Core Responsibility E - Enabling Infrastructure

Core Responsibility E - Enabling Infrastructure

The Music Division worked aggressively to fill all 7 positions approved by Library Services in FY2016: Reader Services Section Head, Jazz Specialist, Head of the Music Bibliographic Access Section, 3 catalogers and the Collections Specialist. By the end of the FY, all positions were either filled, or nearly filled, with selections made. All these positions were top priority hires and will go far toward advancing the Division’s goals.

10 summer interns worked on special collection materials ranging from Leonard Bernstein non-commercial audio tapes to modern dance to historic flute music to FTP (Federal Theater Program) materials requiring digital scanning to music for silent films. This push has enabled us to all but complete the Bernstein collection processing. The Leonard Bernstein collection is one of the most used collections and finishing it accomplishes one of our primary goals—to complete processing of the most used collections. Benefits include:

--Important in cultivating the next generation of music scholars and performers to be lovers of LC

--Important in securing ties with universities with strong music programs

--Important for providing access to hidden – and some very obscure – treasures

Collections and Services Directorate FY2016 NAVCC (Packard Campus) / MBRS