[ARSCLIST] MLA 2005 awards

[Ken Calkins <kcalkins@xxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

The Music Library Association is pleased to announce its 2005 awards, given 
at our Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C.  A summary appears below.  More 
information on each award is available at our website, 
<www.musiclibraryassoc.org>, including application calls for next year?s 
research and travel awards.

MLA CITATION
Awarded to Joseph Boonin, who has retired from The New York Public Library. 
"As a stalwart supporter of both music and libraries for over fifty years, 
as a publisher and music distributor, and finally as one who always felt 
most at home as a music librarian, he will be remembered always as MLA's 
unofficial voice-of-common-sense. His humanity, his kindness, and his 
steady, logical approach to problems great and small have inspired 
generations of music librarians. He has fostered much good will between 
librarians and publishers. His advocacy of music libraries, of MLA and 
public libraries in particular, and his service for two terms as a Board 
Member-at-Large, have made MLA a better organization.?

PUBLICATIONS AWARDS
- Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other 
research tool in music: to Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe 
siècle (Fayard, 2003), prepared under the direction of Joël-Marie Fauquet.

- Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or 
article of a music-bibliographic nature: to Leslie Troutman posthumously 
for her article ?Comprehensiveness of Indexing in Three Music Periodical 
Index Databases," published in Music Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 8, 
issue 1 (2001), 39-51.

- Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes: to Ann 
Morrison Spinney for her review of Writing American Indian Music: Historic 
Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements, edited by Victoria Lindsay 
Levine (Recent Researches in American Music, 44. Music of the United States 
of America, 11), Madison: A-R Editions, 2002. The review appeared in Notes 
vol. 59, no. 3, March 2003, pp. 624-626.

RESEARCH AWARDS
- Carol June Bradley Award to support studies that involve the history of 
music libraries or special collections: to Anita Breckbill and Carole 
Goebes for "Music Circulating Libraries in France." Both Ms. Breckbill and 
Ms. Goebes are librarians at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Their 
continued research on the topic will involve visits to libraries and 
businesses in and around Paris.

- Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music: 
to Melissa J. de Graaf, a Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis University. This 
award will enable Ms. de Graaf?s research at various archival collections 
for her dissertation, ?Documenting Music in the New Deal: The New York City 
Composers? Forum Concerts, 1935-40.?

KEVIN FREEMAN TRAVEL GRANT
To Carlos Peña and Romeo Whou in support of attending the recent MLA annual 
meeting in Vancouver, B.C. This is the ninth year MLA has awarded this 
travel grant to students, recent graduates, or other colleagues who are new 
to the profession. Carlos Peña is in the M.L.I.S. program at the University 
of Pittsburgh, Romeo Whou is in the M.L.S. and M.A. programs at the State 
University of New York at Buffalo.

Ken Calkins, MLA Publicity Officer
Music Librarian
University of California, San Diego
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La Jolla, CA 92093 -0175
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