Linda Solow Blotner is pictured at a 2007 farewell gathering with recently retired Hartt School Dean Malcolm Morrison.

The Music Library  Association (MLA) awarded the 2009 MLA Citation to Linda Solow Blotner, retired head librarian for the Mildred P. Allen Memorial Library, the University of Hartford’s music library.

Blotner, who headed the Allen Memorial Library from 1987 until her retirement in 2007, was awarded the citation at the MLA’s 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago. The citation was presented to Blotner in  recognition of her career-long distinguished service to music  librarianship.

"A tireless and inspiring leader in the profession, she is a consummate  practitioner and true Renaissance woman. Author, editor, reviewer, and  indexer, she has been involved in a number of the discipline's most  significant publications,” the citation says.

Blotner has served on the MLA Board of Directors as member-at-large, as executive secretary, and as editor of Notes, the quarterly journal of  the Music Library Association. She has also served as music panel advisor for the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and as a reviewer for music proposals for the National Endowment for the  Humanities. Her publications include articles about various aspects of music librarianship, numerous indexes to important works about music and  music librarianship, and editing The Boston Composers Project: a  Bibliography of Contemporary Music (MIT Press, 1983), for which she received MLA's Vincent H. Duckles Award for best book-length bibliography or other research tool in music.