- unitid
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{"value"=>"JPB 14-19", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18994", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1965-1996", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1965/1996"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1965
- date_inclusive_end
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1996
- keydate
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1965
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Susan T. Sommer papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4.2 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"10 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"MUS", "value"=>"Music Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Susan Thiemann (Suki) Sommer (1935-2008) was an American music librarian, teacher, and scholar. The Susan T. Sommer papers, dating from 1965 to 1987, primarily document her activities in the Music Library Association and her teaching career at the Columbia University School of Library Services."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Susan T. Sommer papers, JPB 14-19. Music Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Sommer, Susan T.", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Susan Thiemann (Suki) Sommer (1935-2008) was an American music librarian, teacher, and scholar. She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated from Smith College in 1956. She received her master’s degree in musicology in 1958 (studying in Florence on a Fulbright scholarship), and earned her master’s in library services in 1967; she received both degrees from Columbia University.</p> <p>Sommer had a long and distinguished career at The New York Public Library, joining the staff in 1961. In 1969, she became head of the Rare Books and Manuscripts section of the Music Division and curator of the Toscanini Memorial Archives. She was Head of Circulating Collections from 1987 to 1997, and Chief of the Music Division from 1997 to 2001. She also served as acting director of the Library for the Performing Arts from 1999 to 2000.</p> <p>Sommer was a renowned teacher of music librarians, and a scholar of music. In 1969, she was appointed lecturer in music librarianship and performing arts bibliography at the Columbia University School of Library Services. From 1975 to 1981 she lectured on opera for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and beginning in the 1960s, she was a contributing editor for High Fidelity and Musical America.</p> <p>Sommer was active in the Music Library Association. She served as book review editor for Notes (the association’s journal) from 1978 to 1982; as editor from 1982 to 1987; and as president of the association in 1989 and 1990. She was also an active member of the International Association of Music Libraries, and served as editor of its journal, Fontes Artis Musicae.</p> <p>Suki Sommer died at home in New York City after a long illness on March 4, 2008.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Susan T. Sommer papers, dating from 1965 to 1996, document Sommer’s career as a librarian, educator, and scholar. They primarily contain evidence of her activities in the Music Library Association (MLA) and her career at the Columbia University School of Library Services. Smaller portions of the collection pertain to her work with the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML), the Metropolitan Opera Guild, High Fidelity magazine, and the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p> <p>The MLA files (1964-1996) contain correspondence regarding the association’s journal, Notes, meetings of the association, the board, and the various committees on which Sommer sat. These included the Standards Committee, the Education Committee, the Executive Officer Search Committee, and committees regarding the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) and Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM) projects. Also present are files of general correspondence.</p> <p>The Columbia School of Library Services files (1969-1991) hold syllabi and notes for the courses Sommer taught on Music Librarianship and Literature of the Performing Arts, as well as files on the Columbia Rare Book School, for which she also taught. Also present are her notes on topics in music librarianship and performing arts bibliography, lists of students, and student papers Sommer kept for her own reference. Student papers can be found among the student list files as well as in the division titled student papers. The collection also contains small files on music bibliography courses taught at the City University of New York.</p> <p>Files on IAML (1975-1996) mainly consist of correspondence regarding the association’s journal, Fontes Artis Musicae, and association meetings. Correspondence pertaining to the United States branch of IAML is also present.</p> <p>The Metropolitan Opera Guild files contain notes and texts for public lectures Sommer delivered in the mid- to late-1970s. The New York Public Library files (1968-1997) are composed of inter-office memoranda discussing cataloging procedures for rare materials, and a file on the Library’s legislative relations. Typescripts of Sommer’s reviews for High Fidelity and her recording liner notes are contained in the writings files.</p> <p>The collection holds general correspondence with colleagues or friends, and correspondence with the publishers R.R. Bowker, Garland Publishing, Broude Brothers Limited, and H.W. Wilson; the editors of the Grove and New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (regarding Sommer’s contributions); the Wicker Family Foundation; the Harvard Music Library; the American Musicological Society; the International Musicological Society; and the Dessoff Choirs.</p> <p>Other topics in the collection are the Music Librarianship in America conference of 1989; copyright (in a mock play titled Ariadne Auf Xerox); job qualifications for music librarians; Sommer’s involvement in the RIPM, RISM and RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) projects; appraisals of special collections; and letters of reference or recommendation for former employees or interns.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged by subject, person, or organization.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by the Estate of Susan T. Sommer in 2008.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Matthew Snyder</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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4.2 linear feet (10 boxes)
- date_start
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1965
- date_end
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1996