Bob Kosovsky Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

Responsibilities include overseeing all activities of Special Collections including administration of maintenance, preservation, security and usage of collections.● Advises (and occasionally participating) in exhibitions, loans, and digitization.● Provides outreach to donors as assigned by the Chief, including Curatorial Reviews, Deeds of Gift, and follow-up dialogue.● Provides reference service and consultations in person and by e-mail.● Increases access and enhances collection by cataloging printed and manuscript music that are within collection.● Solicits visits from academic departments and faculty members, introduces and trains classes as well as individual faculty and students in the use and discovery of Special Collections.● Maintains stack location maps and indexes for Special Collections and the collections in offsite storage facility.● Maintains oversight and control of Archival Collections, setting priorities for processing.● Solicits and supervises interns processing collections to achieve greater access.● Solicits and supervises volunteers on projects to achieve greater access.● Maintains bibliography of publications that used Music Division materials in research● Participates in online networks and scholarly meetings and other activities that provide insight to the collections, their content, promotion and use.

Music Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

● Implementing, administering, and managing divisional EAD (Encoded Archival Description) program; selection and creation of finding aids in EAD for Digital Library site; proof-reading and correcting finding aids produced by third party encoders and coworkers.● Management of archival collections, including organizing, arranging, processing, cataloging of and producing their finding aids; Collections processed and finding aids produced for numerous collections, including those by Bruno Walter, Sy Oliver, Heinrich Schenker.● Tackling and resolving issues regarding preservation and access of archival collections.● Supervising the processing of archival collections, including those working under the Noble project (1993-95); supervision at all steps of processing as well as instruction in Advanced Revelation computer software application● Serving on intra-library committees: Bibliographic Control and Access (2000-01); Catalog Policy (1999-2000); Database subcommittee (2000); unofficial AMC/EAD working group (1997-present); also served on committees preliminary to implementation of EAD (1995-97), and work on database survey of LPA (1994-96).● Cataloging monographs, manuscripts, and other unusual items, including the John Cage Music Manuscript Collection (ca. 1100 records)● Public service on reference desks.● Reference service: Includes answering queries in person, by regular mail and e-mail.● Computers and technology: have maintained knowledge of computer software and keep current on latest developments.

New York, Ny

Currently a board member of Wikimedia New York. Wikipedia editor since 2006.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Member of the Techniques of Music faculty of the Extension Division. Have taught classes in:● Schenkerian Analysis● All levels of music theory● All levels of ear-training and dictation

Ph.D., Music (Theory)

Dissertation title: "Bernard Herrman's Radio Music for the Columbia Workshop."

Mls, Library Science

Was a wonderful education.

M.A., Music (Theory)

B.M., Music (Theory)

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