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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is the fifth in a series of guest posts by retired Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. Rachel Weiss worked as a volunteer intern during the summer of 2011 cataloging the last thousand or so librettos in the Albert Schatz collection. Following her internship, Rachel pursued her MLIS at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating …
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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is the third in a series of guest posts by retired Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. Mark Baker (Junior Fellow Summer Intern, 2007) has been very busy in school, both as an Adjunct Professor and a grad student at the University of Maryland University College. He completed his MBA degree in 2010 and his …
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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post from retired Senior Music cataloger Sharon McKinley. The Academy Awards are over, and I was definitely rooting for Lincoln. Daniel Day-Lewis in particular was wonderful, but then, we’re Lincoln partisans here at the Library, which is the home of the Lincoln papers. Staffers were consulted during production of the …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Music Archivist Chris Hartten and Senior Music Specialist Mark Horowitz. For you musical theater aficionados out there, the Music Division is thrilled to announce that our finding aid for the Arthur Schwartz Papers is now available online here. Schwartz is best remembered as a composer for a series of …
Posted in: Composers, Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is the second in a series of guest posts by retired Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. Former Junior Fellow Summer Intern Matthew D. Morrison is pursuing a Ph.D. in Musicology at Columbia University and writing a dissertation on “Sound in the Construction of Race in 19th-century America,” advised by George Lewis. After interning …
Posted in: Newly Cataloged, Staff
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Senior Music Cataloger Sharon McKinley. My colleague Mary Wedgewood and I were recently chatting about all our former interns and volunteers, and how much we’ve enjoyed working with them. Some were training for library work. Some wanted to be performers. And a few just happened across our paths …
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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following post is by Music Cataloging intern Ruth Bright. While cataloging as an intern in the Music Division, I ran across this beautifully illustrated lithograph title page for a song tucked away inside an anonymous volume, one of approximately 290 volumes found at LC classification number M1.A15. This volume of miscellaneous melodies contains many …
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Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Sharon McKinley, Senior Music Cataloger. Old sheet music can be brittle. The pages are often dissected and bound into volumes by previous owners. Sometimes a piece is simply missing pages. With all that, do you ever wonder how Library of Congress catalogers can identify a piece? I did …
Posted in: Newly Cataloged, Special Collections
Posted by: Pat Padua
The following is a guest post by Senior Cataloging Specialist Sharon McKinley. The average person might think that cataloging is a dull job, but it most certainly isn’t here in the Music Division! Okay, so the umpteenth biography of Justin Bieber may get a bit old, but one of our primary jobs is making the …
Posted in: Guest bloggers, Newly Cataloged, Sheet Music, Sheet Music of the Week, Special Collections