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Ana Dubnjakovic is a Performing Arts and Foreign Languages Librarian at Virginia Tech. Her duties include collection development, reference and instruction for her assigned departments. Prior to Virginia Tech, Ana worked for University of Louisville as a Music Librarian, at Herzing College in New Orleans as a Librarian, and as a Chamber Music Librarian at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Ana earned her MLIS from Louisiana State University and holds an MM in Music Composition from University of New Orleans. In 2000 she was awarded the first prize by the Southeastern League of Composers for her woodwind quintet.

Welcome, Ana!

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Amanda Pilmer is the Fine Arts Librarian for Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia. Her duties include maintaining a collection of music and arts holdings for more than 500 Fine Arts teachers, as well as working to bring the library into the 21st century. Amanda has a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Brigham Young University, where she worked for two years in the Music and Dance Library. She is now pursuing an MLIS in Academic Libraries from the University of South Carolina. Amanda currently performs with the Mormon Choir of Washington, D.C., and in various community theater projects. Formally a senior member of Flava Dance Company in Salt Lake City, UT, she also choreographs musicals and show choirs within the school district.

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Brandon Masterman recently graduated from Youngstown State University with a BM in Saxophone Performance and is currently pursuing his MLIS in Academic Librarianship from the University of Pittsburgh, where he is an intern at the Theodore M. Finney Music Library, under the mentorship of Jim Cassaro. He plans on pursuing his second masters in Musicology beginning in the Fall of 2008. Welcome, Brandon!

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Nobue Matsuoka-Motley, a native of Japan, recently moved from New Orleans, LA to become the Music/Performing Arts Librarian at American University in Washington, DC. She earned her MLIS from Louisiana State University in December 2006. She has worked for Google Inc. as a Japanese Quality Rater, a Reference/Technical Services Librarian at Notre Dame Seminary and a Public Services Assistant/ILL specialist at Loyola University in New Orleans.

She was awarded a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance by Loyola University in New Orleans and a Master of Music by Southern Methodist University. As an active orchestral percussionist, her professional carrier includes performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Opera, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in Japan. She was a semi-finalist for the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony and a finalist for the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2003, the Gambit Weekly of New Orleans, honored her performance "Sticks and Strings II" with the Tribute to the Classical Arts Award for Best Chamber Performance.

Welcome, Nobue! 

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Several new members have joined the Atlantic Chapter of MLA this past year. In what we hope to be a continuing feature of this blog, we are including short biographical sketches of our newcomers (in one case, a true Newcomer) so that members might better get to know them. We hope that they will join us in Vancouver and at future chapter meetings. Read on to learn who has joined our ranks and please help make them feel welcome!

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