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Joe Clark is the Digital and Audiovisual Media Librarian at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His duties include management of the Library Media Department and Slide Library and liaison duties for the Music, Theater, Dance, and Visual Arts Departments. Before entering music librarianship, he worked throughout the Western U.S. as a professional guitarist and educator. Joe holds an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Arizona State University, an M.A. in Library Science from the University of Arizona, and a B.A. in music from the University of Utah.

Linda Dempf is the Music & Media Librarian at The College of New Jersey. She recently earned an MLS from Indiana University, where she gained experience in their Music Library, Main Library and Lilly Library (Rare Books and Manuscripts). Prior to entering the library field, she was a professional musician, and earned a BM from Mannes College of Music, an MM from St. Louis Conservatory, and a DM from Indiana University. Her studies included concentrations in horn, music history, and women's studies. This blend of interests is reflected in her doctoral thesis, "All-Women Orchestras in the United States and the Story of the Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago." An avid natural horn player, she has performed with Apollo’s Fire, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Aradia Baroque Orchestra, Opera Lafayette, Chicago Opera Theatre, and Early Music New York.

Richard Griscom moved east from the University of Illinois in May 2004 to become head of the Atto E. Albrecht Music Library at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with his wife, a physician practicing in Maryland and Delaware. Dick joined MLA in 1981, and his move east marks his first foray outside the Midwest Chapter. His MLA activities include terms as member-at-large of the board of directors (1989-91), executive secretary (1992-96), and editor of NOTES (1997-2000).

Terra Mobley is Music Librarian at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. She earned an M.L.I.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Terra has a B.S. in Music Education (Vocal) from Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY. Terra spent a short time teaching elementary general music and substitute teaching in New York State. When her family moved to Wisconsin, she began working at Waupaca Public Library as Interlibrary Loan and Audio-Visual Librarian. Her duties there included interlibrary loan, reference desk, collection development, and some web maintenance.

Nara Newcomer is a Visiting Assistant Librarian (Cataloger) at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV, where her duties include supervising cataloging operations and working with the music collection.  This spring, she is also serving as an adjunct instructor for the Shepherd Department of Music and Theater, teaching a course in Music History.  Nara earned her M.L.S. and an M.A. in Music History from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she was a graduate assistant in the Music Library.  Her M.A. thesis was titled "The American Organ Reform, 1945-1960."  In addition to library work, Nara is an organist and church musician.

Carlos Peña has been the technical services assistant at the University of Pittsburgh's Theodore M. Finney Music Library since November 2003. He is currently enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences and expects to graduate with the MLIS degree in August 2005. Carlos began his library career as a page and clerk at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1995. He became an assistant at the Music and Art Department in 2000 where his primary duties included reference work and collection development of the jazz and popular recordings collections. He continues at the Music and Art Department on a part-time basis.

Having earned a B.A. in anthropology from Pitt, Carlos also spent 10 years studying classical and jazz piano. He earned a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts as a guitarist in 1992 and currently plays the vibraphone in Pitt's jazz ensemble. He continues to work as a freelance instrumentalist in the Pittsburgh area. This year Carlos is attending his first MLA conference in Vancouver as a recipient of the Association's Kevin Freeman Travel Grant.

Tim Sestrick is Music Librarian at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He has an M.L.S from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a graduate assistant in the Music Library; an M.A. in Percussion Performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania; and undergraduate degrees in Music Performance and Liberal Arts. He has performed at the Aspen Music Festival, with the Rochester Oratorio Society and Rochester Bach Festival, and with the Johnstown and Altoona Symphony Orchestras.

Mary Wedgewood is a newly arrived senior music cataloger at the Library of Congress. Prior to arriving in Washington, she worked for OCLC Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba as a contract (read "outsourcing") music cataloger for major Canadian universities.  In addition, she has worked in academic and public libraries (reference and cataloging) in several Canadian and U.S. institutions and has taught music history, music literature, and keyboard instrument performance.  Earlier in her career, she worked for Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden, Germany for 2 years.

Mary studied at Macalaster College in Jacksonville, IL (mathematics), the University of Arkansas (organ performance), the University of Chicago (library science), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (music history).

She currently serves as choir director/organist at 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington DC. She lives in Washington with her husband Richard, recently retired from the University of Manitoba. They have 2 children, students at Purdue University in Indiana and at Coe College in Iowa.

Steve York is the Cataloging Librarian at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. A native of Nebraska, Steve earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1987 from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. Over the next 9 years, he was an announcer and the Music Director for Nebraska Public Radio, a 9-station network offering classical music and NPR news and public affairs programming.

In 1996, he moved with his wife Annette to the DC metro area where he worked in a large music retail store and performed with several area professional choirs including the Washington Bach Consort and the Palestrina Choir. This led to performance opportunities in some of DC’s great venues including the Kennedy Center, the National Cathedral, St. Matthews Cathedral, the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at Catholic University, the German Embassy, and the White House.

In 2001, he and Annette (and their 17 year old cat, Pamina) moved to Bloomington, IN so Steve could pursue his MLS at Indiana University, where he had the opportunity to work and intern in the IU Music Library.