Major Orchestra Librarians' Association records
Collection
0340-SCPA
The records of the Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association (MOLA) include organization records, including officer, committee, and membership records, reference materials regarding music libraries, conference files, projects files, publications about and by MOLA and its members, and a small collection of ephemera and audio recordings. The records series ranges from 1983 to 2018.
The collection is open for research use. Materials from this collection must be used in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library's Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Special Collections Room during SCPA’s operating hours. Please contact the curator for an appointment or if you have questions related to digital access of the materials. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.
The materials held by Special Collections in Performing Arts are open to research. The six boxes of records currently stored in the National Symphony Orchestra Library within The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C are restricted to MOLA members.
11 Linear Feet (Eleven boxes (11 linear feet) housed at Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland Libraries. There are an additional six boxes (six linear feet) of restricted materials stored in the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Library within The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Access to the restricted materials is limited to MOLA members.)
The records of the Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association include organization records, including officer, committee, and membership records, reference materials regarding music libraries, conference files, projects files, publications about and by MOLA and its members, and a small collection of ephemera and audio recordings. The records series ranges from 1983 to 2018. Eleven linear feet of records are housed at Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland Libraries.
MOLA is the Major Orchestra Librarians’ Association, founded in 1983. MOLA’s mission is to facilitate communication between professional performance librarians, educate and assist them in providing service to their organizations, provide support and resources to the performing arts, and work with publishers to achieve the highest standards in music performance materials. The first MOLA meeting was held in Philadelphia in 1983, when twenty-five librarians from the United States and Canada met for a day to discuss issues of common interest. Today MOLA is an international, not-for-profit corporation with a membership of more than 270 institutions around the world, including libraries from symphony orchestras, opera and ballet companies, educational institutions, music festivals, professional bands, and other ensembles.
The records are not arranged in record groups and remain in the original order received. This original order does imply record groups of:
1. Governing documents
2. Board of Directors
3. Officers
4. Committees
5. Membership
6. Reference materials
7. Conferences
8. Projects
9. Publications
10. Ephemera and audio recordings
11. MOLA errata lists [at Kennedy Center and restricted to MOLA members]
These records were transferred to the MOLA archive by the MOLA officers and members. The records were received at the University of Maryland on 10 May 2019. Future accruals are expected.
Part of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library