Resource Center
This page contains resources for librarians, which may be particularly helpful for those new to the profession, or for librarians in non-MOLA orchestras
How-To Guides
- Audition Books: Creating Digital Excerpts by Alastair McKean
- Bibliography: Starting Your Reference Collection by Russ Girsberger
- Cataloging: What's in a Name? by Frank Byrne
- Composers: Guide for Students by Alastair McKean
- Composers: Music Preparation Guide by Alastair McKean
- Copyright Primer by Michael Shelton & Wendy J Skoczen
- Opera: Friend or Foe[MOLA Publication]
- Résumé Guide by Sara Griffin, Karen Schnackenberg & Wendy J. Skoczen
Please see our Publications Page for additional guides
Instrumentation Resources
- Zinfonia - Music publisher portal with general instrumentation
- Daniels' Orchestral Music Online [subscription required]
- Opera Reductions- Listing of available reductions
- Reed Doublings in Musicals
- Wind Repertory Project
- Percussion Room - Timpani & Percussion Requirements
- Earsense - Chamber music resource
Digital Classroom
- Pedals, Pitches, and Pixels: An Introduction to Harp Notation [14 April 2023]
- Cataloging for Performance Librarians [6 January 2021]
- Future of Digital Sheet Music Distribution [9 June 2020]
- Mahler Editions in the 21st Century [29 June 2020]
- Making the Cut: Workflows for Audition Music Preparation [24 June 2020]
- Opera for Symphony Librarians: Tips to Help Demystify and Create a Plan of Attack [14 September 2020]
- Public Speaking & Giving Library Tours [10 June 2020]
- Streaming Classical Music in the United States Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis [21 May 2020]
- What I Learned in Library School: How a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Can Work for You [24 June 2020]
Binding Tutorials
Taping Tutorials by Russ Girsberger
Photoshop Tutorials
Industry Publications & Other Reading
- Scoring Notes on music technology and software
- Broken Pencil by United Kingdom Orchestra Librarians
- Confusion and Error by Normal Del Mar
- Pencil Blog by CW Pencil Enterprise
- The Surprising History of the Pencil by Brain Pickings
