendations to the council regarding various library functions. I'm on the groups for Collections and Development. (Could there be a relationship between the two?) In the Development arena, we recently hosted about 70 WSU Trustees at a liberary event, demonstrating several services and featuring a live concert. Bringing live music to our classy atrium, which houses a fine piano, continues to be one of my fun jobs.
Last summer Paul and I spent two weeks in Japan seeing sights and eating well. We also went to New York to visit our daughter, seeing shows and overeating well. Here in Pullman, I'm singing again in the regional symphony chorale where we're preparing programs I really like, and I'm dancing when anyone lets me. We make occasional weekend trips to the West Side to visit our little Bainbridge outpost, and I wish I could be there more. I spend way too much time at my computer, but I can watch out the window the construction of what will someday be a magnificent new music building. Visit WSU when
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THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST CHAPTER
OF THE
MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
CHAPTER OFFICERS 1998-1999
Chair: Catherine Gerhart, University of Washington
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: John Brower, Seattle Public Library
Past Chair: John Gibbs, University of Washington
Secretary/Treasurer: Elaine Weeks, Seattle Public Library
Newsletter Editor: Elaine Weeks, Seattle Public Library
listserv: pnwmla-l@u.washington.edu
webpage: http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/pnwmla/pnwmla.html
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Leslie
Bennett
Knight Library Reference Dept 1299 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1299 (541) 346-1930 (o) | John Brower
Seattle Public Library Fine and Performing Arts 1000 Fourth Ave Seattle WA 98104 |
Jim Carmin
Humanities Librariany Multnomah County Library Portland OR 97209 |
| Charles
Coldwell
Seattle Public Library Automated Services 1000 Fourth Ave Seattle WA 98104 (206) 386-4171 (o) |
Paula Elliot
Washington State University Holland Library Reference Dept Pullman WA 99164-5610 (509) 335-8126 (o) |
Monica Fazekas
University of Victoria |
| Catherine
Gerhart
Cataloging Division Box 352900 University of Washington Seattle WA 98195-2900 (206) 685-2827 (o) |
John Gibbs
University of Washington Music Library Listening Center DN-10 Seattle WA 98195 (206) 543-1159 (o) |
Christine
Grandy
Knight Library University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1299 (541) 346-1850 |
| Terry Horner University of British Columbia Music Library 6361 Memorial Rd. Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 |
Deborah Jones
Music Cataloger Vancouver Public Library 870 Denman St. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6G 2L8
(604) 331-3836(o) |
Dorothea
Kelsey
1210 Horizon Lane Medford OR 97504 (503) 857-6796 (h) |
| Sheila
Knutsen
Seattle Public Library Fine & Performing Arts 1000 Fourth Ave Seattle WA 98104 (206) 386-4615 (o) |
Marsha Maguire
Experience Music Project 110-110th Ave. N.E. Bellevue WA 98004 Seattle WA 98195 (425) 450-1997 (o) |
Harry A.W.
Miller
Music Librarian Sunhawk Co. Music Pub. |
| Deborah Pierce
University of Washington Music Library Listening Center DN-10 Seattle WA 98195 (206) 543-1159 (o) |
Robert Puff
RPM Music 14032 Stone Way Seattle WA 98133-7019 (206) 365-0518 (o) |
Thomas Quigley
Vancouver Public Library 750 Burrad St Vancouver BC Canada V6Z 1X5 (604) 731-9607 (o) |
| Marcia Reed 3261 10th Ave W Seattle WA 98119 (206) 282-9005 (h) |
Barbara Rhyne 5402 SE 37th Ave Portland OR 97202 |
Cindy Richardson
Cataloging King County Library System 300 8th Ave N Seattle WA 98109-5191 (206) 684-6663 (o) |
| Marian Ritter
Western Washington University Music Library Performing Arts Center Bellingham WA 98225-9103 (360) 650-3696 (o) |
Anna E. Seaberg
King County Library System 300 8th Ave N Seattle WA 98109-5191 (206) 684-6634 (o) |
Laurel Sercombe
University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives School of Music Box 353450 Seattle WA 98195 (206) 543-0974 (o) |
| Carolyn Shandler
Vancouver Academy of Music S.K. Lee College 1270 Chestnut St. Vancouver BC Canada V6J 4R9 (604) 734-2301 (o) FAX (604)731-1920 |
Kate Shelby-Martin
Weter Memorial Library Seattle Pacific University Seattle WA 98119 (206) 281-2638 (o) |
Fran Smith
Puget Sound Regional Council 1011 Western Ave. Seattle WA |
| Beverly B. Stafford
Music Specalist Multnomah County Library Portland OR 97205-2597 |
Melissa Taylor
Experience Music Project 110 110th Ave NE, Suite 550 Bellevue WA 9804 (425) 450-1997 (o) |
Kirsten Walsh
University of British Columbia Music Library 6361 Memorial Rd Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z2 (604) 822-1408 (o) (604) 822-1966 (fax) |
| Elaine Weeks
Seattle Public Library Technical Services 1000 Fourth Ave Seattle WA 98104-1193 (206) 386-4187 (o) (206) 386-4185 (fax) |
Betty Woerner
Instructional Media Center Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland OR 97202-8199 (503) 771-1112 x352 (o) |
Mariol Wogaman
Oregon State University Library Corvallis OR 97331 (541) 737-7292 (o) |
| Santha Zaik Pacific University Music Library 2043 College Way Forest Grove OR 97116 |
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