[ARSCLIST] Music Library Association 2006 awards announcement

[Ken Calkins <kcalkins@xxxxxxxx>]

The Music Library Association is pleased to announce its 2006 awards, given 
at our 75th Anniversary meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.   A summary appears 
below.  More information on each award is available at 
<www.musiclibraryassoc.org> under the News section of the home page.

PUBLICATIONS AWARDS

- The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or 
other research tool in music:  Speaking of Music: Music Conferences, 
1835-1966. James R. Cowdery, Zdravko Bla?ekoviæ, Barry S. Brook, gen. eds. 
New York: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 2004. RILM 
Retrospective Series, No. 4.

- The Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or 
article of a music-bibliographic nature:  Kiri Miller for ??First Sing the 
Notes': Oral and Written Traditions in Sacred Harp Transmission," American 
Music 22 (Winter 2004): 475-501.

- The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes:  Mary 
Sue Morrow, for her review of Daniel Heartz, Music in European Capitals: 
The Galant Style, 1720-1780, in Notes vol. 60, no. 4 (June 2004): 958-961.


RESEARCH AWARDS
- The Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American 
Music:  to Robin Rausch and David Hursh.  Ms. Rausch, a Senior Music 
Specialist at the Library of Congress, is writing a full-length biography 
on the extraordinary legacy of Marian MacDowell, the wife and widow of 
Edward MacDowell.  David Hursh, Music Librarian at East Carolina 
University, is researching the life and times of Alice Person, a name 
little known outside of North Carolina but a woman who had a lasting impact 
on the culture of that region.

- The Walter Gerboth Award in support of members who are in the first five 
years of their professional library careers, to assist research-in-progress 
in music or music librarianship: to Christopher Mehrens, Music Reference 
Librarian at the Cunningham Memorial Library of the Indiana State 
University, Terre Haute.  His research is toward a comprehensive annotated 
bibliography dedicated to American music criticism.


KEVIN FREEMAN TRAVEL GRANT
MLA awards the Kevin Freeman Travel Grant to students, recent graduates, or 
other colleagues who are new to the profession for support to attend their 
annual meetings.  Rebecca McCallum, Terra Mobley, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto 
were awarded the 2006  Freeman Grant to attend MLA?s recent 2006 meeting.

- Rebecca McCallum is a student in the M.L.S. program at the State 
University of New York at Buffalo. She is also employed as an Acquisitions 
Assistant at the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music in 
Rochester, NY. She has an M.A. in Musicology from Eastman, and a B.A. in 
German Studies from Dartmouth College.

- Terra Mobley is Music Librarian at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.  She has an M.L.I.S. from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
and a B.S. in Music Education from Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, 
New York.

- Cassidy R. Sugimoto is a first-year graduate student at School of 
Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill, where she also received her B.M. in Flute Performance.  She is 
currently a graduate assistant in Music Cataloging and the Music Library.


Ken Calkins, MLA Publicity Officer
Music Librarian
University of California, San Diego
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