Linda Solow Blotner attended the Music Library Association annual conference in Pittsburgh where she chaired the Publications Committee and served on the search committee for the editor of MLA’s Copyright Web Site. She also attended the spring meeting of the New England Music Library Association at Connecticut College. Linda is chair of the chapter’s Publications Committee, which launched the chapter’s new web site (http://www.nemlamusic.org/) earlier this spring. Her latest article, titled “Music Libraries of Tomorrow: Virtual or Concrete?,” appeared in Music, Libraries, and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2007).
 Tom Caw attended the Music Library Association annual conference and the spring meeting of the New England Music Library Association. Tom is co-coordinator of MLA’s Jazz and Popular Music Roundtable, which sponsored one of the speakers on a panel titled “Music in Pittsburgh,” and was appointed to the search committee for a new Music Library Association Publicity Officer. Tom also attended the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s IASPM-US and IASPM Canada 2007 Joint Conference: Boundaries, Blockades, and Bridges, held at Northeastern University.
If you haven’t already done so, please stop by room L108 of Mortensen Library to welcome our new Head of Technical Services. Ben Ide comes to us from Harvard University, where he was Head of Technical Services for Lamont Library. Ben also has been a cataloger at Harvard and headed the technical services department at Bryant College. Although he is currently commuting from Providence, Ben hopes to move to the area shortly.
Andrew King has been accepted into the masters program at The Hartt School where he will pursue a MMus degree in piano performance as a student of David Westfall.
Longtime staff member George Lechner of the Reference Department will marry Karla Lee Ekquist on Saturday, June 9th. They will be married at the Hill Stead Museum in Farmington. Karla and George were introduced by a mutual friend last year. Both are history professors and both are animal lovers who are active in animal rescue programs, primarily WAG (We Adopt Greyhounds), a Connecticut-based greyhound rescue organiza-tion, and also Premarin horse rescue, care and |
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adoption. After honeymooning in Chadds Ford, PA, Karla and George will settle down with their two adoptive greyhounds, two very independent cats, and a handsome rescued horse named Ben.”
Brooke Lippy attended the Music Library Association annual conference, and the New England Chapter meeting at Connecticut College in her continuing role as Member-at-Large.
Jennifer Olson attended the spring meetings of the New England Music Library Association and New England Technical Services Librarians. Jennifer, who holds an MMus from Butler University, is currently enrolled in the Master of Science in Library and Information Science degree program at Simmons College.
Phil Salathé completed his studies at Hartt in May 2007, receiving the Artist Diploma in music composition. Phil was also this year’s winner of The Hartt School Composition Department’s Edward Diemente Award at the graduate level. His recent works include “The Heart That Loves But Once”, a new composition for oboe, viola, harp, and piano/celesta. Taking its title from a letter written by Clara Wieck to her future husband, Robert Schumann, the piece was premiered in March 2007 by the Hartt School’s 20/20 Ensemble. Pianist Luiza Aquino, a fellow Allen employee, premiered the “Bagatelle” for solo piano at a concert in Philadelphia earlier this year; Phil has arranged several pieces for the Miklos Quartet, an iconoclastic new music ensemble that features another Allen employee, Steve FitzGerald, on alto saxophone.
Phil has been accepted to the PhD program in music composition at Stony Brook University, and will be moving to Long Island at the end of July. Consequently, he would also like to say: Thanks to my friends and colleagues at Allen and Mortensen for three terrific years!
On May 14, 2007, Nick Wharton became the new Head of Reference Services. Nick brings to University Libraries 10 years of experience. He holds a second masters in education – which will come in quite handy with all the bibliographic instruction that the Mortensen Reference Department handles during the academic year. Please stop in and introduce yourself to Nick. You may contact him at 768.4403 or wharton@hartford.edu.
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