MLA-SCC 2008 Membership Directory is available.
2008 Membership Directory (PDF)
MLA-SCC 2008 meeting is coming up!
The Spring meeting will be held Wednesday April 30 starting with a tour of the Motion Picture Academy Library and continuing with paper and discussion sessions at the Beverly Hills Public Library. More info shortly!
Renew Your Membership
The membership form 2007 is now available (PDF): MLA SCC 2007 Membership Form. Please print and return it to Laura Horwitz.
New Chapter Officers
The election results are in and the Southern California Chapter has elected new officers. Congratulations to new Vice Chair / Chair Elect Lindsay Hansen (CSUN) and
Board Member at large Verletta Kern (University of Redlands).
MLA-SCC 2007 Chapter Meeting, April 20
The MLA-SCC Chapter meeting will take place at the Santa Monica Public Library on Friday, April 20. The program includes a tour of the new Library,
sessions on local music special collections, Stan Kenton, and a performance of Kalman's Marinka. Contintental breakfast provided! Registration begins at 9:30 AM, the
program begins at 10:00.
Parking is available in Structures 1-6, 9 (free first two hours, $1 for 30 minutes thereafter, $7.00 max).
Register by April 6th ($10.00): Sharon Benamou, UCLA Cataloging and Metadata Center, Kinross South, 11020 Kinross Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Renew Your Membership, 2006-2007
It's time for MLA SCC members to renew their membership. If you are not a member, join! Join or Renew Here
Travel Grant Awarded
Anders Griffen is the recipient of our chapter travel grant for the
2007 MLA meeting in Pittsburgh (Feb. 26 - March 3). Anders received his BFA in music composition from SUNY-Purchase in 1999 and is currently enrolled
in the MLIS program at UCLA. Well known to several members of our chapter, he has just started an internship with Blair Whittington
at the Brand Library and Art Center, and he also works in Music Special Collections at UCLA under Peggy Alexander.
He is an accomplished and widely experienced musician who has played drums in hundreds of jazz concerts, including
seven European tours and broadcasts on the BBC. By the time of the MLA meeting in Pittsburgh next winter, he will be completing his
MLIS coursework and focusing on his thesis, which will deal with music as intellectual property.
Congratulations Anders! Please welcome him to MLA when you see him in Pittsburgh.
Antonio Calvo, 1962-2006
We sadly report that our friend and colleague Antonio Calvo passed away on Monday June 12, 2006 at his home in San Fernando, California. Antonio was the Music & Media Librarian at California State University, Northridge; prior to that position he was the Music & Humanities Librarian at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He was MLA/SCC Member at Large for Membership from 2003-2005. Tony served on the MLA Statistics Subcommittee, and played saxophone in the MLA Big Band. Tony married his girlfriend, Lulu, in April of this year. He had just been elected MLA/SCC Chair-Elect and would have begun his term on July 1, 2006.
We are collecting donations as a chapter in his memory. At the Calvo family's request the donations will go to Janus of Santa Cruz (http://www.janussc.org/). The deadline will be July 30, 2006. Secretary/Treasurer Laura Horwitz will collect and send a check from the chapter to Janus:
Laura Horwitz - MLA/SCC
UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Ctr
BOX 951575, A1538 YRL Bldg
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
MLA/SCC Travel Grant -- Call for Applications
Applications are now being accepted for a grant from the Southern California Chapter of the Music Library Association (MLA/SCC). $1000 is available to support one attendee's travel expenses to the February 2007 annual MLA meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. This grant is made possible by the Music Library Association.
The applicant must be a member of MLA/SCC and be in the first three years of his/her professional career, a graduate student in library school (by the time of the meeting) aspiring to become a music librarian, or a recent graduate (within one year of degree) of a graduate program in librarianship seeking a professional position as a music librarian. The applicant must not have attended a national annual meeting prior to applying for the grant.
Applicants must submit the following by July 30, 2006:
- A letter of application with an explanation of the reasons for attending the meeting, a justification of financial need, and a budget (the room rate will be approximately $175 plus tax).
- A current vita
- Two letters of support under separate cover (e-mail is acceptable)
Mail application and supporting materials to:
Eunice Schroeder, Chair, MLA/SCC
Arts Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
schroeder at library dot ucsb dot edu
The recipient will be notified by late summer 2006 and announced publicly through MLASCC-L, the MLA/SCC web site and in the fall MLA/SCC newsletter.
MLA SCC has a new Newsletter Editor
The chapter Newsletter has a new editor. We are happy to announce that Laurie Bailey will edit the Southern California Chapter's newsletter. Thanks to previous interim editiors, Joan Lo Pear, and Laura Horwitz. Please email Laurie your southern California news: lbailey28 at worldnet.att.net
