My conference presentation last week went okay. And the weather was gloriously lovely for driving from Vancouver back to Eugene. I could see all the big snowy mountains: St. Helen's, Adams, Hood, Washington, and the Three Sisters. I love that ( Read more... )

I received a message through the Music Library Association email list that Mary Wallace Davidson died yesterday morning, after a long battle with lung cancer. Mary was the director of the Cook Music Library at IU when I arrived as a new grad student in 2000, and she retired around 2005, though she stuck around campus doing some volunteer work for ( Read more... )

It's raining. It's been raining for days. The weather forecast shows nothing but rain and 47-degree highs for the foreseeable future ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had to up stupid early and was in to work by 7:15, as I had to give a tour at 8 am to a class of music history students from Northwest Christian University, a tiny religious college across the street. I don't know how big their library is, but I know they don't have much of a music collection, so their prof wanted to bring them over to ( Read more... )

There existed in the last century (1884-1960) a British cinema and church organist who bore the impressive name of, I kid you not,

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant ChuckerbuttyApparently he was most often known as Oliphant Chuckerbutty or Wilson Oliphant (this latter probably for his church jobs.) Though the music librarians on the MLA ( Read more... )

I'm in Vancouver for the next 36-or-so hours, for the meeting of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the Music Library Association. The meeting itself will be small, and not very long-- starts tomorrow afternoon, ends Saturday at lunchtime. I drove up with my UO colleague Leslie... well, she did all the driving, I worked on knitting the ongoing mom ( Read more... )

The past week has been topsy turvy and wonderful in many ways, but I will be glad to have a chance to settle in and establish some kind of routine. When last I posted, we had just arrived in Eugene on Friday Feb. 4th and that was about it.

( Moving in and starting work )