Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Secretary/Treasurer Election Results

The election results were announced at the Fall 2022 Meeting of the Texas Music Library Association. The new Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect is Charles Roush and the new Secretary/Treasurer is Beth Farwell. Congratulations to Charles and Beth and thank you for serving in the upcoming years! Below, please find information about the election winners. Also, a big thank you to all of the candidates and committee members who served and have rotated off of the executive board.

Vice Chair/Chair-elect

Charles Roush is the Assessment Librarian at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He also provides library support to the School of Music at UTRGV. Charles holds a master’s degree in Clarinet Performance, as well as degrees in Library Science and Information Science. He has worked in libraries full-time since 2014, and he absolutely loves working with UTRGV’s students and faculty. Charles has been active in MLA since 2015, most recently having served on MLA’s Strategic Plan Task Force. He especially liked working on MLA’s new Strategic Plan, as it offered a chance to bring an Assessment focus to the world of Music Librarianship.

Secretary/Treasurer

Beth Farwell serves as the Director for the Arts and Special Collections Research Center.  The Center provides services and collections for research in fine arts and the rare collections housed in Moody Library.  She has worked for Baylor Libraries over 25 years and is the liaison to the School of Music and Museum Studies Department.  She served for three years on the Amigos Library Services Board as treasurer.  Ms. Farwell holds a MLIS in Library and Information Science and MM from the University of Texas in Austin, and a BM from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.  Interests include teaching with rare music resources, music and information literacy applications, and best practice on how to manage lots of stuff.

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