MLACC History and Archives
MLACC History
The California Chapter of the Music Library Association was originally formed in 1941. In 1946 two separate chapters, the Northern and Southern chapters were established. In 2013 the two regional chapters merged into the current California Chapter. Below is a finding aid for the Chapter archival materials with selected digitized documents. Digitized newsletter can be found here. Please send questions and comments to Callie Holmes: cholmes@library.ucla.edu
Publications
Adamson, Danette Cook,and Mimi Tashiro.“Servants, Scholars, and Sleuths: Early Leaders in California Music Librarianship.” Notes, 1992, 806.
Tashiro, Mimi, and Danette Cook Adamson. 1991.A history of the Music Library Association in California. [California]: Northern and Southern California Chapters of MLA.
The Early Days: A History and Chronology by Danette Cook Adamson
The Southern California Chapter: A History and Chronology by Danette Cook Adamson
The Northern California Chapter: A History and Chronology by Mimi Tashiro.
Earnest, Jeffrey, and Kathryn P. Glennan. 1991. Directory of music collections in California. Los Angeles: Music Library Association, Northern California and Southern California Chapters.
Fry, Stephen M. 1988. California’s musical wealth: sources for the study of music in California: papers presented at the joint conference of the Northern and Southern California Chapters of the Music Library Association, May 17-18, 1985, Glendale Public Library, Brand Art and Music Library. [California]: Southern California Chapter, Music Library Association.
Fry, Stephen M. 1970. Directory and index of special music collections in Southern California libraries and in the libraries of the campuses of the University of California. [Los Angeles, Ca.]: [Southern California Chapter, Music Library Assoc.].
NAMM Oral Histories
Interviews with prominent California music librarians. [These are just short clips. The full interviews are not yet available.]
MLACC Archives
Series Outline
- Series I – Publications
- Series II – MLA SCC
- Series III – MLA NCC
- Series IV – MLA CC
Folder Inventory
Box 1 Folder 1 | Publications | 09-30-MLA (Provenance: Hermine Vermeij to the University of Maryland, 2008) permission forms from copyright owners granting the MLA-SCC permission to create digitized formats of above publication Tashiro, Mimi, and Danette Cook Adamson, A History of the Music Library Association in California. [California]: The Music Library Association in California, 1991. | 1991-2008 |
Box 1 Folder 2 | Publications | A History of the Music Library Association in California 2 copies of A History of the Music Library Association in California by Mimi Tashiro and Danette Cook Adamson | 1991 |
Box 1 Folder 3 | Publications | Various publications Adamson, Danette Cook, and Mimi Tashiro, “Servants, Scholars, and Sleuths: Early Leaders in California Music Librarianship.” Notes 48, no. 3 (1992): 806-835. Earnest, Jeffrey, and Kathryn P. Glennan, eds., Directory of Music Collections in California. Los Angeles: Music Library Association Northern California and Southern California Chapters, 1991. Fry, Stephen M. ed., California’s Musical Wealth: Sources for the Study of Music In California: papers presented at the Joint Conference of the Northern and Southern California Chapters of the Music Library Association, May 17-18, 1985, Glendale Public Library, Brand Art and Music Library. [Los Angeles]: Southern California Chapter Music Library Association, 1988. Fry, Stephen M., ed., Directory and Index of Special Music Collections in Southern California Libraries and in the Libraries of the Campuses of the University of California. [Los Angeles]: Southern California Chapter Music Library Association, 1970. | 1970-1992 |
Box 1 Folder 4 | Publications | MLA/SCC Secretary Treasurer Notebook 2 copies of binder with executive board minutes, chapter minutes, treasurer’s reports, bank statements | 1991 |
Box 2 Folder 1 | MLA SCC | 12-28-MLA Soe-Nyun, J. Revised By-Laws | 2010 |
Box 2 Folder 2 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Newsletter, no.5-21;23-66;69 (1 of 2) | 1971-1999 |
Box 2 Folder 3 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Newsletter, no.5-21;23-66;69 (2 of 2) | 1971-1999 |
