Notes for Notes

During the 2017 Music Library Association annual meeting in Orlando, the following awards were given:

The MLA Citation, MLA's highest honor for distinguished service to music librarianship, was conferred upon Morris Martin in recognition of the profound impact he has had on so many people over forty years as librarian, teacher, colleague, friend, as well as supporter of MLA and our profession. In a career spanning more than forty-two years, he served as a staunch advocate for music librarianship and a mentor for generations of music librarians who have benefited from his wise counsel, unfailing support, and encyclopedic knowledge of music sources. He worked tirelessly to build impressive music collections that cut across traditional boundaries of genre and category with a genuinely democratic sensibility. An able and adept administrator, he always instilled in his staff and students the paramount importance of serving the public, a quality also manifested in his own daily dealings with others. Having served as MLA Newsletter editor and as one of the founders of MLA's Texas Chapter, he was also active in the organization's efforts to promote education for music librarianship.

The Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or of a music-bibliographic nature was awarded to C. Rockelle Strader for her exceptional article, "Cataloging Music Sound Recordings in the United States: An Evolution of Practice and Standards," Notes 72, no. 2 (December 2015): 276–327. Strader provides historical context and analysis, chronicling bibliographic description of and access to sound recordings from card catalogs to the digital age. She thoroughly addresses the issues surrounding the persistent question of the "unit of catalog" for sound recordings, charting the change in practice over time. Strader's article is useful to catalogers, researchers, and library educators, and contributes to the body of research documenting library history and the development of cataloging standards. The Vincent H. Duckles Award for the best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music was presented to Reinmar Emans and Ulrich Krämer, editors of Musikeditionen im Wandel der Geschichte (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015). Emans (Institut für Historische Musikwissenschaft, Universität Hamburg) and Krämer (Akademie der Wissen-schaften und der Literatur, Mainz) bring together numerous highly regarded scholars in this collection of essays that present the development of music publication in a historical context. The history of music publishing is examined from the perspective of specific editions, with chronological summaries of the editorial histories of the works of many composers, from the Notre Dame School to Hanns Eisler, and insight into the editorial principles of each period. This well-written and rigorously researched book will be of invaluable use to both researchers and performers.

The Eva Judd O'Meara Award for the best review in Notes was awarded to Louis Epstein of St. Olaf College for his review of Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II by Annegret Fauser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), and The Musical Legacy of Wartime France by Leslie A. Sprout (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013) in Notes 72, no. 1 (2015): 157–62. In his review, Epstein skillfully combined historical background on the topic of music during World War II, a discussion of the key composers, works, and ideas covered in the books, and a description of the contribution that these books make to the literature. Epstein's engaging writing style and understanding of the period offers the reader a review that is not only a critique of these books, but also a summary of the topic. His review is thorough, engaging, and a pleasure to read.

The Kevin Freeman Travel Grant was given to the following individuals to support attendance at this year's meeting: Avery Boddie (ARL/MLA Diversity Initiative Fellow), Michael Crowley (first-time attendee), Vaughn Hennen, Treshani Perera (ARL/MLA Diversity Initiative Fellow), Michelle Urberg (first-time attendee), and Emily Vickers

Typically, the Dena Epstein Award supports research in archives or libraries internationally on any aspect of American music; and the Walter Gerboth Award is made to an MLA member who is in the first five years of a professional...