Notes for notes.(Charles M. "Chuck" Herrold Jr's award, and Music Library of Greece's new building)

The executive board of the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG) is honored to name Charles M. "Chuck" Herrold Jr. as the seventh recipient of MOUG's Distinguished Service Award. This award has been established to recognize and honor someone who has made significant professional contributions to music users of OCLC. The MOUG executive board selects a recipient based on nominations received from the MOUG membership. Chuck received the award during MOUG's annual business meeting, on 28 February 2007, in Pittsburgh.

Herrold is senior catalog librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and holds a library degree from Syracuse University. Herrold's singular contribution to the NACO-Music Project (NMP), part of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), inspired the nomination for this award. Participants in the project agree to follow a common--and rigorous--set of standards and guidelines in order to maintain the integrity of the large shared authority file. In August 1996, Herrold accomplished the review for "independent" (i.e., non-supervised) status for the contribution of name/title authority records by submitting eighty records without a single error.

Through 30 September 2006, Herrold single-handedly added 21,725 new name-authority records to the national database, and edited an additional 20,637, for a total of 42,362 records. According to MOUG's award letter, "the time, money, and effort saved at each of our respective institutions or businesses through this Herculean labor of love is surely incalculable. It will stand for decades as the ne plus ultra of cooperative effort by an individual in the worlds of music cataloging and music librarianship, and to some extent, even out in the larger universe of librarianship in general. We stand in awe of your passionate dedication to our shared goals, and we give you this award today in the humble hope of even more to come. Thank you, dear, mysterious, friend-of-all from Pittsburgh, known to all of us as 'Mr. PPi-MA.'" (PPi-MA is the USMARC organizational code--formerly known as the "NUC symbol"--for the music department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.)

Ralph Papakhian, coordinator of the NACO-Music Project at the William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University, observed that Chuck "has not only been among the most prolific contributor of name authority records to the NACO-Music Project, but he has also been a regular trainer and reviewer of many of the other NMP participants. He has been a key reason why the NACO-Music Project is the most productive 'funnel' group in the national NACO program...."

Colleagues from the Carnegie Library remark that "we at Carnegie Library are truly blessed to have Chuck's devotion to our music materials, his loyalty to this institution, and his congeniality," and that "working with Chuck has been and continues to be a treasured privilege. He is one amazing person, and the music library world--catalogers, public service librarians, and the public as well, both at the Carnegie Library and elsewhere--benefits from his devotion to the cataloging of music materials."

The Research Center for Music Iconography (RCMI) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) has received the final installment of the personal archives of Emanuel Winternitz (1898-1983). The donation came from Winternitz's nephew George Weinwurm of Claremore, Oklahoma. Winternitz was keeper (1941-49), and then ...