Box 2 Folder 4 | MLA SCC | MLA Newsletter | 1977 |
Box 2 Folder 5 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Membership Directory | 1998-1999 |
Box 2 Folder 6 | MLA SCC | Meeting Programs and notes | 1972-1973; 1990-1997 |
Box 2 Folder 7 | MLA SCC | MLA correspondence and brochure for MLA Annual Meeting 1975 in Puerto Rico | 1974-1975 |
Box 2 Folder 8 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC-NCC Joint Meetings Programs, program notes and supplementary materials; brief prospectus for a directory of music collections in California | 1983, 1985 |
Box 2 Folder 9 | MLA SCC | MLA 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting Program | 1991 |
Box 2 Folder 10 | MLA SCC | MLA in California 50th Anniversary Celebration Meeting folder Program, list of attendees, program notes and flyers, photographs | 1991 |
Box 2 Folder 11 | MLA SCC | Executive Board Meeting Minutes and notes | 2004-2008, 2011-2012 |
Box 2 Folder 12 | MLA SCC | MLA/SCC Receipts Includes DVD | 2006-2008 |
Box 2 Folder 13 | MLA SCC | Misc.MLA/SCC | 2006-2008 |
Box 2 Folder 14 | MLA SCC | MLA/SCC Receipts | 2008-2010 |
Box 2 Folder 15 | MLA SCC | MLA/SCC Receipts | 2010-2012 |
Box 2 Folder 16 | MLA SCC | Misc. Receipts | 2003-2008 |
Box 2 Folder 17 | MLA SCC | MLA/SCC Pre-2006 includes floppy disc | 2001-2004 |
Box 2 Folder 18 | MLA SCC | MLA/SCC Statements, Membership lists, etc. | 2011-2013 |
Box 2 Folder 19 | MLA SCC | MLA Freeman fund receipt book, checkbook register | 1995-2011 |
Box 2 Folder 20 | MLA SCC | Stamp and flash drive flash drive includes treasurer’s reports, MLASCC stationary, MLASCC calendars, executive board meeting minutes, chapter minutes, chapter handbook & misc. docs | 2006-2011 |
Box 2 Folder 21 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter History Gladys Caldwell correspondence | 1938-1941 |
Box 2 Folder 22 | MLA SCC | Membership Committee: Southern Chapter | 1941-1942 |
Box 2 Folder 23 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter correspondence, Report of the Secretary California Chapter 1941 | 1941 |
Box 2 Folder 24 | MLA SCC | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Project Birthday October 30 | 1941-1942 |
Box 2 Folder 25 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter minutes, correspondence | 1942 |
Box 2 Folder 26 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter correspondence | 1943 |
Box 2 Folder 27 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter correspondence, minutes | 1944 |
Box 2 Folder 28 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Meeting notes, Feb. 13, 1944 handwritten notes from meeting, corresponding formal notes in previous folder (the handwritten notes were moved to separate folder as they are very acidic) | 1944 |
Box 2 Folder 29 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC: MLA Southern California Chapter correspondence | 1945 |
Box 2 Folder 30 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC: MLA Southern California Chapter correspondence, reports, California Library Association meeting program, MLA CC Membership luncheon program plus presentations for “Use of Phonograph Records in three Libraries of Southern California: Long Beach, Los Angeles Public and the University of Southern California” (presented by Mary Pearson, Olive Sprong, and Jean Meggett) (USC presentation absent?), and Music in Films: talk by Constance Purdy, ed. Film Music Notes; also notes about division of California Chapter into Northern and Southern Chapters | 1946 |
Box 2 Folder 31 | MLA SCC | MLA – Union List of Reference Sources… | 1941 |
Box 2 Folder 32 | MLA SCC | MLA-SCC Papers reports, correspondence, programs | 1947-1948 |
Box 2 Folder 33 | MLA SCC | MLA-SCC Papers correspondence, reports, programs | 1949-1952 |
Box 2 Folder 34 | MLA SCC | MLA – Southern California Chapter correspondence, reports, programs (including 1953 MLA National Convention in Los Angeles and “Proposed Plan for the Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Resources”, prepared by Scott Adams) | 1953-1956 |
Box 2 Folder 35 | MLA SCC | MLA-SCC Papers correspondence, minutes, by-laws | 1964-1968 |
Box 2 Folder 36 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Meeting, March 18, 1967 | 1967 |
