From Penn Almanac:
Liza Vick, head of the Penn Libraries’ Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and the Eugene Ormandy Music & Media Center, is co-recipient of the 2025 A. Ralph Papakhian Special Achievement Award from the Music Library Association (MLA).
According to the MLA, the award “recognizes extraordinary service to the profession of music librarianship over a relatively short period of time.” Ms. Vick and co-recipient Susannah Cleveland were both honored for their leadership as past presidents of the MLA during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At Penn, Ms. Vick oversees the operations of the music library, including the Ormandy Music & Media Center. She is responsible for the collection development of music materials and serves as the liaison to the department of music. Ms. Vick has served as a member-at-large on the board of directors of the Music Library Association, and as chair of the MLA Publications and Nominating Committees. She has also been chair of the New England Chapter of MLA.
Ms. Vick served as book review editor for Notes, the journal of the Music Library Association, from 2013 to 2017. She is a contributor to the monograph Information Literacy in Music: an Instructor’s Companion and associate editor for world music of the fourth edition of A Basic Music Library (both in 2018). She was elected to the Council of the American Musicological Society and is a past president of the Music Library Association.
Before coming to Penn, Ms. Vick was the reference and research services librarian in the music library of Harvard University. Prior to that, she was the research librarian for music, dance, drama, and German at the University of California, Irvine. She holds graduate degrees in library science and ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland, College Park.