Multimedia Librarian
Reference Librarian
Associate Professor
Associate Librarian
Education:
PhD, MALA, CLIS, MLIS, Louisiana State University
MA (music history and theory), SmithCollege
BA (music and biochemistry), SmithCollege
Subject Liaison:
Foreign Languages
Humanities
Music (Performing Arts)
Physical Sciences
Primary Duties:
Reference
Information Literacy Instruction
Cataloging (Music – Scores/Media)
Digitization of sound recordings and sheet music collections
Assists in:
Circulation
Serials
Government Documents
Other Responsibilities:
Assists in collection development of non-liaison areas and reference collection management
Primary Investigator and Administrator for the Music Education/Teaching of Music Space
- (funded by a Board of Regents Enhancement-University grant)
Areas of Expertise:
Music Librarianship
Information Literacy
Library Outreach and Publicity/Public Relations
Film Music Studies
Popular Music Studies (American Vernacular Music)
Twentieth-Century Western Art Music, Dance, and Aesthetics
Secondary Interests:
Twentieth-Century Analysis
History of Music Theory
Music and Mathematics
Music of the Baroque Era (recorder performance)
Music of the Romantic Era; Tap dancing (performance)
Film Studies
Beat literature
Current Projects:
Music librarianship and outreach (student/faculty engagement)
Writings about:
- Jim Morrison
- Musicality of the beat writers
- Popular song analysis in motion pictures
Bhangra beat music
Musical regionalism
Applications of educational theories to information literacy
Contact information:
225 Ellender Library
985-448-4626
melissa.goldsmith@nicholls.edu