OLAC Annual Membership Meeting (Boston, MA) - 17 January 2010

Introduction

The Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG) was established with the mission “to identify and provide an official means of communication and assistance for those users of the products and services of the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) concerned with music materials in any area of library service, in pursuit of quality music coverage in these products and services.” The group’s website is available to the public

Membership in MOUG is open to all individuals and institutions interested in MOUG's objectives. An application form can be found on the group's website. Reference and public service music users are particularly encouraged to join MOUG. MOUG members receive the MOUG Newsletter, valuable not only for organizational and OCLC news, but also for Jay Weitz’s “Questions and Answers” column.

MOUG  meetings are often held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Music Library Association (MLA). MOUG is particularly interested in reaching non-music-specialists and ‘occasional’ music users of OCLC. The group is not just for catalogers—there is a very active public services component as well.

Current officers of the group include Chair Tracey Rudnick (University of Hartford), Vice Chair/Chair Elect Stephen Luttmann (University of Northern Colorado), Treasurer Diane Napert (Yale University), Secretary/Newsletter Editor Alan Ringwood (University of Texas at Austin), and Continuing Education Coordinator Bruce Evans (Baylor University).

Annual Meeting

MOUG is going to Paradise! (Paradise Point, that is) The annual meeting will be held in conjunction with the Music Library Association meeting in San Diego, California, on March 20-21, 2010. Registration and program information is available at the MOUG website.  Please note that there is an online registration option this year.

This year’s meeting program includes two plenary sessions, “Web Scale Management Service and You” (Matt Goldner, OCLC) and “Taiga, NextGen, and a Brave New World for Accessing Music” (panel discussion).  Other sessions include “Archival Cataloging 101” (Maureen Russell, UCLA), “WorldCat Selection for Music” (Joseph Hafner, McGill University), and the annual “MOUG Hot Topics” sessions.