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T<\/span>he Major Orchestra Librarians\u2019 Association (MOLA) celebrated its 30-year anniversary by holding its annual conference in New Orleans over the weekend of May 11\u201314. It seemed an obvious choice to dub this MOLA-NOLA 2012. (An earlier possibility, MOLA-NOLA XXX, seemed a bit risque\u0301 for such an eminent body.)<\/p>\n

MOLA was fortunate to have ICSOM Chairperson Bruce Ridge as the featured speaker for Monday\u2019s first session. Ridge and the ICSOM Governing Board had agreed that if schedules could be accommodated for this year\u2019s conference, the possibility of Bruce\u2019s speaking at MOLA was timely. The convergence of ICSOM\u2019s 50th anniversary with MOLA\u2019s 30th was too good to pass up. (That \u201cunion\u201d is a synonym for \u201cconvergence\u201d is a happy coincidence.) With the blessing of our colleagues in the MOLA\/AFM Liaison Committee, including librarian representatives from ICSOM, ROPA, and OCSM orchestras, the arrangements were made.<\/p>\n

Entitled \u201cICSOM and Librarian Advocacy,\u201d Bruce\u2019s session took the form of an interview, with a brief introduction by Baltimore ICSOM alternate delegate and principal librarian Mary Plaine, describing Bruce\u2019s background and accomplishments and emphasizing Bruce\u2019s commitment to musician and symphonic advocacy. It will surprise nobody familiar with his commitment that in responding to Mary\u2019s well-scripted questions, Bruce spoke eloquently and passionately about the place of symphonic music and musicians in our society and in the world. By sharing statistics, in relating current developments both in the U.S. and abroad, and with his emphasis on the professional roles all of us play\u2014even those musicians who are non-playing\u2014Bruce\u2019s remarks struck just the right balance between praise and encouragement.<\/p>\n

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Member at Large Paul Gunther (left) and Chairperson Bruce Ridge visit Decatur Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the recent MOLA-NOLA conference.
Photo credit: Holly Slocum<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

In preparing for his New Orleans talk, Bruce focused on realizing the differences as well as similarities between ICSOM and MOLA. Like ICSOM, MOLA\u2019s membership is institutional rather than individual. And individuals\u2019 energies and volunteer enthusiasm power both organizations.<\/p>\n

However, the two organizations differ in at least four notable ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. MOLA\u2019s membership of close to 300 performing organizations is truly international, representing 5 continents, with non-U.S. performing organizations comprising over a third of the total.<\/li>\n
  2. Unlike ICSOM, institutional size is not a factor for MOLA, which requires mainly that a member institution employ a professional librarian.<\/li>\n
  3. Union affiliation is not required for either institutional members or individual employees.<\/li>\n
  4. There are no delegates to MOLA. Librarian members attend conferences voluntarily, because it benefits them and their organizations professionally. Some organizations subsidize attendance costs for their librarians.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That said, intense interest in union activities and union protections, percolating for years with U.S. librarians and now growing internationally as well, provided Bruce with a rapt audience at MOLA\u2019s 30th annual conference in New Orleans. The timing could not have been better, nor the speaker more appropriate.<\/p>\n

    ICSOM Governing Board member Paul Gunther is the principal librarian of the Minnesota Orchestra. He was a founding member of MOLA in 1983. He served as MOLA\u2019s first newsletter editor and later for six years on the MOLA Board of Officers, including two terms as president.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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