MLA/SCC Annual Meeting, UCSB, Oct. 19-20

This will be the first annual MLA/SCC meeting since the recent change in Chapter bylaws specifying one meeting per year instead of two. With the additional lead time for planning that this schedule allows, the local arrangements and program committees have been hard at work to put together an informative, rewarding, and entertaining meeting that chapter members and friends will not want to miss.

The preliminary schedule is as follows:

Friday afternoon, Oct. 19: UCSB, Davidson Library, Mary Cheadle Room

12:30-1:30	MLA/SCC Executive Board meeting
1:30-2:00	Registration; light refreshments
2:00-3:15	Welcome: Lee Rothfarb, Chair, UCSB Music Dept.; Kevin McLaughlin, Chair, MLA/SCC Member presentations: David Gilbert; Marion Scichilone
3:15-3:30	Break
3:30-4:45	Tour of Performing Arts Collections (UCSB Special Collections Dept.), David Seubert, Curator
5:00	Reception at Faculty Club hosted by Theodore Front Musical Literature; dinner at Faculty Club
8:00	Kronos Quartet concert, Campbell Hall, UCSB

Saturday morning, Oct. 20: Best Western South Coast Inn (Enterprise Room), Santa Barbara/Goleta

8:00-9:00	Publications Committee meeting
9:00-10:00	Current Intellectual Property Issues: Panel and discussion
10:15-10:30	Break
10:15-11:00	Jackie Saunders, Executive Director, Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
11:00-noon	Chapter business meeting

The Friday afternoon session includes presentations by two of our Chapter's new members: David Gilbert, music librarian at UCLA, and Marion Scichilone, supervising technical services librarian at the Downey City Library. David characterizes his talk, titled "Opera Fantasies, Variations, and Quadrilles for Piano Duet, or, Searching for Wagner in Drag," as "biblio-musicological" and "kind of a fantasy in itself." Marion's is titled "Latina Music in Public Libraries"; she will discuss issues such as user demand and the librarian's approaches for increasing latina music titles in public libraries. Music selections will be played and a resource handout provided. Venga escuche y aprenda más acerca de música de latina!

Our next stop with be the Department of Special Collections of the UCSB Libraries, where curator David Seubert will discuss some of the significant music holdings of the Performing Arts Collections. Afterward, there will be an opportunity to stop by the UCSB Arts Library (just a short walk from Davidson Library, en route to the Faculty Club), which houses collections in the visual arts and music. At the Faculty Club, we will enjoy a reception hosted by Theodore Front Musical Literature, followed by dinner. The featured event of the evening is the Kronos Quartet concert.

For the Saturday morning session at the Best Western South Coast Inn, the program committee is currently working on presenting a panel of speakers who will examine and discuss some of the important intellectual property issues facing libraries and their users in today's challenging and ever-changing digital information environment. Following the panel, MLA/SCC members will be treated to a presentation by Jackie Saunders, Executive Director of the Ojai Festival, which for over fifty years has brought together unusual repertory and world-famous performers and composers at the annual festival in Ventura County just south of Santa Barbara.

Lodging

The conference hotel is the Best Western South Coast Inn at 5620 Calle Real, just three miles from the UCSB campus and a short drive from downtown Santa Barbara. Amenities include a heated pool and spa and a complimentary continental breakfast buffet served daily. When making your reservation, say that you are attending the Music Library Association meeting; the discounted convention rate of $99/night (plus 10 percent tax) is available for both Friday and Saturday nights, should you decide to extend your stay in Santa Barbara. To receive this rate, your must make your reservation by Oct. 5.

Directions and parking

To UCSB from 101: Heading north on US 101, continue just past Santa Barbara and take the UCSB/highway 217 exit (immediately after the Patterson Ave. exit) 2.5 miles to the campus. At the campus entrance, stop at the information booth on your left and say that you are attending a meeting of the Music Library Association Southern California Chapter at Davidson Library. You will be given a complimentary parking permit along with directions to parking lots and, if you wish, a campus map. If you have a parking permit from another UC campus, please bring it and present it at the kiosk. The Friday afternoon session will be held in the Mary Cheadle Room on the third floor of Davidson Library. As you enter the library, walk past the loan desk on your left and take the elevator (just past the information desk on the right) to the third floor. Turn left, go to the end of the hall, and turn right. The Mary Cheadle Room is the first room on your right. You may also wish to stop by the study lounge on the eighth floor (from the loan desk on the first floor, turn left to take the elevators), where you will have a beautiful view the mountains, coastline, and ocean.