Box 2 Folder 37 | MLA SCC | MLA – Southern California Chapter | 1968-1969 |
Box 2 Folder 38 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Fall Meeting | 1968 |
Box 2 Folder 39 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter | ca. 1969-1973 |
Box 2 Folder 40 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Joint MLA/AMS Meeting, April 6, 1968 | 1968 |
Box 2 Folder 41 | MLA SCC | MLA-AMS Joint California Chapters Meeting, May 3-4, 1969 | 1969 |
Box 2 Folder 42 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter newsletter, constitution and by-laws, Workshop on Record Library Problems (report by Linda Solow), Qualifications for Music Librarianship, survey of Musical Instrument Collections | 1972 |
Box 2 Folder 43 | MLA SCC | MLASCC: meetings, etc. | 1977-1979 |
Box 2 Folder 44 | MLA SCC | MLASCC: meetings | 1980 |
Box 2 Folder 45 | MLA SCC | MLA Papers correspondence, reports, programs; national or other chapters (not California) | 1964-1971 |
Box 2 Folder 46 | MLA SCC | MLA Summer Meeting national meeting, held in San Francisco & Stanford | 1967 |
Box 2 Folder 47 | MLA SCC | MLA Midwinter Meeting national, not California Chapter meeting | 1968 |
Box 2 Folder 48 | MLA SCC | MLA Meetings | 1971-1979 |
Box 2 Folder 49 | MLA SCC | MLA Officers and Membership List | 1971-1975 |
Box 2 Folder 50 | MLA SCC | MLA – Old Mailing List | 1946-1955 |
Box 2 Folder 51 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Membership Information | 1966-1967 |
Box 2 Folder 52 | MLA SCC | Current Membership Lists (uncorrected) | 1969 |
Box 2 Folder 53 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter: Newsletter no.1-25(1970-1982) | 1970-1982 |
Box 2 Folder 54 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Papers Program, MLACC Spring Meeting April 27, 1984 at the American Film Institute; | 1982-1985 |
Box 2 Folder 55 | MLA SCC | LA Times article on Arnold Schoenberg Institute, July 17, 1983 moved from previous folder due to acidic newsprint | 1983 |
Box 2 Folder 56 | MLA SCC | Correspondence from Chair | 1983-1985 |
Box 2 Folder 57 | MLA SCC | Newsletter – SCC newsletter samples, articles, correspondence | 1983-1985 |
Box 2 Folder 58 | MLA SCC | Board Meetings – SCC | 1981-1985 |
Box 2 Folder 59 | MLA SCC | Newsletter MLA correspondence, schedule (Marsha Berman, editor) | 1983-1984 |
Box 2 Folder 60 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Annual Reports | 1983-1985 |
Box 3 Folder 1 | MLA SCC | National Reports Annual Reports of the Chapters, minutes, meeting program | 1983-1985 |
Box 3 Folder 2 | MLA SCC | Schoenberg Institute correspondence reacting to LA Times article (Box 2, Folder 55) | 1983 |
Box 3 Folder 3 | MLA SCC | Treasury | 1982-1984 |
Box 3 Folder 4 | MLA SCC | Programs | 1978-1984 |
Box 3 Folder 5 | MLA SCC | Membership correspondence, membership directories, officer lists, brochures, mock-ups | 1980-1993 |
Box 3 Folder 6 | MLA SCC | Chapters – Other Chapter by-laws, membership lists, newsletters, reports | 1979-1985 |
Box 3 Folder 7 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Directory – Work To Do | 1982-1983 |
Box 3 Folder 8 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Directory – Questionnaire Directory and Index of Special Music Collections in the Southern California Libraries and in the Libraries of the Campuses of the University of California (1970) & (1976), correspondence, survey questionnaire | 1970-1981 |
Box 3 Folder 9 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Directory Questionnaire Results | 1962-1981 |
Box 3 Folder 10 | MLA SCC | “Notes On the Music of St. Germain” by Manly P. Hall, issued by The Philosophical Research Society; attached to questionnaire in Box 3 Folder 9 but removed because highly acidic | 1962? |
Box 3 Folder 11 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Directory – Correspondence & File | 1969-1982 |
Box 3 Folder 12 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Mailing Lists | 1981-1982 |
Box 3 Folder 13 | MLA SCC | MLASCC – newsletter not actual newsletters, production/publication notes/correspondence | 1989-1991 |
Box 3 Folder 14 | MLA SCC | LA Times article on Jimmy Dolan Jimmy Dolan was librarian for the LA Philharmonic; removed from Box 3 Folder 13 because highly acidic | 1982 |
