Melissa Wertheimer joined the Library of Congress as a Music Reference Specialist in 2018. She strives to share primary sources with all music lovers and to contextualize musical sources with those of the arts and humanities. Melissa is also a flutist and new music specialist, and formerly held adjunct teaching positions at Johns Hopkins University and Howard Community College in Maryland. Melissa serves as Archivist of the Music Library Association, and has given archives presentations at MLA, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, the Hammond-Harwood House of Annapolis, the Hillwood Museum, and the Walters Art Museum. She has also been an education panelist at the New Music Gathering. Melissa holds a M.L.I.S. in Archives and Digital Curation from the University of Maryland, a M.M. in Piccolo from the Peabody Institute, and a B.M. in Flute from Ithaca College. Outside the Library, Melissa admires everything in Art Deco style.
Most Recent Posts
- Introducing the Music Division’s HNIP Intern and Project October 10th, 2019
- Latin Americans We’ve Commissioned: Part 2 October 2nd, 2019
- Latin Americans We’ve Commissioned: Part 1 September 24th, 2019
- Remembering Mario Davidovsky August 26th, 2019
- Musical Buzz for National Honey Bee Day August 16th, 2019
- Appraisal of the Library of Congress Commissioned Composers Web Archive July 10th, 2019
- Happy Fourth of July! July 3rd, 2019
- Happy 200th Birthday to Julia Ward Howe! May 27th, 2019
- 80 Years Later: Music from the 1939 New York World’s Fair April 29th, 2019
- A Timeline to Celebrate Our Third George Crumb Commission April 15th, 2019