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Welcome to the website of the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association (MOLA). This site contains information, resources, and links for MOLA member librarians, as well as for other musicians, conductors, publishers, administrators, and the general public.


Founded in 1983, the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association comprises of over 270 performance organizations around  the world, represented by more than 450 librarians. The job of these performance librarians is to acquire, prepare, catalogue and maintain
the music for each institution. Through MOLA, librarians share information and resources to help them in their daily work.

MOLA's mission is to facilitate communication between professional performance librarians, educate and assist them in providing
service to their organizations, provide support and resources to the performing arts, and work with publishers  to achieve the highest standards in music performance materials.

Latest MOLA News
We have received this message from the musicians of the shut-down national radio and television centre in Athens:
2 days ago
 
The song “Happy Birthday to You” is widely credited for being the most performed song in the world. But one of its latest venues may be the federal courthouse in Manhattan, where the only parties may be the litigants to a new legal battle.
5 days ago
 
For the first time in music industry history, over 25,000 songwriters and composers from nearly fifty countries throughout Europe, North America, South America, and Africa have joined together to form a new, wholly independent advocacy Network for music creators. Its immediate goal will be the championing of a set of Fair Trade Music Principles designed to ensure transparency, fair compensation, and autonomy for music creators in an increasingly complex and non-transparent music business landscape.
15 days ago
 
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MOLA Year at a Glance

  • Member organizations annually perform ca. 15,000 programs totaling over 40,000 concerts and performances.
  • They produce some 50,000 radio broadcasts and internet streams, 500 CD and internet recordings and hundreds of nationally and internationally televised performances.
  • They employ 22,000 musicians including 500 librarians
  • Every year member librarians proofread and prepare about 2 million pages of music – totaling over 1 billion notes!

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