Greetings GNYMLAers!
Our Spring Chapter meeting is coming up in just two weeks on Friday, May 20, 2016 at Columbia University’s Butler Library. Please note that we will need to provide a list of names of those attending in order to gain access to Butler Library. If you’re planning to attend (or think you might attend) please send me a quick email (if you haven’t already done so) at emortensen@juilliard.edu so that your name is on the list provided to library security.
Please note our updated program information below. Thanks in advance to our three presenters!
Friday, May 20, 2016
Butler Library Room 523
9:30 am Attendees arrive. Coffee and snacks will be provided.
10:00 am Presentations
- Faceted Vocabularies for Music: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Casey Mullin (music cataloger, NYPL-BookOps and chair, MLA Vocabularies Subcommittee) will summarize recent developments in music vocabularies (including LCMPT, LCGFT, and LCDGT), including implementation, possibilities for enhanced user access, and the ever-present specter of legacy data. An ample question and answer period will follow. - Greg Sigman, Assistant Director of the Performing Arts Library at the New School, will discuss the library’s recent move from Mannes’ previous home on the Upper West Side to its new co-location with the New School downtown.
- Matthew Snyder, archivist at NYPL, will discuss his work on the George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian papers, and the upcoming exhibition at the Library for the Performing Arts related to the archival collection.
12:00 pm Business meeting
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (off campus)
Chang Seminar Room, 6th floor, Butler Library
2:00-4:00 pm Presentation and viewing of materials from the recently acquired Prokofiev Archive, including manuscript scores of the composer’s works by Archivist Natalia Ermolaev and Curator Jenny Lee at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML) at Columbia.
Thanks again and I hope to see you all at Columbia on May 20!
Eric Mortensen
GNYMLA Chapter Chair