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The Music Library Association has announced its publications awards for 2003. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music published in 2003 was presented to the Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siecle (Paris: Fayard, 2003). The MLA Publications Awards Committee noted that "Prepared under the direction of editor Joel-Marie Fauquet, the Dictionnaire draws upon the expertise of nearly two hundred contributors, who together detail the rich and varied musical landscape in France during the nineteenth century. Deserving particular praise in the Dictionnaire are the coverage of lesser-known composers and performers, the attention given to musical activities in provincial centers, and the synthesis of disparate dates and facts into clearly presented tables and charts. The Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siecle forms a welcome companion volume to the earlier Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (Paris: Fayard, 1992), and is of interest to all students of the nineteenth century, not only those involved with music." The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review published in Notes in 2003 was awarded to Ann Morrison Spinney for her review of Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements, edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine (Recent Researches in American Music, 44. Music of the United States of America, 11 [Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2002]). The review appeared in Notes 59, no. 3 (March 2003): 624-26. The committee stated "Spinney's informative contribution offers thoughtful, critical assessments of the strategies and achievements of the work under consideration with regard to its intended audience and beyond. In the process, the reviewer displays an impressive knowledge of the historical accounts of American Indian music that comprise the volume. Spinney touches not only on the strengths and weaknesses of contents within the anthology, but also upon the practical considerations associated with acquiring and preserving the book. The Committee believes that Spinney's review is particularly helpful in providing guidance to libraries of all types and readers of all levels of expertise." The Richard S. Hill Award for best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature was awarded to Leslie Troutman for her article "Comprehensiveness of Indexing in Three Music Periodical Index Databases," published in Music Reference Services Quarterly 8, no. 1 (2001): 39-51. The committee comments "From the literature on music librarianship and music bibliography that appeared in 2003, Troutman's article stands out as an extraordinary example of comparative analysis of three core databases of music literature: RILM Abstracts, International Index to Music Periodicals, and Music Index. Troutman's investigation systematically and thoroughly explores materials that are basic to the work of music librarians, and at the same time her article touches on other aspects of our profession such as collection development, information literacy, and teaching."

Other MLA Awards. The recipient of the 2005 Dena Epstein Award for Library and Archival Research in American Music has been given to Melissa J. de Graaf, a Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis University. Ms. de Graaf's dissertation, for which archival research is necessary, is entitled "The New York City Composers' Forum, 1935-1940: A Missing Link in American Music." She is examining Forum documents and all related archival material, focusing her critique on issues of modernism, gender, ethnicity, race, and politics as represented in Forum discourse and performance.

The Carol June Bradley Award was given to Anita Breckbill and Carole Goebes for a project entitled "Music Circulating Libraries in France." Breckbill and Goebes's proposal arises from their work in curating the Rokahr Family Archive, a music special collection at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, that contains nineteenth-century French operetta scores previously owned by various music circulating libraries in France through the mid-twentieth century. Initial research for this project with businesses and libraries in France was undertaken through e-mail and fax inquiries. This award will support travel to libraries and businesses in and around Paris to elicit answers to questions that can only be gained from on-site visits. The project will have multiple results: to inform an American collection of nineteenth-century French scores; to document a type of music library existing in France through the 1950s; and to produce research complementary to Robin Alston's work on British circulating libraries. The Bradley Award supports studies that involve the history of music libraries or special collections; biographies of music librarians; studies of specific aspects of music librarianship; and studies of music library patrons' activities.

The Kevin Freeman Award supports aspiring music librarians in offsetting the cost to attend the annual meeting of the association. This year, awards were granted to Romeo Whou and Carlos Pena. Mr. Whou is scheduled to graduate from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, in 2005 with a double master's in library science and music history. He has occupied positions of increasing responsibility in music libraries since 2001, and in his current position as graduate assistant in the University at Buffalo Music Library he reviews copy cataloging, performs authority work and database maintenance, provides reference service, and supervises student assistants. Carlos Pena is a student of the LIS program at the University of Pittsburgh, and is scheduled to graduate in 2005. He has held three positions of increasing responsibility in libraries since 1998, the latter two being full-time positions at music libraries. At present he is a technical services assistant at the University of Pittsburgh's Theodore M. Finney Music Library, where he copy-catalogs sound recordings, prepares materials for binding, and provides basic reference and instruction.

