Casey Mullin Awarded the 2021 Music OCLC Users Groups Distinguished Service Award

Casey Mullin, Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services at Western Washington University Libraries, was recently awarded the 2021 Music OCLC Users Group Distinguished Service Award. This award is given in recognition of someone who has made “significant professional contributions” to music users of OCLC. According to the award announcement, Mullin’s nominator Marguerite Iskenderian referenced his “tireless leadership and contributions to technical services and music cataloging.”

Mullin has previously been selected by the Music Library Association (MLA) as a winner of the Richard S. Hill Award for the best article on music librarianship or of a music-bibliographic nature for his co-authored article, “Faceted Vocabularies for Music: A New Era in Resource Discovery.” In 2019, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), selected Mullin as the recipient of the 2019 Esther J. Piercy Award. He is also a member of the MABEL Team at WWU, which was responsible for the creation of Western’s centralized, open source, online repository for digital assets, and received the 2019 WWU Team Recognition Award.

Additionally, Mullin has held many positions in MLA, including Chair of the Vocabularies Subcommittee and Chair of the RDA Music Implementation Task Force. He served on the Executive Board of the Music OCLC Users Group from 2011-2019, and currently chairs the ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee’s Subcommittee on Faceted Vocabularies.

Casey Mullin holds a Bachelor of Music degree in viola performance from Western Washington University, and a Master of Library Science degree (with music specialization) from Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to joining the Western Libraries faculty, he was Music Cataloger for the New York Public Library and Head of Data Control for the Stanford University Libraries. He is also an active performer (viola, violin and piano) and a published writer on music.