Recent TLA News
TLA Announces Rachow Award and McNamara Scholarship Winners
Theatre Library Association has announced the 2014 winners of its Professional Awards. The Louis Rachow Distinguished Service in Performing Arts Librarianship Award will be given to Jacqueline Z. Davis, the Barbara G. and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Brooks McNamara Performing Arts Librarian Scholarship will be […]
2014 Annual Business Meeting, Awards Ceremony & Panel Discussion
October 17, 2014, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Bruno Walter Auditorium111 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York SCHEDULE: 5:30 PM – Business Meeting Election results Officers’ reports Questions from the membership 6:00 PM – Awards Ceremony Book Awards: George Freedley Memorial Award, Richard Wall Memorial Award Louis Rachow Distinguished Service Award […]
Announcing a TLA Panel Discussion: Women in Film
After taking a year-long hiatus, Theatre Library Association is proud to present the TLA Book Awards this Fall for performing arts books published in 2013. Keeping the performing arts libraries community engaged with the performing arts scholarship community is one of our most cherished mandates at Theatre Library Association. And we on the Book Awards […]
2014 Elections Are Open Now
An online ballot was sent to TLA personal and institutional members in good standing this past week to vote in the 2014 Elections. Voting is open now, and will continue until 5:00 PM ET on Friday, October 17, 2014. If you are a TLA member and have not received a ballot or are experiencing difficulties […]
TLA Announces 2013 Book Award Winners
The results are in! The Theatre Library Association is proud to announce the TLA Book Award winners for English language works of scholarship on theatre, film, and broadcasting, published in 2013. The George Freedley Memorial Award has been awarded to Alisa Solomon for Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof, published by […]
End of Summer
The end of summer is upon us. Best wishes to all of you in academic libraries for a terrific year ahead. To those of you not on the semester calendar, continued great work in the coming year. It has been a productive (and terrific!) year for TLA. The summer was filled with activity beginning with […]
TLA Website, TLA-List and Social Media
The launch of our website this summer has garnered wonderful feedback. We have received positive response to the design and layout. We have also received great response to our plan to publish more frequently in order to make our website a more timely source for news and updates on the activities of TLA and our […]
New PAR Volume Holds Up the Mirror to Shakespeare
The latest volume of Performing Arts Resources, Holding Up the Mirror: Authenticity and Adaptation in Shakespeare Today, was mailed to all Theatre Library Association members last month, and is now available for sale. PAR 30 presents the addresses and panel discussions from TLA’s Third Symposium, held in April 2011 at The New York Public Library for […]
MLA/TLA Program at the ALA Annual Conference: Performing Vegas: Documenting Music and Stage in Sin City
On Saturday, June 28, it was my pleasure to moderate the co-sponsored 2014 program of the Music Library Association and the Theatre Library Association at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. Titled “Performing Vegas: Documenting Music and Stage in Sin City,” the program featured three speakers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who […]
Woodlawn Cemetery Tour
Last month, a small enthusiastic group enjoyed a tour of Woodlawn Cemetery. Our fabulous guide, Susan Olsen, historian for Woodlawn, walked us past numerous memorials for performing artists interred at Woodlawn. Here is what Dan Venning had to say about the day! On Saturday, June 21, a beautiful sunny day, a small TLA group […]