Music's New Assistant Head…

Greg MacAyeal recently joined the Music Library as Assistant Head. Greg comes to Northwestern from Roosevelt University, where he has been Director of the Performing Arts Library since 2002. Prior to his work at Roosevelt, Greg was Fine Arts Librarian and Library Events Coordinator at Augustana College from 1998 to 2002. As Assistant Head of Northwestern's Music Library, Greg will have a wide array of responsibilities, including managing all public-services operations, serving as the primary music librarian for reference and instruction, and participating in collection development.

Greg holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master of Music in Composition from DePaul University, and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As a member of the Music Library Association, he serves on MLA's Collection Development and Resource Sharing Committee, has recently completed a term on the Education Committee, and coordinates the collection-development curriculum for the Educational Outreach Program. Additionally, Greg is involved in the Public Services Working Group of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), serves on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Chamber Players of Chicago, and has been a member of the Continuing Education Subcommittee of the American Library Association's International Relations Roundtable. He also has written reviews for Music Reference Services Quarterly and has given presentations at meetings of the Music Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Illinois Library Association.

Greg's office is located in Deering room 204. His phone number is X1-4233, and his e-mail address is g-macayeal@northwestern.edu.

D.J. Hoek
Head, Music Library

(Photo by Mary Bradley)