About Us

Patty Falk is the Music Catalog/Metadata Librarian in the MLBSSA where she catalogs multiple formats and supervises student employees in the MLBSSA. She has worked at BGSU since 1995 and holds and MLIS and M.M. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a background in both classical and popular music and previous experience as a piano teacher and accompanist.

Trinidad Linares manages course reserves, creates new call numbers and summary notes for fanzines and adds current periodicals to the archive. She has an Master of Arts degree in popular culture and completed her undergraduate honors thesis on Stephen Sondheim. Her musical genre of choice is musical theatre, but she has a strong interest in the cultural applications and implications of music.

Angela Pratesi oversees the activities of the Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives. She holds master's degrees in music history and library and information science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests primarily lie at the intersection of learning, information and the arts.