Spaulding Library
New England Conservatory of Music
33 Gainsborough St.
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 585-1247
FAX: (617) 585-1245
EMAIL: jmorrow@newenglandconservatory.edu

Professional Experience

1986- Director of Libraries

New England Conservatory of Music; Boston, Massachusetts

1987- Lecturer in Music Librarianship

Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Boston, Massachusetts

1974-1985 Head of Library Technical Services

New England Conservatory

Elected Offices

Member at Large, Music Library Association Board of Directors, 2006-
Clerk, Fenway Libraries Online, 2005-
Coordinator, Fenway Library Consortium, 1995-1997.
President, Fenway Libraries Online, 1991-1993.
Clerk, Fenway Libraries Online, 1987-1989.
President, New England Chapter of the Music Library Association, 1981-1983.

Committees

Series Editor, Music Library Association Basic Manual Series, 1998-

Chair, Music Library Association Library School Liaison Subcommittee, 1998-

Boston Regional Library System Advisory Council, 2002-

Music Library Association Education Committee, 1998-2002

Music Library Association Publications Committee, 1998-

Music Library Association Nominating Committee, 2002

Chair, Music Library Association

Publication Awards Committee, 1997-1998.

Chair, Music Library Association

Boston 1998 Local Arrangements Fundraising Committee, 1997-1998.

Music Library Association

Resource Sharing and Collection Development Committee, 1992–1999

Fenway Libraries Online Grants Committee, 1991-1995.

Chair, Fenway Libraries Online Quality Control Committee, 1990–1995.

Fenway Library Consortium Long Range Planning Committee, 1993–1996.

New England Chapter of the Music Library Association Archivist, 1988–.

Boston Area Music Libraries Composers Project, 1986–1988.

Music Library Association Nominating Committee, 1986.

Other Activities

Project Director, National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant:

Archives Development Project at New England Conservatory. 2002-2004

Reaccreditation Team Member for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Higher Eucation, 1998 (Manhattan School of Music)

Publications and Presentations

"FLC/FLO Consortia: Thirty Years of Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing", Association of Independent Vermont Colleges Academic Library Summit, November 2005

"Preparing to Be a Music Librarian" In Careers In Librarianship II: Traditions and Transitions, Scarecrow Press, 2004.

"Education for Music Librarianship In the U.S. In the 21st century", International Association of Music Libraries Annual Conference, 2002.

Review of the organ music of John Knowles Paine, Arthur Foote and Horatio Parker, Notes, March 2002.

Guide to Writing Collection Development Policies for Music, co-author; Scarecrow Press, 2001.

"Archives at New England Conservatory of Music", New England Archivist's Association spring conference, 2001.

"Education for Music Librarianship" in Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century, Scarecrow Press, 2000.

"Music Librarians as Teachers", American Musicological Society Annual Conference, 2000.

Basic Music Library, contributor, 1997.

Measure by Measure: A History of the New England Conservatory of Music

contributor, 1996.

"Fenway Library Consortium: History, Programs and Description of Collections."

Boston Library Consortium First Tuesday Seminar Series, May 1996.

Review of Concert Artist Guild's Guide to Competitions in Notes, Dec. 1995.

"Internet Music Resources", Music Library Association National Conference, 1994.

"Perspectives on Building Resource-Sharing Networks"

Data Research Users' Conference, March 1993.

"Disaster Management in the Library"

Fenway Library Consortium Workshop, Spring 1993.

"Quality Control in Consortia"

co-author; DRA Newsletter, 1992.

Wrote and administered two Department of Education Title III grants

for library system upgrade and retrospective conversion of materials for Fenway Libraries Online; 1991, 1992.

"Music Libraries in Networks and Consortia"

Music Library Association Annual Conference, 1989.

History of the New England Chapter of the Music Library Association: 1963-1988

co-author; 1988.

"Problem Solving with the OCLC online system"

session leader, Music OCLC users group national meeting, 1986.

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Musicology, New York University
MA, Music History, Smith College
BA, Humanities, MacMurray College

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