The MLA Citation was awarded to Joseph M. Boonin at the association's annual business meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 19 February 2005. The text of the citation states "As a stalwart supporter of both music and libraries for over fifty years, as a publisher and music distributor, and finally as one who always felt most at home as a music librarian, he will be remembered always as MLA's unofficial voice-of-commonsense. His humanity, his kindness, and his steady, logical approach to problems great and small have inspired generations of music librarians. He has fostered much good will between librarians and publishers. His advocacy of music libraries, of MLA and public libraries in particular, and his service for two terms as a Board Member-at-Large, has made MLA a better organization."

The Juilliard School will celebrate its centennial during the 2005-6 season with a full menu of performances, new commissions in music, dance, and drama, national and international tours, and a major exhibit at the New York Public Library (NYPL) for the Performing Arts. The exhibit, which will open on 16 September 2005, will showcase materials from Juilliard's archives and library collections, as well as materials from NYPL's Music, Dance, Theatre, and Recorded Sound Divisions.

Juilliard's history is the story of two separate institutions: The Institute of Musical Art (IMA), founded by Frank Damrosch in 1905, and the Juilliard Graduate School, established in 1924 by the Juilliard Musical Foundation with a substantial bequest from the estate of wealthy textile merchant Augustus D. Juilliard. Damrosch and his financial backer James Loeb sought to create an American conservatory for the education of professional musicians in the U.S., so Americans would not have to travel abroad for their training. The Institute opened its doors on 11 October 1905 in its first home at Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street. The School's Dance Division was established in 1951, and its Drama Division in 1968.

The centennial season officially begins with the School's 100th commencement on 20 May 2005. Juilliard's 100th birthday will be commemorated on 11 October 2005 with a performance at Carnegie Hall of the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

JANE GOTTLIEB

The Juilliard School

Notes has made a change in editorial style for citations of journal articles. In previous issues, we have used only volume number and year for journals with continuous pagination (with the exception being Notes). For journals with non-continuous pagination we had specified to add the month (or season) of the issue. Beginning with this issue, the journal will include the month (or season) for all journal articles. This change results from our verification efforts for citations in online full-text journals, where this information provides the most direct route to the article wanted. Volume number and year are adequate for readily finding what is needed from paper versions of journals, but not in online versions. The Notes style sheet, available online at http://www.areditions.com/mla/notes/stylesheet.html, has been updated to reflect this change.

Yale Fineman (1951-2004) passed away 2 December, his fifty-third birthday, following a courageous battle with lung cancer. He was appointed Music Librarian and Head of Reference and Circulation in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland in August 2002, and had been Acting Head of that Library since July 2004. After earning a Master of Arts in Musicology from Tufts University (1994), and a Master of Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh (1995), Yale started his library career in Pittsburgh. He worked first briefly at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and then, from 1996 to 1998, in the Music and Art Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. He left to assume the post of User Services Librarian in the Duke University Music Library in 1998. Yale is known widely among his colleagues in the Music Library Association (MLA) as the creator of DW3 Classical Music Resources (http://www.lib.duke.edu/dw3/ [accessed 23 February 2005]), while he was at Duke University. He wrote about that project in this journal under the title "The Economics of Information: DW3 and the Case for Creating a Music Megasite" (vol. 58, no. 3 [March 2002]: 504-10). Professionally active and articulate through publications and presentations on various aspects of digital information dissemination and bibliography, Yale's most recent article on "Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Music" appeared in the June 2004 issue of this journal (vol. 60, no. 4: 893-907). Those who knew Yale well knew him also as a brilliant classical guitarist with an abiding love for Spanish music, which he had studied, practiced, and performed for thirty-five years. He was a noted expert on the music of Isaac Albeniz. His repertoire spanned five centuries of western music, ranging from Renaissance polyphony to jazz-influenced, Latin-American tunes. Upon learning of Yale's cancer diagnosis earlier in 2004, friends and colleagues in MLA's Southeast and Atlantic Chapters paid tribute to him by commissioning John Mayrose, a Duke friend and colleague and recent recipient of ASCAP's Morton Gould Young Composer Award, to compose a composition for classical guitar in his honor. They presented "Cascada" to Yale in June 2004. Yale will be remembered by his colleagues as a vivid presence, dedicated in equal measure to librarianship, service, scholarship, and musicianship--and as a loyal friend who touched numerous lives across the country. He is survived by his wife Carol, two brothers, and his mother. Notes of condolence and remembrance can be sent to the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, in care of Debra Reed, 2511 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742. Contributions to the Yale Fineman Memorial Fund, made out to the University of Maryland, College Park Foundation (memo: Yale Fineman Memorial Fund) can be mailed to the Performing Arts Library address above.

BRUCE WILSON

University of Maryland, College Park