To the Best Western South Coast Inn: Heading north on US 101, take the Patterson Ave. exit just north of Santa Barbara. At the traffic light, turn right (north) onto Patterson, heading toward the mountains. At the next traffic light, turn left onto Calle Real; it's best to get into the left of the two left-turn lanes. Go about .6 miles (that's point 6) to the BWSCI, on your right just after the traffic light.

To UCSB from the BWSCI: Turn left onto Calle Real. Go about .6 miles and turn right at the T intersection traffic light onto Patterson Ave. Almost immediately, turn right onto the North 101 ramp, and then bear left onto highway 217 to UCSB. Go 2.5 miles to campus.

From Our Chair

I am especially eager to attend our annual meeting, this time at UC Santa Barbara. The planning committee, with Eunice Schroeder as Local Arrangements Chair, has already put together an exciting slate of events - be sure to read Eunice's detailed description elsewhere in these pages. Can you believe the stroke of genius to locate an October meeting in Santa Barbara? Are we lucky or what? I hope to see you there.

Congratulations are most certainly due to our newest board members: Dan Del Fiorentino is our new Vice Chair/Chair Elect, and Don Brown is our new Member-at-Large. Both were elected by a unanimous vote (Florida notwithstanding). Dan was our host last fall at NAMM in Carlsbad and Don serves as Music Librarian at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. Welcome and thanks to you both!

Also, we officially received the two-thirds vote needed for a change in our bylaws concerning the number of Newsletters produced in a given year: it has now been reduced from three to two annually. Of the fifty-one individual members who received ballots, thirty-five voted yes, three voted no.

I look forward to seeing you all in October!

Kevin McLaughlin (CalArts)

From Our Past Chair

You may not have known that I was looking to move back East, but many of you know that I and my husband Erik are originally from Pennsylvania. With the many changes in our lives this past year, not the least of which is the baby, we decided that it was time to move back and be closer to both our families. Plus, we miss the snow. There. I've said it.

Newsletter Matters

Speaking of matters concerning finality and our newsletter, this will be the last newsletter edited by me. I have been editor since July 1999 and have thoroughly enjoyed working with you all. I'm not actually yet tired of this gig, but other responsibilities are taking precedence these days. Who out there would like to edit the MLA/SCC Newsletter?!?! Editing the newsletter does not require a great deal of time (even less now that we're issuing only two numbers per year), nor does it require hotshot desktop publishing skills (if you doubt me, I'm sure Kathy Glennan will vouch for my lack of expertise (thanks for all the help, Kathy!)). One issue of the newsletter appears in August or September, containing the annual membership directory as well as information about the Chapter's fall meeting; the second issue may appear any other time of the year (most recently it has appeared sometime in the spring following the MLA Annual Meeting). The newsletter editor serves as a member of the MLA/SCC Publications Committee (current chair, Eunice Schroeder), but is not required to attend MLA/SCC Executive Board meetings. I guarantee that my successor will inherit highly organized files, and I'll be most happy to share what help I can with the lucky person.

David Gilbert (UCLA) recently moved to Southern California from New York City to enjoy hiking in the mountains and the desert, but how could he turn down the opportunity to serve the UCLA community as Librarian for Reference and Instruction in the UCLA Music Library? He's hoping to find a few pianists soon with the patience to bang through eight hand arrangements of overtures and symphonies, but the task of editing book reviews for Notes is taking up a lot of his hiking and banging time.

Feng-Hsiu Lee, another new MLA/SCC member, is currently completing his Ph.D. in musicology-ethnomusicology and M.M. in piano performance at Kent State University, where he received his MLS. In mid-August, he will move to the LA area. Feng-Hsiu volunteered to catalog printed music at Youngstown State University, OH. He taught library science courses to paraprofessionals in his native country, Taiwan.

Martin A. Silver (retired, UC Santa Barbara; Musical Literature) writes: This year some serious work has been done on the Silver-Bowles treatise Drinking our way through California (unpublished) with a recent two-day trip to Paso Robles devoted to Zinfandel, Syrah and other interesting red wines. (Ratings and best buys may be obtained from the author for a small fee.) Bowles and I covered the area quite thoroughly and still got home without incident. Similarly, a one-day trip to Santa Ynez for the purpose of the 2001 Vintners Festival, accompanied by Linda Altes, was also a smashing success.