Box 3 Folder 15 | MLA SCC | MLASCC – other chapters | 1978-1982 |
Box 3 Folder 16 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC copies of ballots | 1988-1992 |
Box 3 Folder 17 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC minutes, agendas | 1990-1991 |
Box 3 Folder 18 | MLA SCC | MLASCC: Correspondence | 1989-1991 |
Box 3 Folder 19 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC copies of programs | 1990-1993 |
Box 3 Folder 20 | MLA SCC | MLA SCC Constitution, By-Laws and Membership Directory | 1969-1998 |
Box 3 Folder 21 | MLA SCC | Southern California Chapter (MLA) Newsletter no.1-20(1970-1979),no.22-23(1979-1980),no.25-45(1982-1988),no.47-49(1989-1990),no.52(1991) | 1970-1991 |
Box 3 Folder 22 | MLA SCC | MLA Southern California Chapter Newsletter no.53-57(1991-1003),no.60-62(1994-1995),no.64(1998),no.66(1997),March[no.68](1998),no.69-70(1999) | 1991-1999 |
Box 3 Folder 23 | MLA SCC | Misc. SCC Newsletters no.71-80(2000-2004),no.82(2005) | 2000-2005 |
Box 3 Folder 24 | MLA NCC | Chapters — Northern California: Correspondence Edward Colby and Scott Goldthwaite correspondence | 1948-1949 |
Box 3 Folder 25 | MLA NCC | MLA California 50th Anniversary Planning 1989 01-12-MLA | 1989 |
Box 3 Folder 26 | MLA NCC | MLA California 50th Anniversary Planning 1990 01-12-MLA | 1990 |
Box 3 Folder 27 | MLA NCC | MLA California 50th Anniversary Planning 1991 01-12-MLA | 1991 |
Box 3 Folder 28 | MLA NCC | MLA 50th Anniversary 1991 Printed Program 01-12-MLA | 1991 |
Box 3 Folder 29 | MLA NCC | MLA California 50th Anniversary History of MLA in California 01-12-MLA | 1991 |
Box 3 Folder 30 | MLA NCC | MLA California 50th Anniversary NCC Committee 01-12-MLA | 1989-1990 |
Box 3 Folder 31 | MLA NCC | MLA California 50th Anniversary NCC Festschrift Committee 01-12-MLA | 1990-1991 |
Box 3 Folder 32 | MLA NCC | MLA California 50th Anniversary NCC Chapter History Committee 01-12-MLA | 1989-1991 |
Box 3 Folder 33 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records | 1988-1989 |
Box 3 Folder 34 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records | 1987-1988 |
Box 3 Folder 35 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records | 1986-1987 |
Box 3 Folder 36 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records, 1985/86 01-11-MLA | 1985-1986 |
Box 3 Folder 37 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1984/85 01-11-MLA | 1984-1985 |
Box 3 Folder 38 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1983/84 01-11-MLA | 1983-1984 |
Box 3 Folder 39 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1982/83 01-11-MLA Joint Meeting of the Southern and Northern California Chapters of the MLA | 1982-1983 |
Box 3 Folder 40 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1981/82 01-11-MLA | 1981-1982 |
Box 3 Folder 41 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1980/81 | 1980-1981 |
Box 3 Folder 42 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1979-80 | 1979-1980 |
Box 3 Folder 43 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1978/79 | 1978-1979 |
Box 3 Folder 44 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 77/79 | 1977-1979 |
Box 3 Folder 45 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1976/77 | 1976-1977 |
Box 3 Folder 46 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1975/76 | 1975-1976 |
Box 3 Folder 47 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1974/75 | 1974-1975 |
Box 3 Folder 48 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1973/74 | 1973-1974 |
Box 3 Folder 49 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1972/73 | 1972-1973 |
Box 3 Folder 50 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1971/72 | 1971-1972 |
Box 3 Folder 51 | MLA NCC | 01-11-MLA MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1970/71 | 1970-1971 |
Box 3 Folder 52 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1969/70 01-11-MLA | 1969-1970 |
Box 3 Folder 53 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1968/69 01-11-MLA | 1968-1969 |
Box 3 Folder 54 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Chapter Records 1968 through July 01-11-MLA | 1968 |
