Other MLA Awards.(Music Library Association)(Brief Article)

The MLA Board of Directors granted its Special Achievement Award this year to Jane Gottlieb "for the eloquence and elegance with which she speaks on behalf of and about the Association, and how she creatively, craftily and confidently worked out the implementation of Plan 2001, helped to oversee its successful completion, and thereby has recast the profile of our Association for the 21st century."

At the recommendation of the Nominating Committee, MLA Citations were awarded to three individuals who have contributed significantly to the profession over the entire span of their careers, each taking a different path, yet each arriving at a personal milestone sometime during the years 1999-2001: Carol June Bradley, Stephen M. Fry, and Melva L. Peterson. One of Carol June Bradley's nominators noted: "Her service to MLA and the music library profession at large is indispensable. She has been the foremost historian of music librarianship." Another said: "Dr. Bradley's most significant contribution to our profession has been her work documenting the development of significant music collections, and tracing the eary history and development of our profession through her biographical work on dozens of American music librarians.... Thanks to Dr. Bradley's aggressive collection of data through oral history interviews and archival research, much of the early history of music librarianship in America is now well doc umented for future generations."

The Nominating Committee said of Stephen Fry: "[He] has actively contributed [to] and supported the Association and the profession in a myriad of roles over his career in such a way as to have endeared himself in the hearts of many, energized all whom he touched, and enabled the organization to accomplish many wonderful things over the last 30 years.

A well-known presence at MLA meetings, he has tackled a variety of challenging, complex tasks, for example, serving twice as Member-at-Large, twice as Program Chair, Local Arrangements Committee Chair, NOTES music periodicals editor and reference books editor, and as a member of several committees. . . . His nominators and the committee would like to celebrate his contributions and recognize his steadfast commitment to the profession in this, the year of his ...