Music Library News

Welcome to Greg MacAyeal

We are very pleased to welcome Greg MacAyeal as Assistant Head of the Music Library. Greg comes to Northwestern from Roosevelt University, where he has been Director of the Performing Arts Library since 2002. Prior to his work at Roosevelt, Greg was Fine Arts Librarian and Library Events Coordinator at Augustana College from 1998 to 2002. As Assistant Head of Northwestern's Music Library, Greg will have a wide array of responsibilities, including managing all public-services operations, serving as the primary music librarian for reference and instruction, and participating in collection development.

Greg holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Music in Composition from DePaul University, and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a member of the Music Library Association, he serves on MLA's Collection Development and Resource Sharing Committee, has recently completed a term on the Education Committee, and coordinate the collection-development curriculum for the Educational Outreach Program. Additionally, Greg is involved in the Public Services Working Group of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), serves on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Chamber Players of Chicago, and has been a member of the Continuing Education Subcommittee of the American Library Association's International Relations Roundtable. He also has written reviews for Music Reference Services Quarterly has given presentations at meetings of the Music Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Illinois Library Association.

Please join us in welcoming Greg to Northwestern!

Welcome to Tomoko Shibuya

Please join us in welcoming Tomoko Shibuya as our new Music Cataloger. Since 2003, Tomoko has worked at the New York Public Library, first in the Wilson Processing Unit (2003-2004) and then in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound (2004-2008). At Northwestern, she will be responsible for cataloging scores, sound recordings, and other materials for the Music Library.

A Northwestern alumna, Tomoko holds a B.M. in Piano Performance, a B.A. in Computer Studies, and an M.M. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. Additionally, she earned a Master of Library Science with a Specialization in Music Librarianship from Indiana University.

Welcome, Tomoko!

Farewell to Mark Zelesky

The Music Library says goodbye to Mark Zelesky as he leaves to begin studies this fall at Louisiana State University toward a Master of Library and Information Science. Mark's last day at Northwestern will be July 18.

Mark has served as Listening Center Assistant since 2006, but he also worked at the Music Library from 2000 to 2005 during his undergraduate studies at Northwestern. Mark has contributed to the Music Library in a variety of ways, and all his great work is appreciated. We wish Mark well at LSU and in his future career.

New Interface for Grove Music Online

Oxford University Press, publisher of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, recently unveiled a new interface for Grove Music Online. As before, this new site, Oxford Music Online, provides online access to the entire content of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed., 2001). Additionally, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music are also included.

For additional information on how to make the best use of this new interface, see the tip sheet on the Oxford Music Online website.

Beatlemania Takes to the Airwaves

On the heels of the Chicago Tribune's story about our Beatles manuscripts, the Music Library has attracted the attention of two radio stations. On March 26, Bob Sirott, host of WGN Radio's "Noon Show," spoke with Music Library head D.J. Hoek about the Library's exhibit of Beatles materials, and today's "Eight Forty-Eight" program on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) also included a segment about the Beatles manuscripts.

The WGN broadcast is not available online, but the "Eight Forty-Eight" segment can be heard on the WBEZ website.

Saariaho Wins Nemmers Prize

As recently announced by the School of Music, Kaija Saariaho is the 2008 winner of the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The selection committee for the award, as reported in the School of Music's press release, noted Saariaho's achievements in "transforming avant-garde techniques into a world of luminous, shifting color and emotional depth, mirroring the human experience." Saariaho's music is well represented in the Music Library, where a wide range of scores and sound recordings is available. A quick "Author" search for Saariaho in NUcat will provide a wealth of materials to explore. Also, Naxos Music Library offers online access to recordings of a number of Saariaho's works.

Beatles in Chicago Tribune and on Exhibit

Continuing the press coverage that the Music Library's Beatles manuscripts have been getting recently, the March 23 Chicago Tribune features a full-page story about these unique artifacts. The article focuses particularly on the "For No One" manuscript that shows lyrics Paul McCartney decided not to include in the finished version of the song. The full story can be read at the Tribune's website.

An exhibit of high-resolution reproductions of all our Beatles manuscripts is now open to the public through April 18. Located near the entrance to the Main Library, 1970 Campus Drive, the exhibit can be viewed 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. For more information, contact the library at 847-467-5918.