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Music information literacy: Inclusion and advocacy – part 1

Book launch for Music Information Literacy: Inclusion and Advocacy, edited by Kathleen A. Abromeit and Dyani Sabin

Presenter Info

Kathleen A. Abromeit

Kathleen A. Abromeit is the Head of the Conservatory Library, she oversees all aspects of the library’s programs and services. She works to create positive, engaging, and user-centered experiences for students. She enjoys collaborating with faculty to develop meaningful library experiences for students. Her areas of scholarly interest include music information literacy, faculty/librarian collaboration, African American spirituals, library inclusion and advocacy, and outreach. Her publications include the monographs An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice (Greenwood Press, 1999), Spirituals: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography for Research and Performance (Music Library Association and A-R Editions, Inc., 2015), Ideas, Strategies, and Scenarios in Music Information Literacy (Music Library Association and A-R Editions, Inc., 2018), and An Index to Negro Spirituals (SUNY Press, forthcoming). She is active in the Music Library Association. She oversees the Music Received column in Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association and is MLA’s Publication Committee chair.

Dyani Sabin

Dyani Sabin is a freelance science journalist who has covered artificial intelligence, technology, and women’s health issues for National Geographic, The Washington Post, Popular Science, Inverse, and The Daily Beast. She has a master’s in science journalism from New York University and an MFA in Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Program. Her areas of scholarly interest include Romani literature and Romani depiction in opera. She worked as a reference and circulation assistant in the Oberlin College library system. She believes libraries are one of our most important public services to create community and social change.

Liz Lang

Liz Lang (she/her) is a Public Service Librarian at Ohio Wesleyan University with over ten years of experience working in academic libraries in outreach and instruction. Her focus is engaging students with information literacy instruction from anti-racist and critical pedagogies lenses in and outside a traditional classroom. She hopes to give students the tools to effect radical change in their spheres of influence.

Shannon Simpson

Shannon Simpson has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous articles, presentations, research studies, and web material. Her writing, instruction, and research is currently focused on information literacy, design justice, critical pedagogies, diversity, and equity. In a previous life, Shannon played in a national symphony in South America and attained a Series 7 brokerage license. Shannon has an MLIS and has completed certificates from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and the Harvard Leadership Institute. She is a Scholarly Instruction Librarian at Kenyon College in Gambier, OH.

Nurhak Tuncer Bayramli

Nurhak Tuncer Bayramli (she/her) (originally from Izmir/Turkey) is the Music Librarian at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. She has a BA in clarinet performance from “9 September Conservatoire,” an MA in Music from the University of Northern Iowa, and an MLIS from Dominican University. Her research interests are cataloging, open access, digital repositories, diversity and inclusion, library instruction and reference, and collection management/acquisition. She is also the project manager for NC DOCKS digital repository at ECSU.

Liz Lang

Juliet M. Boykins

Juliet M. Boykins is the Director of Bands and the music education specialist for the Music and Visual Arts department at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. She completed her under graduate and graduate degrees in music education from Norfolk State University, and she received a second master’s degree and a doctorate in education from Regent University in educational leadership and supervision. She has served as a clinician for various music education programs and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Karen J. Olson

Karen J. Olson is Research & Instruction Librarian for Music and Fine Arts at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. She earned her MLIS from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her PhD in historical musicology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in critical information literacy, collection diversification, American sheet music, and British musical modernism. She plays the organ and the piano.

Holling Smith-Borne

Holling Smith-Borne is the Director of the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. His research and writing interests are focused on the intersection of music and social justice and creating welcoming and inclusive spaces for trans gender, gender non-conforming and non-binary library users.

Tim Keller

Timothy Keller is the Head of Discovery and Metadata Services at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, where he has spent much of his time participating in working groups and task forces focused on updating and addressing problematic subject headings, especially in the LGBTQ+ community. His interests include issues and approach to ethical cataloging, name and subject authority control, and the future of cataloging in a Linked Data environment.

Gary Galván

Gary Galván curates the Music Special Collections Division at the Free Library of Philadelphia. His oversight of the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music uniquely positions him as a regular resource for identifying and accessing orchestral literature world wide. He has published numerous articles on Pan-American music, including many entries in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Dr. Galván co-authored Latin American Classical Composers: An Autobiographical Dictionary with Dr. Martha Schleifer.