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    Date: 4/30/02
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple 

SOUTHEASTERN FACULTY MEMBER NAMED TO MUSIC LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION BOARD
     HAMMOND -- Laura Dankner, a lecturer in music education at Southeastern Louisiana
University, has been elected vice president/president-elect of the Music Library Association.
     Dankner is currently on leave from Loyola University, where she was a member of the
library faculty and head of the music library for 20 years. She expects to become Associate
Professor Emeritus in January 2003.  
     Dankner has taught music appreciation, music bibliography and American music at
Brooklyn College and at Loyola University. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in
voice and music education from Ithaca College, and Brooklyn College of the City University of
New York and a master in library science degree from the University of Albany, New York.
     She has served the Music Library Association as placement officer, chair of the education
and development committees, and member-at-large on the MLA Board of Directors. She is also
active in the International Association of Music Libraries United States branch, currently serving
as a member of that board.  
     Dankner is the author, with Grace Lichtenstein, of "Musical Gumbo, a History of
Louisiana Music" published by W. W. Norton. She is also the author of numerous articles and
reviews for a variety of publications including "Notes," "ACRL News," and the American Music
special issue of the "BBC Music Magazine." 
     She is joined in the MLA leadership by Michael Colby, University of California-Davis, 
recording secretary, and new members-at-large Joseph Boonin, New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts, Virginia Danielson, Harvard University, and Alan Green, Ohio State
University.
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