Harriette Hemmasi 

Associate Dean of the Libraries and Director of Technical Services, Indiana University. Project Investigator, Digital Music Library Project, Indiana University Hemmasi, Harriette

Ms. Hemmasi earned a bachelor's degree in music from Baylor University, a master's degree in music from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a master's in library and information science from University of California, Berkeley. 

She is a member of the ALA ALCTS Directors of Large Research Libraries Technical Services Directors, RLG Strategy Focus Group, and a past member of the ALA SAC Subcommittee on Form Headings/Subdivisions Implementation and SAC Subcommittee on Subject Relationship/Reference Structures. Ms. Hemmasi also maintains an active role in the Music Library Association as director of the Music Thesaurus Project, chair of the MLA Form and Genre Working Group for the Music Thesaurus, former chair of the MLA Subject Access Subcommittee and former MLA representative to the ALA Subject Analysis Committee.

Ms. Hemmasi has authored several articles on subject access and enhanced end user searching, with particular emphasis on form and genre access and the Music Thesaurus Project. She has given numerous presentations on these topics, both nationally and internationally. In addition to her administrative duties at IU, Ms. Hemmasi serves on the research team of the NSF-funded Digital Music Library grant, with a primary focus on developing metadata specifications and improved searching capabilities for web-based resources.