Music Library News

2008 MLA Conference

Two of the Music Library's staff members recently attended the Music Library Association's 2008 Annual Conference in Newport, Rhode Island. Held in the home of the Newport Jazz Festival, this year's conference featured a number of sessions on jazz but also covered a wide array of topics in collection development, cataloging, and technology. Morris Levy, Senior Music Cataloger, attended MLA as well as the Music OCLC Users Group annual pre-conference meeting. D.J. Hoek, Head of the Music Library, served as Program Chair for this year's MLA conference and attended meetings of various committees he is a member of, including the Personnel Subcommittee, the Publications Committee, the Dena Epstein Award Committee, and the 2009 Program Committee.