Box 3 Folder 55 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Constitution 1975 / Amended 1978 / Revised 1985 01-11-MLA | 1975-1985 |
Box 3 Folder 56 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Roster of Officers 1976/77-1987/88 01-11-MLA | 1976-1988 |
Box 4 Folder 1 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC List of meetings: 2/24/67-06/01/81 | 1967-1981 |
Box 4 Folder 2 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Membership records, money/receipt books 01-13-MLA | 1972-1985 |
Box 4 Folder 3 | MLA NCC | Bach to the “Boss” Workshop Planning Committee 1987/88 01-13-MLA | 1987-1988 |
Box 4 Folder 4 | MLA NCC | Bach to the “Boss” Workshop – Collection Development & Acquisitions Handouts 1987/88 00-13-MLA | 1987-1988 |
Box 4 Folder 5 | MLA NCC | Bach to the “Boss” Workshop – Cataloging Sessions Handouts 1987/88 01-13-MLA | 1987-1988 |
Box 4 Folder 6 | MLA NCC | Bach to the “Boss” Workshop – Reference handouts 1987/88 01-13-MLA | 1987-1988 |
Box 4 Folder 7 | MLA NCC | Bach to the “Boss” Workshop Sound/Media Handouts 1987/88 01-13-MLA | 1987-1988 |
Box 4 Folder 8 | MLA NCC | MLA NCC Newsletter 1986-2002 02-07-MLA v.1-15 (1985-2001), v.17 no.1 (2002), v.18 no.1 (2003), v.20 no.2 (2006) (3 v.3 no.1s – Fall 1987, Spring 1988, and Fall 1988) | 1986-2006 |
Box 4 Folder 9 | MLA NCC | MLA NCC Treasurer’s Report 1999-2001 02-07-MLA | 1999-2001 |
Box 4 Folder 10 | MLA NCC | MLA NCC Rosters of Membership 02-07-MLA | 1990-2001 |
Box 4 Folder 11 | MLA NCC | MLA NCC Programs of Agendas (scattered) 027-07-MLA | 1990-2001 |
Box 4 Folder 12 | MLA NCC | MLA NCC Minutes 02-07-MLA | 1999-2000 |
Box 4 Folder 13 | MLA NCC | NCC-MLA Bulletin for Northern California Music Libraries v.2 no.1-5 (1949), v.3 no.4-6 (1950) | 1949-1950 |
Box 4 Folder 14 | MLA NCC | NCC-MLA Meeting Announcements, Agendas & Notes Music Library Association Southern/Northern California Chapters Joint Meeting/ Program – Spring 1989 | 1970-1993 |
Box 4 Folder 15 | MLA NCC | Misc. Northern CA Constitution and By-Laws (1974-1975, drafts and final?); “Union List of Music Periodicals in Northern California” announcement; California Music Questionnaire (1972); Nominees for Offices 1995-1996 | 1972-1996 |
Box 4 Folder 16 | MLA NCC | Kevin Freeman Memorial | 1993-1996 |
Box 4 Folder 17 | MLA NCC | Working Group on Endowed Funds MLA National Working Group | 1994-1995 |
Box 4 Folder 18 | MLA NCC | Music Library Association Northern California Chapter Minutes | 1947-1968 |
Box 4 Folder 19 | MLA NCC | Transcript of panel discussion on early years of NCC, 1.26.1990 | 1990 |
Box 4 Folder 20 | MLA NCC | MLA/NCC – National MLA 95-39-MLA | 1985-1991 |
Box 4 Folder 21 | MLA NCC | MLA-NCC Correspondence 95-39-MLA | 1985-1991 |
Box 4 Folder 22 | MLA NCC | Northern California Chapter – Hosting National Meeting 95-40-MLA (Provenance: Judy Tsou to the University of Maryland, 1994) | 1988-1991 |
Box 4 Folder 23 | MLA NCC | Northern California Chapter – 50th Anniversary 95-40-MLA (Provenance: Judy Tsou to the University of Maryland, 1994) | 1990-1992 |
Box 4 Folder 24 | MLA NCC | 50th Anniversary Celebration Program 97-101-MLA (Provenance: Patricia Elliott to the University of Maryland, 1997) | 1991 |
Box 4 Folder 25 | MLA NCC | California Collections Directory mailing list source 95-32-MLA (Provenance: Kathy Glennan to the University of Maryland, 1994) also SCC mailing list | 1991? |
Box 4 Folder 26 | MLA NCC | California Collections Directory SCC Mailing 95-32-MLA (Provenance: Kathy Glennan to the University of Maryland, 1994) | 1991 |
Box 4 Folder 27 | MLA NCC | California Collections Directory Correspondence/Planning 95-32-MLA (Provenance: Kathy Glennan to the University of Maryland, 1994) | 1989-1992 |
Box 4 Folder 28 | MLA NCC | California Collections Directory Final Report 95-32-MLA (Provenance: Kathy Glennan to the University of Maryland, 1994) includes floppy disk: California Collections Directory (1991 ed.) files & correspondence; Programs used: Word, Excel, Hypercard; – Macintosh version – | 1991 |
Box 4 Folder 29 | MLA NCC | California Collections Directory NCC Mailing 95-32-MLA (Provenance: Kathy Glennan to the University of Maryland, 1994) | 1990 |
Box 4 Folder 30 | MLA NCC | Microfilm of MLA-NCC Bulletin | 1948-1953 |