The 81st Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association (MLA) convened at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The conference planning committee compiled an engaging program featuring a variety of sessions, business meetings, networking opportunities and cultural activities. Pre-planned sightseeing and cultural activities gave conference attendees the opportunity to learn more about local history and the arts scene. As part of the organ crawl, participants were treated to a private

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... rmance by resident organist Mary Preston, on the Lay Family Concert Organ located at the Meyerson Symphony Center. A tour of the impressive Dallas Arts District featured behind the scenes visits to the Meyerson Symphony Center, Winspear Opera House, and Wyley Theatre. A dessert reception was held on the Meyerson Symphony Center's east terrace followed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in concert, conducted by Jaap van Zweden and featuring Severin von Eckardstein on piano. MLA members were able to enjoy the concert from seats in the Choral Terrace, located behind the orchestra. In keeping with MLA tradition, the conference closed with a reception and banquet where attendees enjoyed music by the MLA Big Band. This year's Annual Meeting featured sessions spanning a range of current issues in music librarianship. These included plenary sessions on jazz collections at the University of North Texas and shared resources for online music sources. Individual, sponsored and poster sessions covered a variety of topics including copyright, new discovery and access tools for music materials, and best practices in service, reference and instruction. Included below are summaries of selected sessions. Touching the Cloud: New Tools to Discover This session was delivered in "lightning round" style, with short 10 minute talks given by different presenters. Rebecca Belford (University of Buffalo) introduced VuFind, an open source next-generation discovery tool developed at Villanova University. Belford spoke about benefits and challenges that came with implementing the tool at the University at Buffalo, where the basic module was introduced in 2010. Integrated as a layer on top of the Aleph-run library catalogue, VuFind searches