I am Robert C. Delvin, Fine Arts Librarian and Professor at Illinois Wesleyan
University. I serve as the Ames Library liaison to the Schools of Art, Music, and Theater
Arts, as well as Department of Modern and Classical Languages & Literatures. I am
active member of the Music Library Association, having served as Chair of the Midwest
Chapter, MLA (2004-2006). In addition to the A.M.L.S. degree (University of Michigan,
1980), I hold a B.A. degree in Music (Hope College, 1970) and a M.A. in Music History
(Eastern Michigan University, 1972.) My academic interests outside of Library &
Information Science, include keyboard and sacred music, pipe organ history, Medieval
architecture, and French language studies. I am currently researching the History of
Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music.

Articles

Erben Organs of Trintiy Episcopal Church, Apalachicola, Florida, The Tracker: Journal of the Organ Historical Society (1999)
 

Presentations

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Shape-Notes, “The Sacred Harp” and the Hollow Square: an American Musical Tradition. (2009)

A survey of the late 18th and 19th-century, American singing school tradition, shape-note hymnals with...

 

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Lecture/Recital ; Henry Erben, American Organ Builder, 1800-1884, Trinity Episcopal Church (2000)
 

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A Tale of Two Organs: Henry Erben and Apalachicola, Florida, Florida Historical Society (2000)
 

Works in Progress

Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music: a chronicle of events and persons, 1863-2005 (2008)

A chronology of events, persons, and documents tracing the history of the Illinois Wesleyan University,...