UPDATED 4/20/99
L631 -- Seminar in Music Librarianship
Spring 1999: Fridays 1:00-3:45 p.m., M263
Coordinator: A. Ralph Papakhian
Jan 15 Introduction: course requirements, project(s) (MUSIC LIBRARY FACULTY).
Jan 22 History of music libraries and librarians, part 1 (PAPAKHIAN).
Jan 29 History of music libraries and librarians, part 2 (PAPAKHIAN).Readings: "Libraries" in New Grove 10: 719-821 (read the introduction 719-725, skim the remainder). Krummel 1992: 316-330. Bradley 1990: 1-108. Davidson 1989.
Readings: Bradley 1990: 109-228. Davidson 1993. Watanabe 1981. Music Librarianship in America, 1991: 9-12, 65-69, 133-136, 140-144.Feb 5 Education for music librarianship; The Music Library Association; IAML; music user groups (PAPAKHIAN).
Readings: Coral 1990. Music Library Association, Committee on Professional Education. "Qualifications of a Music Librarian." Fontes artis musicae 21 (1974): 139-143. Watanabe 1991. Reader in music librarianship 1973: 295-321. Weichlein 1971. Ochs 1976. Young 1984. Roberts 1985. Morroni 1971. Davidson 1997. MLA homepage: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/contents.htm MLA Newsletter. IAML homepage: http://www.cilea.it/music/iaml/iamlhome.htm MOUG Newsletter.Feb 12 Collection Development (FLING).
Readings:
(1) Brenda Dervin and Patricia Dewdney, "Neutral Questioning: A New Approach to the Reference Interview," RQ 25 (Summer 1986): 506-13.
(2) "The Reference Interview and Communication Challenges" in Reference Services Today: From Interview to Burnout, ed. Bill Katz and Ruth Fraley (New York: Haworth Press, 1986).Feb 26 Copyright in music (FLING, 1-2:00); Archives of Traditional Music (SUZANNE MUDGE in the ATM, 2:15-3:45).Think about the reference interview in the context of the music library. What kinds of questions have you ever asked music reference personnel and how well have they handled them? What particular challenges might there be in the reference interview in a library serving a large and diverse music school such as ours? How as the eference interview changed, if at all, in the increasingly computerized information environment?
March 5 Field trip to Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Library
(MIKE RUNYAN; 11:00-Noon); Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Arts
and Music Service Section (VALERIE ELLIOTT, NANCY GOOTEE; 1:00-2:00); Butler
University Library, Music and Fine Arts (SHERIDAN STORMES; 2:30-3:45)
March 12 Preservation (LORRAINE OLLEY in Main Library Preservation Department, 1-2:15); Music in the Lilly Library (STEVE CAPE in the Lilly Library, 2:30-3:45)
Honea 1985.March 19 NO CLASS: Spring Break.
March 26 Circulation (including automation and management questions) (MAYER).
April 2 Sound and video recordings in libraries (LASOCKI).
April 9 The World Wide Web (DEDERICK).
Vellucci 1996.April 16 Field trip to Univ. of Illinois Music Library (DICK GRISCOM); History of music printing, publishing, etc. (DON KRUMMEL)
Krummel 1986.April 23 Digital Libraries/Variations Project (DUNN, MAYER).
April 30 World Music (DEDERICK; 1-2:00); Future directions
in music librarianship (MUSIC LIBRARY FACULTY; 2:15-3:45).
May 7 EXAM WEEK: Presentation/discussion of project(s) in lieu of final exam.
E-mail accounts:
Instructors: Steve Cape (cape), Emma Dederick (edederic), John Dunn (jwd), Valerie Elliott (velliott@ccmail.imcpl.lib.in.us), Michael Fling (fling), Nancy Goottee (ngootee@ccmail.imcpl.lib.in.us), Dick Griscom (griscom@uiuc.edu), Don Krummel (donkay@uiuc.edu), David Lasocki (lasocki), Connie Mayer (mayerc), Suzanne Mudge (smudge), Lorraine Olley (olley), Ralph Papakhian (papakhi), Sheridan Stormes (sstormes@butler.edu).
Students: Katerina Kakouri (ekakouri), Peter Lisius (plisius),
Alan Ringwood (aringwoo).