Notes for NOTES

The establishment of the Michael Ochs Endowment Fund for Notes was announced at the Music Library Association's (MLA) recent meeting in Las Vegas by James P. Cassaro, the association's president. Through a generous donation of $10,000, Ochs provided the seed money for this fund. In doing so, he stated, "MLA has played a major part in my career, and this is simply my way of paying back." Ochs, former president of the association, was editor of Notes from 1987 to 1992. He served as librarian of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University (1978-92), and music editor of W. W. Norton & Company (1992-2000). He has held positions at Simmons College, Brandeis University, and City College of the City University of New York, and is the author of various articles, grants, and monographs. Ochs is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society and an editorial consultant. The MLA Board, touched deeply by Ochs's gesture, decided that it was prudent to double this amount over the next year. Therefore, a challenge was issued to the membership to raise $5,000 by the close of the Las Vegas meeting, and another $5,000 by the close of the 2003 meeting in Austin, Texas. Substantial contributions have already been made to this fund by corporate members Jay Sonin (AAA Music Hunter) and Gary Thal (Gary Thal Music, Inc.), and also by individual members. Through the generosity of the MLA membership, the challenge set at the Las Vegas meeting was more than fully met. We look forward to completing this challenge and implementing the use of the fund to sustain the activities of our journal. Contributions to this fund may be sent to the association's Treasurer/Executive Secretary, Laura Gayle Green.

The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) will meet in Berkeley, California, 4-9 August 2002. This meeting presents a wonderful opportunity to attend an international meeting, meet colleagues whose names you know, and learn about international developments in music librarianship. Lenore Coral (chair, Berkeley IAML Organizing Committee) enourages you to attend and reports that it is not too late to register. To see the program for this exciting meeting or find a copy of the registration form, visit their Web site at www.staff.uiuc.edu/~troutman/berkeley.html (accessed 18 March 2002).

The RILM International Center has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for three projects designed to enhance RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. The first is to assist JSTOR in selecting a core list of scholarly music journals for a proposed music collection, which will be a digitized version of the full runs of these titles. Recognizing the importance of full-text material to the scholarly music community, RILM editor-in-chief Barbara Mackenzie hopes to link RILM Abstracts with the digitized articles, adding records for those articles that predate the founding of RILM. The rest of the grant was awarded for the purpose of adding other retrospective material important to the scholarly community, which will further RILM's long-term goal of developing a robust retrospective file. RILM staff will edit and index congress reports from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of RILM's present coverage; this project will make accessible an enormously valuable set of data that has remained difficult to use. Mackenzie hopes to complete this work by the end of 2002. Finally, RILM will digitize its first two years of data (1967 and 1968), which have never been available in machine-readable form, for inclusion in RILM's online and CD-ROM products. This project is scheduled for completion by summer 2002. The Mellon grant enables RILM to add new staff dedicated exclusively to these vital projects, allowing progress on current material to be unaffected. RILM will continue to provide frequently-updated, current entries.

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