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The MOUG Board would like to thank all of the applicants and their colleagues/mentors who provided thoughtful letters of support toward the Ralph Papapkhian Travel Grant which is made possible by ongoing donations from MOUG members. The incredible passion on display by everyone in our organization affirms the continued strength and importance of MOUG to the profession at large. Donations are tax-deductible and may be made at any time on the MOUG Web site (http://musicoclcusers.org/community/donate/), or by contacting MOUG treasurer Jacob Schaub (jake.schaub@vanderbilt.edu). Thank you for your support! This year's recipients include the following individuals:

Britt Burns is the current music metadata specialist at UCLA where he has been since 2017, and also as a limited appointment in 2015. He began learning music cataloging back when he was in library science school while at the University of North Texas. Beyond his music cataloging, he has served in a variety of general cataloging positions, including roles at Cal State Fullerton and Georgetown University. He has also worked as a metadata coordinator for two entertainment providers in Los Angeles. Burns has a high interest in concert music, and is a published composer in that field. When he's not cataloging or composing, Burns enjoys spending time with his wife Kristi.

Music cataloger and violist, Joshua Dieringer currently works at the University of North Texas Music Library as a cataloging and metadata associate. He studied at The Ohio State University (BM in music performance and musicology) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (MM in music performance, MA in library and information sciences) gaining experiences in cataloging, processing, music performing and scholarship, and orchestral librarianship. His music library mentors have included Sean Ferguson, Tom Caw, Betsy Robbins, and Jean Harden. Joshua's current music librarianship interests include cataloging and linked data complemented with video game music, viola literature, music editing, and Korean language and culture. He hopes to continue learning more about the cataloging and metadata profession while maintaining studies in music performing and scholarship.

Patrick Hutchinson is the music cataloger at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He started in cataloging when a graduate student in ethnomusicology, and, having earned his PhD, wandered into an open paraprofessional (senior library specialist—no MLS) position. He is this year celebrating his twentieth year in that position. Patrick has been involved in Irish traditional music since learning to play the tin whistle as a teenager in Liverpool. He has been playing the Irish uilleann pipes for thirty-six years and teaches the instrument in Boston. If you ever watched the classic movie Highlander 3: The Final Embarrassment, or listened to Loreena McKennitt, you have probably heard him play. Patrick is looking forward to attending his first MOUG meeting, and putting faces to names! He thanks you all so much for this opportunity.

Casey A. Mullin

Western Washington University

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The Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University (ARS) is pleased to announce the completion of the processing of the Maria Callas Sub-Collection of the Robert Baxter Collection. An illustrated blogpost by Benjamin Bates has been posted on the ARS Web site, and the finding aid is available on the Online Archive of California (OAC).

Consisting of eighty boxes (ca. fifty-six linear feet) of material, the sub-collection provides abundant and detailed documentation of the life and work of Maria Callas, the internationally acclaimed operatic soprano. The materials comprise sound and video recordings, books, periodicals, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, auction catalogs, exhibition catalogs, correspondence, notes, and research materials.

The sub-collection is part of a larger collection of music materials created by Robert Baxter, an alumnus of Stanford University, who was a performing arts critic for the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. We invite you to explore this large and engaging collection and to share the link information listed below with researchers, faculty, and students who are interested in the study of anything related to the life and work of Maria Callas:

Blogpost for the Maria Callas Sub-Collection of the Robert Baxter Collection: https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2018/11...