Music Library News

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.

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.