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Anna Harriet Heyer (30 August 1909 Little Rock, Arkansas — 12 August 2002 Fort Worth, Texas) was a distinguished American academic music librarian, musicologist, and bibliographer who for 26 years, from 1940 to 1966, headed the Music Library at University of North Texas.〔Warren Henry, PhD, ''University of North Texas College of Music,'' ''The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition'', February 24, 2010, Oxford University Press; also (Oxford Music Online ) 〕 == Career == Otto Kinkeldey, a renowned music librarian and musicologist, had given a lecture in 1937 at the first joint meeting between the American Library Association and the Music Library Association in New York City. In his lecture, Kinkeldey outlined a concept for an appropriate education in music librarianship.〔''Training For Music Librarianship Aims and Opportunities'', by Otto Kinkeldey, Bulletin of the American Library Association, Vol. 31, No. 8, August 1937, pp. 459-463〕 Until reading the transcript, Heyer had never contemplated a specialization in music librarianship — she had not even known it existed. The concept intrigued her because, in her words, "It would give me a chance to be within an interest that I like and still do library work."〔''Anna Harriet Heyer, An Isolated Pioneer'', by Carol June Bradley, Notes, Vol. 63, No. 4, June 2007, pps. 798–805〕 Heyer traveled to Columbia University the summer of 1938 to enroll in a course taught by Richard Angell in "Music Library Administration" — the first any such course had been offered in the country. She stayed on at Columbia for the academic year 1938–1939, earning an Master of Science in Library Science, June 1939. After spending a year working for the libraries at the University of Texas at Austin, Heyer, in 1940, accepted a position as the first full-time Music Librarian at the University of North Texas, whose College of Music (then referred to as School of Music), had, that same year, upgraded its 1939 induction as Associate member of the National Association of Schools of Music to Institutional member. Heyer rapidly strengthened the Music Library, which already housed formidable collections, into a major music resource institution. She also forged music librarianship as a field of academic study by teaching the first known academic courses in the discipline.〔''Rapid Growth in Library at Denton Shown'', Dallas Morning News, September 28, 1941, Sec IV, pg 11〕 When she arrived, North Texas had acquired sizable collections that included orchestral scores, sheet music, phonograph recordings, and the Carnegie Corporation reproducing unit.〔''18 Additions to Staff of Denton Teachers College,'' Denton Record Chronicle, September 20, 1940, pg 8〕〔''A Biographical Directory of Librarians in the United States and Canada, Fifth edition,'' American Library Association (1970)〕〔Marquis Who's Who (publisher) ''Who's Who in America'' (editions 55 – 57) 〕〔''Who's Who in Library Service''''Who's Who of American Women'' (editions 15 – 22) ''Who's Who in the South and Southwest'' (editions 19 – 27) ''Who's Who in the World, 2001 (2002)'' (19th ed) (3rd ed) Grolier Society (1955) 〕(4th ed) Shoe String Press (1966) While working for North Texas, she earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan in 1943.〔〔〔 In 1957, Heyer published a groundbreaking bibliography, ''Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: A Guide to their Contents.''〔(Carol June Bradley, PhD (1934–2009), ''Anna Harriet Heyer, Interview'', Fort Worth, Texas, 23 March 1980, tape recording, Music Library, State University of New York at Buffalo )〕〔''N.T.S.U. Music Library: Its History: 1940–1965'', by Anna Harriet Heyer, The University of North Texas (1991) 〕 This reference stood for decades as one of the essential reference tools in the field of Western classical music. For comprehensive research music libraries, it became a guide for holdings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anna Harriet Heyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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