GNYMLA Chapter Meeting Minutes
Thursday February 17, 2005: 2005 Annual Meeting, Vancouver.
Members Present: Bob Kosovsky, Paul Friedman (new -- NYPL), Martha Grutchfield, Jennifer Oates, Daniel Boomhower, Ruth Henderson, Barbara Walser, Marguerite Iskenderian, Joe Boonin, Michael Ochs, Matt Snyder (new -- NYPL), John Shepard, Mark E. Smith, Peter Hirsch, Kip Baranoff, Karen Burke, Suki Sommer.
The meeting began with Suki Sommer, chair, introducing herself to new members present at meeting.
Most of the meeting was spent on discussing ideas about venues for our next meeting in May and other subsequent meetings.
- Met Opera music library and backstage tour
- John Shepard will call Bob Sutherland (orchestra librarian) and ask him for a possible date in early to mid May.
- Need to know how many people can be accomodated. Will we need to break into 2 groups.
- Woody Guthrie Foundation/Archives
- Jason Selch
- Ask George Boziwick for name of Woody Guthrie collector in Denver
- New York Philharmonic Archives
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus music library and the Nicholas Performing Arts Center
- Invite members from the PA area
- ReCAP tour – offsite storage facility for NYPL, Columbia University & Princeton located in Plainsboro, NJ
- BMI – contact Barbara Peterson
OTHER BUSINESS:
- Need to appoint a nominating committee for 2005 to nominate new officers for chapter.
- Still trying to get as many e-mail addresses of chapter members as possible. Will send letter with postcard enclosed to members for which we do not have an e-mail address listed in our mailing list database.
- Daniel Boomhower will post Giselle Glover's interview of Peter Hirsch on the chapter website.
- Bob Kosovsky and George Boziwick met with representatives from the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame recently to discuss the new library and archives that they will be opening at Case Western Reserve University. Bob will contact them for a press release that we could use in our newsletter.
- Other idea for newsletter is to interview emeritus chapter members – brought up by Joe Boonin, who spoke about the many ideas that began with the NY chapter that were adopted by MLA national
- Spoke about asking someone from the Brooklyn Public Library information about its new performing arts library.
- Approval of expenditure of $50 to support the NY Technical Services Librarians Association reception to be held at NYPL on Friday March 18.
