Poster presentation for 2019 United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association annual conference.

Just as dissertations are a requirement for most PhD programs, culminating recitals are a degree requirement for students in the University of Washington (UW) School of Music (SoM) Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Performance program.…[Read more]

As educators, we recognize that it can be challenging to translate the research methods we learned in graduate school to our contemporary students, who are accustomed to the constantly shifting information buffet provided by sites such as Wikipedia, YouTube, SoundCloud, and the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). Students can…[Read more]

The Music Library at the University of Washington is fortunate to count among its holdings a substantial collection of rare musical scores. A highlight of our special collections is the William Crawford III Music Collection. Given to the UW in 2014, the Crawford Collection includes over 700 rare, early-edition vocal scores, spanning six centuries…[Read more]

As librarians, we recognize that the ways in which our students access information are changing, rapidly and dramatically. The students we work with today face an information landscape that is often very different from what we remember from our student years. So much of what our music students need is seemingly readily available online through…[Read more]

Think back to your first year of college. How did you feel? Eager? Excited? Maybe also fearful, anxious about fitting in, making friends, or being successful? First-year students have a lot on their minds. It can be challenging to help them forge a meaningful connection with the library. Amidst the internal cacophony generated by the transition to…[Read more]

In 2016, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) released the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (the Framework). The Framework replaces ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which had been in place since 2000. The departure of the Standards and the subsequent arrival of the…[Read more]

The release of ACRL “Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education” represents a significant development in our profession. What does the Framework mean for music information literacy? How can we begin using the Framework to address the unique information needs of music students? This article presents possible ways to implement the Fra…[Read more]

Instruction is one aspect of librarianship in which critical practices have found an active cohort of practitioners. As an important component of critical librarianship, critical information literacy (CIL) expands our understanding of information literacy by acknowledging the power dynamics underlying the creation and dissemination of…[Read more]