Pre-Conference

Schedule

9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 12:00 Workshops (to run concurrently):

Music Reference 

This interactive workshop will focus on gaining practical skills for handling a variety of music reference questions.  Topics include:  how to effectively perform a reference interview, searching catalog records for music-related items, issues with world, popular, and classical music, copyright, formats and indispensable music reference resources.  Whether you are a student, new librarian, or a general reference librarian looking to learn more about music reference, this session will provide you with the tools you need.

Instructor   

Joe Clark is head of Library Media and the Slide Library at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he provides reference and instruction
for the music, theatre, art, and dance departments.  He holds a BA in Music
and MA degrees in Ethnomusicology and Library Science, and is currently
working towards a Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of Maryland, College
Park.  While employed at the Arizona State University Music Library, he
worked the reference desk and enjoyed life as a professional guitarist and
educator before entering music librarianship.

Sound Recordings Cataloging

Participants in this workshop will learn the basic skills needed to catalog music sound recordings. The session focuses on specific cataloging problems, including such topics as the MARC field 007, chief sources of information, statements of responsibility, the types of numbers found on sound recordings, dates, physical descriptions, titles, and when to input a new record. The cataloging rules and practices are clarified, and then illustrated by the instructor with a variety of examples and exercises.

Instructor

Robert Lipartito is Technical Services Librarian at the music library at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, where he catalogs scores, sound recordings, videos, and books.  He holds an M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music and an M.L.S. from Queens College, City University of New York.  He has previously held music cataloging positions at the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.  He has also cataloged the scores and music manuscripts in the Leopold Stokowski Collection at the University of Pennsylvania.