Job summary
Amy works directly with UVA performing arts faculty and students to provide support for scholarship and creativity. This includes providing instruction sessions and workshops, and creating online guides and tutorials. She also offers individual research assistance to students and faculty, which includes providing consultations and supporting specialized collection development. Amy programs events, writes and administers grants, and collaborates with University units on projects. In addition to providing support to UVA creators, she undertakes her own research and publications, and serves on UVA committees and in professional organizations.
Professional profile
Amy’s professional interests encompass a wide range of topics including music collection development and management, the scholarly communications lifecycle, digital cultural preservation, and the role of women in music and the arts. She has published a variety of digital collections, articles and book chapters on librarianship, a singer’s edition of Pauline Viardot’s Russian songs, and even a coffee table book about the history of the University of Nevada.
Amy co-chairs the Music Librarian Association Legislation Committee, is the Associate Co-Editor-in-chief of Music References Services Quarterly, serves on the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Collection Strategy Interest Group, and is a current member of The Kitchen Cabinet, the official governing and advisory body for The Scholarly Kitchen.